Jan 22, 2013 | Cards, Sale-A-Bration 2013, Stampin' Up! Events |
It’s time for our biggest promotion of the year at Stampin’ Up! – it’s Sale-A-Bration time!
Bloomin’ Marvelous Stamp Set – set of 8
The Sale-A-Bration promotion starts today! Sale-a-Bration is an annual party with loads of free products! This year’s party is better than ever – we’re celebrating our 25-year anniversary! So, put on your party hat and BYOC (bring your own confetti)!
How will you party?
Enjoy Sale-A-Bration in Three Ways. Choose all that Apply.
HOST – have my friends over for a party – qualifying party $150 – you’ll get – a free pack of silver glimmer paper + $25 hostes dollars OR qualifying party $400 – you’ll get – a free pack of silver glimmer paper + Free product bundle + $65 hostess dollars + 50% off any full-priced item
Madison Avenue stamp set (set of 5), Sycamore Street Designer Series Paper
SHOP – yipee! a party just for me! – spend $50 – you’ll get – one free SAB product – spend another $50 get another
Feeling Sentimental stamp set (set of 4)
JOIN – I can party all the time – join during Sale-A-Bration – you’ll get – product discount + friends + the chance to make a difference – PLUS 25% more in your starter kit – $156.50 worth of products for $99!
Visit my website starting today to learn more!
I’m also offering SAB Mini Clubs – find two friends and contact me today for all the details!
My Digital Studio options – Lemonade Stand Disc or One Big Sale-A-Bration Disc
The pictures in this post are some from the display boards at the Stampin’ Up! Leadership conference. They show just some of what you can get free during Sale-A-Bration.
I can’t wait to Sale-A-Brate with you! Order today to get your FREE products – next on my list are Bloomin’ Marvelous and Feeling Sentimental! How about you?
Jan 17, 2013 | Big Shot, Cards, class, Create with Connie & Mary, Designer Series Paper, Sale-A-Bration 2013, Spring Catalog 2013 |
Look at the options you have with one sketch and one stamp set! It’s a sketch challenge from Create with Connie & Mary . Combine that with the cute Patterned Occasions stamp set in the 2013 Stampin’ Up! Sale-A-Bration brochure.
I saw a cute card idea last week while I was out of town that my demonstrator friend Selene Kempton posted on her FB page. I was planning to use that idea for classes that I had this week (yesterday actually). And as I looked at the sketch for this week I decided to merge the two ideas together. And then wanted to show my classes how they could exchange the image for any image in the stamp set – giving them multiple options and allowing everyone to create a card for whatever occasion they needed. Here is my card – I actually turned the sketch again.
Here are some details on this card and then I’ll show you the other images.
- card base is Sahara Sand
- A layer of Island Indigo that was run through the Big Shot with the Honeycomb Embossing Folder
- A strip of Sycamore Street Designer Series paper – I love those dots! – cut into a flag
- Tied some Island Indigo Baker’s Twine around the layer and tied it in a bow
- Stamp the jeans image on Whisper White card stock and punch out with the 1-3/4″ Circle punch
- To dress up the jeans pierce a hole on either side at the waist and tie a bit of Baker’s Twine to create a belt!
- Punch a Decorative Label punch from Tangerine Tango card stock. Layer behind the circle and add to the front of the card.
I love the little belt! That was my favorite idea from Selene’s Card. Now these are the other images from the Patterned Occasions stamp set and what I did with them – just switch these out on the front of the card and you have a variety of options.
On these I added either a little punched heart or the little flower. Now you have a birthday, thank you, get well and a love you card. This gave everyone the option to make the card that they wanted.
Visit the Create with Connie & Mary site to see the creations from the rest of the design team and to submit your own creation for this new challenge. I hope you are having a good week. Mine has been busy since I returned from Leadership and I still have lots to share. Unfortunately our weather here is yucky! I came home from sunny Florida to rain and it hasn’t stopped in 4 days! And tonight we could have snow/ice – we can hope it will be snow but more likely it will be ice – which won’t be good for Friday!
Stampin’ Up! Supplies:
- Stamps: Patterned Occasions (Sale-a-Bration)
- Ink: Island Indigo, and Markers in Island Indigo and Tangerine Tango
- Card Stock: Sahara Sand, Island Indigo, Whisper White, Tangerine Tango
- Accessories: Sycamore Street Designer Paper (Sale-A-Bration), Island Indigo Baker’s Twine, Itty Bitty Shapes Punch Pack, 1-3/4″ Circle punch, Decorative Label punch, Small Heart punch, Big Shot Die Cut Machine, Honeycomb Embossing Folder (Spring catalog), Paper Piercer, Stampin’ Dimensionals
Jan 16, 2013 | Designer Series Paper, Embellishments, Sale-A-Bration 2013, Spring Catalog 2013, SU Ribbon |
Would you like to try out the Designer Papers, Ribbons and Embellishments in the new Stampin’ Up! Spring Catalog? I have been offering product shares for a while now to help you see it all but not have to buy it all. You will get a sample of everything in the share. Then you’ll know what you really like and want to get more of without buying a full package to begin with. And with Sale-A-Bration right around the corner the shares this time will also include extra free Sale-A-Bration product samples too. I’m offering four different shares this time – a Ribbon Share, a Paper Share, an Embellishment Share (all the other fun stuff), and a Kit share. All items are pictured in the Stampin’ Up! 2013 Spring Catalog and Sale-A-Bration Brochure.
Due date for payment is Jan. 21st to participate. Orders will be place on Jan.22nd (the day that Sale-A-Bration starts). Please email me at [email protected] if you would like to participate in any or all of these shares.
Price of each share is listed for pick up at my house. If you would like it shipped to you please add $5.30 and I’ll send it to you priority flat rate – the paper share will need to ship separately, the others can likely be combined.
Here are the details for you –
Spring Ribbon Share – $12 share for pick up at my house – what’s included in the ribbon share –
- 1-1/4″ Two-Tone Ribbon – 1 yard each of Pink Pirouette/Rose Red and Basic Gray/Basic Black
- Natural 7/16″ Trim Ribbon – 1 yard
- 3/8″ Striped Organdy Ribbon – 2 yards each of Marina Mist, Melon Mambo, and Old Olive
- (Free) Sycamore Street SAB Ribbon & Button Pack – 1 yard each of Island Indigo, Pool Party, and Tangerine Tango 3/4″ Satiny ribbon and 2 buttons in each color – Pool Party, Tangerine Tango, Rich Razzleberry
Spring Designer Paper Share – $9 share for pick up at my house – what’s included in the paper share –
- Tea for Two Designer Paper – 1 6×6 piece of each of 6 double-sided patterns
- More Amore Specialty Designer paper – 1 6×6 piece of each of 5 double-sided patterns, 1 6×6 piece of laser-cut sheet
- Core’dinations Card Stock – 3 6×6 pieces of each of three colors – Pool Party, Primrose Petals, Real Red
- Print Poetry Designer Series Paper Stack – 1 4-1/2″x6-1/2″ piece of each of 12 double-sided patterns
- Parker’s Patterns Designer Paper – 1 6×6 piece of each of 6 double-sided patterns
- (Free) Sycamore Street SAB Designer Paper – 1 6×6 piece of each of 6 double-sided patterns
Spring Embellishment Share – $13.50 share for pick up at my house – what’s included in the embellishment share –
- Delicate Details Lace Tape – 1 foot of each of 2 designs
- 5/8″ Flower trim – 1 foot
- Tea Lace Paper Doilies – 4
- Creped Filter Paper – 1 6″ circle, 1 6″ square
- Large Rhinestone Basic Jewels – 6
- Designer Builder Brads – 2 brads and epoxy bubbles
- Basics Designer Silver Buttons – 1 each of 2 sizes
- Silver Soda Pop Tops – 1 each of 2 sizes
- Cute Clips Hung Up & Elements – 1 each of 6 designs
- (Free) Vintage Faceted Designer Buttons – 1 each of 3 designs
Spring Kit Share – $15 share for pick up at my house – what’s included in the Kit share (all pieces in the kits will be divided up between the cards/tags/boxes – pieces may vary slightly depending on the kit) –
- Pop-Up Posies Designer Kit – 3 tag/flower sets – one of each design
- Sweet Threads Simply Sent Kit – 2 cards/envelopes – one of each color/design
- Boutique Boxes Designer Printed Kit – 2 boxes/note cards – one of each design
- One stamp – either the Just for You from the Pop-Up Posies kit, or one stamp from the Essentials set (Sweet Threads)
- (Free) Happy Hello Simply Sent Kit – 2 cards/envelopes – one of each design
I hope this makes it easy for you to try everything out. There are lots of fun new things in the Spring Catalog and I will be sharing them in my classes too.
Due date for payment is Jan. 21st to participate. Orders will be place on Jan.22nd (the day that Sale-A-Bration starts). Please email me at [email protected] if you would like to participate in any or all of these shares.
Jan 15, 2013 | Big Shot, Sale-A-Bration 2013, Stampin' Up! Events |
Let me show you how I turned the Petite Purse Big Shot die into a little manicure set. It was one of the wrapper swaps that I took to the Stampin’ Up! Leadership conference this year. And I gave them to my roommates as their little pillow gift too.
I actually had three different color combinations but forgot to take pictures of the others. One was Rich Razzleberry (purple accessories) and the other Raspberry Ripple (pink accessories). Each petite purse has a bottle of nail polish (the blue one actually has clear polish) and a mini manicure set.
Here are a few tips on how I created this little gem –
- I cut the Petite Purse Big Shot Die from Pool Party card stock.
- Cut the back panel again from a small piece of Pool Party card stock and emboss with the Big Shot using the Fancy Fan Folder – attach it to the back of the purse.
- Cut the back with the flap out of Designer Paper – the paper here is Sycamore Street Designer paper
- I glued the designer paper on the inside of the purse and flap and then bend the flap back – I actually used a tiny silver brad to attach it to the back of the purse – I didn’t want it to come loose.
- I tied some Baker’s Twine through one of the Sycamore Street buttons and attached it to the purse using a Stampin’ Dimensional.
- For the handle cut a piece of the Sycamore Street ribbon and glue it to the card stock handle from the die cut. This way you end up with a stiff handle. I attached each end to the sides of the purse with mini silver brads.
- stamp a tag from the Pretty Petites stamp set and punch it out with the Petite Curly Label punch – punch a little hole and tie it to the handle with some Baker’s Twine.
I punched a little circle from the matching designer paper and added it to the top of the manicure set.- Tie a piece of ribbon around the nail polish bottle.
Super Cute! I wish I had pictures of the other ones too so you could see all the matching colors. These were part of a “candy” wrapper swap that I participated in at the Leadership Conference. Not everyone did candy ideas – I usually participate in two groups and do one with candy and one without. Come back again I’ll have the other one later this week.
Several of these products will be available during Sale-A-Bration starting Jan. 22nd. If you would like to have a Sale-A-Bration mini club with a couple of your friends check out the details on my website – these are going to be fun!
Jan 14, 2013 | Big Shot, Designer Series Paper, Sale-A-Bration 2013, Stampin' Up! Events, SU Buttons |
I made these cute little gifts for my friends at the Stampin’ Up! Leadership Conference. Decorated clothespins and a little paper treat bag. Cute and fun to make!
This is a great project that uses recycled paper – it’s the paper we get in our Stampin’ Up! Order boxes but you could use other brown paper. The paper is cut with the Petite Pocket Die and the Big Shot Die-cut Machine.
Here are some of the things I used to make this little treat –
- stamp set – Flowering Flourishes – stamped in Summer Starfruit on the brown paper after it was cut
- stamp set – Perfect Punches – stamped on Rich Razzleberry card stock
- punch out with Curly Label punch
- add a little Summer Starfruit flower punched with the Itty Bitty Shapes Punch Pack flower and a Silver Mini brad
- cover the clothes pin with Sycamore Street Designer Series paper
- add a button from the Sycamore Street Ribbon & Button pack that has some Whisper White Baker’s Twine tied through it
Inside these sweet little pockets was a piece of chocolate. I gave these to my friends as I found them at the Leadership conference. I hope they all liked the sweet little treat. The Sycamore Street items will be available for free during Sale-A-Bration starting Jan. 22nd.
If you would like to buy any of these products you can shop at my online store on my website – www.monika.stampinup.net
We heard lots of exciting things at the Leadership Conference about all kinds of fun things that Stampin’ Up! has planned for this year. I’ll be sharing those throughout the week – some are already on my Facebook page – Stamping Together at Monika’s Place – so be sure to go like my page and you can see some of them there.
Jan 10, 2013 | Cards, Create with Connie & Mary, Mini - Love Notes, Sale-A-Bration 2013 |
It’s another Create with Connie & Mary color challenge – this week the colors were Midnight Muse, Pink Pirouette and Whisper White. That made me decide for sure that I prefer sketch challenges – what in the world was I going to do with those colors?
I did some quick browsing in a crafting magazine and saw a sketch in there that I thought I could use with the new Pretty Petites stamp set that will be available during Sale-A-Bration. So I combined that idea with the color challenge and came up with this cute little card for this weeks challenge –
In the end I liked the colors together and this little creation. It is actually a 3×3 card and here is a quick look at how I made it.
- card base is Midnight Muse
- I stamped 8 of the mini curly label images from the Pretty petites stamp set in Midnight Muse ink on Whisper White card stock, and punched them all out with the Petite Curly Label punch, arrange those on the front of the card
- stamp 1 of the hello image in Midnight Muse ink on Pink Pirouette card stock and punch out – add it with a Stampin’ Dimensional to the lower right corner of the card front
- Punch 8 of the Bitty Flowers using the punch from the Itty Bitty Punch pack – those are Pink Pirouette – scrunch them up and add to the center of each curly label.
- Put a Rhinestone in the center of each flower
- Tie some Whisper White Baker’s twine around the card front and tie in a bow.
In the end I liked the card, the colors and how it all turned out. Substitute one of the other images to make it a thank you, birthday, or other occasion card. Visit the Create with Connie & Mary site to see the creations from the rest of the design team and to submit your own creation for this new challenge. Have a great week! I’m at the Stampin’ Up! Leadership conference this week.
Stampin’ Up! Supplies:
- Stamps: Pretty Petites (Sale-a-Bration)
- Card Stock: Midnight Muse, Pink Pirouette, Whisper White
- Accessories: Petite Curly Label punch (Sale-A-Bration), Whisper White Baker’s Twine, Itty Bitty Shapes Punch Pack, Basic Rhinestone Jewels, Stampin’ Dimensionals
