If you need some ideas on how to use Stampin’ Up! fabric on your projects, just watch this cute video from Stampin’ Up! Then order your fabric from now until Sunday, March 31 at my Stampin’ Up! Online Store here!
If you love fabric, you’ll want to take advantage of the Stampin’ Up! Spring Fabric Frenzy! It starts today, Monday, March 25th and runs just through Sunday, March 31.
Seamstress or not–you’ll love using our high quality Designer Fabric–especially at 50% off! Our Designer Fabric is designed to coordinate with Stampin’ Up! inks, paper, and other accessories, and is perfect for adding a stylish touch to traditional paper projects. Available in an extra-wide fat quarters (18″ x 26″). Use it for quilting, clothing, home décor, and more!
*Spring Catalog
All items are limited quantity and the discount will be removed once the quantity is reached.
Even if you don’t sew, you can tear (or cut) strips of fabric to tie packages rather than ribbon. Use with our Big Shot Adhesive Roll for adhering rather than sewing! Use the fabric to make flowers by just twisting and rolling onto our Jumbo Sticky Rounds.
Just shop at my Stampin’ Up! Online Store for the Fabric Frenzy and all the other great offers Stampin’ Up! has going on! Don’t forget the new This and That Bundle and the new Photopolymer Stamps!
Have fun with the Spring Fabric Frenzy at 50% off!
Stampin’ Up! is introducing a new product line called This and That!! It will be in the next new Stampin’ Up! catalog, but we are ALL getting a sneak peek NOW and opportunity to purchase it at a 15% discount!
It’s the latest craze in scrapbooking….just write in the journal, just stick in your mementos, no designing perfect scrapbook pages…..just get it in there! Use the washi tape ( the hottest item these days!), use the clips, cut up the paper…write, stamp, stick…whatever you want! Just get it in there so you have something. It can be the everyday, the mundane, the usual daily stuff…or it can be the special occasion,the extraordinary, a gift, a remembrance.
Click any of the photos above to see more about the new product line, This and That, from Stampin’ Up! Or click HERE to go to my Stampin’ Up! Online Store and place your order for any or ALL of these products! Surely you want them ALL in the BUNDLE for the 15% discount! Order extras for gifts for your friends or those young people in your life! These kind of journals are “all the go now” as my grandmother used to say!
These products (and more in this line!) will be available in the new catalog; however, the 15% bundle discount is only good from now until April 30. Don’t miss out! Just get it all…..and some extras!
The last few hours of Sale-a-Bration with Stampin’ Up! are upon us! Be sure to place your order today before the witching hours when computers break down, power goes off, minds go blank!
Place your Stampin’ Up! order HERE today and choose from all THESE FREE Sale-a-Bration products….one free with EVERY $50 that you spend!
Ordering ends at 11:50 pm Mountain Time (figure it out for your time zone…that’s 12:50 am Central Time)
Contact me at Karen@KarenStamps.com if you have any questions!
All good things must come to an end….and today is the end of Sale-a-Bration for Stampin’ Up! It’s been going on since January but today is the last day to order $50 in product and then earn a free Sale-A-Bration product. Stampin’ Up! used to only offer 4 or 6 stamp sets, I believe, when I first started for Sale-a-Bration but now you have LOTS of choices…..stamp sets, card stock, card kit, buttons, ribbons, punch, embossing folder, designer paper, digital discs, and more! And it ships free with your order!
Check out my Online Store today, without fail, and place your order. For every $50 you spend, you may choose a free Sale-A-Bration item. Read about Sale-A-Bration here.
You can also JOIN Stampin’ Up! today and receive extra in your Starter Kit and the best part will be that you will be a Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator and can build your own stamping, scrapbooking, and digital business however it fits you and your family. For information on joining the Stampin’ Up! family, please click HERE. You can sign up online and be a Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator in minutes!
Let me know if you have any questions or would like me to place your order for you.
Tomorrow, Friday March 22, is the very last day of Stampin’ Up!’s biggest promotion of the year, Sale-A-Bration! Lots to choose from….stamps, paper, a punch, embossing folder, free card kit, buttons, ribbon, discs for My Digital Studio and more!
You have today and tomorrow to order! Don’t wait until the last minute! Computer glitches have been known to happen (don’t ask me how I know!).
Just go to my Stampin’ Up! Online Store here to order!
It’s always fun to shop for Stampin’ Up! products, whether stamps, paper, ink, or accessories…or My Digital Studio! But when you can get a FREE product with a $50 purchase during Sale-A-Bration, it’s even MORE fun! But it all ends tomorrow!!
Today is the first day of spring, so why not make a card for someone to brighten their day even more! On this card I used some Sale-A-Bration products that you can get free with each $50 purchase. The Whisper White card layer is embossed with the Big Shot and the Vine Street Embossing Folder. For the look of flowers growing, I just punched some of the Sycamore Street Designer Series Paper for the flower design and backed it with some card stock colors. Of course I had to add a little Rhinestone Jewel to the center of each flower. The stems I cut by hand. The greeting is from the Tea Shoppe stamp set.
As you can see from this card, you don’t even need flower stamps to make a flower card! Use some designer series paper and punch out some designs that can look like pretty flowers!
If you want to place an order before Sale-a-Bration ends on this Friday, March 22, just go to my Online Store here. Make sure you see my name in the upper right corner and you are set! Spend $50, get a free Sale-a-Bration Stampin’ Up! product! Spend $100, get two! Spend $150, get three SAB products plus Hostess Rewards plus a free pack of Silver Glimmer Paper!!
Let me know if you have any questions! Here are your SAB choices below!
Here’s an easy tip I accidentally discovered the other day when I was too lazy to get up and find a scrap piece of Daffodil Delight card stock! I had a piece of Whisper White card stock handy, so I grabbed a Daffodil Delight Stampin’ Write Marker and scribbled a solid blob of color on the Whisper White. Then I punched the shape out of it with my Itty Bitty Shapes Punch Pack #118309. I was using it for the flower on the hat of my punch art leprechaun in THIS post.
Just think about it….if you didn’t have a certain color of card stock but you had the marker, you can color on a piece of Whisper White or Very Vanilla card stock and use that to punch or maybe even to stamp on. Then you can punch or cut and you have the color you want! It might not work in all cases, but if you just don’t want to get up from the table, this might be a handy tip! Especially if you have Shimmery White card stock or the Watercolor paper where you can play with color a little bit, you might color with a couple different colors in an area, maybe even spritz them…just experiment, and see what you come up with! Now I think I want to go play more with this idea!
Stamping is for fun!
Don’t forget, Sale-A-Bration ends Friday, March 22……that is THIS coming Friday! Be sure to get your order in! Contact me, or put it in online yourself at my Online Store! Be sure you see my name in the upper right corner of my store, then you know you are in the right place! Also, check the categories in the left sidebar of the store, such as “New Arrivals” or “Clearance Rack” so you can take advantage of every offer you want! With every $50 purchase, you get to choose one FREE Sale-A-Bration product!
Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Would you like to receive a little treat bag of candy with a leprechaun made from Stampin’ Up! punches? Yesterday on the Stampin’ Up! home page I saw a leprechaun like this one but made digitally in My Digital Studio. I decided to make it the traditional way using my punches. I can tell you it is easier to do in My Digital Studio because you can make everything the perfect size you want…make a punch shape larger or smaller, change things to any color, whatever you want!
I just experimented with my punches until I got some things a reasonable size to fit. The Teeny Tiny Wishes stamp set comes in handy for almost any occasion for the greeting. And don’t you love the Champagne Glimmer Paper?!
This is a little of what History.com says about St. Patrick’s Day:
St. Patrick’s Day takes place each year on March 17, the traditional religious feast day of Saint Patrick.
In 2013, St. Patrick’s day falls on a Sunday.
Have a fun and happy St. Patrick’s Day! I’m wearing my little shamrock necklace my husband brought me from Ireland last year!
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Hot off the press! Stampin’ Up! is releasing a new stamp set that will appear in the next new catalog! The stamp set is called A Round Array, and you can bundle this with the 7/8″ Scallop Circle Punch (that is already in the Stampin’ Up! Spring Catalog and Annual Catalog) and save 15%….or you can purchase just the new stamp set alone.
Check it out here and then add it to your order and get more free Sale-A-Bration products! Just go to my Online Store to order!
Don’t let this be you next week! Sale-A-Bration is Stampin’ Up!’s biggest promotion of the year, and although it has been going on for awhile, it WILL end Friday, March 22! That is a week from today! You have one week left to place your Stampin’ Up! order and earn FREE Sale-A-Bration products! Just spend $50 in Stampin’ Up! merchandise or My Digital Studio downloads and earn one free product from the Sale-A-Bration brochure. Spend $100 and earn two free Sale-a-Bration products. And it gets even better after that!
You can click on the link above for the official brochure, but below is an easier to read description of all the Sale-A-Bration rewards! Click on each image to enlarge.
Just browse through my Stampin’ Up! Online Store and put in your order. (Be sure to catch all the categories list in the left sidebar of the online store…”Special Offers”, “New Arrivals”) When you have your products entered, choose one Sale-A-Bration freebie for every $50 you have spent (not including shipping and tax, of course). Email with any questions or if you would like me to put your order in for you. It’s really fun to get Stampin’ Up! products FREE during Sale-A-Bration!
Tell your friends!!
If you have wondered how to make some of the beautiful paper flowers you see around, here’s how to use the Stampin’ Up! Creped Filter Paper to make lovely paper flowers. Our azaleas are blooming beautifully outside this week so my mind is on flowers!
You can use punches or the Big Shot to cut out your flower shapes. On this flower, I used the Floral Frames Framelits. I cut out four layers of filter paper at one time!
You may leave the filter paper plain white and still make a beautiful poofy flower, but if you like a colored one, there are several ways to do it. The first one I made in this post here, I brayered each piece of filter paper. I suppose you could also sponge the ink on the paper.
Today, though, I’ve seen other people online spritzing their filter paper! If you have the empty Stampin’ Spritzer #126185 (you get two in a package for only $2.95), just add some 70% rubbing alcohol and some drops of reinker in the color you want. You could combine colors if you wanted. I filled the spritzer tube about halfway with alcohol and put in about six drops of reinker. It came out pretty light although you can respray or add more drops. Better to want to add some than to wish you had made it lighter! I made two colors, one Daffodil Delight and one Calypso Coral. Shake them up and spray! The alcohol will dry pretty quickly.
When dry, layer the flowers one on top of the other, even offsetting them so they look more like a real flower. Insert any brad in the center to hold them together (it will barely show, if at all, so no need to use a good one).
Next, pull up each layer, starting in the center and scrunch it up in the center. Don’t worry, it’s not supposed to look good while you do it! After you do all the layers, pull them all back down slightly to make your flower look how you want. I also sponged some ink around the edges of the whole flower that really added a nice accent.
Try it! It’s easy and probably like paper flowers you made as a child!
Don’t forget, Sale-A-Bration is ending March 22 so be sure to order and earn your free Sale-A-Bration product from Stampin’ Up! with every $50 purchase! Just go to my Online Store here or email me.
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An all-occasion card is one that we can all make and would be handy to have in our stash. Sometimes I don’t put a greeting on the front of the card so that I can add whatever I want later for whatever occasion I need.
If you remember in this post the other day, it was like I rediscovered the Patio Party Designer Series Paper and loved it! I knew I loved it when I first saw it at Stampin’ Up! Convention or Leadership awhile back, but then I never used it much. Right now it really appeals to me. One of the sheets in the pack has the multi-pattern design as you see on the bottom of the card….so no work! Just cut off a piece and adhere it to your card and it will look like you spent time adding various patterns in strips!
I loved making a flower with the Flower Folds Die and the Big Shot out of several different patterns of the paper. Maybe a real flower wouldn’t have the lines of a banner going across it, but I liked the colorful look.
Play with what you have and I bet you will be inspired too!
Don’t forget, Sale-A-Bration is going on but not for too much longer! With every $50 purchase you get a free Sale-a-Bration product! Shop Online HERE!
Today is March 10th and today is the day you want to sign up for Paper Pumpkin IF you want your first kit to be mailed to you around March 15th! To sign up for Paper Pumpkin, go here to the sign-up page. Now, today is NOT the final day to sign up for the Stampin' Up! monthly subscription kit Paper Pumpkin….you can sign up ANY day….it's just that the 10th of the month (any month) is the deadline to start receiving the kit in that month, kits to be shipped around the 15th. So if you sign up tomorrow or the next day, March 11 or 12 or 20th, your first kit will ship around April 15th. Then April 10th will be the deadline by which to get your kit shipped on April 15th. You only need to sign up once, not every month, and you can skip a month or two, or cancel it altogether.
Now, Paper Pumpkin is for you if you love getting a surprise kit in the mail every month, if you want a quick and easy project you can sit down and do in about 30 minutes, if you are a new stamper or crafter, if you don't have a lot of materials yet (or you don't WANT a lot of materials!). If you love elaborate projects, if you love placing your own Stampin' Up! order with everything you want, if you love coming to a class and having the ideas and techniques shown to you in person, this might not be for you…and that's okay.
With your first kit, you will get a project plus a free clear block to use with your next kits. Everyone will get this same kit regardless of what month you join. You will need to provide your own adhesives in the projects, so if you don't have something suitable, I can order those for you from Stampin' Up! But to get started, you can use what you have and see if you need something different. All other materials and instructions are provided in the kit.
There WILL be a Try-It Kit if you ever just want to get that and see what it's like before you subscribe. But it is NOT available yet….will be soon! I'll let you know!
I might also add that Paper Pumpkin has it's own ordering system, you will not access it from the usual ordering at my Online Store. The sign up is easy, please choose ME as your demonstrator when it asks, and you'll be asked for a name and password. If you have any trouble (honestly there have been glitches with the website) let me know and I'll try to help or sign you up myself.
So go right now to the My Paper Pumpkin page (the trick to remember to find the web page is to always type in "My" in front of Paper Pumpkin…or you'll go to the wrong place!). The link is https://mypaperpumpkin.com/en/
If you have any problem signing up or want me to sign you up with your information, please contact me today at Karen@KarenStamps.com or call at 713-306-1191.
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Stampin' Up! is sharing a bit of our demonstrator magazine, Stampin' Success! I've often told you receiving this magazine in the mail is one of the best parts of being a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator! You can click on the image above or click HERE to see the enlarged page.
If you'd like to see some of these ideas and more, we can plan a party for you and your friends. If you'd like to get the magazine, join Stampin' Up! and start your own business. Why not earn some money doing something you love doing and sharing?! Please contact me if you would like more information. It's easy to sign up and get started!