Tricia's Stamping Creations: ICS January Blog Hop Sale-a-bration

Wednesday, January 8, 2025

ICS January Blog Hop Sale-a-bration

Welcome to the ICS January Blog Hop as we showcase the amazing new products from the 2025 Sale-a-bration Catalog. Our wonderful Design Team will be sharing their projects and ideas to help inspire you to get creative and maybe even chase away the Winter Blues. There are so many wonderful options to choose from and I am excited to share my card design with you all.

For my card, I chose to continue with my exploration of clean and simple designs using minimal supplies. This is a great option for all crafters, whether you are a beginner just starting out or a more experienced crafter who is looking for a simple project to add to your stash. I love creating cards with designer series paper and I couldn't resist the new Bloom Inpressions Designer Series Paper, which is a Level 1 Sale-a-bration product that you can earn Free with a $60 order. I combined it with one of my favorite new stamp sets from the January-April 2025 Mini Catalog called With You in Mind stamp set. This stamp set has a wonderful combination of large sentiments and coordinating images that are perfect for this style of card design. With the variety of beautiful background designs in this designer series paper, you can combine these products to create a wide range of all occasion cards to help you build your card stash.

Products Used:

With You In Mind stamp set (item #164747)

2 3/8" Circle Punch (item #161354)

Bloom Impressions Designer Series Paper (item #164944)

Sale-a-bration Level 1

Thick Basic White Cardstock (item #159229)

Basic White Cardstock (item #159276)

Melon Mambo Classic Ink Pad (item #147051)

Glossy Dots Assortment (item #158827)

Stampin' Dimensionals (item #104430)

Measurements:

Thick Basic White Cardstock

Card Base - 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" (Scored at 4 1/4")

Basic White Cardstock

Large Circle punched out with the 2 3/8" Circle Punch

Bloom Impressions Designer Series Paper

Card Front - 5 1/4" x 4"

Clean and simple cards are a great way to showcase beautiful designer series paper and I just love all the gorgeous designs in the Bloom Impressions Designer Series Paper. The colors are bright and pretty and work perfectly with the sentiments in the stamp set. For today's card, I chose to use the Best Wishes sentiment and stamped it using Melon Mambo Classic ink onto Basic White cardstock and then punched it out using the 2 3/8" Circle Punch to create the sentiment label. To help make the background pop, I chose to use Thick Basic White cardstock and I love the way it frames the designer series paper card front. To complete the card design, I added several of the Melon Mambo dots from the Glossy Dots Assortment to add a subtle touch of bling. This card design is perfect for mailing as it has a low profile that shouldn't add extra postage.

Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog. I hope that my card design will inspire you to explore the amazing new products in the 2025 Sale-a-bration Catalog to create your own beautiful projects. It's amazing how easy it is to create simply beautiful cards with a few simple supplies. The Bloom Impressions Designer Series Paper is a wonderful way to add color and texture to your projects and works well for a variety of occasions. You can earn this beautiful pack of paper with a qualifying order during Sale-a-bration.

Please take the time to visit with my fellow Design Team members to see their amazing projects featuring products from the 2025 Sale-a-bration Catalog. Just click the links in the Roll Call List to visit their blogs. We would love it if you would leave us a comment and let us know what you like about our projects.

If you live in the U.S. and do not have a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator, please contact me and I would be happy to help you with your creative projects. You may also visit my Online Store to place your order and have it shipped to you.