Can I scream out how excited I am!?! 🤪During this past week as my helpers and I prepped and packaged 56 sets of product shares (finishing them up a full week ahead of schedule!), I watched my points get closer and closer. And as of yesterday around noon, just hours after setting out the completed shares for USPS to pick up, it became official… I earned my 14th Stampin’ Up!® incentive trip!!!
Timmy, we’re going to Maui!!!
I haven’t even finalized the reservations for my July 2019 Greek Isles incentive trip that my sister is attending with me. So I’m sure you believe me when I tell you I was jumping up and down for joy to have earned this trip in just 3 months & 11 days (a little over 8-1/2 months early!).
I REALLY LOVE being a Stampin’ Up! demonstrator. Thank you to ALL of you who support what I do in some way…A huge thanks to my Stampers With ART stars, my customers, my club members, my fellow demonstrator friends, Stampin’ Up! employees, my business partners, my assistants, my social media followers/subscribers, and my dear friends and family.
I’ve been working non-stop this past week getting those shares ready. I expedited the products from Stampin’ Up!, had 2 assistants (Patty and Vicki) helping me on 4 different days, AND roped in my husband (the one I call Timmy when I’m excited and happy) and my boys (Nick and Luke) to help me put everything in the boxes and envelopes on Thursday night. So finding out that next day that I earned Maui was a fabulous way to celebrate the completion of the shares.
This is what those packages (84 pounds worth!) waiting for my postal carrier to pick up looked like.
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My upline, Susan Campfield is just one of the many supportive people in my life. She is one of my biggest cheerleaders, and I’m so grateful I purchased the Stampin’ Up!® Starter Kit through her 19 years ago.
Just recently she gave me this pretty card featuring the Lovely Floral embossing folder and new products from the Gingham Gala Suite: the Butterfly Gala stamp set, the Gingham Gala designer paper, and the Highland Heather Organdy Ribbon from the Organdy Ribbon Sale-a-Bration Combo Pack. (A brief supply list is below.)
I want to say she sent it to me along with some die-cut pieces that didn’t have and needed. Yes,…I needed product and SHE sent ME a card. It’s supposed to be reversed. In fact, I think I still need to send her a thank you card!
She is very good to me. Isn’t this card precious?
Before I sign off, I want to share some Paper Pumpkin news.
The January kits shipped out yesterday. Yay!! We should be getting them soon. But already Stampin’ Up! is sharing some hints about the February kit that will ship next month. Watch this video to see what is in store.
To learn more about Paper Pumpkin kits of creativity, click here. To sign up so you can get in on this kit, click here.
We are off to celebrate Christmas with my husband’s side of the family this weekend! I’ll touch base again on Monday morning when I share a fun card that I created with the new Classic Garage suite. Have a great weekend!
Sale-A-Bration (January 3 – March 31, 2019) is one of THE best times of the Stampin’ Up! year. Earn free exclusive products! Earn more Stampin’ Rewards! Get a fabulous tote with one of the best kit offers ever!…CLICK HERE for more information.
“BETTER THAN FLAT” TUTORIALS
Five super talented Stampin’ Up!® demonstrators and I have joined together as the “Stampin’ Anonymous team” to create Fun Fold cards & 3-D (“better than flat”) projects to share exclusively with our customers, paper crafting friends & team members each month! (Our January projects are here!!) CLICK HEREto find out how you can get your hands on these great tutorials. A new one is offered each month.
JOIN THE CLUB
Do you find that you order at least $25 worth of Stampin’ Up! product each month? Do you want to get perks for those monthly orders? I’m forming a new Paper Crafters club that will kick off in March, and we are looking for new members. Click here to learn more. Then contact me with your questions &/or to sign up.
CLING STAMPS ARE HERE!
Cling stamps just debuted in the 2019 Occasions catalog and Sale-A-Bration brochure! Click HERE for more information.
My Grandma Tessman used to make us beautiful gifts for Christmas. She would make “suvvy” tricot blankets, embroidered pillow cases, nightgowns (with matching ones for our dolls), and more. She eventually had 15 grandchildren, though. So can you imagine all the time she put into those gifts!? She probably worked on them year-round! Eventually there was a time when she had to do away with sewing elaborate gifts for each of her grandchildren. I can’t remember if that was when I was in high school or in college. But she still made Christmas grand. She would hang envelopes all over the tree with money in them. We each had one on the tree with our name on it.
This quick and simple gift packaging idea I have for you tonight made reminded me of her. AND you can hang these on the tree with money and/or treats inside. Make a few, and watch the smiles as everyone finds these special ornaments at Christmas.
Measurements
Crumb Cake Cardstock: 4-1/4″ x 5-1/2″
Early Espresso Cardstock: Scrap for stamping and punching sentiment
Whisper White Cardstock: Scrap for punching 1-1/2″ Circle
Silver Baker’s Twine: 10″
Directions
Emboss the Crumb Cake Cardstock (optional), then add Tear & Tape Adhesive along a short edge and along a long edge.
Tear off the backing on the Tear & Tape, then connect the two short ends to make a tube.
Pinch the end of the shut that has the Tear & Tape on it making sure that the seam of the tube is off center as shown.
Then staple the middle of the twine to that closed end. Connect the ends of the twine (adjust if needed), and make an overhand knot to tie it shut and form the loop for hanging this on the Christmas Tree.
Add the candy, treats and/or money through the open end. Then staple that end shut so it closes the opposite way as the top end.
Stamp the sentiment image onto the Whisper White scrap. Then punch it out.
Punch the 1-1/2″ Early Espresso Circle, and layer the Whisper White piece onto this.
Add the layered sentiment piece to the “ornament” using a Dimensional.
Then add a rhinestone to give it a little more sparkle.
You can personalize each one by either writing the recipient’s name on the bottom or back. Or you could punch another white piece (unstamped), and attach it to the back of the Early Espresso circle before putting that sentiment layer onto the ornament. That way you’d have a small white space for writing.
There are many items that are leaving us from the 2018 Holiday Catalog (which ends January 2nd), and some of them are discounted. But hurry, many items are “while supplies last.” CLICK HERE to learn more. CLICK HERE to access the Year-End Closeout list. And CLICK HERE to shop the Closeout online.
OCCASIONS/SAB PRODUCT SHARES AVAILABLE!
The 2019 Occasions Catalog debuts January 3rd! That means it’s that time of year to get in on my popular product shares so you can gather up lots of new product for LESS! Sign up today by contacting me with your share choice/s. I’m taking orders for shares now through January 2nd, 2019. CLICK HERE for more information.
JOIN THE CLUB
Do you find that you order at least $25 worth of Stampin’ Up! product each month? Do you want to get perks for those monthly orders? I’m forming a new Paper Crafters club that will kick off soon, and we are looking for new members. Click here to learn more. Then contact me with your questions &/or to sign up. We are currently looking for more members so we can start another new club. Who is ready?!
“BETTER THAN FLAT” TUTORIALS
Five super talented Stampin’ Up!® demonstrators and I have joined together as the “Stampin’ Anonymous team” to create Fun Fold cards & 3-D (“better than flat”) projects to share exclusively with our customers, paper crafting friends & team members each month! Our December projects are ready!! CLICK HERE to find out how you can get your hands on these great tutorials. A new one will be offered each month.
CLING STAMPS ARE COMING!
Cling stamps will debut in the 2019 Occasions catalog and Sale-A-Bration brochure! Click HERE for more information.
I’m so excited to share with you photos of the fun we had this past weekend up in Northern Minnesota at my parents’ cabin. I took my team member, Cheryl Lee with me on this Silver Elite Retreat. And like last year, the weekend was focused on pampering Cheryl and celebrating her Stampin’ Up! demonstrator accomplishments and successes.
My parents made the cabin so warm & welcoming with all their little touches.
My mom put out treats and decorations & made us fabulous meals.
My dad helped clean up from the meals, kept the long road in drivable, and kept the cabin cozy and warm. We even had a fire in the wood-burning stove on Friday evening. It felt like we were at a Bed & Breakfast.
My mom (who is also a paper crafter), Cheryl and I each made 13 cards on Saturday: four that I had created for this event and nine cards from kits – all with new products that will be available soon. (I’ll share more on the specifics of the cards in future posts, so be sure to stop back.) Here are the ones we created with the upcoming All My Love Suite.
This card below was the most difficult of all our cards to put together. But we all gave it “a go” and had success. Yay! I’ll have to do a video for it. 😉
Here are the ones we created with the upcoming Classic Garage Suite.
This mini pinwheel card will be my featured card here on my blog this Saturday.
And this was our favorite of the three kits – Incredible Like You Project Kit!
These are the “pillow gifts” I gave Cheryl. This first one I gave to her right away on Friday after we arrived. I created this bag with the Frosted Floral papers awhile back and shared it here on my blog back on October 2nd. I loved this bag so much, I HAD to use it.
Inside the bag and the box were these personalized gifts: an insulated lunch tote and an etched Clear Block D that Tamra Davis from TaDa Moments had made for me. (She made the personalized gifts for last year’s retreat too!)
Then throughout the day on Saturday, I gave Cheryl these product-filled bags decorated with coordinating tags also made from the Frosted Floral Designer paper. (I had received gifts from Stampin’ Up! during my Alaskan Incentive Trip this past July in these drawstring logo bags.)
All the gifts were clear or silver Stampin’ Up! products to keep with the theme of the Silver Elite Retreat. And the products inside sort of hinted to the next set of cards we would be making.
It was a wonderful weekend of celebrating my Silver Elite team member – one that I hope to continue for years to come!
YEAR-END CLOSEOUTS
There are many items that are leaving us from the 2018 Holiday Catalog (which ends January 2nd), and some of them are discounted. But hurry, many items are “while supplies last.” CLICK HERE to learn more. CLICK HERE to access the Year-End Closeout list. And CLICK HERE to shop the Closeout online.
OCCASIONS/SAB PRODUCT SHARES AVAILABLE!
The 2019 Occasions Catalog debuts January 3rd! That means it’s that time of year to get in on my popular product shares so you can gather up lots of new product for LESS! Sign up today by contacting me with your share choice/s. I’m taking orders for shares now through January 2nd, 2019. CLICK HERE for more information.
JOIN THE CLUB
Do you find that you order at least $25 worth of Stampin’ Up! product each month? Do you want to get perks for those monthly orders? I’m forming a new Paper Crafters club that will kick off soon, and we are looking for new members. Click here to learn more. Then contact me with your questions &/or to sign up. This club (which just needs one more member) begins now, but the first order can go in as late as mid-January (when Sale-a-Bration has begun).
“BETTER THAN FLAT” TUTORIALS
Five super talented Stampin’ Up!® demonstrators and I have joined together as the “Stampin’ Anonymous team” to create Fun Fold cards & 3-D (“better than flat”) projects to share exclusively with our customers, paper crafting friends & team members each month! Our December projects are ready!! CLICK HERE to find out how you can get your hands on these great tutorials. A new one will be offered each month.
CLING STAMPS ARE COMING!
Cling stamps will debut in the 2019 Occasions catalog and Sale-A-Bration brochure! Click HERE for more information.
It’s been a busy last couple weeks! There was Halloween last week which this year also included my oldest kiddo playing drums in the middle school marching band at the huge annual Halloween Parade in Anoka, MN on the 26th and 27th! Quite the big deal for us and so much fun to watch!
The boys – Luke as Jason (creepy!) and Nick as a Jedi – had a blast trick-or-treating with their friends and brought home WAY too much candy like they always do.
Then I hustled those next couple days to get everything finished up and ready for the Holiday Bazaar Craft Fair which took place this past Saturday. The boys and my husband got up extra early that morning to get me there and help me set up.
Fellow demonstrator Vicki Spicer, one of the sweet gals that assists me from time to time also came to help me out and keep me company during the whole event. Check out my booth! All five of us set this all up in just two hours that morning.
It went well if you don’t count me cutting myself with a scissors and bruising the bottom of my foot from standing too long. You can see the bandage on my left hand in the photo above if you look closely. Hahaha
Here are just a couple more close ups showing off goodies displayed on my new Stamp-n-Storage shelves.
So… I’ve been in pain since Saturday trying to recover from those injuries AND get ready for Orlando. Yep…it’s not slowing down yet. I fly out at 9 AM this morning to attend Stampin’ Up!’s big 30th Anniversary convention called OnStage! I promise to get some fun photos from this event posted to my blog in the coming days. So stay tuned!
Here is another photo I forgot to share…
My cousin, Mike from Choice Signs & Graphics fancied up my back van window with my company logo on October 12th! I love it!!! So now I can easily find my vehicle in huge parking lots.
Have a great day!
JOIN THE CLUB
Do you find that you order at least $25 worth of Stampin’ Up! product each month? Do you want to get perks for those monthly orders? I’m forming a new Paper Crafters club that will kick off in about 3 weeks, and we are looking for new members. Click here to learn more. Then contact me with your questions &/or to sign up. We are currently looking for FIVE more members so we can start another new club mid-November. Who is ready?!
PAPER PUMPKIN CHRISTMAS CARD KIT
CLICK HERE to sign up by November 10th so you can get this next one that is shipping. We are told that it will contain products for making Christmas cards – 10 cards; 5 of 2 unique holiday designs. YAY!!! Coordinating colors are Cherry Cobbler, Crumb Cake, Garden Green, Gold, Soft Suede, Very Vanilla, and Whisper White. AND the box is a great sneak peek of what’s inside!
SNOWFLAKE SHOWCASE available this month only!
These beautiful, exclusive products are here. Click here for the details. Click here to download the flyer.
“BETTER THAN FLAT” TUTORIALS
Five super talented Stampin’ Up!® demonstrators and I have joined together as the “Stampin’ Anonymous team” to create Fun Fold cards & 3-D (“better than flat”) projects to share exclusively with our customers, paper crafting friends & team members each month! CLICK HERE to find out how you can get your hands on these great tutorials. A new one will be offered each month. November’s is ready!!
I got my October 2018 Paper Pumpkin kit yesterday. Did you get yours? This is what you can make when following the instructions in the kit…4 of each of these two types of cards.
I love to change things up, though. So I took the contents, a couple extra pieces of cardstock and circle punches, and…
look what I made! Hahaha! He’s a little monster made from one of the envelopes.
And when the envelope is open, you can add a treat or gift. He’s my “Get Well” Monster Gift Pouch.
(Click here to get started with your subscription. Click here to learn more about these fun kits.)
I love that this kit came with a “get well” sentiment. Because just since Monday of this week, I’ve had four people in my extended family undergo some sort of surgery. Two of those are little ones – my cousin’s daughter who had ear bones on one side replaced and my niece’s kiddo who had his adenoids removed. I’m thinking they would each love getting this gift of a fun worried little monster like this with some sort of goody in the pouch. So I may need to make a couple more and get them in the mail with money or gift cards or something.
I’ll share more details about this project on Saturday in my how-to video, but the extra supplies I used with the contents of my October Paper Pumpkin kit are these.
Some of you have asked how Nicholas is doing. My own kiddo was another one of those 4 family members. Nick’s surgery was just a couple days ago. And I’m thrilled to say he’s doing great. He has a bit of pain from the incision (his pins were removed from the surgery back on May 1st after he broke his left knee cap), but he is a strong kid and is optimistic about recovering quickly. Plus he’s a goof and has had a great sense of humor through all this!
He’s NOT in pain in this photo. He’s making silly faces for me. I couldn’t get him to give me a normal smile in the recovery room. (And several staff members in the hospital told me how much they enjoyed having this silly kid there.)
But he did give me a normal smile after we got him in the van to go home. (My mom is the one being silly now. hahaha!)
Nick doesn’t want this surgery to stop him from getting back on his feet. He plans to be marching and playing with the school band in parades coming up October 26th and 27th.
Thank you all for your well wishes, prayers and kind messages. I’m positive they helped.
Seasonal Paper Pumpkin Past Kits on Sale!!
Halloween is just two weeks away and Christmas is right around the corner, and that means NOW is the perfect time to offer Paper Pumpkin subscribers a sweet deal on seasonal kits! Right now the Frights & Delights Past Kit and Refill AND November’s Back in Plaid Past Kit are 15% off to help subscribers get a jump on their holiday crafting. Remember, you must be a Paper Pumpkin subscriber in order to purchase past kits. This sale is while supplies last, so don’t miss out!
JOIN THE CLUB
Do you find that you order at least $25 worth of Stampin’ Up! product each month? Do you want to get perks for those monthly orders? I’m forming a new Paper Crafters club, and we are looking for new members. Click here to learn more. Then contact me with your questions &/or to sign up. We are currently looking for 4 more members.
“BETTER THAN FLAT” TUTORIALS
Five super talented Stampin’ Up!® demonstrators and I have joined together as the “Stampin’ Anonymous team” to create Fun Fold cards & 3-D (“better than flat”) projects to share exclusively with our customers, paper crafting friends & team members each month! CLICK HERE to find out how you can get your hands on these great tutorials. A new one will be offered each month. October’s tutorials (peeks shown below) are ready!
Now that these accessories are here, they are staying! They will be rolling into next year’s 2019-20 Annual Catalog. And there’s more coming…Watch for the release of the Craft & Carry Stamparatus bag soon!
Nicholas is going into surgery today to have his pins removed from his left patella bone. (He broke his left knee cap when he took a fall in our garage back in the spring.) Please keep him in your thoughts and prayers. The surgery is scheduled for noon Central Time. And even though he told me last night that he isn’t nervous, this mama is.
I created today’s paper crafting project with two of the five new, exclusive, limited-time products that are currently just available to demonstrators (and to those getting the starter kit this month) but will become available to all during the month of November: the Happiness Surrounds stamp set and the the coordinating set of dies, Snowfall Thinlits.
I used the swirling snowflake die-cut image in Granny Apple Green as a swirling branch image. The little sections of snowflakes peeking out between the petals of the flowers have the appearance of leaves.
I used only two purple inks – Highland Heather & Gorgeous Grape. But I stamped without re-inking to get the many shades of each color. The accents in the flowers and along the branch are from the Share What You Love Artisan Pearls and the Glitter Enamel Dots.
Products: See below for a full list of supplies linked to where you can find them in my online store.
Measurements:
Granny Apple Green Cardstock:
8-1/2″ by 5-1/2″ scored at 4-1/4″ and folded in half for the card base
Scrap for die-cutting snowflake swirl
Soft Sea Foam Cardstock:
5″ x 4-1/8″
Whisper White Cardstock:
two pieces that are 5-1/8″ x 4-1/8″ (one for the inside of the card)
Scraps for stamping and die-cutting the flowers
Have you seen any peeks of these Snowflake Showcase products debuting in November yet? Oh my goodness!
CLICK HERE to see what those in the Artisan Blog Hop team shared!
Click below to watch Stampin’ Up’s Snowflake Showcase introduction video.
Products available while supplies last November 1 until November 30, 2018. This means products will only be available until November 30 or while supplies last, whichever comes first. If a product’s supply is depleted before November 30, it will no longer be available for purchase.
Do you find that you order at least $25 worth of Stampin’ Up! product each month? Do you want to get perks for those monthly orders? I’m forming a new Paper Crafters club, and we are looking for new members. Click here to learn more. Then contact me with your questions &/or to sign up. We are currently looking for 4 more members.
“BETTER THAN FLAT” TUTORIALS
Five super talented Stampin’ Up!® demonstrators and I have joined together as the “Stampin’ Anonymous team” to create Fun Fold cards & 3-D (“better than flat”) projects to share exclusively with our customers, paper crafting friends & team members each month! CLICK HERE to find out how you can get your hands on these great tutorials. A new one will be offered each month. October’s tutorials (peeks shown below) are ready!
Now that these accessories are here, they are staying! They will be rolling into next year’s 2019-20 Annual Catalog. And there’s more coming…Watch for the release of the Craft & Carry Stamparatus bag soon!
In the spirit of full disclosure, I am an affiliate with Stamp-n-Storage which means I may get commissions if you click on links I provide and decide to purchase anything from this company. I love their products and recommend them because I own several myself and believe my readers will benefit from them.
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