The Extra-Large Ornament Punch #119847 is available for order again! The problems with this punch  have now been resolved and it is ready to go!  You can see a Christmas card I made with the Ornament Punch HERE.  But there are lots of other creative ideas you can do with this punch!  Can you imagine a vase or a fish with this punch??!  You will want to add this punch to your collection!  It has been very popular!

Ordering some of the punches you have been dying to have and maybe a pack of paper or a stamp set will get you to $50 for your Sale-a-Bration reward!  Be sure to check it out!  Just click the Online Ordering button in the corner to go to my store and place your order any time you want to!

I've owned the Stampin' Up! Watercolor Wonder Crayons since they first came out.  At that time, they sold all the colors in one long tin, which I liked because I could just open the lid and have access to all the colors at one time.  Later Stampin' Up! changed to smaller tins within the color families.  Now with the new colors, we've needed new Watercolor Wonder Crayons to fill in the gaps, but there was a delay in getting them.  Finally now I have my new colors in Watercolor Wonder Crayons (WWC)!  They came with the four tins so I had to make a decision….keep them in my one big tin or be up-to-date (and more portable) in the smaller tins.  Well, I opted to try the new smaller tins!  I found a file a demonstrator on my favorite online group for demonstrators, SUDSOL, had prepared to insert into the lid of the tins to identify the colors.  I scribbled a little bit of color beside each color name and stuck the chart inside the lid of each tin.  Now my WWC are ready to go!  I love coloring with them!

If you would like to purchase a color family of the Watercolor Wonder Crayons, or if you own them, but need the new Color Kit, click HERE to go to my online store.  There are so many different techniques you can do with them.

If you are a Stampin' Up! demonstrator and would like to have a business-minded group where you can go for ideas and answers to your questions about stamping and running your stamping business, click the SUDSOL button over on the right side of my blog!

Stampin' Up! has chosen the items in this list that can still be ordered even though the Holiday Mini sales period has ended.  You may want to print this list and keep it handy!

The fabulous Watercolor Wonder Crayons are now available for purchase!! They were delayed due to the supplier relocating, but finally Stampin' Up! has them in inventory and can take your orders!  Some of the crayons may have sleeves with the old artwork on them but this will not affect the quality or usefulness of the crayons.

Use the following item numbers to purchase your Watercolor Wonder Crayons:

• 120949 New Color Kit
• 119802 Subtles
• 119803 Regals
• 119804 Brights
• 119805 Neutrals

I love using my Watercolor Wonder Crayons, especially with my Aqua Painter!  I know you will enjoy them too!

Yesterday as I was making more wedding things, I needed to cut a kajillion small pieces of cardstock and the measurement was 1 5/8".  That takes a tiny bit more effort to find that measurement so I got the idea to line up a ruler on my Paper Cutter #104152.  This fabulous ruler is a Stampin' Up! ruler we were able to buy at Convention!  I used some tape to hold it down.  To be able to just slide the paper in and not have to look for the measurement each time made the task a little faster and easier!

Do you need something to cut your paper?  Check out the paper cutters and scissors on page 199 of the Stampin' Up! 2010-2011 Idea Book & Catalog or my Online Store HERE.

Would you rather punch these tags 100 times with a small hand punch or would you rather punch these tags 25 times (four at a time) with ease with a Stampin' Up! Crop-A-Dile (#108362)?  Maybe you aren't going to have 100 tags to punch at a time very often, but every now and then something might come up where you do have a quantity or even just a thicker paper to punch through.  The Crop-A-Dile has two sizes of holes and does it so smoothly and easily!  It's not just for setting eyelets!  It's a great tool to have on hand! Just made my task easier!

Stamp set:  Felicidades Siempre (Spanish Catalog) #115722

Paper:  Concord Crush, Whisper White card stock

Ink:  Concord Crush Classic Ink Pad

Stampin' Up! has made this new video with Bonnie Thurber from the home office to demonstrate features of the new punch design.  I'm sure you will enjoy watching it!  Click on the photo below to go to the actual video.

After you watch the video, if you want to order any of the punches, just go to my Online Store and make your choices! 

I'm getting ready to try out the new Smooch Spritz in the Summer Mini Catalog (page 15).  A great product Stampin' Up! added to go with the Smooch Spritz is the Color Catcher (#121093) to catch the overspray.  This means you don't have to find your own box to spray in or get colored spray all over your table or patio outside!  The Color Catcher comes all folded up and has a few illustrations on how to assemble, but I thought I would take pictures of how I assembled mine.  Not really hard, but at first it might look confusing.

This is what it looks like out of the package:

Open it up!
 

Open it and spread it out on your table, being careful not to knock over your cup of hot tea!  You can follow the enclosed instructions to see how to lay it out right.
 

Fold up the backside of the Color Catcher.
 

Fold the bottom side flaps up and pull the sides in.
 

The other side.
 

Now you're going to fold the side flap down over the folded up bottom flap.
 

It almost feels like you are doing it wrong, but just fold it and  you will see that those tabs are going to go into the back and one at the bottom.
 

Voila!!  You have a Color Catcher!  And when you are not using it, you can unfold it and store compactly (which is important for most of us stampers, scrapbookers, and crafters!)
 

Now go get your Smooch Spritz, shake it up, and spray away!

Even if you are not a stamper, you can use this for any kind of craft projects where you want a little protection when spraying or maybe some other techniques.  Assembled size 10" x 10" x 10".

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In the Summer Mini Catalog, Stampin' Up! is offering new Designer Series Paper called Presto Patterns Specialty #117175.  It is plain white, but then you can add ink to it to make the design pop out!  The new Smooch Spritz would also work great with it.

Here is the plain paper:

Here I used my Brayer #102395  and Really Rust ink to cover:

Although the design "popped" out as soon as I applied the ink, I also took a paper towel and just wiped the excess ink off the design.  Looks almost the same, just a little cleaner.

Reminds me of fabric!  It's just like emboss resist, except you don't have to do the embossing first!

Now back to playing!!!

If you don't have a demonstrator and would like a copy of the Stampin' Up! Summer Mini Catalog, please email me.