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How do you suppose I came up with this title LOL?! Well, I had so much fun designing a card with the new Cutest Cows bundle and the Online Exclusive Meandering Meadow DSP. Oh ye, and I did use one die from the Garden Meadow bundle too! Is it wrong to be so much in love with this card?! With this little guy?! I had SO much fun designing the card. The stamp set is so stinkin' cute! Let's talk about the Cutest Cows bundle for a minute. The stamp set has 24 stamps -- 7 of them are such sweet...

I wanted to do 4 days of posts using a Sale-a-bration product this week. If you haven't caught on yet, this week I'm featuring the Softly Stippled Designer Paper. This paper coordinates with the Softly Stippled Rose stamp set that I may or may not get before the end of Sale-a-bration. Do you need stamps to make a card?! Not always! Check out today's sample. As you can see above, I don't have any stamping on this card at all! Let me share how I made it. First, I started with a 3" strip of...

Again today, I'm using the textured patterns of the Softly Stippled Sale-a-bration DSP. One side of the paper has designs and the other side features more solid colors with some texture. I again decided to use the Planted Paradise stamp set that I featured here yesterday. This pattern is basically the Wild Wheat color, and I think it looked great with the Wild Wheat and the Old Olive leaves in my flower hanger. I stamped the pot in Cajun Craze ink -- it looks very Tex-Mex or "Arizona" if...

As a demonstrator, one of the perks is that you can preorder before the regular customer. Besides that, another perk is that Sale-a-bration, Stampin' Up!'s annual fabulous sale, lasts for 3 months instead of 2! So, I've already been ordering and achieving! As a perk for attending On Stage, Stampin' Up!'s online convention in November, I was awarded a free stamp set called Planted Paradise. So, the challenge for this week was to use this stamp set with one of the Sale-a-bration items. No, it's...