Well it is indeed a wonderful day to be alive - and a Steelers fan - and a Stampin' Up! demonstrator! The sun is shining, the sky is clear, the temps are rising, the ice is melting.
I know that many of you will be watching the big game later today, and you won't have time for doing much stamping or web surfing or online shopping. But when you finally DO get time to read this article, I hope you'll take advantage of all that Sale-a-Bration has to offer.
To Kick Off the event, I'd like to share a card I made using a stamp set and Designer Series Paper that you can get for FREE! The paper is called Delicate Dots. and the stamp set is Polka Dot Punches.
Both are new releases and are not for sale --- they're free during the Sale-a-Bration event (Feb. 1 - March 31). You can choose one free gift from the Sale-a-Bration mini-catalog with every $50 purchase of merchandise from the 2009 Spring-Summer Idea Book & Catalog. Don't have those catalogs? Not to worry -- check them out by clicking on the links in the right-hand column.
I made this card for a Sale-a-Bration swap I joined. I will be sharing many of the cards I received in the swap in the coming weeks. They are such great designs that I want you to enjoy them as much as I do.
The stripes in the DSP are white, Bashful Blue, Certainly Celery, So Saffron, and Sahara Sand. So those are the colors I chose for the card -- and I used them all. The flower medallions were such fun to make that I made loads of them and then used up scraps of the DSP to make some alternative designs for the card.

The little flower sits on a folded piece of celery narrow grosgrain ribbon and then on a So Saffron 1 3/4" circle (also punched out, of course).
Notice how easy it was to make the flower - the Five-Petal Punch made
it possible for me to punch out dozens of the flowers after I stamped
and embossed them. Image how difficult that would have been without
the punch.
I did make one more card with the same materials and mounted the accent strip and flower on a Bashful Blue card. I'll show you that one later in the month.
Hope you'll check back often to see more wonderful samples of Sale-a-Bration artwork done by guest artists and myself.
And Good Luck to the Pittsburgh Steelers!!