Thankful Thursday - Madison Avenue

Good Morning Friends

It is a Thankful Thursday despite the fact that it is still bitterly cold here in Ottawa, because heaven knows....it could always be worse.  I am sitting here in my nice, warm house typing on my convenient and trusted laptop with the full knowledge that I have a multitude of things to be thankful for!  So Thankful Thursday it is.

Here is a quick card that I put together using some of the FREE products available through to March 22, as part of Sale-A-Bration.  If you haven't put in your $60 order to earn some of these free products yet, all I can say is...what's taking you so long!?  Trust me friends.  You *do* want some of these wonderful SAB items!

On to today's card:

Supply List (Spring catalogue or SAB products)
Stamps - Madison Avenue (w129657, c129660), Vintage Verses (w129633, c129636)
Paper - Whisper White (100730)
Ink - Midnight Muse (126860), Gumball Green (126861)
Tools and Accessories - Large Rhinestone Basic Jewels (129324)



This card was very quick and quite simple in its design - but there is nothing wrong with that.  Sometimes we get so caught up in using embellishments and tools that we forget that the stamps have something to say, all by themselves.  Well today, I kept it clean and simple, no fuss, no muss.  Just a whole lot of gratitude wrapped up in one simple word -- Thanks!


Have a wonderful day and wherever you are, I hope you are keeping warm!  And that you recognize all your blessings and realize how much you have to be thankful for!           God Bless            ~Cynthia       <><
 

Sale-A-Bration - Pool Party Fashion!

Hello Friends

It is blistering cold in Ottawa today (minus 28 Celsius, with a wind chill that brings it to minus 40!!) so I had no desire to go outside except when I absolutely had to.  Instead, I stayed indoors and played with my FREE Sale-A-Bration products.  My focus on Pool Party was to make me think warm Caribbean, not frozen Arctic - and it must have done the job because I don't feel even the slightest bit of a chill!  

These cards were all CASEd from or inspired by cards I saw elsewhere in my cyber-travels.  I love the way the Sycamore Street Designer Paper combines vibrant colours and leads me to combine patterns and colours I wouldn't generally have thought of before.  I can't tell you how much I love this paper.  And the ribbons?  Luscious, luscious, luscious!  So glad that all three colours (Pool Party, Island Indigo and Tangerine Tango) come together because I wouldn't be able to decide on my own which to choose.  This way I don't have to.  And best of all -- they're FREE with any qualifying Sale-A-Bration purchase!

The Supply List and Materials are for all three cards since they use many of the same elements (largely free SAB products)


Supply List (Spring catalogue or SAB products)
Stamps - Patterned Occasions (w129621, c129624), Madison Avenue (w129657, c129660), Pretty Petites (w129639, c129642)
Paper - Whisper White (100730), Pool Party (122924), Tangerine Tango (111349), Island Indigo (122923), Summer Starfruit (126839), Rich Razzleberry (115316), Sycamore Street Designer Paper (127540)
Ink - Rich Razzleberry (126950), Island Indigo (122923), Tangerine Tango (126946), Gumball Green (126861)
Big Shot -  Honeycomb Embossing Folder (129378)
Tools and Accessories - Sycamore Street Ribbons (130812), Petite Curly Label Punch (129405), dimensionals (104430), Blossom Petals Builder Punch (121808), 1 1/4" Scallop Circle Punch (127811), 1" Circle Punch (119868), 1 3/8" Circle Punch (119860), 7/8" Scallop Circle (129404), Itty Bitty Punch Pack (118309), Basic Rhinestone Jewels (119246)




Hope you enjoy these cards and they inspire you to get your own SAB products and play.  You don't need to have freezing weather as an excuse either!  You have my permission to get crafty...just because you "want" to!   :)





Enjoy the rest of your day - wherever you are.

God Bless,    
~Cynthia     <><