What a week! WOW! Today is the final day of both Sale-a-Bration and my five day video series featuring the gorgeous products from this promotion. You can see day one here, day two here, day three here & finally day four here.
The Sale-a-Bration products are all able to be earned for FREE with a $100 AUD order in my online store. On today’s project I am sharing the super fun Fruit Salad Designer Series Paper from the Sale-a-Bration goodies as well as the Purple Adhesive Backed Sequins.
I also snuck a special pre-order product in that will be available next week! The Painted Stripes Cling Stamp Set makes a fun, bold and easy background that you can make in seconds! Combined with the Mini Alpha Dies I was able to make these cute & quirky fruit pun cards that are just a little bit different!

I love that by using an easy die set – you can come up with any sentiment (or in this case pun!) that you like. I am sure I could think of many more and in my efforts I had to restrain myself after making five – they are pretty addictive.

the finished mini alpha pun cards

Here is a look at my finished Mini Alpha ‘punny cards’
I made these cards similar to how I made my Onstage Swap cards that I finished last week. You can see that post here. I knew that I wanted the card design to be the same and so I worked on my elements in ‘batches’. First I decided on the fruits I was going to include and then colour matched a background which I have then stamped using the Painted Stripes background stamp.
This made it easy for me then to fussy cut and add all my elements in stages.

a close up look at punny cards!

You can see here that the sentiments/puns have some fun height & dimension.
The Foam Adhesive Sheets are fantastic for adding dimension particularly on small pieces that would not work well with with individual Stampin’ Dimensionals.
Using the Mini Alpha Dies – I have cut out my puns from some Foam Adhesive Sheet and Basic Black cardstock.
Even better – this means that they become self adhesive foam letters – how cool is that!
See the video where I have shown some tips for how I cut them out for some savvy cost saving!

I wanted to add a stamped ‘You’re’ to some of the cards and so I find an appropriate sentiment that included this from the For The Books Stamp and simply cut this individual word away from the sentiment to be used after I had heat embossed it in black.

a close up look at the insides – can’t leave a blank inside

I just had to add a pretty inside – and there was no better way to use up and feature some more of the Fruit Salad 6×6 Designer Series Paper than to add a strip and some more of those gorgeous fussy cut fruits.
If you noticed the cute little flowers featured on this card I have taken them from the Happy Hibiscus dies and cut them from the Fruit Salad Paper as an additional accent.

I hope that you enjoyed seeing this project. Be sure to check out all the resources including PDF and the video tutorial below. I would love to see what you make! Be sure to jump over & join my FREE VIP group to share with me what you have been making. xx

see the video tutorial for the fruity pun cards

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supply list for the mini alpha & fruit puns cards

Fruit Salad 6" X 6" (15.2 X 15.2 Cm) Designer Series Paper [164943] $21.75	For The Books Photopolymer Stamp Set (English) [164836] $32.00	Mini Alphabet Dies [162934] $54.00	Purple Adhesive Backed Sequins [164970] $14.00	Foam Adhesive Sheets [152815] $14.50
Pecan Pie Classic Stampin' Pad [161665] $15.75	Garden Green Classic Stampin' Pad [147089] $15.75	Real Red Classic Stampin' Pad [147084] $15.75	Granny Apple Green Stampin' Pad [147095] $15.75	Coastal Cabana Classic Stampin' Pad [147097] $15.75
Clear Wink Of Stella Glitter Brush [141897] $15.75	Basic White A4 Thick Cardstock [159230] $19.75	Pecan Pie A4 Cardstock [161726] $20.25	Garden Green A4 Card Stock [108605] $20.25	Real Red A4 Card Stock [106578] $20.25
Granny Apple Green A4 Cardstock [147014] $20.25	Card Stock A4 Coastal Cabana [131302] $20.25	Basic Black A4 Card Stock [121688] $20.25	Versamark Pad [102283] $16.75	Basics Wow! Embossing Powder [165679] $37.00