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Stampin’ Up! Weekly Deal July 14 2015

Here are the Stampin’ Up! Weekly Deals for July 14 – Monday July 20. Click the link or photo above to view in the Store. If you see something you really want, better grab it because once a quantity sells out, that deal is gone. Also check the Clearance Rack for any new things they might add. Honestly, I can’t remember what was on there before each time I look at it, so just remember to check when you are ordering to see if there are any bargains on there that you want!

The Color Me Irresistible Designer Paper is on the Weekly Deals. This is similar to the embossed paper that was free during Sale-A-Bration but BETTER because you also get paper that is already colored. Use the white paper plain or color it with sponging or spritzing or whatever method you like! You also might really like the other designer papers available on the “deals” as well as the new pearls, washi tape and sequins, plus twine for embellishing. And if you like an easy way to make gift boxes, then the discounted Gift Box Punch Board is for you!

The Watercolor Wishes Card Kit was not available until this month, and now it is so popular that it is nearly on backorder. If you are thinking about ordering this kit, I would do it today! More kits are on the way but there might be a backorder situation for a little while, unfortunately. It really is a cute kit and easy to make some beautiful cards! AND a very nice stamp set comes with it! What a deal! You can see it displayed on page 80 of the Stampin’ Up! Catalog. Order several kits (if they are available) and get your friends together for a cardmaking day or evening! And the stamp set is one you will be able to use a lot!

Have fun choosing or get it all!! Check my Stampin’ Up! Online Store for the Weekly Deals, the Clearance Rack, the Watercolor Wishes Card Kit, and all the other Stampin’ Up! goodies!

Cottage Greetings Card Kit

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One of the new Stampin’ Up! Card Kits is called Cottage Greetings. You can make 15 cards, 5 each of 3 designs, with the kit. You’ll want to add the stamp set Cottage Greetings available in wood- or clear-mount. It’s a lovely stamp set, whether or not you buy the kit. You can use it easily without the kit so don’t worry you won’t get your money’s worth out of it! I love the font and the sayings.

Check out the video and find out all about the Cottage Greetings Card Kit. If you want to order it and the stamp set, just go to my Stampin’ Up! Online Store. It’s a fun and easy way to get a stack of cards made!

Give Yourself the Gift of Paper Pumpkin! Why not?!

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Paper Pumpkin Escape If you are interested in a Stampin’ Up! papercrafting kit that comes to you in the mail once a month, just click here on my Paper Pumpkin page for more information and to join! Paper Pumpkin would love to have you, and if you join by tomorrow your first kit will go out in another week! Join by July 10th!

Your first kit comes with a clear block to use with the included stamps. You also receive an ink spot to use in the kit and sometimes even adhesive. Each month the kit is a surprise so it is not always cards, for better or worse. We have also had kits that made gift bags, albums, a framed picture, and other projects. Each kit comes with instructions and a link to a video to see how to assemble the kit. After that you are free to do what you want with the kit! Make everything exactly how Stampin’ Up! shows you or put your own spin on it and use extra materials if you like. Whatever you want to do! After a few days of everyone getting their kits, there will most likely be alternate ideas online that you can copy if you want.

No risk, no obligation. Try it for a month and if it doesn’t suit you, just cancel. Too busy or going on vacation? Just “pause” your subscription that month. You can go into your account any time and set it how it works for you. Just let them know by the 10th of any month if you want to “pause” or “cancel”. That’s why I suggest you sign up today because everyone signed up by July 10th will receive the July kit that goes out around the 15th.

Once you are a Paper Pumpkin subscriber, you can go check out the past kits and whichever ones are available you can purchase along with your regular Stampin’ Up! order.

Paper Pumpkin kits make great gifts as well! Order more than one and gift one or sit down with your friend or loved one and make your kits together!

If you go to www.paperpumpkin.com please choose me as your Demonstrator or just click HERE to go directly to my personal Paper Pumpkin page.

OR if you prefer, if you are placing a Stampin’ Up! order and want to add to it, just order the prepaid Paper Pumpkin Subscriptions for any length you prefer. Order a subscription for a gift and you will get an email from Stampin’ Up! with a code to pass on to the gift recipient for them to use to activate their account.

Paper Pumpkin Box

Watercolor Wishes Card Kit Is Here! Make Quick & Easy Cards!

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The long-awaited (well, for a month!) all-inclusive card kit, Watercolor Wishes Card Kit, is finally available from Stampin’ Up! This kit includes supplies for 20 different cards in 3 sizes and a very nice stamp set! Lots of people wished they could buy the stamp set separately while they waited for the card kit to be available. The stamp set has greetings you will use all the time when you make cards and projects in very appealing font styles. You even get a clear block in the kit to use with the stamps. The card kit comes with Stampin’ Dimensionals but you might also like to have Glue Dots and Multipurpose Liquid Glue or some other adhesives such as SNAIL or Fast Fuse (on the Stampin’ Up! Weekly Deals this week!).

Here’s what comes in the kit
* 20 cards total
* Folded card sizes: 4″ x 4″, 3-1/2″ x 5″, 4-1/4″ x 5-1/2″
* 12-piece photopolymer stamp set
* 20 card bases
* Die-cut accents
* Cardstock flag stickers
* Night of Navy and Watermelon Wonder Classic Stampin’ Spots
* Washi tape
* Giftable Kraft box
* 50 sequins
* Wood die cuts
* Stampin’ Dimensionals
*Acrylic stamp block

Coordinating colors: Crushed Curry, Night of Navy, Pool Party, Tip Top Taupe, Watermelon Wonder

This kit makes a nice gift since the stamps, ink, block and everything is included (except the extra adhesives that might be useful) and comes in a nice Kraft box.

Shop at my Stampin’ Up! Online Store today!

Order yours today, and be sure to check out the Weekly Deals and the new products added to the Clearance Rack! Put the Watercolor Wishes Card Kit at the top of your list!

Watch the Stampin’ Up! video below to find out more about the card kit.

Jump Into Project Life By Stampin’ Up! With Moments Like These

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Stampin’ Up!, as you know, has partnered with Becky Higgins and Project Life to provide us with these wonderful kits for memory-keeping! These special kits coordinate with our Stampin’ Up! colors and come with an optional accessory pack plus coordinating stamp set. When you buy the Bundle (the card collection, the accessory pack and the stamp set) you save 15%!

The Project Life by Stampin’ Up! system is easy! Just gather your photos, insert them into the pocket pages, add some of the cards to decorate or explain, write in some journaling, and you are done! Now if you like, add some stamping and add some embellishments with any of your stamping supplies or use the too cute accessory pack that coordinates with each card collection. Do as little or as much as you like.

Stampin’ Up! and Becky Higgins featured the new Moments Like These set on their blogs! Check out Becky’s post HERE.

Tin of Cards Wooden Word Bubble Embellishments

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This morning before I hoped that I would be able to drive across town a little bit to go to an appointment, I wanted to stamp a few cards from the Tin of Cards in the new Stampin’ Up! Catalog. This kit, the Tin of Cards, is so special it is featured on the cover of the new catalog! Everyone fell in love with that cute striped tin on the cover as soon as we got a peek at the catalog. I didn’t get very far during my limited amount of time I had, interrupted with bands of rain from the now defunct Tropical Storm Bill that managed to mostly miss the city of Houston yesterday but coming through with a vengeance today. We had some very heavy rain and my power was going on and off, on and off – but, luckily, you can still stamp pretty well in temporary darkness!

Pictured here is just one design of cards in the kit. The card base is already printed with the pretty blue diagonal stripe and then you add the printed strip across the middle. Next you stamp the little line of decoration above and below the strip. Since the stamps are photopolymer, you can pretty much see where you are stamping and just “eyeball it”. And, I discovered, if you mess up on the lines in the right place, the wooden piece is going to cover part of the stamped line anyway! In fact, my tip would be to just stamp the line from each side of the card because the middle will be hidden. Then you don’t have to match up anything!

The word bubbles are wooden embellishments and really cute. You stamp the greeting of your choice on them with Stazon Ink. If your stamps are new and you haven’t used them before, stamp several times on scrap paper to get them ready to go! I think they often have a manufacturing coating on them or just need to get used to the ink before they stamp really well. On one of the wooden pieces, my words did NOT stamp very well, so I took a Sharpie pen (it was a pen, not a marker) and filled in carefully. It wasn’t that hard and worked out well. I could have just turned it over, too, and tried again. The little gold glimmer heart is already die cut for you, just punch it out of the paper and adhere it to the wooden piece with Glue Dots or other adhesive.

Easy card to make and looks like you went to a lot of work for the special recipient!

The stamp set that coordinates with the kit is called – amazingly- the Tin of Cards Photopolymer Stamp Set! You may have another greeting stamp set you could use, but I do really like the greetings and font style in this set, so I think you will get a lot of use out of it with or without the kit. You also get the words to use for headings on the divider cards and the little frame that decorates the tab.

Get a group of friends together to each order the kit and then you order the stamp set extra as the hostess and all of you can make the Tin of Cards together! Or if you are local, contact me and I’ll bring the stamps and you and your friends order the project kit and everyone will make 16 cards to put in their tin to take home!

Shop at my Stampin’ Up! Online Store!

A Few New Stampin’ Up! Products

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As a Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator I was able to preorder some of the new products in the Stampin’ Up! Catalog 2015, but then I needed some more catalogs for customers and to have on hand so why not order a few more Stampin’ Up! products as long as the catalogs are coming?!

The Layered Letters Alphabet was something I saw online when Stampin’ Up! streamed a preview of the new catalog from the South Pacific event. I thought it was so cute, yet I didn’t put it on my order right away. But then I did! I think there will be lots of things to do with it!

The stamp set that looks like lined paper is called Writing Notes and is a large background stamp. I should have ordered it in wood-mount because I think it is easier to use background stamps already mounted on wood. But you have your choice, wood- or clear-mount. Of course it is good to use for journaling in traditional scrapbooking or Project Life, but I think there will be other cute things to use it for, like a background on a card or something. We’ll see what everyone comes up with!

One popular item for sure is going to be the Tin of Cards, which is displayed on the front cover of the Stampin’ Up! Catalog. The tin is so cute in itself and comes with enough materials inside to make 16 cards, 4 each of 4 designs. Of course you can make whatever designs you want if you like to change things up so that you have 16 unique cards. Either way you are being creative! The Tin of Cards Photopolymer Stamp Set is separate but has great greetings to use with the kit and just with any stamping. Get a few friends together to each order a tin and perhaps the stamp set also and then get together to make all your cards! Or if you are local to me, we can plan something with everyone ordering the Tin of Cards and I will bring the greeting stamp set!

I also stocked up on some black and white ribbon, the 3/8″ Stitched Satin Ribbon, which comes in five colors! And some of the new Gold Metallic Thread for a little pizzazz! There are also new Metallic Foil Doilies in gold and silver, plus a new accent called White Perfect Accents. Not exactly sure what all you can do with them yet, but they can be colored with Sharpie Markers to match your project. And then there is the new embossing folder, Brick Wall which will be interesting to play with! It’s the new larger size. Oh, and I almost forgot the new Tear & Tape Adhesive which I can’t wait to try! Supposed to be easy to use and have a strong hold for our 3D projects!

If you would like to see the fun little Flipagram video I made of the Tin of Cards Project Kit, check out my Instagram at @stampingwithkaren or my Facebook page HERE.

Paper Pumpkin Special SAVE50

Don’t forget, today is the last day to get the special deal on Paper Pumpkin! Get 50% off the first two months of your subscription! The kits have only gotten better, so I feel confident you will enjoy whatever kit shows up in your mailbox in about a week, IF you subscribe today! Use Promo Code SAVE50. Click HERE to join Paper Pumpkin or find out more information! Paper Pumpkin is for new crafters, non-crafters, and super-crafters! Anyone who likes a surprise in the mail, especially the gift of a little time for yourself for crafting without having to have a ton of supplies or lots of time. It comes in a cute red box just like a gift! Try it today! Otherwise you have to wait a whole other month to get your first kit!

JOIN PAPER PUMPKIN TODAY AND SAVE 50% First Two Months!

Stampin’ Up! Deals for You!

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Here are the current Stampin’ Up! Weekly Deals for today through next Monday, June 15. The Alphabet Rotary Stamp can be used to form your own words or short phrases for cards or scrapbooking. Surely you wouldn’t pass up discounted Gold Glimmer Paper to have in your stash! So pretty! And then there’s Satin Ribbon, Embossing Folders, the Gift Card Envelope Die, and of course the Pansy Punch! The Pansy Punch coordinates with the Flower Shop Stamp Set. Actually the Flower Shop Stamp Set and Pansy Punch come in a Bundle and the Bundle is still a little bit cheaper than the stamp set and discounted punch separately.

ALSO – Tomorrow is the last day, June 10th, to take advantage of the special deal with Paper Pumpkin, the monthly papercrafting kit that comes in your mailbox from Stampin’ Up! Join and get the first two months at 50% off when you use the Promo Code SAVE50.

Click HERE to join the Paper Pumpkin fun!!

Then wait just a few more days until your Paper Pumpkin Kit ships and keep an eye on your mailbox! And once you are a subscriber, you can go back and purchase any past kits or refills that are available that you missed previously!

Offer Dates: May 12-June 10, 2015

Offer Details: Use the code SAVE50 to join Paper Pumpkin before June 10, 2015, and get 50% off the first two months! After that, keep the creativity coming for only $19.95 + tax per month (shipping included).

The Fine Print:
For new subscribers only.
Available for month-to-month subscriptions, not prepaid subscriptions.
Discount applied to one kit per month for the first two months of a new subscription. After the first two months, the price for each month’s kit will go to the regular price: $19.95.
Visit PaperPumpkin.com to join.
Enter the Promo Code, SAVE50 when you sign up.
New subscribers must join by Wednesday, June 10, 2015; 11:50 PM (MT).

JOIN PAPER PUMPKIN TODAY! DO IT FOR YOURSELF OR GIVE AS A GIFT!

May 2015 Paper Pumpkin Kit

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If you didn’t join Paper Pumpkin by May 10th, this is what you missed! And if you did get your Paper Pumpkin kit in the mail already, you might like to watch this video to see how it goes together – OR you might want to wait and be surprised when you open your kit! I don’t know what is coming in the June kit, but you need to sign up by June 10th to get your kit shipped by mid-June!

Take advantage of the 50% off special for the first two months! It’s for new subscribers so join NOW! Good through June 10, 2015. Use Promo Code SAVE50

JOIN PAPER PUMPKIN

Watch the video and see how fun and easy the kits are!

Get Paper Pumpkin 50% Off First Two Months!

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Go to Paper Pumpkin HERE. Use Promo Code SAVE50. Do it by June 10th! Then wait by your mailbox mid-June for your first Paper Pumpkin box to come in the mail!

You’ll be so thrilled! And surprised! Do something nice for yourself!

New subscribers only. Not good on Prepaid Subscriptions.

If you prefer a Prepaid Subscription, just add it to your regular Stampin’ Up! order in the Online Store. It will count toward your Hostess Benefits, if that is helpful for you.

Once you are a Paper Pumpkin subscriber, you can go back and purchase any past available kits or refills.

Better Late Than Never: Making the April Paper Pumpkin Kit

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Better late than never! I finally sat down to do my April 2015 Paper Pumpkin Kit – before my May Kit arrives. Not that it matters WHEN you do your kit, just that you enjoy it!

Check out this special deal HERE going on now for Paper Pumpkin! 50% first two months!

First off, I was excited to see that the little pocket folders already had adhesive tape applied! The first one I folded wrong, with those flaps showing on the outside on the back – not that it matters, but then I figured out that they probably go on the inside and I just needed to fold them to the inside first. I made a few bows and attacked the belly bands. Glad Stampin’ Up! is supplying some glue dots and dimensionals to use! Everything is right there! Well, I did need scissors to cut the baker’s twine to tie through the little hole at the top!

Then I started stamping my little white cards – great choices in stamps to choose from! I sloppily stamped a few, set an inked stamp down on the colored card, smudged one white card front and back, and dropped my iPhone in the ink pad! Otherwise, it all was great! It’s always a good idea to clean your photopolymer stamps first, ink them up and stamp several times on scrap paper, just to get them kind of conditioned in case there is any residue on them from manufacturing. If you don’t get a good impression you might be able to use a Stampin’ Write Marker or a Blender Pen and ink to lightly fill in the less than perfect portions.

There are some great alternate ideas for making this kit. I needed “Thank You” cards so I made those. I’ll have to see what materials I have left and see what else I can make. Stampin’ Up! is pretty generous with supplies in these kits and sometimes you can even use the scraps for making projects!

Go to my Stamping With Karen Facebook page and watch how quick it is to assemble one of these cards! 🙂 Click the “LIKE” button while you are over there!

Deals & Deals!! Paper Pumpkin Deal & Stampin’ Up! Weekly Deals

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Paper Pumpkin Special!

Promo Code: SAVE50

If you haven’t tried Paper Pumpkin, the Stampin’ Up! papercrafting kit that comes to you in the mail, now is a great time to sign up-get 50% off your first two months! If you have passed up previous Paper Pumpkin deals, here is a second chance!

It’s like getting a present for yourself in the mail once a month – or SENDING a present to someone special.

This offer is good May 12 – June 10, 2015.

The Fine Print:

For new subscribers only.
Available for month-to-month subscriptions, not prepaid subscriptions.
Discount applied to one kit per month for the first two months of a new subscription. After the first two months, the price for each month’s kit will go to the regular price: $19.95.
Visit PaperPumpkin.com to join.
Enter the Promo Code, SAVE50 when you sign up.
New subscribers must join by Wednesday, June 10, 2015; 11:50 PM (MT).
Please add my name, Karen Fontinelle, when it asks for the name of your Demonstrator.

Let me know if you have any questions. Email me at Karen@KarenStamps.com.

Here are the new Stampin’ Up! Weekly Deals for May 12 – 18, 2015. Lots of variety this week! Two kinds of ribbon, In Colors Markers (the ones that are sticking around another year!), the Hexagon Punch, the handy and fun Kraft Grid Journal (you get two in a package, almost the size of a card 3 1/2″ x 5 1/2″), the pretty Lullaby Designer Series Paper (absolutely not just for babies!), and the outgoing Sticky Strip. Take advantage of these bargains if you see something you like!

Shop at my Stampin’ Up! Online Store HERE!

Treat Yourself to Paper Pumpkin for $5! 24 Hour Deal! Get the May Kit!

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This is the time, for sure, to try out Paper Pumpkin, the Stampin’ Up! papercrafting kit that comes to you in the mail! Give yourself a Mother’s Day gift for only $5 for the first month! That’s like paying for the shipping and getting the whole kit free!

This offer good NOW through tomorrow, Saturday, May 9 at 6:50 PM (MT).

For new subscribers only, not valid on prepaid subscriptions. Discount applied to one kit per month for the first month of a new subscription. Offer ends May 9, 2015 at 6:50 PM (MT).After the first month, the fun will continue for just $19.95 USD/$24.95 CAD a month (shipping included).

Just click HERE to go to my page to sign up!

Use Promo Code 24HOURS

Watch the recording of the Stampin’ Up! Livestream about Paper Pumpkin HERE.

Give the Gift of Paper Pumpkin For Mother’s Day

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What a perfect time to order a prepaid subscription to Paper Pumpkin, the Stampin’ Up! papercrafting kit that comes to you in the mail, for Mother’s Day, for your mother, your grandmother, your daughter, your aunt, your niece, your godmother, your granddaughter – whoever that special person is in your life! Mother’s Day is this Sunday, May 10th and you won’t even have to shop!

Just place your order with Stampin’ Up! by clicking HERE and then fill out the Gift Certificate and put it inside a Mother’s Day card! Could not be easier!

***You will receive an email with the special redemption code that you can write on the gift certificate or just email to the recipient. Then they will go to paperpumpkin.com/signup and get their account set up to receive their kit in the mail. (If they do this on May 10th then they should receive the May kit mid-month. If they do it later, they will receive the June kit.)

Anyone can enjoy this papercrafting kit because all supplies (except maybe scissors and adhesive) are included along with directions – and a video online!

And maybe the special person who deserves a Paper Pumpkin Kit is really YOU!!! Why not?! Order just the prepaid subscription or, if you want other Stampin’ Up! products, just add those to your order as well.

If you like, watch the Paper Pumpkin livestream at YouTube.com/PaperPumpkin this Friday, May 8th, at 7:00 PM (MT).

Watch this video of April’s Paper Pumpkin Kit!

Email me at Karen@KarenStamps.com if you have any questions!

Hooray It’s Your Day Card Kit Video

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I love watching Stampin’ Up! videos, especially ones done by Bonnie from the Stampin’ Up! Home Office! Watch how she tells about this Hooray It’s Your Day Card Kit and shows some samples of cards you can make!

Then go to my Stampin’ Up! Online Store and order your kit!

I’ll keep you posted on the Butterflies Thinlits and Bundles and the Stampin’ Up! special offer and let you know when you can order these long-awaited products!