The magic number 25!

Wow! Another Stampin' Up! 25th Birthday Present!

The presents just keep on coming and today Stampin' Up! is offering 25 stamp sets at a 25% discount, this should make your shopping very easy. Just click on 25% Off and you will see all 25 stamp set at this price you could do a little advance Christmas Shopping. Hurry this sale ends October 28.

Click here for a printable PDF file.

Today is the last day to take advantage of the $25 Starter Kit.

The $25 Starter Kit includes

• $26.95 worth of Stampin' Up! product (it must be more than $25, but not more than $26.95 before tax)
• Business pack which includes
  • A box of annual catalogs
  • A package of the current seasonal catalog
  • Getting Started DVD
  • Starter Kit Business Brick
  • Customer postcards

This opportunity ends today, so don't miss out!  Click here to Join $25 Starter Kit. 

Whether you want to be a Hobby Demonstrator (getting a discount on all your orders), a Seasonal Demonstrator (placing orders now and then for family and friends) or a Career Demonstrator this is a great deal!!!

HoHoHo Banner

Two weeks ago I had a Halloween Banner Class (see older post) and it was a lot of fun. After the class a couple of my good friends said lets get together and make a HoHoHo Christmas Banner. So Saturday we found the time to meet and make Christmas banners. 

Nothing was planned but we did decided to use the Season of Style DSP, Cherry Cobbler 1" Ribbon, Frosted Finishes Embellishments and the Designer Banner Kit. I pulled out all kinds of different supplies and we went to work, we feed off of each other creativity and here are the results of a day filled with friendship.

This is my Banner.

Here is Debbie's Banner

Marlene's Banner

I love them all! 

Recipe:

Stamp Set: Festive Flurry  Set, Scentsational Season Set (retired)

Ink: Silver Encore Pad, Cherry Cobbler, Crumb Cake, Chocolate Chip, Old Olive

Paper: Season of Style DSP, Cherry Cobbler, Old Olive, Crumb Cake, Silver Glimmer Paper, Gold Glimmer Paper, 

Accessories: Build a Banner Kit, Cherry Cobbler 1" Ribbon, Festive Flurry Framelits, Silver 1/8" Ribbon,  Red 1/8" Ribbon, Frosted Finishes Embellishments, Bigz Rosette Die, Scentsational Season Framelits (retired), Regal Designer Buttons, Linen Thread, Bakers Twin, etc

Have a great week and Thanks for stopping by!

Todays the Day!

TODAY'S THE DAY!

Starting today, Stampin' Up! is offering a special $25 Starter Kit (your choice of up to $26.95 in product and ships FREE) which will ONLY be available for purchase from Oct. 7 through Oct. 21.  This is the special we have ALL been waiting for and your budget-friendly opportunity to "test drive" all Stampin' Up! has to offer (discounts, resources, fun, even a little extra income if you want).

Purchase the kit thru me (CLICK HERE TO GET STARTED), and you'll instantly become a member of my INKdefinable Group.   I am here to help you build your business to what every level you want from a Hobby demo to a full time business our anything in-between. Set your own hours and your salary, the world is a your finger tips. Just bring your passion to papercraft!  Exclusive resources, virtual convenience and fun await!

Spooky Banner!

I started with my color choice, Witches Brew DSP and added Elegant Eggplant to Summer Starfruit and Pumpkin Pie. 

Then the fun began! Using rubbing alcohol and re-inker I made my dyes for the canvas banner. Layout your design first on paper since there are three styles of canvas to choose from. That way you can alternate colors and canvas shapes before you start dyeing. I used about 25 drops of re-inker to 1/4 cup of alcohol, you can add more or less re-inker depending on your choice of saturation.  I think I add 10 additional drops to the Summer Starfruit.

Disposable tin trays for the dye, made clean up very easy.

Some of the canvases were completely dyed and others were left white. I used a heat gun to dry then completely before re-dyeing the bottom half of each banner.

This canvas was completely dyed with Elegant Eggplant and the bottom was re-dyed to make it darker.

This canvas was not dyed but the bottom half was dyed with Summer Starfruit.

Here is the competed "Spooky" banner. It was a class that I offered in September, it took about  4 hours to complete the project and everyone had a great time. They had so much fun that they designed a Christmas Banner that we'll make this month. So check back the end of the month for all the details on the Christmas banner. I'll have some very cute ideas to share with you.

Recipe

Build a Baner Simply Created Kit

Halloween Banner Accessory Kit

Witches Brew DSP

Re-Inker in Summer Starfruit, Elegant Eggplant and Pumpkin Pie

3/4" Black Chevron Ribbon

Simply Scored Scoring Tool

Rhinestone Basic

Regal Designer Buttons

Sponge Daubers

Halloween Photopolymer

It's taken me a while to warm up to the Photopolymer Stamp Sets but I am finding them very easy to use. I love that I can see right where the ink is going; it's so easy to line up letters and words. They cling to the acrylic blocks very easily and clean up nicely. 

Yesterday Stamp Up introduced a new set: "Bite Me", it's so stinking cute! It may be that it features a halloween set and I'm a little crazy for this holiday. Judge for yourself....isn't the spider web spooky! Love Love Love this set.

134622 Bite Me #13.95

Bite Me Photopolymer Set Click Here to see more.

It's time for Spooky!

Ghosting Technique 

Spinner Bat

This month club we tried the Ghosting Technique, it adds dimension to your stamped image. You can use this technique with any stamp set but it really added a little extra spooky to the Halloween Cards.

I used the new Flip Flop Thinlits to create both card. Thinlits make it so easy to create a flip flop card because they cut and score in just one simple step. They also come with extra die pieces that have versatile designs, so you can use them on all kinds of projects.

Stamp Sets: Halloween Hello, Halloween Bash
Ink: Whisper White, Basic Black, Pumpkin Pie, Witches Brew DSP
Accessories: Label Flip Thinlits, Circle Flip Thinlits, Scallop Oval Punch, Large Oval Punch, Label Collection Framelits, 1/8" Pumpkin Pie Ribbon, White Baker's Twin

MDS Hybrid Project

Yes, a Hybrid!

Can you believe this is a hybrid project.....yes it is! The center of the rosettes are from the Pick Your Poison Brush Set in MDS. I resized and printed all the elements out on very vanilla card stock stock and them punched them out with different size circle punches and the Label Collection Framelits.

If you look close you can see that we applies the Witches Brew Washi Tape to the Black rosette before it was folded. Happy Stamping!

Holiday Bash, Joyful Joyful Christmas II

The second card was also created using the Joyful Christmas Set along with the New Circle Collection Framelits. 

I’m so happy that we now have a circle and square collection framelits, they are so easy to use with all the different sizes and they coordinate with our circle or square punches. Now you can make square or circle frames. Its so easy to create so many fun cards and gifts tags with them. The Circle and Square Collection Framelits are a must have, they are so worth the investment. 

We also used the new 1/4” Silver Ribbon, its beautiful and it pairs well with our new silver ink and rhinestones. It really add a touch of "Bling" to your project.

This set has everything you need to create beautiful Christmas card; a beautiful poinsettia and verse. Thank for visiting and happy stamping!

Wow! It's finally here!

Envelope Punch Board

Don't be boring, it's time to leave the normal-size white envelope behind and go with a "POP" of color. Turn them from boring to brilliant, Envelope Punch Board makes it easy to customize envelopes in up to 66 different sizes when you use card stock or dazzling DSP paper to create an envelope!

Envelope Punch Board includes:
• An easy-to-use chart to create up to 66 different envelope sizes (including standard sizes). The measurements are provided both in inches and centimeters.
• A scoring tool in a convenient storage slot. • Two punches designed right into the tool itself: one to make the envelope and one to round its corners.
AVAILABLE TODAY SEPTEMBER 1, 2013

Item # 133774  *  Price $19.95  *  Description Envelope Punch Board

Click on the "Catalog" Tab above to place your order!

Happy Stamping and creating!

Joyful Christmas

I fell in love with the New Holiday Catalog, there are so many great items to decorate the season with. Did you download the Layar App, if not the direction are on page 5 of the Holiday Catalog. I think this is the greatest thing just scan a page with the Layar Symbol and watch a video anywhere that you have your phone and catalog; it's so totally awesome! 

Last Saturday I held the first Holiday Bash which featured the Holiday Catalog. We had a great group of ladies that spent the day stamping and creating many different holiday items.Over my next few post I will be showing you some of the projects that we made. 

The ladies made two cards using the Joyful Christmas Stamp set. On this card we stamped the poinsettia on the DSP Winter Frost Stack and layered on Whisper White CS that was embossed with the Pretty Print Embossing Folder.

I love the 3-D effect that happens when you layer the poinsettia. 

Happy Stamping!

Convention 2013

It's been a month since convention but I still wanted to share.

It really is hard to describe Convention, there is nothing like being there and experiencing the excitement, energy and love that is shared. So I’m not going to try but I will share a few pictures. 

Wednesday Night I meet up with Janet Wakeland (my up-line) at her hotel. It was great to see her again. 

Janet Wakeland

Sarah 

Sarah and I meet in 2009 at Convention; she is from Danbury, CT we first meet on a Yahoo SU Group board and decided to meet when we arrived at convention that year. We became good friends right away and continue to stay in contact throughout the years. 

Gifts I received at Convention 2013

Chalk Talk Framelits
Tag a Bag Gift Boxes
Tag a Bag Accessory Kit 
Yippee Skippee! Stamp Set
Hello, Lovely Stamp Set
Gorgeous Grunge Stamp Set
Oh, Goodie! Stamp Set
Tag It Stamp Set
Tags 4 You Stamp Set
Simply Created Real Red Goodie Gear
Witches Brew Washi Tape
Season of Styes Washi Tape
6 Make-n-Take Projects
1 Paper Pumpkin Kit

It’s alway exciting to receive gifts! It was like Christmas in July! If you ever have the opportunity to attend convention you won’t regret you decision to go. It is such a fabulous experience! 

Paper Pumpkin Promotion

PAPER PUMPKIN

Sweep away the mundane-your creativity carriage awaits! I'm Paper Pumpkin . . . If you are curious about Paper Pumpkin now is the time to try it out with this super 2 month offer. *Offer Dates: July 18, 2013 -August 31, 2013 Offer Details: Use the promotion code PUMPKINDEAL to join Paper Pumpkin before August 31, 2013, and pay only $10 a month* for the first two months. *plus tax, where applicable. Shipping included! For new subscribers only. Promotion applies only to the first two months of a new subscription. After receiving two month's worth, the price for each month's kit will go to the regular price: $19.95. You need to visit mypaperpumpkin.com to join  You must click "Add Promo Code" and then enter the promo code PUMPKINDEAL in the "Promo Code" field when you sign up on the mypaperpumpkin.com website to take advantage of this promotion. You must join by Saturday, August 31, 2013; 11:50 PM (MT) You need to choose me as your demonstrator Paper Pumpkin Details I come to your door each month (a fully decked-out creativity carriage). I'll help you to escape your life with some paper fun. I come in a box, but you'll really love what you find on the inside: All the stamps, ink, paper, and accessories to create pinable projects. Create stuff like cards, journals, décor, and more! Paper Pumpkin by Stampin' Up! a new monthly kit program for everyone to enjoy! Getting Started It's so easy to get started. Simply sign up for the program by visiting www.mypaperpumpkin.com and click Get it.  This is important: Please make sure it shows me as your Demonstrator when you are signing up. If you have any questions at all during the process give me a call 727-743-7560. Every month a new, surprise project kit arrives at your doorstep. Just think of the anticipation of creating a fun project to pin, showoff, and share with your friends and family-every month! Of course, you'll want to know more: Each month Stampin' Up! sends you a unique, surprise kit with a project-cards, journals, décor, and more, (everything for you)! Each kit includes stamps, ink, paper, and accessories-everything but adhesive. Each kit gives you a 30-minute creativity escape. Ship right to your door, Paper Pumpkin will arrive on or around the 15th of the month.

Florida Tax Holiday

If you live in Florida today is the start of a 3 day Tax Holiday for school supplies. This also means that some Stampin' Up! product fall into a school supply category, yahooooo! How awesome is that no tax on the following items. 

The Tax Holiday runs Friday, August 2 through Sunday, August 4. I opened a hostess code and if you place an order online please us the code. You may also add items to the order that are not Tax Exempt. 

The Hostess Code is: Z26PGSCR

The following items are tax-exempt during the Florida sales tax holiday: 

• 2-Way Glue Pen (item 100425) $4.50
• Snail Adhesive (item 104332) $6.95
• Snail Adhesive Refill (item 104331) $4.50
• Sticky Strip (item 104294) $6.95
• Stampin’ Dimensionals (item 104430) $3.95
• Mini Glue Dots (item 103683) $4.95
• Paper Snips (item 103579) $9.95
• Uni-Ball Signo Gel Pen (item 105021) $3.95
• Blender Pens (item 102845) $9.95
• Stampin’ Write Markers (various item numbers) $3.50
• Tombow Multipurpose Adhesive (item 110755) $3.95
• Anywhere Glue Sticks (item 104045) $3.95
• 2012-2014 In Color Stampin’ Write Markers (item 126856) $14.95
• 2013-2015 In Color Stampin’ Write Markers (item 131260) $14.95

The New White Chalk Marker (item 132133) $3.50 would be included in the Tax Holiday.

I will be closing this Hostess code out on Sunday, August 4 @ 5:00 PM so don't delay and miss out! 

The New Thankful Tablescape Simply Created Kit (item 133463)

Trimmer Rotary Addition

I'm so excited to announce that the Rotary Addition to our New Trimmer is now available for purchase. It has been a long wait, we keep looking at it in the new catalog and today you may order it! YAHOOOOOOO! Its the first thing on my list! There are also 3 blades that are sold separate to give you an enhanced cut edge.

129402 - Trimer Rotary Addition  $12.95

129410 - Small Scallop Rotary Cutting Blade  $3.95

129408 - Straight Rotary Cutting Blade  $5.95

129409 - Tiny Wave Rotary Cutting Blade   $3.95

New Thinlits Card Dies

Coming soon, August 1

133479 Label Card Thinlits Die $32.95

133480 Circle Card Thinlits Die  $32.95

These new card dies come with extra die pieces that have versatile designs, so you can use them on other projects, not just flip cards. (The Circle Card Thinlits Die comes with 10 total pieces; the Label Card Thinlits Die comes with 9 total pieces.)

Label Card Thinlits Die (item 133479):

• Happy Day Stamp Set (item 130294 W item 130297 C)

Circle Card Thinlits Die (item 133480):

• Worth the Wait Stamp (item 131094 W)
• Five-Way Flower Stamp (item 131088 W)

Both card dies pair well with:

• Oh, Hello Stamp Set (item 131931 W item 130733 C)
• Yippee-Skippee! Stamp Set (item 131341 W item 131344 C)
• Really Good Greetings Stamp Set (item 130330 W item 130333 C)
• Regarding Dahlias Stamp Set (item 130324 W item 130327 C)
• These dies also work well with our new magnetic platform (item 130658) so you can place the dies exactly where you want them!

You won't want to miss out these little beauties they make creating flip card so easy. Click on the "Catalog Tab" to place your order.

Undefined--Stamp Carving Kit

What a great idea to create your own personal stamp for any occasion.

Don't Miss Out

Have you every thought about becoming a Stampin Up Demonstrator?

Here is a great offer that starts July 15 thru August 31, 2013. New Recruits get to pick one of four project kits for "Free" in addition to their Starter Kit when they join Stampin' Up! The first three project kits are from the Holiday Catalog and the last option is from the Annual Catalog. 

1. Build a Banner Simply Created Kit & Halloween Banner Simply Created Accessory Kit,  a $29.90 value for Free
2. Build a Banner Simply Created Kit & Christmas Banner Simply Created Accessory Kit, a $29.90 value for Free
3. Thankful Tablescape Simply Created Kit, a $19.95 value for Free
4. Tag a Bag Bundle & Tag a Box Bundle, a $22.45 value for Free

I would love to have you join the INKdefinable Group! You would become part of a family that loves to stamp, scrapbook, create beautiful gifts and share knowledge and ideas. You will also receive a discount on your supplies and be one of the first to view and order new products before they are released. 

Contact me for all the detail.

Core'dinations Card Stock with Shannon West

This card stock add a little dimension to you project, its fast and easy and clean up is easy also with the new Core'dinations Dust Buddy. 

Fabulous Time To Become a Demonstrator!

Have you every thought about becoming a Stampin Up Demonstrator?

Here is a great offer that starts July 15 thru August 31, 2013. New Recruits get to pick one of four project kits for "Free" in addition to their Starter Kit when they join Stampin' Up! The first three project kits are from the Holiday Catalog and the last option is from the Annual Catalog. 

1. Build a Banner Simply Created Kit & Halloween Banner Simply Created Accessory Kit,  a $29.90 value for Free
2. Build a Banner Simply Created Kit & Christmas Banner Simply Created Accessory Kit, a $29.90 value for Free
3. Thankful Tablescape Simply Created Kit, a $19.95 value for Free
4. Tag a Bag Bundle & Tag a Box Bundle, a $22.45 value for Free

I would love to have you join the INKdefinable Group! You would become part of a family that loves to stamp, scrapbook, create beautiful gifts and share knowledge and ideas. You will also receive a discount on your supplies and be one of the first to view and order new products before they are released. 

Contact me for all the detail.

DSP Product Share!

Beautiful Beautiful Designer Series Paper

Product Shares

2013/2014 Stampin' Up! Catalog Design Series Paper Shares.

What a fun and affordable way to see, touch and create with all the New DSP before you decide on your must have!

When you join you will receive 78 sheets of 6 x 6 Designer Paper. That would be 6 sheets from 13 DSP packages in the catalog. The packages are:

Quatrefancy Specialty, Natural Composition Specialty, Soho Subway, Afternoon Picnic, I Am Me, Gingham Garden, Etcetera, Birthday Basics, Venetian Romance, Eastern Elegance, Modern Medley, Polka Dot Parade, Epic Day This and That

78 Sheets of 6x6 paper from all 13 packages of DSP for $21 plus $5 for shipping if needed. If you were to purchase all 13 package with shipping and tax you would pay $172. The Product Shares is an excellent way to get your hands on all these fabulous papers.

How to sign up:

Simply email me at: najaa@me.com

Open to US residents only.