The Stamping cove challenge - Sale-A-Bration

Hi everyone, and welcome to the first of my blog posts that are for the StampingcoveChallenge of which I am so excited to say that I am part of the amazing design team!  When Emma Goddard asked me to be part of her new design team over on her facebook page I was so excited and very honoured, and of course it's a privilege to be creating alongside all of the other amazing ladies that are on the team too!

The challenge for this month was to create something using products from the Sale a-bration catalogue or a celebration card, and I just couldn't resist using the beautiful 'Friendly Hello' bundle, that is free to order with a qualifying £90 order, and I have to say that the stampset and papers are absolutely exquisite!

The card I've created is a simple side fold card which I've atttached a piece of the patterned papers on top, after having torn the edges to make it look a bit shabby, I love this look, it makes the paper stand out from the card without using dimension.

I die cut one of the 'Stitched so sweetly' rectangle dies out and gave it a very slight colouring with Granny apple green ink using a blending brush, and stamping some of the dots onto it, using the same ink.  I stamped lots of the foilage and leaves, using shaded spruce and granny apple green ink and fussy cut them all out. The bird and flowers were stamped using the tuxedo black memento ink and colouring them in using Fresh freesia and Pool party stampin' blends, and then fussy cut these out too. The large flowers I've added wink of stella to add a small bit of sparkle.

All of the pieces that have been fussy cut out are now attached to the rectangle using dimensionals and glue. The sentiment I stamped out twice, one using the tuxedo black memento ink and the other using versamark ink, gold embossing powder and heat setting it. I've fussy cut the sentiment out using different sections from each of them and then attached the 'Hope you have' with glue and the 'Best Birthday' with dimensionals. The last thing I've done is to attach 3 of the pearls onto the card front.

I was really happy with how the finished card turned out and can't wait to see all of the other design team creations. Thankyou Emma for this amazing opportunity, I really do appreciate it.

Huge crafty hugs

Natalie xx

 Product List

Basic White A4 Thick Cardstock [159230] £7.75	Pearl Basic Jewels [144219] £4.75	Granny Apple Green Stampin' Pad [147095] £7.00
Shaded Spruce Classic Stampin' Pad [147088] £7.00	Fresh Freesia Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [155518] £8.50	Pool Party Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [154894] £8.50
Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad [132708] £5.50	Blending Brushes [153611] £11.25	Clear Wink Of Stella Glitter Brush [141897] £7.50
Metallics Embossing Powders [155555] £17.00	Heat Tool - Uk Plug [129054] £28.00	Paper Snips [103579] £9.25
Mini Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine [150673] £56.00	Stitched So Sweetly Dies [151690] £30.00	Stampin' Dimensionals [104430] £3.75
Multipurpose Liquid Glue [154974] £4.50	Paper Trimmer [152392] £23.00	Friendly Hello Bundle (English) [159990] £0.00

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