Monday, January 19, 2009

Spring/Summer Idea Book and Catalog!!

Yipee!! Today is the day! We can order from the brand new Spring/Summer Idea Book and Catalog!! I showed it off to several customers yesterday at my New Catalog Open House and it was a big hit! There were lots of new stamp sets that got noticed including the Animal Crackers, Hoppy For You and Thoughts & Prayers.

I will be back later with a couple of samples from yesterdays open house.

Remember that today is a day for remembering the great effort and work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. His dream is coming true through continued work by lots of caring people!!!
Thanks for stopping by.

Sunday, January 18, 2009

Happy New Year - a bit late

Wow...It seems like forever since I posted last. We had some very lovely days between Christmas and New Years. Rich was home and the four of us were able to just be together in a very relaxed way!

Then we were back at school and I was preparing for my new session of stamp club. I offer an after school stamp club for first and second grade students. I have 8 students for 4 weeks and then start a new session with 8 more students. I will photograph some of our projects and share them with you. The kids really seem to enjoy it and I have received lots of positive comments from the teachers at school as well.

Another exciting event of the past couple of weeks is there is a new baby on our street! We had a baby shower for the mommy at the beginning of December. I chose to make her 30 thank you notes as one of my gifts. I found these notes at Michaels for $1.00 per package of 10 notes! Such a deal!! Combine with that the colors they chose are red, black and white and they were a have to buy item!! I liked the size and the shiny red stripe at the bottom but hated the presents in the middle! So it was off to my Stampin' Up! suppies to figure out how to "fix them up". I found Basic Black and Whisper White card stock and my Zoofari stamp set. My daughter helped me color the zebras and then I found the smallest red bows I could and put one on just the center zebra. This is what we ended up with. I was very pleased with the results and so was the mom-to-be! I received a thank you note from her (which I had told her was unnecessary) and so I used the note to create a scrapbook page for her. I did not tape down the bottom edge of the note so that a list of the gifts she received can be centered on the red paper. Shannon got into the scrabooking mood as well and created this cute page for some of the many pictures they have of the new baby sleeping...remember those days?!
I am off to my New Catalog Open House. I will post pictures of the make and take projects soon. Remember that today is the last day to order from the Fall/Winter Idea Book and Catalog! Tomorrow at Noon Mountain Time the Spring/Summer Catalog goes live!! It is lovely and FILLED with Terrific stuff! The accessories section is HUGE because they have added all the Sizzix dies and added some great new ones as well as showing of a selection of the Decor Elements in lots of great shapes and colors!
Sale-A-Bration starts in just a couple short weeks!
Here are the details:
Sale-A-Bration runs from Sunday, February 1st to Tuesday, March 31st.
Customers: Choose 1 FREE Sale-A-Bration product for EVERY $50 you spend on Stampin' Up!® products!
Hostesses: Choose 1 FREE Sale-A-Bration product for hostessing a $300 or more workshop, in addition to the normal hostess benefits!
If you are interested in signing up to become a Stampin' Up!® demonstrator this would be a great time to do it! Recruits get to choose any retail stamp set (a value up to $47.95) from the current catalog when signing up during the promotion!
Happy Sunday! Enjoy this great stamping day...we are getting snow here in the northeast so not much else to do besides watch the NFL Divisional Championship games and stamp!!!