Sunday, November 11, 2018

Holiday Card Class November 18, 2018

  • Holiday Card Making Class - November 18, 2018
  • Join us to make these hand-made projects
  • Tutorials

Make Holiday Cards

We're getting closer to the holidays and its a great time to start your holiday cards.  Do it the easy way.  Come make cards where all the cutting is done for you.    Join us Sunday afternoon, November 18, to create these lovely Holiday cards.  We'll create 6 holiday cards you can customize with sentiments that work for your needs.   


We're using a variety of Fall and Holiday stamp sets, including the Snowfall dies from the limited-time Snowflake Showcase sets available to customers November 1- 30th.   

We're using a variety of Fall and Holiday stamp sets, including the Snowfall dies from the limited-time Snowflake Showcase sets available to customers November 1- 30th.   You'll get a chance to try several different products, punches, dies and techniques to add to your crafting skills.    

You'll love creating these cards and then sharing your creativity with others when you need to send Fall and Holiday cards.

For a closer look at each project, take a look  at the Meetup Photo album for this class, and register for the class while you're visiting my Meetup registration site.  The photo album includes individual photos of each project we'll make. 

Class size is limited, so register for this class now.  Your class fee of $28 for these projects will include precut materials, and embellishments.  Use your PayPal account and send your class fee to my PayPal account at dje-ross@swbell.net , or ask me to issue you a PayPal invoice for the class. 

Subscribe to my blog, register on my Meetup site or follow me on Instagram to receive up to date ideas and notices.

My tutorials

Stampin' Up! gives us plenty of wonderful products to fill our creative needs.  But during busy holiday months, we don't always have time to create our own ideas.  Visit my tutorial page and order a card tutorial with all the dimensions and products spelled out along with step by step assembly instructions for each project.  Spend more time stamping and less time looking through social media for ideas.  See what available today.  Click the Tutorial tab at the top of my website, or follow this link to my Tutorial page.

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To online order online:  


1.  Orders over $150 (not including tax and shipping), qualify for shopping rewards. You select free merchandise from the current catalogs to add to your order.  You can also purchase hostess sets with a $150 order.  Order here.

2.  If the purchases on your Wish List are over $100, the $99 Starter Kit is one way to save on your purchase today.  And save even more on future orders.  You can order $125 worth of product for your $99 starter kit.  After your initial $99 order for merchandise you select from anything in the current catalogs, place an order for the remainder of your Wish List as a demonstrator, and save 20% on your purchases as a demonstrator.  Need help building your shopping list? Contact me, and we'll work through your starter kit order together. 

3.  Place an on-line order through my Stampin' Up! store - 24/7 Shopping.  I would love to be your Stampin' Up! demonstrator if you don't already have one.  Let me know if you need an 2018-2019 Annual Catalog or a copy of the Holiday Catalog. 

4.  Clearance Rack items - while quantities last.


5.  Order current or previous Paper Pumpkin monthly craft kits.  Try  a Paper Pumpkin kit soon. 



Stampin' Up! Independent Demonstrator

Private Classes for 1 or a small group of friends:  http://cardmaking.meetup.com/71/
To place an order: Place an on-line order through my Stampin' Up! store - 24/7 Shopping 


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Sharing what we Love at the Stampin' Up! 30th Anniversary party


  • Stampin' Up! Celebrates its 30th
  • Upcoming Catalogs.  Need one?
  • Display Board Samples 

Stampin' Up! 30th Anniversary Celebration


This week has been so exciting!  I’m in Orlando with 7,500 of my fellow Stampin’ Up! demonstrator friends.  The hotels, restaurants, rental cars and parking lot attendant all know that Stampin’ Up! is in town.  The Orange County Convention Center has been our home away from our homes for the past 3 days as we’ve formed stronger friendship bonds, stamped with new stamp, swapped cards with other demos, and seen product demos for new stamping products available to customers in January.  

Over 53,000 demonstrator worldwide will get these products early so we’ll have time to make samples and set up on classes in early January. Be sure you’re signed up  on my Meetup site to hear about upcoming classes and events. You’ll get a jump start on creating Birthday, Valentine  and other cards you’ll need early next year. 

  

Sessions began with Sara, CEO, and her mom, Shelli, Chairman of the Board, chatting on stage about some of the new changes and products in the upcoming Occasions and Sale-A-Bration catalogs.  Although we heard many presenters over these few days, no one is a popular as hearing from Sara and Shelli together on stage.  We love the fun, off-the-cuff banter of this month-daughter duo.  And the highlight for demonstrators is to watch these two stamp together, as we did during closing session.  And for the first time on stage, we saw two of Sara's daughters join them in stamping demos, giving us three generations of this wonderful family-run business on stage, making us all feeling like family.         

  
Sara & Shelli - The Heart of Stampin' Up!




Some of the highlights coming our way include new Cling Red Rubber Stamps and the elimination of wood stamps except for a few background stamps, a Stamparatus carrying case, and more ways to pay when you order on-line through my Stampin' Up! store. Plus Stampin' Up! is moving their computer infrastructure to the Cloud.  This means that during busy ordering times, like the introduction of the new catalogs, they have an easy way of adding more computer capacity so that you don't end up with a stalled computer right in the middle of your order.  And, Stampin' Up! is going to create a mobile app to make it even easier to place on line orders! 

 Another highlight for us demonstrators is getting copies of the upcoming Occasions and Sale-A-Bration Catalogs early.  We also love the change in policies where we can begin sharing more from the On Stage event on our blogs and other social media earlier than we've been allowed to in the past.  Be sure to contact me if you want to be put on my mailing list to receive these new catalogs in late December.  You'll be able to place orders in early January.



The stamping demonstrations we saw and many more photos I took will have to wait for another post, as I'm packing to leave Orlando.  However, I will comment that all of the stamping demonstrations showed us how to use each new stamp for the new stamper, the casual stamper and the avid stamper, which will be a big help in demonstrators holding classes that appeal to a wide range of crafters.

 Of course there we lots of Prize Patrols where we received some of the  new stamp sets and new papers from the Occasions and Sale-A-Bration Catalogs as gifts.
Prize Patrol gave us all new Tool Bags!  Here with friends Chris and Angie

Here, my friends Angie and Chris show the new tool bags we received.  We're all excited by the new Stamparatus bags and a new Craft and Carry Tote bag which will also be available to customers in January.  

 On Stage wouldn't be complete without recognition of the accomplishments of demonstrators.  Angie is a new demonstrator friend, and she earned two Quick Start Awards in her first 6 months after signing on as a Demonstrator, progressed to Bronze Elite title, earned 1800 CVS bonus, and her discount increased from 20% to 25%.  Way to grow, Angie!!    

   



Congratulations to Angie on two Quick Start awards!!!


Of course there were many other awards for sales, recruiting and length of years with Stampin' Up! as a Demonstrator.  Its always fun to see a 30 year-old company that continues to help its demonstrators increase sales and grow.

 We also met with our regional Stampin' Up! Demonstrator Development Managers (DDMs).  Chad Williams, on the left below, is the Midwest South DDM.  These side meetings are a great opportunity to hear the inside scoop on what's going one with demonstrators in your region, share ideas with your DDM, plus its is an opportunity to meet other demonstrators from your immediate area. That's Carole Cory next to Chad.  She's a fellow demonstrator and a neighbor only a few miles from where I live in Houston, TX.  We finally got to meet in person in Orlando!  She's so friendly and sweet.


To continue the fun at On Stage, we're able to use some of the new stamps to create samples to show our customers, along with seeing displays of samples from the Stampin' Up! home office people and other demonstrator demonstrations we saw on stage.  There were so many fun ideas for using these new stamps.  

 The samples below use the new Piece of Cake stamp set.  It includes a coordinating cake builder punch.  We all have so many birthday cards we need to create, this will definitely be one of the sets you'll want to add to your Wish List in January.   

   

Another beautiful, new set created by a $1,000,000 sales achiever demonstrator, Janet Wakeland, is the Artfully Aware stamp set.  This set coordinates with the Support Ribbon Framelit Dies from the annual catalog.  Janet told a heartfelt story about creating this stamp set in support of her mother who has Alzheimer's. 

   

Among Janet's many samples were several in purple, in support of her mother.  The images are line art and are beautiful as simple black and white cards using our Note Cards.  The ribbon image and all others can also be colored with Blends Alcohol-based Markers or our watercolor pencils.  Using our note cards and our colored pencils, you can create many of these cards with minimal stamping supplies, making this stamp set perfect for a new stamper or to use in a fundraiser.

I'll have more of these wonderful ideas and more swap samples to show you in later posts.

Stay up-to-date on Stampin' Up! news and with new card ideas by subscribing to my blog, register on my Meetup site or by following me on Instagram.

  

Need To place an order?

1.  Orders over $150 (not including tax and shipping), qualify for shopping rewards. You select free merchandise from the current catalogs to add to your order.  You can also purchase hostess sets with a $150 order.   Order here.

2.  If the purchases on your Wish List are over $100, the $99 Starter Kit is one way to save on your purchase today.  And save even more on future orders.  First, you can order $125 worth of product for your $99 starter kit.  After your initial $99 order for merchandise you select from anything in the current catalogs, place an order for the remainder of your Wish List as a demonstrator, and start saving 20% on your purchases.  Need help building your shopping list? Contact me, and we'll work through your starter kit order together. 

3.  Place an on-line order through my Stampin' Up! store - 24/7 Shopping.  I would love to be your Stampin' Up! demonstrator if you don't already have one.  Let me know if you need an Annual Catalog or the upcoming Holiday Catalog. 

4.  Clearance Rack items - while quantities last.


5.  Order current or previous Paper Pumpkin monthly craft kits.  If you've never tried Paper Pumpkin, give this monthly kit a try.  

Enjoy!



Stampin' Up! Independent Demonstrator

Private Classes for 1 or a small group of friends:  http://cardmaking.meetup.com/71/

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Monday, November 05, 2018

Stampin' Up! Snow is Glistening and Snowfall Thinlits DIes


  • Stampin' Up! Snowflake Showcase
  • Snowfall Thinlits Dies
  • Craft fun during the holidays stress-free with a Paper Pumpkin Kit

Stampin' Up! Merry Christmas To All 


I'm frantically trying to wrap up all my activities before joining my fellow demonstrators in Orlando for the 30th Anniversary of Stampin' Up! Celebration.  I always dreamt that once I was retired I would have plenty of time to make swaps, arrange for sight seeing in the city where Stampin' Up! On Stage events were held, plus leave my home in a state of calm organization.  

 We'll, that ain't happening.    I'm still working on swaps, I still haven't decided which Orlando sites I want to see, and my closet, my office, and my craft room look like a tornado hit them! So today when I realized the day was almost over, I literally grabbed a few scraps and put together this cute card.  The Snow is Glistening Stamp set and the Snowfall Thinlits were sitting out on my desk and I think I broke a record in how little time it took me to make today's card --  a testament to how easy this set is to use!   I didn't even really think about the design.  I just grabbed what was handy, stamped, embossed, die cut, glued, and I was done.         

  



I love the beautiful cards you can create so quickly with this special, limited time Snowflake Showcase set.  Today's card has a basecard of Crumb Cake cardstock.  Then a layer of Whisper White.  Then another layer of Crumb Cake.  I used one of the snowfall stamps from the Snow is Glistening Stamp Set to create a White Embossed background for the Whisper White Snowflake.  

 Then I stamped one of sentiments from the Snow is Glistening Stamp Set and white heat embossed it at the bottom of the smaller Crumb Cake layer.  

   




Then I used the Snowfall thinlit Dies and die cut the largest snowflake from Winter White, and one of the small snowflakes from Crumb Cake Cardstock.

 The large, white snowflake is attached with a couple of Dimensionals.  The small, Crumb Cake snowflake is attached with a glue dot.  If you need a fast, easy card for the Holidays, get the Snow is Glistening Stamp set and the coordinating Snowfall thinlit Dies before they are gone.  They are only available until November 30 or until they sell out.  Don't delay! 




   
Fine these sets and dies on my Stampin' Up Store, and other holiday and dies in the  Stampin' Up! Holiday Catalog.  Order your holiday stamp sets and dies soon so you'll have them in plenty of time to create your handmade holiday cards.

Recipe for project:


Stamps:  Snow is Glistening
Ink:  Versamark
Paper:  Crumb Cake, Whisper White 
Accessories: Snowfall Thinlits Dies, White Embossing Powder, Heat Tool, Embossing Buddy, Big Shot Platform, Precision Base Plate, Big Shot Die Brush, Standard Cutting Pads, Multipurpose Glue, Dimensionals, Mini Glue Dots


To order items used on today's cards, click on one of the product photos below, or go directly to my Stampin' Up! store.

Stay up-to-date with new card ideas by subscribing to my blog, register on my Meetup site or by following me on Instagram.

 

Order your Holiday Paper Pumpkin Kit by Nov 10  


The fun, holiday designs for the upcoming November kit is just about to ship.  You can place your order until November 10.  Then, when you receive your November kit, you'll have a great start on your on your holiday crafting needs.  It's a special Christmas season box that's a one-Stop Paper Pumpkin kit for your holiday paper crafting.

  

Your November kit is filled with everything you'll need for a holly-jolly handmade holiday.

We're all pressed for time during the busy holiday season.  Stampin' Up! Paper Pumpkin is just what you need.  Kits come with all the prep work done!  To get your own special Holiday kit in time for the Holidays, order your kit by by November 10.  

Stampin' Up! shares a video on its Paper Pumpkin YouTube channel to quickly demonstrate how to assemble each kit, in addition to detailed pictorial guides included in your kit.  Check out alternative ideas for using your kits on YouTube or Pinterest.  You'll find an active online Paper Pumpkin community who love to share their ideas.

Don't wait.  Order your Paper Pumpkin Kit  here.  


Need To place an order?

1.  Orders over $150 (not including tax and shipping), qualify for shopping rewards. You select free merchandise from the current catalogs to add to your order.  You can also purchase hostess sets with a $150 order.   Order here.

2.  If the purchases on your Wish List are over $100, the $99 Starter Kit is one way to save on your purchase today.  And save even more on future orders.  First, you can order $125 worth of product for your $99 starter kit.  After your initial $99 order for merchandise you select from anything in the current catalogs, place an order for the remainder of your Wish List as a demonstrator, and start saving 20% on your purchases.  Need help building your shopping list? Contact me, and we'll work through your starter kit order together. 

3.  Place an on-line order through my Stampin' Up! store - 24/7 Shopping.  I would love to be your Stampin' Up! demonstrator if you don't already have one.  Let me know if you need an Annual Catalog or the upcoming Holiday Catalog. 

4.  Clearance Rack items - while quantities last.


5.  Order current or previous Paper Pumpkin monthly craft kits.  If you've never tried Paper Pumpkin, give this monthly kit a try.  

Enjoy!



Stampin' Up! Independent Demonstrator

Private Classes for 1 or a small group of friends:  http://cardmaking.meetup.com/71/

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