Cardstock:

• 8 ½” x 5 ½”, scored at 4 ¼”
• 2 ½” x 1 ½”

Coordinating Cardstock:

• 5 3/16” x 3 15/16” OR 5 ¼” x 4”

White or Vanilla cardstock: 2 ¼” x 1 ¼”
Patterned paper (3 coordinating patterns):

• 2 3/8” x 3 1/8”
• 1 ¾” x 2 3/8”
• 1 ¼” x 5

All of my sample cards use patterned paper from the 2021 Sale-A-Bration Brochure which means you can earn them for FREE with a qualifying purchase. My first card uses the new Paper Blooms patterned paper. This is a level 1 reward which means it is FREE with a $50 purchase. 

I paired it with the You Are Amazing stamp set and finished the card with Rococo Rose and Night of Navy paper. I added a few Champagne Rhinestones for a little sparkle and bling!

If you've stopped by my blog or my Facebook group in recent weeks, you probably already know that Flower & Field is my favorite Sale-A-Bration item! I absolutely love how dramatic this paper is. Like the Paper Blooms patterned paper, it is a Level 1 reward and FREE with a $50 purchase.

I've also used the You Are Amazing stamp set on this card. I love the bold greetings in this set! I've mounted the patterned paper on Basic Black and Granny Apple Green cardstock and added 3 Matte Black Dots. They are a bit hard to see, but these dots are a fabulous little something for cards. They are going to be fantastic for masculine cards where you don't want flash, but you need a little dot of something to make the card look right.

My last card uses the new Berry Delightful patterned paper which comes with the Berry Blessings stamp set as a Level 2 Sale-A-Bration reward. This means you can get it FREE with a $100 purchase.

I completed the card with Granny Apple Green and Garden Green cardstock, some red rhinestones, and a sentiment from the Sweet Strawberry stamp set. This set of stamps is in the 2021 January-June Mini catalog and coordinates with the Berry Delightful patterned paper.

Cardstock: 8 ½” x 5 ½”, scored at 4 ¼”
Cardstock: 3 15/16” x 5 3/16”
White or Vanilla Cardstock: (2) circles approximately 2” inches.
Patterned Paper (holiday or basic pattern): 3 ¾” x 5”

There are so many amazing holiday stamps! But, if you're making lots of cards, it's better to choose bold stamps instead of outline stamps that need to be colored.

Create a prototype of the card you think you'd like to create. You want to start by creating one, so that you can figure out how to best create 25, 50, or 100. This is the prototype I created using the Tree Angle stamp set in Magenta Madness and Granny Apple Green.

I really like my prototype, but it's a little complicated to create in multiples. So, I simplified and came up with this second idea. It has the same colors and uses the same stamp set. 

Patterned paper can do some of the same things artistically that texture does. It adds interest to the background. But, it's quicker to make. 

My second idea would definitely be easier to make, but it was a little too simple for my tastes. So, I tried a third card. This card also uses the same colors and the texture is replaced with patterned paper.

Bows are pretty, but they definitely are more time-consuming to tie than a simple strip of flat ribbon or a knot. It can also save postage to use flat ribbons instead of bows. On my 3rd prototype, I used a flat ribbon instead of a bow.

A stamping platform like the Stamparatus can really speed up your stamping! The Stamparatus is particularly wonderful because it has 2 moveable doors. I cut pieces of Whisper White cardstock so that they were 7" x 4 3/4" which accommodates 6 circles. Then, I set up my greeting stamps on my Stamparatus and inked the first one in Granny Apple Green. I moved the door down two spaces and stamped a second time. Then, moved my door down two more spaces and stamped again. Once the green "Greetings" was stamped, I put the other two stamps on the second door, inked it with Magenta Madness, then stamped again three times. When the first three were done, I rotated my piece of Whisper White cardstock and did the same thing on the other side. Finally, I punched the six circles with my 2" circle punch.

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