I’m surprised how much I have fallen in love with this designer series paper in the Sale-A-Bration Brochure! I have already made several cards with it and can’t wait to make more, like my most recent one that you see here, the Flight & Airy Three Birds Card! I’ve had this idea in my head, to put three birds on the card front, for a while so here it is.
The card base is Lost Lagoon, which is a very pretty color although I haven’t used it too much. It’s one of our retired colors, brought back in our Color Refresh last year with the newest Annual Catalog. When I looked in my cardstock package, I already had this card cut and folded. The right front side has just a little bit of the edge trimmed off so you can add designer paper to the inside edge of the card and it will show on the front! My card has 1/2″ of the front cut off. I’m sure you could do a wider margin if you wanted to.
Since the front of the card is 3 3/4″ wide, I cut a piece of the Flight & Airy Designer Series Paper at 5 1/4″ x 3 1/2″. I chose the Lost Lagoon colored paper with leafy designs and tiny little birds that you barely even notice. The strip on the inside of the card, from another pattern of the designer paper, is 5 1/4″ x 3/4″. You can vary that measurement to your liking.
This Flight & Airy Designer Series Paper is only available with a $50 Stampin’ Up! purchase and you get it FREE. Sale-A-Bration ends February 29 so you don’t have too much time left to order whatever you want from Stampin’ Up! as you normally would but then you get to choose FREE products for every $50 you spend from the Sale-A-Bration Brochure plus the extra products, mostly in the Annual Catalog. All of your choices will be shown online.
The birds, which I cut out by hand with my Paper Snips scissors, are from the designer paper with all the large birds. I cut out more than I wanted so I could see which ones I liked best for the card. It’s easy to just sit and cut things out while you are watching TV or relaxing for a little while! The branches (yes, a little more tedious!) I cut from another paper that had plenty of bare branches. I cut out a few extra leaves to use and could have cut out some flowers.
The birds and branches are adhered to three Deckled Circles die cut out of Basic White. The greeting I found in the Heartfelt Hexagon Stamp Set and stamped in Lost Lagoon. Since I didn’t have much space on the card for a greeting, I kept with the “fussy cutting” theme of the card and trimmed around the words to make it smaller! For a little embellishment, I added three Calypso Coral Opaque Faceted Gems, another FREE Sale-A-Bration product in the SAB Brochure on page 9. You might miss them because they are right in the fold of the brochure. Who doesn’t need a few more gems or jewels for cards and projects?!
Be sure to shop before the Sale-A-Bration deadline, February 29!