Retiring accessories and Blowout sale!

I am leaving in the morning so if you would like to purchase any of these items, please order online by clicking the "Shop now" button at the top of the screen.

Inventory Blowout

Dates: January 5-18, 2009

Promotion details:

Get retired, retiring, and current products up to 50 percent off regular price!

Items retiring from the Fall-Winter 2008 Idea Book & Catalog:

*Items available while supplies last; page numbers refer to the

Fall-Winter 2008 Idea Book & Catalog

Retired items from the Spring-Summer 2008 Idea Book & Catalog:

*Items available while supplies last; page numbers refer to the

Spring-Summer 2008 Idea Book & Catalog

Current products appearing in the upcoming Spring-Summer 2009 Idea Book & Catalog:

Retired Accessories List

Items on this retired accessories list will be available at regular price while supplies last or through January 18, whichever comes first.

If an item is unavailable, our supply is exhausted and the item can no longer be ordered. This list will be updated every day through January 18.

Keep in mind that the status of any retiring product may change quickly based on demand.

*This item is discounted and included on the Inventory Blowout.

Winner of blog candy! and I am off to Florida!

Hey everyone,               

The winner of this past week’s blog candy is Rebecca Weil!  She wins that cute card tin and stamp set. Thanks to everyone who posted comments. I loved reading all of them.                                                                                             

  I am leaving for Orlando for the Leadership conference so I will not be posting much while I am gone….. I will be too busy having fun!  I will be doing another blog candy giveaway as soon as I return though.  Here is one of the gifts I made for some of my friends at Leadership. I got the new Rooster hostess set and couldn’t figure out what to do with it but it fit just perfectly on these little notepads I got from the Dollar store. I used that Raspberry tart paper on these too.

Gift from a friend….

My good friend and Stampin’ UP convention/ leadership roomie Terri Mongeon sent me this adorable gift. It is a cute tote bag filled with the Season of Friendship cards and matching envelopes. There was one card for each season.  I just love it! I am so sad to see this set go. I am really hoping it will make it into the big catalog later this month but I won’t find out til Wednesday when I get the new catalog at Leadership! I am so excited to go to Orlando to see all of my friends from all over the country. It is like a family reunion every few months when we all get together. I met Terri at the Stampin’ UP Leadership conference several years ago and we became instant friends.That is my favorite part about being a Stampin’ Up demonstrator….all of the friends I have made over the years.

These are the matching envelopes!

Free stamp camp by email!

I am offering this great class by email (you will get step by step directions with color photos ) for free when you buy the bundle to make it. In the bundle you will receive :

Say it with Scallops $17.95

Windsor Knot DSP $9.95

Forget me not keeper $11.95

1 inch double stitched chocolate chip ribbon $8.95

1/4 inch grosgrain in sage shadow, chocolate chip, white, and apricot 4@ $4.95

5/8 inch chocolate chip grosgrain $7.95

filigree brads $5.95

scallop square punch $15.95

regular price $98.45

Bundle deal with FREE class by email $89.00!  (total is before shipping and tax)

You must email me your orders and I will have them sent right to your house if you like. If you order online, you will not be able to get the sale price.

Here are some other things you will need to make this in case you don’t already have them…..

Paper
          Sage Shadow, Old Olive, Chocolate chip, So saffron, whisper white

Ink          Sage Shadow, Old olive, So saffron, chocolate chip, and the sage marker

Accessories

          Stampin’ Dimensionals, ½” Circle Punch, 1/16” Handheld Circle Punch, Crop-A-Dile,   Mini Glue Dots, Sticky Strip,   SNAIL

Valentine Mailbox….look what’s inside….

I am having so much fun playing with this new Love You Much bundle….I have had a week off since Christmas to just play and make swaps for Leadership. I had a couple of these mini mailboxes left over from last year ( they were in the $$ bin at Target…my favorite store!). Anyway, I thought the Candy Lane paper would look great on one and I was right! Isn’t this adorable…..but wait…there’s more…..open the mailbox to see what is inside……

  These cute little love notes fit perfectly inside the mailbox. THey are 3×3 size. I would love to do a class with these this year but I am sure Target will be sold out of them by the time I get there.  For the mailbox, I used a 4×12 sheet of DSP and made a template out of scrap paper to punch the 1/2 inch circle to go around the flag. I had to punch out a few to get it positioned just right and then I laid that one over the DSP to punch the circle and then snip it so that the paper just slides in right around your flag.  I hope that makes sense.

Raspberry Tart!

I had no idea what to do with our new Raspberry Tart DSP because I didn’t really like it for cards (it is a little on the wild side for me) so I was trying to think of a 3D project I could use with it and then I saw the box of Kit Kats in my stamp room and decided to make a bunch of them for Leadership swaps. All you have to do is cut the DSP into 4 6×6 pieces and each of these covers a full size Kit Kat perfectly. Then I crimped the ends and wrapped with our ribbons and plopped a scallop punch from our new Love You Much bundle on top and Voila! These are super easy and who doesn’t like a pretty piece of chocolate? 

Here is the close up view of one of them….for the scallop, I stamped the image on pink pirouette and vanilla and punched them out. I punched out the center of the pink piece using the 3/4 inch circle punch and then cut the heart out of that piece so I didn’t have to stamp it an additional time.

Blog Candy contest!

Hey everyone!
I am going to give away some blog candy for the next few weeks! If you don’t know what that is, it is FREE stuff for checking out my blog! All you have to do to enter the contest is post a comment on my blog….you get one entry per comment. I will pick the first winner on Monday since I will be out of town the rest of the week next week for Leadership (and I will get to see the brand new catalog!!!). So, check out my blog and don’t forget to leave a comment! Oh, and here is what the prize is this week!!!!!

This is a card tin that I made and it is perfect for holding all of the cards that you make at my classes! and the stamp set is from a hostess level 3 bundle.

DCBD challenge #8

 Hey everyone,

For this week’s challenge, we didn’t have a sketch or anything….we just had to create a New Year’s card….my interpretation of that is a New Stampin’ Up Year’s card with a stamp set out of the NEW catalog! This stamp set is one that we received at Founder’s Circle a couple of months ago and I have been dying to use it so I got it out this week and played around with it. I am doing another card with it for a swap so I can’t show you that one (yet). The set is called Simple Friendship and I LOVE IT! It comes with the butterfly, the circle stamp, the true friend and some flowery stamps too. I had a ton of Urban Garden DSP so I thought I would use some of that up (just in case it retires next week). I wish they would tell us which papers were going before I made all of my Leadership swaps (this is one of them). The circle punch is our 1 3/4 inch one and I used the scallops from the pennant die to fit around it. I used baja breeze, kiwi kiss and not quite navy for the colors. I hope you like it. Please leave me a comment and let me know what you think. Also, check out the other Divas listed under the coffee cups in my sidebar. Thanks for looking!

More Love you Much!

I just can’t get enough of this set! I LOVE it!!! This is one I tried the crystal effects on, but it took so long to dry I decided not to do it for a class but I love the look. I copied the vase part from someone but now I can’t remember where I saw it. I loved the crystal effects and the bow though. The whole thing is stamped in riding hood red and then I colored in the vase with chocolate chip…a little too dark… I think I would use close to cocoa next time. Then I colored the whole vase in with crystal effects and actually laid the bow on there while it was still tacky so it was like glue. ***For my local customers: I am doing a stamp camp with this bundle at the end of the month and if you pre-purchase it from me before Jan. 5th, you get $15 off the stamp camp fee (normally $25)

Love you much!

I LOOOOVE this new set and the whole bundle! It is so easy to create a ton of cute samples.

For this one, I stamped the words in real red onto pink pirouette and then used the white gel pen to highlight the vase. I used the real red DSP that is in the level 1 hostess pack.  I used the scallop edge punch on the pink and then used the paper piercer to poke a hole in each scallop. I stamped the friends on the pink and messed up so had to cover that up with the word window punch! I punched out the little mini heart with the new punch too and topped it off with a little glitter!