Stamp Review Crew: SAB January-February 2023

Hello from snowy and bitter cold north-central Illinois! I am pleased to be participating in the third Stamp Review Crew blog hop of January, when we celebrate all things Sale-A-Bration! (You can look forward to another SAB hop on January 20.)

Have you hopped with us before? We are an international group of Stampin’ Up! demonstrators who get together on the first and third Monday of each month to bring you all kinds of fabulous inspiration on a single stamp set — or in this case, our choice of product from the January-February 2023 Sale-A-Bration catalog. Of course, with an extra Monday this month, we can’t resist squeezing in another hop!

The blogger on the hop before me is Heidi Baks at Running w/ Scissors Stamper — I hope you love her work as much as I do! (Remember that you can click on the banner at the top of this post to see a list of all hop participants.)

Like many other stampers, I have fallen in love with the Adorable Owls on page 4:

And then if I had to pick one other product I use quite a bit, it would be the Dandy Designs 12″ x 12″ Designer Series Paper on page 14:

All those happy colors and prints are perfect right now, so I created this:

Adorable Owls | Dandy Designs | Stamp Review Crew | Please click to read more! | Stampin' Up! | HeartfeltInkspiration.com | Debra Burgin

This DSP makes it so easy to mix patterns. Note the coordinating strip inside.

I used a Color Lifter with short strokes to simulate feathers on this Smoky Slate owl, then added a light outline of the Early Espresso Watercolor Pencil to give some dimension to the image. Now if only we had a pre-schooler in our family I could send this to!

And now you’re on to see what Holly Krautkremer at Rubber Redneck has created for you — enjoy!