LOVE the Chevron background!

One of my favorite things about Stampin' Up!  would be how simple it is to make a great card to say "hi", Happy Birthday, or whatever else I want to say.  I used the Positively Chevron background stamp for these cards. These were the two beginnings of the card.  I'll post the finished projects tomorrow!  

Quick little gift

This little gift is fun for a quick one for a friend or co-worker, or for a party favor!  I got the idea of the internet.  It uses the stamp set Label Love and the matching punch.  This holds a Tootsie Pop.  

Catching up -

It's been way too long since I posted any of my work.  So, I'll try to catch up a bit and show what I have been doing. Mostly going to school online, working 40 hours a week, and teaching an early morning Seminary class to youth 14-18.  It keeps me super busy (more than I would like most weeks)  and not much time for crafting.  I have kept my head above water, but barely.  I will try in the next few days to find and photograph cards we have done in clubs this year.  Enjoy the ride!

all of these were prototypes for my Pampered Chef consultant, Chach.  She wanted some options for cards for her clients.  She loved them all, decided to wait to get them as thank you and birthday cards.  Which is YOUR favorite?  I will have a prize for one random winner.  Pass this along to friends and have them post a comment below for a chance to win!  Please include your email so I can let you know if you win!  I will use the random generator on Dec 31 to draw a prize for the new year 2014!

Good luck!

Today could be YOUR LUCKY DAY!! How would you like a chance to win a FREE Pass to the upcoming UStamp with Dawn and Friends!! Heating Up The Holidays!! 2013?? Ya gotta admit FREE is pretty darn fun, right??!! All you need to do to get in on the drawing is click HERE and join as a FREE Member for the FREE UStamp with Dawn and Friends!! Blog Hop Website and you will automatically be entered into the drawing for a FREE PASS!! Hurry the drawing ends today so don't miss out!! Heating Up The Holidays!! 2013 will have 40+ Project Suites all with downloadable PDF's AND we are using EVERY Stampin' Up! Product in the NEW 2013 Holiday Catalog showcasing Autmn, Halloween, Thankgiving and Christmas...it's a MUST NOT MISS EVENT!! Stay tuned for details for Early Bird Pricing coming soon!!

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It's here!!!!!

Today is a spectacular day!  For ONE day only Stampin' Up! customers can have the best of both worlds.  You can order from two years Idea Books and even a Mini Catalog!  For May 31 only, you can order from the NEW 2013-14 IBC, and the retiring IBD, and the Spring Mini Catalog.  RUN to my Demonstrator Website HERE and place your order AFTER NOON MST today.  You can use the hostess code to add to the retiring order I have going on and one lucky person will win the Hostess Benefits.  Look for the box below when you add something to your shopping cart.  Enter the code - ABQJNE62.

Take a look at the NEW catalog HERE, the retiring list of stamps and accessories, and the Spring Mini Catalog HERE.

Join me next Saturday, June 8 from 2pm-4pm for my New Idea Book and Catalog Open House.  You can make a great card, get your own copy of the new Idea Book and Catalog, and shop my Retired Product Yard Sale.  And if you can't wait to get your hands on the book then, take a look at fellow demonstrator Jessica Taylor's catalog tour.  She spent a lot of time making a wonderful sampling of the catalog.

2013-14 Idea Book and Catalog Tour

Out with the old, to make room for the NEW!~

A new Idea Book and Catalog is coming June 3, so Stampin' Up!  has to make room for the new stuff.  That means retiring lists are out.  Check out what items are not going to be available after June 3.  This first list is the STAMPS - they will be available until that date.  The second list is for retiring accessories which are only available WHILE SUPPLIES LAST:

Retiring Stamps
Retiring accessories 

I have created a Hostess code for your orders and I am giving the hostess benefits away!  When you get to my Stampin' Up! website, HERE, you will enter in this code:  ABQJNE62.  That will link your order to the mystery hostess order and once I close the order, I will give one of you that orders the hostess FREE products!  

So, what are you waiting for?

Stream-lined organization, Stampin' Up! Style

How exciting is THIS!  My stamp haven will love me so much when these fill my shelves.  Talk about STREAMLINING!  Thank you Stampin' Up!

Reminiscing my Childhood

Stampin' Up!  has a new bundle until the end of April.  It is called Sent With Love.  When I saw the stamp set, it reminded me immediately of the Air Mail letters we used to send from Canada.  I knew I had to have it.  I hope to make a fun card with it soon and will share it with you all!  Enjoy the images and the bundle can be yours for only $25.50.  

Sent With Love stamp set $17.95

Sent With Love DSP $10.95

You can also purchase them as a digital kit for your digital paper crafting.

Super Birthday Celebration

Stampin Up!  pulled out all the stops for their birthday!  It may be their milestone, but YOU get the gifts.  Each month they are presenting a new stamp set.  It includes favorite images from the past 25 years along with one NEW image.  You can collect as many as you like or as few, but when you collect 6 of them you can remit your stamp stickers for a FREE set of your choice from the catalog.  Each set sells for $14.95.  Check them out here:

Best of Birthdays $14.95 

Best of Love $14.95

More Celebrating, SU! style

Ok, so new single stamps, manly stamping, what more could be coming?????  How about an autoship program?  This new program is what everyone needs.  If you want to keep creating every month, but don't want the storage of all those fun product, Paper Pumpkin is for you!

You can check out all the details, and sign up at the new website - Paper Pumpkin

The last and most exciting gift for the 25th Anniversary of Stampin' Up is the monthly release of some retired stamps bundled into monthly themes.  Stampin' Up!  will be bringing back some of the favorite stamp images from the past 25 years and combining them into 12 sets, one to be released each month for the rest of the year.  Each set will include a BRAND NEW stamp!

Even better .... starting in February you will get a collectors card and a 25-year proof of purchase sticker with your purchase of the Best of set.  Once you collect six stickers, you can send the card back to Stampin' Up! to get a stamp set of YOUR choice (up to $14.95) for FREE!.  These sets will retail for $14.95 , so they are very affordable.

January's set is BIRTHDAYS!

So, are you as excited as I am to see what else this wonderful 25th Anniversary holds for Stampin' Up!  and their wonderful customers????  Stay tuned.... more excitement is coming!!!!!!

     

25 wonderful years! Time to Celebrate

It is Stampin' Up!'s birthday, but YOU get to celebrate.  There are so many hot specials going on I wonder why Arizona is so COLD this week.  The first one is new single stamps!  the one below is a sample.

There are two sets.  See Assortment 3 and Assortment 4.

The next exciting thing is a set for the MAN stamper!  How cool is that?  It is called....

DUDE!  You're welcome - 

There's a fun video to watch too ...

I'll save the other two items for tomorrow... STAY TUNED!

Upcoming Events for January

Come join me for some fun classes this month!  

January Promotion

There is this sweet little holiday coming up... VALENTINE's!  Stampin' Up!  has an equally sweet little offering.  Unfortunately, none of my club members will see any samples as it will be GONE before we meet, but you can still order it!  As a matter of fact, if I get 10 people who want to order both of the sets, I will give one of the lucky orders the hostess benefits!

This sweet stamp is in a bundle - get it with a package of 1"x 8" cellophane bags all for $5.95.  

This set is also available as a bundle - when you buy this set for $9.95 you will get the Sealed with Love set FREE!

Cricut project - OVERDUE!

Another overdue partial project - I have a co-worker who asked me LAST year (that should read 2011!!!!) to make her baby a name frame.  Well....  I completely forgot and she mentioned it to me again before our Christmas break last month.  I promised her I would get it for her.  SOOOO......  (drumroll please.........)

There isn't any stamping on it, but I LOVE it and had to share it with you!

Blue Ribbon Day

I guess since I actually stamped today you could call it a BLUE RIBBON day,  These were pieces parts from other projects.  I had a goal to put some of the partially done cards together into actual cards.  How many of you have half done projects?  GET 'EM DONE!  That is one of my goals this year - to keep up with projects and get partially done ones finished and don't have any more partials.!  (Sounds like a Boy Scout Merit Badge fiasco!)

The set was Blue Ribbon.  The colors on the top card were Pacific Point, Daffodil Delight and Melon Mambo.  The second set were Regal Rose and Perfect Plum and Pumpkin Pie and Lucky Limeade.