Sale-A-Bration ... It's Your Last Chance!

IT'S YOUR LAST CHANCE! You only have a few more hours to receive your FREE Sale-A-Bration stamp sets or accessories, before they are gone forever.
Contact me now or shop online.

Weekly Deals

It's Wednesday and Weekly Deals time.

2015-2017 IN COLOR ENVELOPE PAPER Price: $10.50 $7.88 AND MANY MORE CLEAR-MOUNT STAMP SET Price: $47.00 $35.25 CIRCLE CARD THINLITS DIES Price: $54.00 $40.50 HEARTS & STARS DECORATIVE MASKS Price: $5.00 $3.75 MOSSY MEADOW CLASSIC STAMPIN' PAD Price: $11.50 $8.63

CASE-ing the Catty Sale-A-Bration Botanical Gardens Designer Vellum Stack - #CTC72

It's our final week of featuring the Sale-A-Bration promotion on CASE-ing the Catty and you now only have a few days left to receive these products for FREE.

I have made a Gift Bag using the Botanical Gardens Suite which includes the Botanical Gardens Designer Vellum Stack.

You may have come from Tricia Raineri and I love what she has made this week.


I have choosen to used this card to inspire me to make a gift bag,  I have die-cut 2 of the large pieces from the Mini Treat Bag Thinlits and then scored at 1/2" on the edge and joined them together with the tear and tape adhesive.  I have then inserted a piece of vellum measuring 1 1/2" x 4 5/8" and scored it on each of the ends at 1/2".  I then used the tear and tape adhesive to put in place the bottom.

I did fill mine with Easter Eggs and put a cute Bow Paper Clip Embellishment on top and it was ready for giving.

Stamp Set:  Botanical Blooms, Perfect Pairings
Cardstock:  Old Olive, Daffodil Delight, Cajun Craze, Pool Party, Whisper White, Botanical Gardens Designer Vellum Stack, Botanical Gardens Designer Series Paper
Ink:  Mossy Meadow, Chocolate Chip, Daffodil Delight
Accessories:  Big Shot Die-Cutting Machine, Botanical Builder Framelits Dies, Mini Treat Bag Thinlits, Bow Paper Clip Embellishents, Linen Thread, Hexagon Punch

It's time to hop over to Elizabeth Gross and wow she has created a wonderful creation this week.

If you have any problems hopping please check out the crew's creations at CASE-ing the Catty.

Are you inspired by the Crew or the Catalogue why not enter our monthly challenge and a winner will be announced on the first Sunday in April, so go to the linky tool at CTC.

Easter Egg Card ... Work of Art

One of my downlines, Caroline Nicholls dropped this Easter Card at my back door on Thursday and it was a lovely surprise.

It uses the very versatile Work of Art stamp set, who would have thought it would be used with an Easter theme.

These lovely pastel shades

Long Thin Easter Egg Box

I have a very special friend who has a very kind heart and also is one of my Stampin' Up! Class Attendees and former downline, Tanya Partington and she kindly gave me this oh so cute Long Thin Easter Egg Box made from designer series paper.

A close up of the window to view the little Easter Eggs.

Tanya's Egg Box is a shorter version of the very talented Pootles, Sam Hammond.  I am always inspired by Pootles and her many video tutorials of all things bags and boxes.

#imbringingbirthdaysback ... it's Here in Australia!

IT'S HERE IN AUSTRALIA...YOU CAN ORDER NOW!

Have you heard?  Shannon West, Stampin' Up!'s Training Manager, is bringing birthdays back with her own #imbringingbirthdaysback movement.  (Read her story below).

You can join the movement too!  Offer to send your friends, family, neighbours, coworkers etc handmade birthday cards and tag them with the #imbringingbirthdaysback stamp (item 143573) and it's available now in wood mount only for $21.00.

Together, we can bring birthdays back!  
To date I have given 13 birthday cards this year, so if you have not let me know your birth date let me know and you will receive one of my handcrafted cards.

LET'S ALL BRING BIRTHDAYS BACK

By Shannon West, Demonstrator Training Manager

It started one Saturday in January. I was kicking myself for not sending out my Christmas cards, but I also noticed that many friends had simply posted their Christmas cards on Facebook rather than sending them in the mail. For years I’ve complained about Facebook ruining birthday cards and now it would seem the same was happening to Christmas cards. A handmade, handwritten card in the mailbox seemed to be nearly extinct—and I was contributing to the problem! I wanted to do something drastic and immediate to stop this neglect and hold myself accountable. 

So that Saturday in January, I made a decision: I posted on Facebook that I would send a birthday card to any of my friends that wanted one. I didn’t think about the possibilities or consequences…I just posted and was astonished when the responses started rolling in.

After 24 hours, I had over 300 responses…far more than I had ever received on a previous post. I started a spreadsheet to keep track and went to work making and sending birthday cards.  

Two days later, I posted a photo of my first set of cards that I was sending. At this point, my posts started to be shared and others started posting that they were also sending cards to their friends. These results were an absolute surprise! 

As my friends began receiving their cards, they posted photos of them on social media to thank me. This sparked another idea: there needed to be a way to easily see all the cards—my cards and others’ cards too—so that we could see all the different ideas to CASE (Copy And Share Everything). Playing on the lyrics of a Justin Timberlake song, the hashtag #imbringingbirthdaysback was born! I wanted to stamp it on each card so that the receiver would know to use the hashtag if they posted the card, so I carved my very own #imbringingbirthdaysback stamp. 

As my spreadsheet of birthdays grew (it’s currently 1,327 names strong!), the sharing grew. There is something special about a birthday. It’s your special day—you get to dictate what happens that day and it’s yours to own and craft. And EVERYONE has one. It seems this unexpectedly played into the development of this movement. And it wasn’t difficult to sense the happiness and excitement that one feels when simply sending cards…that was a factor in the excitement that built around the movement too, of course.

After a few weeks, Sara approached me and asked how Stampin’ up! could support the movement—after all, making and sending cards is what Stampin’ Up! has always been focused on (Shelli still sends every single employee a birthday card each year!).  I also got to share my story on a local news program: Good Things Utah. (You can watch the host make a birthday card below.)

Weekly Deals

Every Wednesday Stampin' Up! announce the new Weekly Deals, lots of great savings again this week and it is never too early to start making your Christmas Cards.

CORNER GARDEN CLEAR-MOUNT BACKGROUND STAMP Price: $26.00 $19.50 EMBELLISHED ORNAMENTS CLEAR-MOUNT STAMP SET Price: $35.00 $26.25 GOLD GLIMMER PAPER Price: $8.75 $6.56 HEARTS BORDER PUNCH Price: $28.00 $21.00 SQUARES COLLECTION FRAMELITS DIES Price: $45.00 $33.75

CASE-ing the Catty Easter Gift Bag Greatest Greetings - #CTC71

This week we are celebrating Easter at CASE-ing the Catty #CTC71 and when you think Easter you think Chocolate and Easter Eggs.

You may have come from Rachel Palmieri and wow would you like to receive that Easter Card and Gift.

I have made some Easter Gifts for my work colleagues, family and friends, they use the food safe Polka Dot Cone Cellophane Bags which are such good value of 25 bags for $10.50 per package.

I have added some m&m's speckled eggs and some Cadbury milk chocolate eggs and then tided some Dotted Lace Trim and used the Tear and Tape Adhesive to attached the gorgeous "you're eggstraordinary" tag.  A very quick and easy Easter Gift that you can make many without costing you a fortune but is so appreciated by the receivers knowing you have handmade it.

Stamp Set:  Greatest Greetings
Cardstock:  Very Vanilla
Ink:  Cucumber Crush, Delightful Dijon, Mint Macaron, Tip Top Taupe, Watermelon Wonder
Accessories: Polka Dot Cone Cellophane Bags,
Cucumber Crush, Delightful Dijon, Mint Macaron, Tip Top Taupe, Watermelon Wonder 1" Dotted Lace Trim

It's time to Bunny hop over to Julia Quinn and I love the beautiful Easter Tag she has made this week.

If you have any problems Easter hopping please check out the crew's creations at CASE-ing the Catty.

Have you made any Easter Cards or Gifts inspired by the Crew or the Catalogues why not enter our monthly challenge and the winner will be announced on the first Sunday in April.  Go to the linky tool at CTC.

Sale-A-Bration: Botanical Gardens Designer Vellum and Botanicals for You

The Sale-A-Bration promotion only has a couple more weeks to go, so place your $90 order today so you don't miss out on your favourite FREE item - remember they are all only available until stock last!

I am featuring a couple that coordinate so well together, the Botanical Gardens Designer Vellum Stack and the Botanicals for You stamp set (wood or clear mount).

The Vellum sheets are embossing with white printing and they make gorgeous accents, invitations and overlays.  Or layer it over your favourite cardstock or Designer Series Paper to add colour.  See what you can do with a simple but elegant stack of paper.

Weekly Deals

A couple of punches this week are included in the Weekly Deals, but I will be stocking up on the Gold Ribbon.

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1" SQUARE PUNCH Price: $28.00 $21.00 BANNER PUNCH Price: $21.00 $15.75 GOLD 1/8" RIBBON Price: $8.75 $6.56 LOST LAGOON CLASSIC STAMPIN' PAD Price: $11.50 $8.63 PRETTY PETALS DESIGNER SERIES PAPER STACK Price: $14.00 $10.50

Sale-A-Bration: Party Pants

Looking for a reason to party?  Here they are...Birthday, Congrats, Thinking of You - and they're all here in one stamp set Woo hoo!

Brandi from the Stampin' Up! home office shows you some wonderful projects using this stamp set, so check out this fantastic video.

CASE-ing the Catty Sale-A-Bration Metallics Glitter Tape and Hello - #CTC70

Welcome to the Adelaide Cup Long Weekend here in South Australia and to the CASE-ing the Catty Sale-A-Bration feature #CTC70.  Do you know you have only 18 more days to take advance of the Sale-A-Bration products.  

You may have come from Julia Quinn and wow I love her card using the Pedal Pusher two-step stamp set.

I am using the new Metallics Glitter Tape today in the three colours Gold, White and Silver (which was inspired by the example on the left).

Now you might be thinking there is a pink strip not white, well I have used my trusty sponge dauber with some Melon Mambo ink and dabbed it on and in a second you have glitter tape in any colour you would like.  I used my piecing mat to lay down the glitter tape and then just pealed it off as I don't have a silicone craft sheet.  I just used the Stampin' Mist Stamp Cleaner with a tissue and the ink just wiped off the piecing mat.

My butterfly is layered with vellum and sponge daubered around the edges with Melon Mambo.  The Melon Mambo decorative butterfly I have used the 2-way glue pen around the edges and then sprinkled some Dazzling Diamonds glitter on and then set the card off with a few gold sequins from the Love Blossoms Embellishment Kit.

Stamp Set: Hello
Cardstock:  Pool Party, Very Vanilla, Vellum
Ink: Melon Mambo, Pool Party
Accessories: Metallics Glitter Tape, Big Shot Die-Cutting Machine, Bold Butterfly Framelits, Butterflies Thinlits, 2-way Glue Pen, Dazzling Diamonds Glitter, Gold Sequins

A close up of the butterfly, shows off the velum and all the Dazzling Diamonds Glitter 

with the Metallics Glitter Tape shining through.

It's time to hop over to Rachel Palmieri and she has created a couple of cards also using the Metallics Glitter Tape but oh so different to my girly card.

If you have any problems hopping around please check out the crew's creations at CASE-ing the Catalogue.

Do you love what the crew has made this week, why not case a card and enter our monthly challenge in March and we will announce the winner at the beginning of April.  Go to the linky tool at CTC.