Control Freaks Sale-A-Brating Continues!

Welcome to the January 2017 edition of the Tour de Freaks, featuring the awesome Occasions catalog, and equally awesome Sale-A-Bration brochure. We just had so much fun with this theme last month, and there is SO MUCH good stuff to share with you, that we're doing it again this month!

You may have hopped here from LeeAnn's blog, Flowerbug's Inkspot (weren't her project's sa-weet?!), or maybe you just started here. Either way, follow the links at the bottom of each blog to take the whole tour. There are fourteen stops today!

I had such a hard time figuring out what I wanted to use, because I wanted to use it ALL! I finally (with great reluctance) decided to focus on just one suite, and since Valentine's Day is right around the corner, I went with the Sending Love Suite.

When he was working I used to tuck love notes in my hubby's lunch box every once in a while, so love notes is the focus today. Since he's retired now, I'll have to find some creative ways to hide them for him to find....like maybe inside his iPad case, or in his bathroom drawer, heh heh.

All of these cards are 3" x 3" and were made using the products on page 15 of the Occasions catalog.

The Stitched Shapes Framelits are back in stock, and using them with the Sending Love DSP Stack made the cards look like little teeny tiny quilts....so cute!

That's a wrap from me today. Now I'm off to find some good hiding places! Be sure to "chick" out the next stop, Lisa's blog, Get Your Stamp On!

2017 Occasions Catalog Sneak Peek

Here are a few more of the 'make & takes' we did at OnStage. The Occasions catalog is packed full of the prettiest, cutest, cleverest stuff! These 3" x 3" love notes are from the Sending Love Suite. (There's another suite called Falling in Love that is so soft and lovely! I'll show you that one tomorrow.) The Sending Love Suite has a 27 piece photopolymer stamp set called Sealed With Love, coordinating Love Notes Framelits (14 piece), a pretty DSP stack in Real Red and Whisper White, wood embellishments, dainty 1/8" grosgrain ribbon combo pack (one red and one white), mini paper clips, and some delicately patterned glassine sheets which were used with one of the dies to make the itty bitty envelope above. SO adorable!!!

I'm allowed to show you the cover of the Occasions catalog, but not any pictures of the inside pages. If you click on the photo to enlarge it, you'll be better able to see a few of the goodies that are inside. And when my pre-preorder arrives (one of the perks of being a demo that went to OnStage - we got to preorder some things even before the other demos!) I can show you the products and anything I make with them! So, without further ado, here's the front cover: