Stampin’ Up! Perennial Postage Hugs Card

Good Morning! Here’s a Big Hugs card made with the Stampin’ Up! Perennial Postage bundle and other items from the Perennial Lavender suite. You can find the products I used at the bottom of my post along with the card stock sizes.

I used the pretty Sunday Stamps sketch SSC326 – Shape Up In The New Year for today’s card.

I embossed a Highland Heather panel with the Sale-A-Bration Softly Sophisticated 3D embossing folder and adhered it to the front of a Highland Heather card base. I cut a panel of Perennial Lavender designer series paper with the second largest rectangle die from the Stampin’ Up! Perennial Postage dies using a two step method to get a smaller rectangle. I partially cut one side, moved the die and cut the other.

I measured my die cut DSP and cut a Gorgeous Grape mat 1/8″ larger (mine ended up being 2-3/4″ x 3-3/8″, but yours might be different depending on how wide you cut it) and adhered the DSP to the mat. I adhered the layered DSP to the card with dimensionals. I used a Blending Brush to apply Highland Heather ink to a large butterfly cutout – be careful around the antenna. 

I stamped the sentiment from the Stampin’ Up! Perennial Postage stamp set in Berry Burst ink on the right side of a Fresh Freesia panel. I cut it out with the second smallest rectangle postage stamp die and adhhered it to the card with dimensionals and glue dots. I adhered the butterfly on top of the label and DSP with glue dots and finished the card with purple shimmer gems and a Soft Sorbet shimmer bow.

For the inside of the card, I stamped the butterflies from the Painted Lavender stamp set in Highland Heather in the corner of a Basic White panel. I trimmed the bottom with a strip of Perennial Lavender DSP and adhered the panel to the inside of the card with Stampin’ Seal.

The Perennial Lavender designer series paper is so pretty and the sentiments from the Stampin’ Up! Perennial Postage bundle are really sweet. And the postage stamp dies are so versatile and un to work with.

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Sale-A-Bration Is Going On Now!

Sale-A-Bration is Stampin’ Up!’s best promotion of the year with specials for Shopping, Hosting and Joining!

Shopping

Choose a FREE Sale-A-Bration item from the Sale-A-Bration Brochure with every $50 or $100 you spend (before tax and shipping). The Sale-A-Bration brochure has eleven items available for free with orders of $50 or greater and three items you can pick from with orders of $100 or greater! The free Sale-A-Bration items are stackable, so if you place an order of $150, you can choose to add three $50 items or one $100 item and one $50 item to your order! The Sale-A-Bration items are only available while supplies last, so order early if there are items that you are really wanting! 

Hosting

Host a party of $300 or more and get an additional $30 in Stampin’ Rewards! Normally a $300 party will result in $36 in Stampin’ Rewards for the host, but during Sale-A-Bration a $300 party will result in $66 in Stampin’ Rewards! Stampin’ Rewards are redeemed to get free items from any current catalog. And if you have a large enough shopping list, you will get the Sale-A-Bration Host rewards in a single order (and that’s in addition to the Sale-A-Bration shopping items)! 

If you’d like to set up a host code to see if you can collect $300 in orders, I’d be happy to help you with that!  Reach out to me at apsudano@stampininthemeadows.com.

Joining

Sale-A-Bration is one of the best times to join Stampin’ Up! as a new demonstrator and there are two fantastic options for purchasing your Starter Kit during Sale-A-Bration

Option 1: 

Customers who join our fun crafting community as a new demonstrator can get $125 worth of product PLUS our Stampin’ Glass Mat Studio* (a $60 USD) for just $99! The Glass Mat Studio includes a 17″ x 14″ safety-tempered glass mat, a gray 8-1/4″ x 8-1/4″ lint-free, reusable cleaning cloth and a 8-3/4″ x 6″ white 4-palette silicone mat.

Option 2:

Customers who want to join Stampin’ Up! during Sale-A-Bration but are interested in a different join option can instead get $125 worth of product PLUS an additional $30 worth of product of their choice when they join for $99. That’s $155 in products for $99! 

Once you join, you’ll get at least a 20% discount on all of your Stampin’ Up! merchandise purchases AND you get to order early from upcoming catalogs!  There is NO COMMITMENT and NO REQUIREMENT TO SELL to anyone.  You can join and just get the discount for yourself!  Contact me at apsudano@stampininthhemeadows.com if you’d like more information about joining or purchasing the Starter Kit! 

Click on the image below to open a PDF of the Sale-A-Bration Brochure to see all the Sale-A-Bration items and get additional details:

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Current Host Code: M3WQ2HCB

Use this host code when you order $50 or more and receive a Thank You gift from me!  The free gift is your choice of any item currently available valued up to $10.00.

If your order is over $150, please do not use the host code since you’ll receive your own Host Dollars plus I’ll still send you the Thank You gift!  This host code can be used by anyone, no club or commitment required. Let me know if you have any questions.

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If you need any stamping supplies, I’d be very happy to be your Demonstrator.  Just click on the Shop Now Button on the right side of the screen to go directly to my Online store or contact me if you have any questions.  Happy Stamping!

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Akiko

• Visit my online store here
• See the current Stampin’ Up! clearance rack specials here
• Earn FREE Stampin’ Up! products through my Wildflower Frequent Shopper Program – my way of saying thank you to my online frequent shopper customers.
• Have any questions? I’d be happy to help, click here to contact me.

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Cardstock Cuts for this project:

• Highland Heather – 4-1/4″ x 11″ card base, scored at 5-1/2″, 4-1/8″ x 5-3/8″ (embossed background)
• Gorgeous Grape – 2-3/4″ x 3-3/8″ (DSP mat)
• Fresh Freesia – 1-1/2″ x 2-1/2″ (label)
• Butterfly cut out
• Basic White – 4 x 5-1/4″ (inside panel)
• Perennial Lavender DSP – 1/2″ x 4″ (inside trim), 3″ x 3-1/2″ (DSP die cut)

Stampin’ Up! products used in this project:

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