The Casually Crafting Design Team are a group of Independent Stampin’ Up! demonstrators that want to share our love of crafting with you all.  We will be sharing what we love every 3rd Friday of each month.  Make sure you check out the rest of the Design Team’s creative projects using the photo links at the end of this post.

Sale-a-bration

When we started this blog hop last December we never knew what 2020 had in store for us… it has been a year like no other and hopefully there will be no other like it! BUT that said I have thoroughly enjoyed hopping with this amazing group of people for the past 12 months!  I am so thankful for each of them for the inspiration and craft genius they share with me on a regular basis.  I am also so thankful for those of you that come here every month to see what we have made.  The idea was to get me blogging regularly and although that’s only once a month at the minute I’m hoping to build on that and it’s once a month more than I was previously!

Anyway we are back to Sale-a-bration again with sale-a-bration comes celebration – for our one year anniversary, for free craft products and for the friendships this crazy journey has brought!  There is so much to love in this years offering and you might well want it all!

For my project this month I’ve made a 3d project using the beautiful flower and field designer series paper which you can earn for free with a £45 spend.  All you need to recreate this gorgeous little bag is one sheet of 12×12 paper and one sheet of co-ordinating designer series paper.

Flower and Field

Full disclosure, I first learnt how to make this bag, or a variation of it when I started my Stampin’ Up Journey many years ago.  I watched a video by a lady called Elaine from Papercraft button.  Sadly I don’t think the channel is on YouTube anymore and I’m so glad I scribbled down the directions because I have created this time and time again, sometimes with different measurements, with handles, without handles, with ribbon… and I’ve an idea for another version to try in the new year.  I’ve no idea who first came up with the folds to create this but they are a genius!

For the first bag I used Cherry Cobbler as my co-ordinating card stock and I love how it turned out!

For the second bag I used Just Jade – and I have to put my hand up and say I’ve hardly used this before and WHY?!?!  It’s gorgeous quite possibly my new favourite!

Pick your favourite?

So which one do you prefer?  I made both of these with handles however they make super cute clutch bags as well, I’ve used ribbon for handles in older versions as well.  I really can’t decide on my favourite, when I look at one that’s it and then I look at the other – I’m fickle!

I’ve listed the products I used below with the exception of the designer series paper as it’s not yet available but you could use any.  Sale-a-bration stated on the 5th January and runs through to the 28th February  – as a reminder for every £45 spend you get to select one FREE exclusive item!

Thank you so much for dropping by and reading my ramblings, I hope you’ve loved this months project.  I also hope you all have a wonderful Christmas and a happy, healthy New Year!  Let’s hope that 2021 brings the best of times for us all!  Please don’t forget to visit my awesome demo brothers and sisters by clicking the photographs below!

Merry Christmas!  Love Me x x x

Casually Crafting Design Team Photo Links

Click on the photos below to continue along this month’s hop from the rest of the Casually Crafting Design Team and don’t be shy about leaving comments we would love to hear from you!

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