A BIG thank you!

A big thank you to all of my wonderful customers/friends who came by yesterday and made a card and ordered stamps at a 15% off savings.  With your help I sold over 50 stamps, stamp sets or wheels in one day !   That puts me in the running to get some great prizes from Stampin' Up! out of the upcoming Spring Catalog.  I will receive a small embellishment, a large embellishment, A FREE STAMP SET and 2 chances to win a $50 SU! Shopping Spree.  My success is due to the wonderful people I hang out with, my stampin' friends.  Thanks to you all.


Want a job that rewards you with not only a discount on your favorite Stampin' Up! supplies but rewards you with wonderful relationships with great people?  Contact me today, you can get started today with the $99 Starter Kit.  For $99 you choose your own kit of items worth at least $125.  Get it in time to make your Christmas cards and help all of your friends make their own Christmas cards too!

15% off all stamp sale MONDAY!!!!

Just thought I would show you the card you could make on Monday with a purchase of stamps all priced at 15% off.  Come to my house between 1-3 and 6-8 and make one of these cards free.  Can't make it ?  Email or call your order in on Sunday and you can get a precut kit or I will make the card for you.  Please let me know if you are coming to make a card so I will have enough kits ready.  

Big Sale and New Single Stamps Offered

On Monday Stampin' Up! is trying to break a record selling more stamps in one day than they have ever sold before and you get a sale to be a part of SU! history.   On MONDAY, OCTOBER 29th only you can place an order for any stamps including background stamps, personalized stamps, cookie stamps, single stamps and stamp sets and you will get 15% off each and every stamp or set you buy.  Those savings can really add up.  I will be taking orders immediately to be placed on Monday or you can stop by the house from 1-3 or 6-8 and make a free Christmas card and place your stamp order.  Of course you can add other items to your order and I do truly appreciate each and every order you place with me.

Here is the listing of the new single stamps a couple of them are brand new and never released before.

Single stamps assortment 1
Single stamps assortment 2

Vintage Sympathy

Yes, another sympathy card but this one is for my daughter to send to the sister of a classmate of hers in high school.  Tough to lose anyone but 24 years is not enough time on earth in my humble opinion. I tried to go vintage here and I sponged in Sahara Sand but wished I had gone with Crumb Cake.

Thank you cards for orders this month

I needed a thank you card for someone who ordered from me this month and it turned out so cute I decided to make one for everyone who ordered from me this month.  It uses the Hostess Set, Priority Mail and Sassy Salutations.  Easy to make with the Postage Punch and the Scallop Square Punch, good thing since I made a bunch of these this afternoon.  I do truly appreciate each and every order I get.

Desktop Display Calendar Case

So I needed a couple of dollars more to make an order come to the magic $150 level so I could get $25 in free merchandise, admit it, we all play that game.  Anyways, I decided to give the Desktop Display Calendar Case, item # 127033, on page 22 of the Holiday Catalog a try.  You can order an already done for you 2013 calendar inserts too but I decided to give it a go myself.  The Desktop Display Calendar Case is only $1.95 so what do you have to lose.  I think these would make adorable Christmas presents.  Here is the insert I made for October of this year.  I used Comfort Cafe Designer Series Paper  and French Foliage Stamp Set both from the main catalog.    Can you guess what DSP I used for the image panel on November and December?

Card Club Sneak Peek

I have Card Club tomorrow night, 6 ladies get together once a month and make a project or two or three, depending on the project.  Each month one of them serves as the hostess and brings food for the rest of us to share and gets to reap the Hostess Benefits of the orders.  They are required to spend $25 a month so that gaurentees a workshop of at least $150 which means at least $25 of FREE SU! merchandise.   We have never had a hostess only earn $25 in freebies.  We used to do different techniques but starting last month decided we would do fancier cards, ones that take a little time and have a fancy fold or other extra special touch.

This month we are doing a tunnel card as one of our projects and I just had to share, it is so cute.  It is made with the Orchard Harvest DSP and the Perfectly Preserved and Friendship Preserves Stamp Sets and the Cannery Framelits.  The One in a Million Stamp Set is used on the inside.

Indian Corn shopping bags

I made 25 of these adorable little shopping bags the other day and gave some to my Girl Scouts and the rest to coworkers of my daughter.  Everyone loved them or maybe it was the M&M's inside.

I started with a piece of cardstock that measured 3" x 6".  Using my Simply Scored Board and I scored along the 3" side at 1/2" and 2 1/2".  Then I put the 6" side at the top and scored at 2 3/4" and 3 1/4".  Clip the tabs and punch a couple of holes in the top to hold the Baker's Twine and glue the sides with Multipurpose Liquid Glue. Stamped the corn image from the Holiday Catalog set, Perfectly Preserved, using markers and die cut it with the Framelit Dies, Cannery Set. So easy.  The "just for you" is also in that set but is die cut with the Framelit Dies Bitty Banners.  The shopping bag hold the Fun Size of M&M's and makes a great little treat for everyone.

Stampin' Up! is selling single stamps

Stampin' Up! is trying out something new! It is so  exciting!  They are offering us the chance to buy single pieces from these select stamp sets: Word Play, Perfectly Penned, and Seasonal Sayings. The offer will be available now through January 2, 2013

These won't be sent to you in the typical cases or packaging; they'll be packaged in cello bags. If you'd like a case for your stamp, you can buy our Clear-Mount Stamp Cases that come in packs of four (item 119105).

This offer is available for clear-mount stamps only.

The stamps won't come with a Clear-Mount Block, and you'll need to buy a block separately if you don't already have one. The recommended block sizes can be found on the flyers. 

There's no limit on how many pieces you can buy.

Remember that this is a pilot program, so take advantage of it while you can!


Word Play Flyer

Perfectly Penned Flyer

Seasonal Sayings Flyer