Mel's Creative Creations

This past weekend I participated in a local demonstrator's Stamp A Stack event. I like going because I enjoy the interaction and the challenge to use products in a different way that I may not have thought about. For example, coloring the background with the Botanical Butterfly DSP from Saleabration with our Stampin' Blends. Most of these products are from our SAB catalog and Occasions catalog. I wanted to remind you this is the last week for you to be able to take advantage of our SAB products as they go away after the 31st. The Occasions items are good till the end of May or as supplies last. Down below you will find a list of most of the items used in the cards. Thank you for stopping by!

As many of you know I belong to a Stampin' Up! group called Luv 2 Stamp. Lately we have been doing weekly challenges there. It is fairly new In fact this is only the 3rd week. I didn't participate in the very first one but I did in the last 2. I thought I would take a moment to share what I did for last week and this week. I included the sketch that was our inspiration for this week. I didn't think I was a challenge person but I have found they have been giving me inspiration and I am trying to make more time to create.  What do you do or look for when you want to be inspired to create? Sidenote: I wanted to remind you that certain In Colors will be retiring soon. I used Lemon Lime Twist in my Happy Spring card and those are one of the colors that is going away in the end of May or as supplies last.

I wanted to remind you that you have 2 weeks before SALEABRATION 2019 is done. I wanted to showcase what cards you could make with the items that you got from the SAB catalog as well as items from the Occasions and Annual Catalog. It felt really good to take some time out and create. I feel like I am a slow crafter at times so this was a big accomplishment for me.  I actually was inspired to do this as my upline gave us a challenge for the month of March to use our SAB goodies. The last card was a challenge to use green for a feeling lucky random draw. Down below you will find most of the products I used to make these cards. I also wanted to mention the card that I made using the Country Floral Folder was colored with our Stampin' Blends.

I have been talking to you guys about the recent craft retreat I went on. While I was there I got to work with a Saleabration Stamp Set called Hello Cupcake. I have some birthdays coming up and this stamp set was a life saver as well as cute! I challenged myself as I had limited supplies with me and had to use what I had. Netherless, it was still fun to create. Remember if you have a $50 dollar order and place it by the end of March you can get this set free! A lot of our items have been so popular they are no longer available. But last I checked we still had this. We do have a die that goes with the cupcake for sale. I don't remember the name off hand but you will find that information down below. I also wanted to remind you that the 2017-19 in colors will be retiring soon. The coloring of the cupcakes were done with those colors. 

I went to a crafting retreat that a fellow demonstrator put on this past weekend. I thought I would take a few minutes and share with you all the projects that we made. We learned all about water coloring and the different techniques behind all of that. We spritzed and used our aqua painter. I personally like using the aqua painter best because I felt like I had more control of my project that way. Most of the product we used can be found in our occasions catalog or it was a free item from Saleabration. What I thought was nice that near the end of the night this demonstrator gave us all a free stamp set of our choosing that was on our table. The stamps that we were able to choose were from the projects we worked on earlier in the day. I chose the tea pot set and that is the stamp set I used in the tea pot card you see previously. We also heat embossed with a watercolor background.

A couple of weeks ago I went to a fellow demonstrator event. She had put on a Stamp a Stack Card event. I had the chance to make 6 cards but I couldn't decide what my last 2 cards would be so these are the 4 that I made while there. But I did end up taking home a couple cards that used the items from January's Paper Pumpkin kit. All of the material to make these cards are found in our Occasions and SAB catalogs. If you are in need of one and are not working with a demonstrator please let me know and I will be happy to send you one if you are not local.

If you follow me on my Facebook business page you have already seen these cards as well as the Facebook live I did about these the other day. But I didn't want to leave my dear blog readers out and wanted to share here to. This past Saturday one of my team members put on a Stampin' Bingo. Because she is local to me I decided to participate. I am really glad I did! It was a lot of fun even if I didn't win anything. It also got me excited about what our Occasions and SAB catalog this year offers. I really appreciated all the hard work she put in this event. If you have never been to a Stampin' Bingo event this is how it went. When we first got there at our seat was already a goody bag of items waiting for us. As the day progressed we would make a couple cards, play a couple of rounds of bingo and so on. If you did not win Bingo in a round you were not left out as the Hostess would give everyone a "prize". We got samples of paper and ribbon. This is al...