The elves at Stampin' Up! are very busy getting orders out as quickly as possible for holiday shipping!  One demonstrator said the other day that her order shipped so quickly she thought the whole distribution team must have been standing there just waiting for her order to come in!

Here is what Stampin' Up! has to say about Holiday Shipping….

We recommend you place your holiday orders by Wednesday, December 14, 2011 to receive your orders before Christmas.  Delivery times will vary depending on where you live; if your personal experience indicates that it takes longer for packages to reach you, you will want to allow a little extra time for shipping during the holidays.

All orders we receive by December 14, 2011, will be picked, packaged, and delivered to our courier in plenty of time to arrive by December 24, 2011.  But as you know, we cannot control delivery times; holiday mail volumes are high, and our delivery services encourage customers to ship as early as possible to avoid disappointment.

Did you know there is also Expedited Shipping available, just in case?  It costs a little extra but sometimes it is what you need.  Ask me about it.

Here is the clip of Shelli Gardner on the TODAY SHOW today with Kathie Lee and Hoda! I'm pleased they didn't seem to rush her as much as in the past!  And wait until you hear what they said to her at the very end!! Also, notice her local fan club in the background!!  :) Shelli always makes us proud!

Read about Stampin' Up!'s participation in the Today Show Holiday Toy Drive HERE.

Shelli Gardner, Founder and CEO of Stampin' Up!, will appear on the Today Show December 6th during the fourth hour (check your local listings) to talk about Stampin' Up!'s participation in the Holiday Toy Drive.  Be sure to watch if you can!  Perhaps I will be able to post a video of it later.

I see Shelli says on her blog her appearance will be between 10-11 am ET…so whatever time whichever part of the Today Show comes on at your house!

Have you ever had one of those stamping days??!  I'm having one today. Every idea I had for this card, I discovered I either did not own the product I was planning to use or I couldn't find it!  We've moved things around for the Christmas tree and lots of my stamping stuff got moved.

So I decided to just stamp with Snow Much Fun #122562 with Stazon ink and color in with #120962.  When I started stamping, Stampin' Pastels were the thing to have because in one box you had all the colors to use.  I think we have gotten away from pastels a little bit with other wonderful products, but I decided to use them today.  Just touch your Blender Pen to a corner of the pastel and pick up the color, then color as normal.

So after coloring in the snowman and Christmas tree beautifully with Stampin' Pastels, THIS happened!  You really shouldn't drop your stamp on top of the card you are working on!

But since "there are no mistakes in stamping!" (really?!) I had to make good on that statement!  I stamped the images again on a new piece of Whisper White and then I cut out the tree and the snowman from this ruined piece!  I mounted them with Stampin' Dimensionals right over the stamped images on the new piece and I LOVED how it looked! I didn't cut out the snowman's one arm nor the birds so that made it easier.

I also used a small narrow clear block to stamp over the greeting to highlight that.

And I added Tombow Multipurpose Glue to the bottom of the card to adhere Mica Flakes #124115.  I should have stopped there, but oh no….needed a few snowflakes!  So I think the snowman is in a blizzard….but that's okay because it IS December!

A bit overdone…..but that's okay!   Somebody might love it this way! It's still fun!  And was fun to make in spite of myself!