Be sure to check back on Monday, Nov. 21, to see how Stampin' Up! is kicking off the holiday shopping season a little early! Take advantage of great savings on your stamping supplies PLUS , there will be two items on sale for 24 hours only (November 21, 12:01 AM – 11:59 PM [MT]) – so don't miss the first 24 hours of the Stampin' Up! Online Extravaganza!
I don't know what the two items are, but I'll find out with you Monday morning! Be sure to check back!
It's not too late to get in on this deal! Have a fun workshop with your friends and everybody stamps something! I can help you plan something easy and fun! For a workshop with $350 in sales, the hostess will get an additional $35 in Hostess Dollars to spend on Stampin' Up! products….in addition to your normal hostess benefits with a workshop of $150 or more!
Email me at Karen@KarenStamps.com and we can start planning!
Click HERE or the image above to find out about having a Stampin' Up! workshop!
Most of us just can't get enough of this Spice Cake Designer Series Paper! It is so versatile it can be used on any number of types of cards. This one is a birthday card for a friend with a fall birthday. This is another idea I got from our Stampin' Up! demonstrator website, Stampin' Connection, where other demonstrators post samples, ask questions, and post helpful tips and information. The card I got the idea from was made by Sherianne. I loved how it incorporated the Spice Cake fabric, the Spice Cake paper, and the very large Spice Cake Designer Buttons! I used the stamp set Gently Falling to stamp the leaves and then adhered a stamped greeting over the background using Bring On the Cake. The Scallop Square is easy….a die cut for the Big Shot, and then I poked the little holes with my Paper Piercing Tool.
If you need any of these wonderful stamping supplies, you can order them online HERE.
Every Tuesday Stampin' Up! comes out with new My Digital Studio downloads you can purchase to add to your digital papercrafting program. Here are the new ones for today. You can click on the image to go to the page which hopefully you can see better and then use your magnify or zoom tool to really see it!
The holidays are coming and if you want to create cards, calendars, photo albums…whatever!….with My Digital Studio, Stampin' Up! recommends ordering them from the Stampin' Up! printer by December 7….or if you need a few more days you can expedite your order. You can also print yourself if you like….but if you want to match the Stampin' Up! colors exactly, the official printer is recommended.
Find out about My Digital Studio and go to my Stampin' Up! Online Store to order any time!
Lots of birthdays in our family recently and mostly male! I think I mailed my other son's card before photographing it, but my other little boy's birthday is today! Okay, he's not so little any more, but you know how it is…when you are a mother, our children really never grow up in our hearts!
I wasn't feeling so creative when I made this card, and of course was in a hurry to get it in the mail at the last minute.
It often seems to be a challenge to come up with a "male" card, but look how easy this one is! I just used the Postage Stamp Punch #122344 and scraps of Halloween paper, Frightful Sight #122351 on a card base of Cajun Craze. So don't put your Halloween paper away just because it is close to Thanksgiving! Turn it over, look at the parts without a Halloween image, just see what you can use! The squares are each popped up on Stampin' Dimensionals.
Here is the inside:
This stamp is from the stamp set "Bring On the Cake", available in wood- or clear-mount.
If you need any stamping supplies, please order from my Stampin' Up! Online Store or email me!
Here is a Star Wars punch art birthday card with Darth Vader and Yoda I made for my favorite son-in-law. Yes, he's my favorite….well, he's my only son-in-law, but he's still my favorite! :) Apparently I hit a home run with it because my daughter says he really liked it! He's a big Star Wars and all-kinds-of-other-stuff fan so I thought this idea would be perfect.
Of course, it is not my original idea because I can't come up with creative things like this! Fortunately, other demonstrators can and they share and it is okay to copy ideas! I found this idea in our Stampin' Up! demonstrator website called "Stampin' Connection". (So if you want to be a Stampin' Up! demonstrator but feel you are not creative, this is one of many resources provided by Stampin' Up!) A demonstrator from Canada, Rose Marie Coleman, had made these Star Wars punch art figures and I was able to figure out what she did! I'll add her blog link at the end.
I have to tell you about my greeting on the front! I didn't have much space left for one and I got the idea to have it be something Yoda would say. Would you believe there is a website that will translate anything you write into "Yoda-speak"?! http://www.yodaspeak.co.uk/ Just type in what you want to say, and it will translate it for you! Try several versions until you get something interesting!
Then I used several different stamps from On Your Birthday #111664, cut the words apart after I stamped them on scrap paper, and pasted them in order to make my own greeting!
My card is made with a Basic Black card base with a Brushed Silver card stock layer on the front (which doesn't photograph very well!). Here is the inside:
If you need to add to your collection of punches so you can make interesting characters like this at a moment's notice, just Shop Online at my Stampin' Up! website.
Here is a link to Rose's blog post about how she made these characters…because I already don't remember how I did it and someone is sure to ask! http://www.stampingwithrose.com/2010/05/star-wars-card-instructions-and-winner.html
To thank and honor our military veterans
Veterans Day
11-11-11
In 1969 on this date, a television show called "Sesame Street" made its broadcast debut. It was created by Joan Ganz Cooney to provide an educational and entertaining show for preschoolers, particularly to help underprivileged 3- to 5-year olds prepare for kindergarten. A puppeteer named Jim Henson was hired to create the characters for Sesame Street who, of course, became institutions.
The Sesame Street characters are so fun to make with "punch art". Get out your punches and your card stock scraps and go to town! This is a great way to make party invitations, favors, cards, etc. for little children!
Stamping and papercrafting, I think, is the perfect hobby for moms of young children. So many birthday parties, school parties, school events, sports…you name it….and with stamping you can make all the things you need with little cost and little time….or ON little time, as you discover it's time for the birthday party and you haven't bought a card yet. You can make one in minutes, right before you go out the door!
If you are interested in learning this easy, easy craft, just contact me at Karen@Karenstamps.com!
Yes, you will be a Big Shot if you become a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator because that's how much Stampin' Up! values their demonstrators. I can tell you, but you will see for yourself when you become part of the Stampin' Up! family and participate in your own stamping, scrapbooking and/or digital papercrafting business with Stampin' Up! and especially when you attend any Stampin' Up! events, like Regionals or Convention.
You can become a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator any day, but if you do it on or before Friday, Nov. 11, 2011 you will be able to order a Big Shot die-cutting machine…or…if you already own one….order $100 in free products…perhaps more dies and things to use with your Big Shot! This offer began in October but was extended until November 11th. So time is running out! Don't put it off! Give it a try! There is no obligation to do anything more….but you just might find that you LIKE being able to run your own business and have fun while you do it! After all, the holidays are coming up fast and this could provide a little extra cash for those holiday gifts!
I'm happy to talk with you about becoming and being a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator! Just email me at Karen@Karenstamps.com and we can set something up.
If you find you are ready, you can join online in minutes! After clicking on that link, click on the "Join Now" button on the left of that web page. Be sure you are seeing my name in the upper right corner. You can watch the video or sign up right away.
To see the Starter Kits available to you for only $175 (free shipping!), just click HERE. Click on the picture below to see the list of contents.
My "12 Weeks of Christmas" weekly idea newsletter has been going out every Wednesday for five weeks now, but only available to my Mailing List Subscribers! However, if you sign up today, you will get in on the Week 6 email going out tomorrow! Just sign up for my mailing list in the left-hand column of my blog! You'll also receive my monthly newsletter filled with Stampin' Up! news and updates and stamping projects and tips!
See you tomorrow with a new gift idea for the holidays!
Here are the new downloads for My Digital Studio. You'll notice three of them are the same ones that were free over the weekend….I hope you took advantage of that deal for Digital Scrapbooking Day! The Delight in the Day Photobook Template is a larger kit than what was offered in the free downloads. Plus the Wintergreen Designer Series Paper and the Snow Flurries Stamp Brush Set.
To purchase these or any other My Digital Studio downloads, just go to my Stampin' Up! Online Store and click on "Digital Designing" on the left. You'll see all the options available to you!
Let me know if you have any questions! You will love My Digital Studio once you get your feet wet!
If you haven't heard, Stampin' Up! has a wonderful digital papercrafting design program called My Digital Studio. It is intuitive and easy to learn, and I think everyone who has it loves it! There is also a website available to demonstrators and customers alike called MyDigitalStudio.net. You can go there to see samples of projects, tutorials to help you learn, questions and answers in forums, etc. It is a great resource and it is free and for everyone.
Today is the last day, Nov. 7th, to get your FREE digital downloads! Just go to www.mydigitalstudio.net, take a short survey, and then get your free downloads for My Digital Studio. If you don't own My Digital Studio, but you have some other design program, most likely you will be able to use the downloads. You can purchase the My Digital Studio software at my Stampin' Up! online store. You have a couple of options available.
The image at the top of this post is one I made from one of the free downloads. It was cute enough as it was, but just to play with it I changed the background sky color to a darker one, moved the trees and snowman around and moved the holiday greeting tree over to the left. It all only took a few minutes.
To see the downloads you can get for free, just click HERE or go to www.mydigital studio.net.
Daylight Savings Time has ended! Be sure to change your clocks!
Don't forget to get your FREE DIGITAL DOWNLOADS at www.mydigitalstudio.net
Offer good today and tomorrow, Nov. 6 -7
Free Digital Downloads from Stampin' Up! this weekend!! Stampin' Up! is celebrating Digital Scrapbooking Day all weekend, Nov. 4 – 7, to make sure you have time to get your free downloads. Just go to www.mydigitalstudio.net, fill out a short survey, and get your free downloads! If you already have My Digital Studio, GREAT! If you want to purchase the software or some more downloads, just go to my Online Store. Just be sure to go to www.mydigitalstudio.net to learn more about everything and see how much information is available on that website to help you learn about My Digital Studio! This website is for demonstrators and customers alike!
Here is one of the free downloads. All I did was add a photo and add some text in the text box. Scrapbook page done!!
That's right! FREE DIGITAL DOWNLOADS FOR EVERYONE!
Digital Scrapbooking Day is officially celebrated the first Saturday in November. It was designed to remind people to set time aside to digitally document their personal history. To celebrate, Stampin’ Up! will be giving away free downloads to demonstrators and customers.
Brand-new, never seen before FREE downloads include:
Click on the image at the top of this post to go to www.mydigitalstudio.net. On the webpage, you will click on the image to Learn More about Digital Scrapbooking Day. You will be asked take a short survey. Then you will be able to obtain several free downloads from Stampin' Up! to use in My Digital Studio, our digital papercrafting software. If you would like to purchaseMy Digital Studio, go to my Online Store. You have various options there.
If you don't own My Digital Studio, but you have other design software, these downloads are most likely compatible. Use them for digital scrapbooking, card making, albums, home decor, tags, photo albums, you name it!
Be sure to read the WHOLE page when you get to www.MyDigitalStudio.net on the page about Digital Scrapbooking Day to find out about an extra bonus! I won't tell you today what it is.
Now don't miss out on this offer of FREE DIGITAL DOWNLOADS!!! Go try it out. Remember, they are only free Nov. 4 – 7. After that they will be available for purchase! Free is better, right?! GO GO GO!!!