Sale-A-Bration Fun begins on January 5th!!!

Do you want $56 in FREE Stampin' UP! product of your choice?

Of course you do. You are a crafty nut like me. And you like saving money. Keep reading.... All the way to the end.

January 5th is the start of Stampin' UP!'s promotion called Sale-A-Bration.

During Sale-A-Bration you can purchase the Stampin' UP! starter kit for $99 and choose $155 in Stampin' UP! product. Oh did I mention shipping is free on your start kit?!

Ok this is where I lose people. They go..."I don't want to sell Stampin' UP! stuff" Or "I don't want to have workshops, or classes or online stuff"

This is where I say.... YOU DON'T HAVE TO! All you have to do is purchase the kit. There is no risk and no obligations. You don't have to have classes, perform circus acts or beg people to buy stuff from you. You just enjoy the discount as long as you choose to stay active by placing $300 worth of orders in a quarter.

Then you enjoy the following amazing benefits:

20% off all your own Stampin' UP! orders and orders you place for friends!

 

Still not convinced this is the right choice for you? Go through the NEW Occasions Catalog and make your wishlist. Was the total more than $99? This is definitely the right choice!! Contact me and we can talk about it.

If you truly just want to order great products and earn a FREE Sale-A-Bration product for every $50 (before s/h and tax if not in NH) then I can help you with that too!

Winter /Spring Classes

Stamp-A-Stack Class - Thank yous and Love

I love offering this type of class because you get to choose which cards you make and how many of each one you want! You will make a total of 12 cards from the 6 designs I have prepared. You can do 2 of each or up to 3 of any single design!!! The designs will be able to be used as thank you notes, Valentines, feminine birthday cards, weddings, showers and others. I will bring a number of greeting stamp sets and you can add what ever greetings you need. You can also choose to leave them blank and add a sentiment at a later date!

Register by Thursday, January 7^th

Cost: $25

Date and Location: Sun., January 10^th  at 11am at the Hinsdale Community Center

Product Based Birthday card class

We never have enough birthday cards! I am always looking for just the right card for someone. You will leave this class with 8 birthday cards and extra product as well!! We will use many of the products in the "It's My Party" suite from the new Occasions Catalog. Your class fee of $20 includes a sampling of Designer Series Paper, card stock, Enamel Dots, and Baker's Twine as well as 5 Whisper White note cards with envelopes. We will use some if this product to create the cards but there will be plenty left over for you to use to make more cards at home!

Register by Tuesday, January 19th

Cost: $20

Date and Location: Sun., Feb. 7^th  at 11am at the Hinsdale Community Center

Sale-A-Bration card class

We will use the fabulous FREE products that you can earn with a $50 purchase to create 10 cards (2 each of 5 designs). These cards will be fun and easy to use for a variety of events and occasions! Come try out the products and see how you can use these great products to create lots of wonderful cards!

Register by Tuesday, March 8th

Cost: $22

Date and Location: Sun., March 13^th  at 11am at the Hinsdale Community Center

Keene Classes

I am offering a 4 card class on the 2nd Wednesday and a  Technique Tuesday class on the 3rd Tuesday of EVERY month! The classes  have been great!!  I am excited to offer classes like this in Keene each month! Also, if you place a $50 order at class I will waive your class fee! This is only available at the Classes at Keller Williams

Wednesday dates: Jan 13^th, Feb 10^th, March 9^th, April13^th, May 11^th , June 8^th

Tuesday dates: Jan. 19^th, Feb 16^th, March 15^th, April 19^th, May17^th, June 14^th

Cost: $10

Location: 6pm at Keller Williams Real Estate, 391 West St, Keene

Spring Dates to save

Sunday, April 10th, 10 card Spring Occasions cards, Hinsdale, NH

Sat/Sunday, April 30,May1 Alice Funk's scrap book weekend (I will teach one card class)

 

 

Fall Card Class

The registration deadline for the Fall Card Class is drawing near. I need to know by Tuesday, September 8th if you are planning to attend class in Hinsdale on September 13th. I have finished a few of the card samples and will be working on more this afternoon. Here is a sneak peak of a few of the cards.

Have a terrific Thursday!

English Garden DSP Class

These are the cards we made at the English Garden Designer Series Paper Class I held on August 16th. We used several stamp sets including Happy Happenings, Tin of Cards, Honeycomb Hello, Watercolor Thank You and Watercolor Words for the greetings.

All the cards used the Crumb Cake note cards with envelopes as a base. This is a great size card base to work on and with envelopes included are a real bargin at $6 for 20!!!

 

A couple of cute July Paper Pumpkin cards

Happy Thursday! I have spent today continuing to play with the May and July Paper Pumpkin Kits. I have seen some great inspiration and was able to create a couple cute cards.

Tomorrow is Fun Friday for those local to me. I have several projects set up out in my screen house and folks can stop by and stamp from 3-6pm. This Friday I am also going to have lots of retired product out for sale. It is first come first served so get here early to shop and then stay and stamp!!

English Garden Card Class

The deadline for registering for this awesome class is just a couple of days from today. I wound up making 8 samples even though the plan is to make 2 each of 6 cards for a total of 12 note cards. A few are cased right from the catalog, a couple others were inspired, but changed a bit, by ideas I found on blogs. I let the ladies that came to Fun Friday yesterday vote for the cards they liked best now you get a turn. I will add photos of all the cards with a number and you can leave me a comment with your favorite six (by number please).
The local class is Sunday, August 16th at 11am. The class fee is $28 and includes a package of the 12x12 English Garden Designer Series Paper and a package (20) of the Crumb Cake note cards with envelopes. You will use 12 of the note cards and some of the DSP to create your 12 (2each of 6 designs) note cards. The rest of the supplies are yours to use on other projects!

I am offering this class as a Class By Mail. If you are not local to me but want to do the class it will work a bit differently.  I am not allowed by Stampin' Up! to include stamped images as part of a class by mail, therefore the price must include the stamp set. The Class by Mail will include the Happy Happenings stamp set and the Everyday Chic (5 rolls) Washi Tape. I will provide the DSP, card stock and note cards (12) as well as a packet of Metallic Sequins and instructions. You will need adhesive and a Night of Navy stamp pad.  The class cost is $52 which includes all shipping and handling fees. 

So here are the cards


card 1

card 2

card 3

card 6



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Click below to order the English Garden Card Class by mail:

Muggy Monday

Already the air feels heavy and it is not even 8 am!! I can't decide whether to close the windows and try to keep what ever cool air we have in or if that will just make it feel stuffy.

Oh well guess it is a good day for stamping! Janet Wakeland and Marie Bennett both had videos on YouTube featuring alternate projects using the Simply Snowflakes Paper Pumpkin Kit from November of 2014. I still have a few so I guess it is time to create a few of their alternates. There just might be a card for the Christmas Card Class!

Rich and I went and saw the Minions movie on Saturday afternoon. It was funny and cute! I needed a good laugh.

I am planning to go to a crop on Thursday night with some friends where I hope I can make some progress on the school albums I started for my kids. I got most of the class pictures and first day  pictures gathered. Since it is a lot of stuff I think I will try to narrow down what I take so I don't have to make a bunch of trips up and down the stairs to the crop room. I am doing a mix of traditional and Project Life pages in these albums.

 

 

I hope you enjoy these even though the photo quality isn't great. I will share the pages I do on Thursday sometime soon.





Simply Snowflake November 2014 Paper Pumpkin Kit

So I am working on getting some things ready for a vendor/craft fair at the Winchester, NH VFW n Saturday. If you are local to the Monadnock Region I hope you will stop by. The theme is Christmas in July. How nice to get a bit of shopping out of the way while dressed in shorts and flip flops!!

A fellow demonstrator, Rachel Tessmen, from Stamp Your Art Out designed 80 cards using the November 2014 Simply Snowflake Paper Pumpkin Kit and some additional supplies.

Yesterday I made one of each card for a display board I am creating. I have 5 of these great kits that I will have for sale on Saturday. If you are a current Paper Pumpkin subscriber you can click here to get to the Past Kits page and order one for yourself! If you use Hostess Code 2TEF4GW6 and also order the additional supplies I will send you the document with directions as well as a special goodie from me!

So I finished the display board and I think it turned out pretty well. I hope it helps me sell the 5 Simply Snowflake Kits I will have for sale on Saturday. If they aren't sold Saturday I will post on Facebook and give you a chance to get one for yourself!! Of course if you took advantage of the current Paper Pumpkin opportunity to get the first two months at half off then you could order a kit for yourself as a Paper Pumpkin subscriber!

 
 

 

Paper Pumpkin Special

So what a happy day today is!! Stampin' Up! announced a Paper Pumpkin special opportunity that begins in just two days!!

Starting this Thursday, July 23rd new subscribers to Paper Pumpkin can save 50% off there first 2 months!! Yup have a fun craft experience delivered right to your door for less than $10/month to start!! All the messy design work and such is done for you by the wonderful artists at Stampin' Up! so you can just skip to the fun of crafting!

These awesome red boxes contain everything you need for crafting fun except scissors and adhesive. The ink and supplies for the monthly project are all in there! You also get an exclusive photopolymer stamp set and in your first kit you get the clear block to use with all your future kits. These cute, fun project kits are like having one of my classes delivered right to your door every month! The only thing missing is me (mostly because I wouldn't fit in the box)! You do get photo directions and the link to a video so you will be ready to craft!! You can click here to go to the Paper Pumpkin page and sign up! Remember enter the promo code HALFOFF on Thursday and the August kit will arrive for less than $10. When you subscribe with me I will give you a stamp case to keep you stamp sets and ink spots in.

Are you already a subscriber? Lucky you!! Share this offer with some friends then get together when your kits arrive! What a fun girls night out! Below are some alternate ways that I found online to use the great June kit called Happy Thoughts.

 

 

 





July Paper Pumpkin

I was so excited to get my July Paper Pumpkin Kit on Friday! I made myself wait until Fun Friday and opened it with the folks that were here. It is a very cute stamp set and project kit! The kit is called Thanks a Latte and has three greeting stamps, a coffee/tea cup and two plant stamps that are two step stamping!
The card is so sweet as designed by the artists at Stampin' Up! but fun to play around with as well.
I also looked around on YouTube using a search July Paper Pumpkin 2015 and found a few folks who had changed it up a little. Hawaii Paper Party shared the idea of creating a border around an extra piece of card stock using the negative space from around the orange stickers.

You can see that in the card on the left. I also used a small piece of Crushed Curry card stock.

The card to the right I created by cutting one of the DSP pieces from the kit in half vertically, I originally stamped the cup and teabag string right on the Whisper White but felt in needed a bit of color so I stamped it on a scrap of Soft Sky, cut it out and added it with dimensionals. I added one of the clips with ribbon from the kit.

 

One tip I have for you is that you should use a block a bit bigger than the image and if you are using the block that came with your first Paper Pumpkin Kit you should be fine. I was trying to use block A and it was hard to line up as I was looking through the edge part of the block. A block at least a little bigger allows you to more easily line up the two step images.

 

The weather forcast for Friday looks good so join me for Fun Friday from 3-6 in the screen house and see these in person for yourself!

 

 



Paper Pumpkin Fun!

I'm Paper Pumpkin . . .
I come to your door each month (a fully decked-out creativity carriage). I'll help you to escape your life with some paper fun.
I come in a sweet box, but you'll really love what you find on the inside:
All the stamps, ink, paper, and accessories to create pinable projects. Create stuff like cards, journals, décor, and more!
Paper Pumpkin by Stampin' Up! is a new monthly kit program that anyone can enjoy!

I am part of an online boot camp offered by Stampin' Up! to help demonstrators promote Paper Pumpkin as part of their business. This is a wonderful program which delivers a fun "class" to your door every month! I love having my bright red box arrive each month and have fun creating the lovely projects designed by Stampin' Up!'s awesome artists and designers!! No thinking just fun!

You can get a fun box delivered to your door too. All you have to do is click the link and join!
There are two ways to join:
1) Click on the above link and put in some information and a lovely red box will arrive at your door each month unless you tell us you would rather skip a month. You will be charged $19.95 each month and the fun will arrive sometime around the middle of each month!
2)Purchase a prepaid subscription for a specific number of months 1, 3, 6, or 12 subscriptions are available. The 1 month is the perfect gift for that crafty someone you love! The 3 month is a wonderful way to try it out for yourself. The 6 month saves a $1/month and can with a few added items get you Stampin' Rewards (hostess benefits)! The 12 month subscription saves you $2/month which is like getting one month FREE! Also the 12 month earns you $30 in Stampin' Rewards!!

Join me on May 17th at 10am in Hinsdale at the Community Center for a chance to create several projects using recent kits and see for your self how much fun you can have every month! Call or e-mail me today to get signed up for this fun event!!!