How about a chocolate brownie on National Chocolate Day?! The Pennant Parade stamp set makes it easy to decorate such a simple dessert to make it look special!
However you decide to celebrate National Chocolate Day,
Stampin' Up! can help make it special!
One of the great things about being a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator are the many perks, one being earning free stamp sets for Sale-A-Bration sales and for recruiting. Stampin' Up! even allows us now to wait to choose until the new Idea Book & Catalog comes out so we can choose one of the new stamp sets if we want…and especially not to choose one that will retire soon. So I thought today I would finally make that tough decision of which stamp set to order for my SAB sales….and I chose Spooky Bingo Bits on page 25 of the new catalog. I love Halloween and thought this would give me lots of cute Halloween images and words to use, not just for bingo cards!
How exciting is that to get to pick a FREE new stamp set from Stampin' Up!??? The only thing MORE exciting would be to click the ordering page and find out that I was entitled to TWO MORE FREE STAMP SETS for recruiting! Holy cow!! So for those two sets I finally chose Creative Elements and the new alphabet set Letter It.
If you love stamping and would like to earn free stamp sets and have all kinds of fun, why not consider the $99 Starter Kit Promotion going on right now?! You'll be a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator in minutes if you sign up on my site HERE.
My Digital Studio makes it so easy to digitally scrapbook your recent photos! Here's my kind of crazy fireworks page from last night. The fireworks photos aren't taken with great photographic skills at all, just good enough to get the idea of fireworks in the sky! The consensus was that they weren't as good as past years at this location and the traffic getting out was way worse than usual…..but…it's all how about making memories with your friends and family!
Images copyright Stampin' Up! 2011
Again I started with a template already in the program, took some elements out, added more photo boxes, added some star punches and a 4th of July greeting. The more you work with the program, the easier it gets. It's really fun to see what you come up with!
To check out the My Digital Studio software, just click HERE. If you prefer, there is now a downloadable version available, too!
What a fun and what an easy way to create using My Digital Studio! I started with this card: (hardly appropriate for the 4th of July!)
and changed it into this:
Simple enough to take any template already in the program and change as little or as much as you want to make your own project! No muss, no fuss….just fun!
Hope you are having a wonderful 4th of July with your friends or family! Our usual fireworks display hasn't been cancelled (as many have) due to the drought since it is over a lake so we will be able to watch fireworks in person with our neighbors!
Happy 4th of July!
Yes, it is here!! The new Stampin' Up! 2011-2012 Idea Book & Catalog is live now! I see it online! Click HERE to see the new catalog if you haven't peeked already!
ALSO…..there is a special on the Stampin' Up! Starter Kit! You can become a Stampin' Up! demonstrator for only $99! This is particularly good for someone who already has a lot of stamping supplies.
Read all about it HERE! You can easily sign up online on my website in minutes! What a way to begin the new Stampin' Up! year!
Enjoy the new catalog! Let me know if you have any questions and post a comment below letting us know how you like the new catalog!
Today, July 1st, is the day we have been waiting for, the day the new Stampin' Up! 2011-2012 Idea Book & Catalog goes live!! I'm sure you will love the new products in it!
You do have to wait until Noon MT (Stampin' Up! time!) which is 1:00 pm Central time in Houston! Stampin' Up! will be working to change over their website as well as all the demonstrator websites to be ready for the new catalog. So they will have some busy time to get everything ready for us!
At the proper time for your time zone, you can click HERE, which is my website, and hopefully you will be able to click around and see what is new!
Today is the last day to order from the current Stampin' Up! catalogs! Can you believe it?! Do you want anything else? Do you need to order anything else from the Stampin' Up! catalogs that is on the Last Chance Lists? If so, this is the last day to get any of those items, only until 11:50 pm MT. Please don't wait until the last minute!
Place your order at my Online Store today!
Stampin' Up! is amazing with all the new digital downloads they continue to make for us to make our digital papercrafting just more and more exciting!
You can view the latest My Digital Studio downloads HERE!
Here's an idea for using those cute eyelets and Crop-a-Dile I don't think we have used much recently! Whether you use your chipboard letters plain or inked in some color or covered with patterned paper, use your eyelets to decorate the letters. Maybe place one or two eyelets on each chipboard letter here and there just for an extra embellishment. You can then use these on your cards, scrapbook pages or other projects. It will be fun!
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Flower Fest, in the Stampin' Up! Summer Mini Catalog, is a fun stamp set to work with making cards, scrapbook pages or any rubber stamping project! I didn't initially like it, but it is FUN! I consulted my "Color Coach" to see what colors went well with Poppy Parade, one of the current In Colors that I haven't used much, and then I just stamped all over the card front! You could also stamp in Versamark and then emboss with the beautiful new embossing colors also in the Summer Mini. There are lots of ways you can have fun with this stamp set! Be sure it is on your next order!
Last week for Last Chance Stampin' Up! products!!
Place your order HERE at my Stampin' Up! Online Store!
Here's another Pun Fun #115054 card, a stamp set that is retiring the end of this month! This has been such a fun stamp set to work with. Is it on your list to order before the Stampin' Up! retirement party is over?!
Stamps: Pun Fun, Teeny Tiny Wishes
Ink: Stazon Black
Paper: Real Red card stock, Night of Navy card stock, Brushed Silver and Brushed Gold card stock, Whisper White
Accessories: Circle Scissors Plus #112530, Glass Mat #112531, Small Star Punch (retired), Signo Gel Pen #105021, Modern Label Punch #119849, Oval Punch #119855, Silver Brads #104336
Let me know if you have any questions about this card or the products I used. To order Stampin' Up! products, just click HERE to shop!
To see the Last Chance Lists of retiring Stampin' Up! products, click HERE. Be sure to check out the Clearance Rack, too!
Here is a current update from Stampin' Up!:
There were three items inadvertently left off the Last Chance lists; item numbers and prices are listed below. We apologize for the oversight.
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Item |
Page |
Description |
Price |
|
111546 |
142 |
Simple Birthday Thanks Background Stamp |
$17.95 |
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113216 |
Online |
For the Bride Set |
$19.95 |
|
114028 |
22* |
Para la novia Set |
$19.95 |
*From Celebrando Creatividad
In addition, the Days to Remember 6" x 6" Calendar (item 104144, p. 170) is no longer available for purchase and will not be part of the 2011-2012 product offering.
To see all the Last Chance Lists and decide what retiring stamps, accessories and Decor Elements you want, please click HERE.
To see the Last Chance products in my Online Store (images), please click HERE.
Today is the summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere, meaning it is the first day of summer! Why not celebrate the summer solstice, or first day of summer, with a summer card! Look in your Stampin' Up! Summer Mini Catalog on page 16 at the Sunny Fun stamp set. Don't you think it just screams "summer"?!
I stamped the image of the kids swimming and colored in with my Watercolor Crayons and Aquapainter. I love using my Watercolor Crayons!
In the photo below, you can see the post-it note I punched in order to get a stencil for the sun in order to sponge in the Daffodil Delight yellow ink and also a touch of Pumpkin Pie for the orange. Then I used the punched out circle as a mask, placed over the sun so I wouldn't get ink on it as I made the sky. The sky is made with a punch from the new Blossom Bouquet Triple Layer Punch #122464 in the Summer Mini. I then just sponged some blue ink off the top edges of that punched out piece to make the clouds. Love that technique! Click on the photo of the card to enlarge.
To purchase this Sunny Fun stamp set and others, please go HERE to place your online order!
Using up some of the Elegant Soiree Designer Series Paper that is on the Stampin' Up! Last Chance List! I got pretty vintage-y with this card, ripping and tearing and spritzing and sponging! Just this week and next to get what you want from the retirement list of stamps and accessories!
Stamps: Sincere Salutations
Ink: Soft Suede
Paper: Baja Breeze card stock, Soft Suede card stock, Very Vanilla card stock, Elegant Soiree, Newsprint Designer Series Paper #117166
Accessories: Top Note Die #113463, Scallop Oval Punch #119856, 2" x 1 3/8" Oval Large Punch #119859, Antique Brads #117273, Vintage Wallpaper Embossing Folder #120175, Fun Flowers Die #121812, Victoria Crochet Trim #118481, Smooch Spritz Gold Glow #118770, Stamping Sponge #101610
Look through the catalog and see what you can't live without! Then just go to my Online Store to place your order!
Images copyright Stampin' Up! 2011
Made in My Digital Studio
Don't buy Dad another necktie for Father's Day (that he won't wear)….or cutesy golfing accessories (that he won't use)…..or a tool for household tasks (he already has one)! Here's a unique idea! Sign up to be a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator! You, not him (unless he likes to stamp!)!
A crazy idea?? Here's how YOU being a Stampin' Up! demonstrator can enhance his life and your family's:
Read more about becoming a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator HERE. You can sign up in minutes on my website, then make Dad a card for Father's Day with a note about your new business venture! He can sit back and relax knowing that the family is in good hands with Stampin' Up!