Final Deal of the Week

Every week during the month of July, Stampin' Up! will offer one discounted product as a "Deal of the Week." With no limits and no minimum purchase required!

From July 27 - July 31st, 2009 (at 10:50pm) you can purchase Stampin' Up's Heart to Heart Punch (Item Number: 113694 - Page 186) for $15.99 regularly $22.95. To take advantage of this offer please contact me directly or visit my Stampin' Up! website and click Shop Now!

Another Demonstrator Perk:)

Another fabulous thing about being an SU demo is all of the little tutorials that we get. One of the new ones available to us in the past few weeks was a lesson on making your own boxes. I will admit that I got a little (okay, a lot:) carried away and made many different heights, sizes and prints of boxes. This one was a bit of a mish mash in that I was trying out a whole bunch of new products at the same time that I was making it. I've used the new Clear Bigz die for the scallop square, as well as the new Tall Tales DSP. The little peek-a-boo window was made using the window sheets. With the little buttons, this box seemed suited towards a gift for baby or small child.

If you like to learn more about these demo perks, give me a call or send me a quick email. Now is the time to sign up with the fabulous promo that SU is offering. Check out the link on my right sidebar!

Final Card from Technique Club this month

This was the final project that we completed at technique club this month. It is such a satisfying technique to try. It doesn't seem to matter how badly you think that you've botched it... they always come out looking wonderful. I found the wonderful tutorial for this on Patty Bennett's Blog ( my hero:). This was just one of the girls' cards. Somehow I managed to take less and less pictures as the techniques went on:) Just as no two roses are the same, even though all of the cards were made with the same basic supplies and colours, they were all completely individual.

A New Type of Card... for me:)

Along with working on a form of presentation to give our cards away in, we also worked on creating a different type of card than the usual type that we seem to work on. Somehow the majority of the cards that we end up doing in technique club are standard A2 cards. Although this card folds up to be the same size, the overall presentation is much different. All of the ladies started out with the same piece of pink pirouette cardstock for the base of the card, but everyone cut their own pieces for the DSP strips. I love how using just one DSP (Bella Rose), all of the cards came out so different. This was just two of the samples. This is such a fabulous use for the zillions of scraps of DSP that I accumulate:)

I found the template for the card here.

Last night was one of my technique clubs and I thought that we would change things up a little. I find that we always seem to work just on new techniques to make our cards more beautiful. I know that many of my women give their cards away as gifts and some even make them to sell. For that reason I decided that we would make a packaging for their cards. Although we kept our design very simplistic, it at least gave my ladies a quick idea for packaging their cards. This just gives you an idea of how different their card purses came out using just slightly different DSP and ribbon. I'm sorry that it is retired product, but in my attempt to be organized for my club nights before I went away on vacation I could only prep with my retired prducts as my new stuff didn't arrive until the day before I left. Here is the fabulous link that I used for the pattern on the purses; http://sassyinkdesigns.blogspot.com/2009/06/flip-top-box-tutorial.html

If you make a purse like this, please forward me a link in your comment, I'd love to see what you come up with.

Punch Happy:)

I always tease my club girls that they are not interested in popping up any stamped image unless there's a punch to go with it. Somehow the task of cutting out the image is not something that has grown on them. As a result, I was thrilled to see the new butterfly punch in the catty to go along with the Flight of the Butterfly stamp set. I saw this card on Lynn Put's blog and decided that for my new catty party make-n-take that we would case this card! I loved the layout, the use of the new In Colours and the fact that people could see how great it was to have a punch that coordinates with a stamp set. The only thing that I changed up was that we used the eyelet border punch instead of the scallop border punch.

If you look closely at my picture you can see the evidence of my learning curve (or lack thereof) I always comment on the fact that I need to remember to put my sample cards in a translucent envelope before using them for a class/ workshop sample, but I always forget and then inevitably someone drops them on an ink pad!

Peanut Brittle Anyone?

This was another fun 3-d item that I had on display at my new catty party on the weekend. Yes, I was a bad girl and used a tiny bit of the old In Colour items. I couldn't resist. The best part is that this gorgeous ribbon is now available in a bunch of colours instead of just the Riding Hood Red that was available to us in the previous Holiday Mini. The stamp set on this is the new Level 2 set called Christmas Punch. It is definitely going to be a favourite of mine going into the holiday season. These boxes make me hungry... why you ask? Well, I can imagine Peanut Brittle in these for some reason. If you're wondering how I got the fabulous border around my scalloped image, I used the Movers and Shapers Bundle. If you just cut out the shape and don't worry about the card, you get a perfect mat for the punches!

Time to Share!

I'm a little embarrassed to admit why I haven't posted any of the pictures from my Open House on Saturday. My new catty party was from 1:30-3:30pm and by the time all of my friends were on their way out the door it was closer to 3:45pm. By 4:03pm we were on the road to the Okanagan to meet my mother who was waiting for us at our property in Sorrento. On my to-do list was to quickly take photos of my samples so that I could post them while I was away. Guess what I forgot to do....take the photos. So I have a ton of new things to share with you over the next week or so. This was a sample that I made using the new Sunny Day Simply Scrappin' Kit. I also got to make use of my two new Sizzix letter sets Alphabet Simple and Timeless Type Alphabet Simple. I can't wait to share more with you tomorrow!

Stampin' Up Deal of the Week #4

Every week during the month of July, Stampin' Up! will offer one discounted product as a "Deal of the Week." With no limits and no minimum purchase required!

From July 20-27th, 2009 (at 8:50am) you can purchase Stampin' Up's! Styled Vanilla Hodgepodge Hardware (Item Number: 112454 - Page 178) for $26.99 regularly $41.95.

To take advantage of this offer please contact me directly or visit my Stampin' Up! website and click Shop Now!

Last Chance for Make-n-Takes

Just a reminder that my New Catty party is this Saturday. Today is the last day to RSVP in time to get a make-n-take although you are still welcome to join us if you miss this reminder! Check out this post for more details! I can't wait to share everything with you!