Good Morning! The Stampin’ Up! Painted Lavender bundle is part of the Perennial Lavender Suite in the new catalog and I used it for a pretty card today. My card is CASE’d from a card in the catalog and uses a watercolor wash technique for the background! You can find the products I used at the bottom of my post along with the card stock sizes.

I used my water painter and a watercolor palette to apply water all over a panel of watercolor paper. I tapped a stamp block in Shaded Spruce ink and swirled my water painter in the ink on the block. The I brushed the ink on the wet paper using long horizontal strokes on the bottom of the panel. I used the same techniques to apply Fresh Freesia ink to the middle section and Crumb Cake ink to the top, cleaning my water painter each time. I set the panel aside to dry and cleaned up my stamp blocks, water painter and work area. After the panel dried, I cut it out with the second largest rectangle from the Perennial Postage dies.

I adhered a panel of floral Perennial Lavender designer series paper to the front of a Crumb Cake card base with liquid glue and popped the watercolor panel on top with dimensionals. I cut lavender sprigs from Gorgeous Grape and Highland Heather using the double sprig die from the Stampin’ Up! Painted Lavender dies and adhered them to the watercolor panel with glue dots. 

I stamped the single flowers from the Stampin’ Up! Painted Lavender stamp set on Basic White. There are two stamps, designed to stamp on top of each other. The largest stamp was inked in Highland Heather ink and I used a sponge dauber to apply Berry Burst and Orchid Oasis to spots. I inked the smaller stamp in Gorgeous Grape and stamped it on top. This produces a gorgeous blend of colors! I stamped two flower sprigs using this technique and cut them out with the coordinating die. I used stamped off Shaded Spruce for the stems and cut them out and adhered them to the flower. I adhered them to the card with dimensionals on top and glue dots on the stems.

I stamped the sentiment from the Perennial Postage stamp set in Gorgeous Grape ink on a Perennial Lavender DSP panel and cut it out with the second smallest rectangle Perennial Postage die. I made a bow with Crumb Cake baker’s twine and adhered it and Popped the label on top with dimensionals. I finished the card with purple shimmer gems.

I left the inside of the card blank, simply adhering a strip of Perennial Lavender DSP to the bottom of a Basic White panel. I adhered the panel to the inside of the card with Stampin’ Seal.

This card turned out to be a bit more complicated than I thought, but it was fun to make. I was reminded of how much fun it is to watercolor and a simple wash is easy to do. And aren’t the flowers in the Stampin’ Up! Painted Lavender stamp set gorgeous! Using sponge daubers to add colors to the stamp results in a beautiful blend that is made even prettier with the second stamp. The Perennial Lavender suite is definitely one of the best!

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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:

• Crumb Cake – 4-1/4″ x 11″ card base, scored at 5-1/2″
• Watercolor paper – 3-1/2″ x 5″ (watercolor wash background)
• Gorgeous Grape – 1″ x 4-1/4″ (die cut lavender sprigs)
• Highland Heather – 1″ x 4-1/4″ (die cut lavender sprigs)
• Basic White – 3-3/4 x 5″ (inside panel), 3″ x 4″ (stamped flowers and stems)
• Painted Perennials DSP – 4-1/4″ x 5-1/2″ (front background), 1-1/4″ x 2-1/4″ (label), 1/2″ x 3-3/4″ (inside trim)

Stampin’ Up! products used in this project:

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