Best of Brides & Babies

As part of our 25-year anniversary celebration, we’re bringing back some of our favorite stamp images from the last quarter century and combining them into 12 sets, which will release—one set per month—during 2013. Even better, along with some great classic images, each “Best of” set will also include a never-before-seen image!

This months theme is Best of Brides & Babies

As a special incentive to collect the Best of stamps, we’re including a collector’s card and 25-year proof of purchase sticker with every Best of set. Collect six stickers, and send it in to redeem a FREE set of your choice valued up to $17.95! Free sets must be redeemed no later than April 30, 2014.

Some things to remember:

• All Best of stamp sets will include 3-5 images, including a never-before seen image, and will be priced at $17.95
• While we are releasing just one Best of stamp set per month (with a new theme each month), all of the Best of sets will be available until March 31, 2014.
• A new flyer will be released every month for each new Best of set.
• All Best of stamp sets are available in Clear-Mount only.

Here's a link to the previous Best of sets:

• Best of Brides & Babies
• Best of Birthdays
• Best of Butterflies
•  Best of Flowers
•  Best of Love

Thanks for stopping by today!

Sherry

Private Classes

When you decide to have a private class, you’re excited to have your friends over almost as much as you are to stamp! But what happens when someone can’t make it to your class? No worries! It is now SO EASY for anyone to place an order for your class ONLINE! No more ...

-  trying to get a catalog to them

-  trying to connect with them to get their order

-  making sure you calculated their order total correctly!

It’s so simple ... here’s how it works: After we set a date for your class, I will email you a Hostess Code. Send this out to all of your family and friends, and they can easily place an order online and YOU get the credit! It’s that easy peasy! And don’t limit it to just the ones who are crafty - there are lots of options for those who don’t think they’re crafty, like personalized stamps and Simply Sent Kits!

And this isn’t just for your local friends and family. Now you can connect with family and friends all across the country to order at your class! The more sales that you are able to get towards your private class, the more rewards you get ... yep! More free stuff!

Let’s set a date that works for you today and you’ll see just how fun and rewarding a private class can be!

Sherry

Seeing the Possibilities

If you haven't tried our photopolymer stamp sets yet, now is the time! Stampin' Up! released two more for you:
Show & Tell 1 - 133450

Show & Tell 2 - 133481

Together these sets feature more than 60 versatile images that you can mix and match to create personalized backgrounds, patterns, layers, and dimensions to make any project stand out. 

And even better, these sets are featured in our new Seeing the Possibilities Class! Take this class to discover how quickly and easily you can line up the stamped images for precision placement, achieve just the right ink coverage, combine images together exactly where you want them. . .well you get the idea. The possibilities are endless!

The Seeing the Possibilities online class features 6 lessons (topics range from backgrounds to building and from layering to gift giving), step-out photos, instructional videos and instructions and supply lists for 15 projects!  All for just $17.95 (134532).

You can purchase each set and the class separately, or for a better deal, get the bundle of all three!

• Show & Tell 1 (133450) - $16.95
• Show & Tell 2 (133481) - $16.95
• Seeing the Possibilities Online Class (134532) - $17.95
• Show & Tell Bundle - Save 15%! Includes Show & Tell 1 and 2 and the Seeing the Possibilities online class(134533) - $43.95

Thanks for stopping by today!

Sherry

Visit my online store today.

MDS Monday - In the Laundry Room

First of all - excuse the boxes in the background of this photo and many of the others that you've seen lately.  We have boxes EVERYWHERE at the moment, there is just no getting away from them!

Today's project is one that will be added to our laundry room.  Because we have a laundry room upstairs with the bedrooms in our new house, I wanted to try having 3 laundry baskets (linens/towels, darks, and lights) that we could all share.  So I went to Ikea and picked up two more of their inexpensive laundry baskets and then created the labels using MDS.

I'm hoping that this will help me keep up with laundry!  At the very least it will save the step of having to sort it first!

Thanks for stopping by today -it's possession day for us!  So excited!!!

Sherry

Stamping on Ribbon

Did you know that you can stamp on our natural cotton ribbon (127844)?  You can! Check out this fabulous swap by Karina Chin...

She stamped the greeting on the ribbon just using our classic marina mist ink pad.  Doesn't it look great?! And another great option for a masculine card!

Thanks for stopping by!
Sherry

My Hearts a Flutter for You

Today's gorgeous card was created by Kellie Dignean - isn't it incredible.  There is so much going on with this card which is incredible for a swap.  So much love went into this card, with all these details.  Here are just a few of the fabulous products from the Spring catalogue that she used:

• Hearts a Flutter bundle (stamp set and framelits)
• Doily
• That's the Ticket stamp set
• Large rhinestones
• Needlepoint Border embossing folders
• Honeycomb embossing folder etc.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Sherry

Sketched Birthday - Sneak Peek

While on the incentive trip, I will be participating in a swap with many other talented demonstrators.  This is the swap that I came up with and thanks to Carla for helping me with the assembly!  With all that is going on right now, I never would have completed them on time without her help.

This uses a new set that we received at leadership called Sketched Birthday, it will be available to order May 31st.  and the banner from the Designer Typeset photopolymer stamp set.  Have I mentioned I love that set?  The dsp is from the Epic Day dsp from the This & That product line - another favorite. 

Thanks for stopping by today!
Sherry

Thanks So Much!

This card says it all... Thanks to you, all of you, Marcel and I are enjoying ourselves in Fiji on the Stampin' Up! incentive trip.  It's because of you my customers, friends and family that I have the best job in the world - thanks so much! I will share all about our trip when I return.

You too can enjoy the benefits of being a Stampin' Up! demonstrator and receive an additional $40 of products in your customizable starter kit!  And you can even order sneak peek items as part of your starter kit - BONUS!  If you'd like more information, send me an email and I'll fill you in on the details:) or if you know you're ready simply sign up online here.

Back to today's project - this card is a swap that I received from Susan Paterson using the Oh, Hello stamp set.  I love the piece of doily sticking out behind the oval, such a nice touch.

Thanks for stopping by today! 

Sherry

Harvest Blessings Masculine Card

Good morning!  With father's day coming up in another month or so I thought I'd share another great masculine card I received.  This beauty is from Lorna Raczynski.  There is so much detail on this card it's incredible.  Notice the flattened soda pop top, filled with crystal effects, the sponged natural ribbon (love this ribbon) and the embossed greeting.  I loved that she used the tag from the Pop Up Posies kit in the Spring catalogue.  Lovely! 

 I will try to list all the supplies, hopefully I don't miss anything!

Supply List:
Stamps: Harvest Blessings (WM 126450/CM 126452); Word Play (WM 120308/CM 120651)
Inks: Staz On Black (101406); VersaMark (102283); Crumb Cake (126975); Cherry Cobbler (126966)
Cardstock: Cherry Cobbler (119685); Naturals White (102316); First Edition dsp (121878); Neutrals Collection Paper Stack (117157)
Accessories: Pop Up Posies Kit (tag) (131395); Black embossing powder (109133); heat tool (129053); Big Shot die cut machine (113439); Houndstooth Embossing Folder (123134); Soda Pop Tops (129388); 1" circle punch (119868); 1/2" circle punch (119869); crystal effects (101055); Stamping Sponges (101610); Aqua Painter (103954); Natural ribbon (129287)

Thanks for stopping by!
Sherry

MDS Monday - Made from Scratch

Welcome to another week of MDS Monday.  I have another recipe page to share with you.  This was taken right from one of our templates the Made from Scratch 5-1/2"x6-1/2" album.  I wanted to use the template but in order to have it printed in 8-1/2"x11" I had to change the size of the file.  That's easy enough to do in MDS (Edit, Change Project Size/Type).  So if you love a card template but would like to create a layout using it - you can convert it.  Another awesome feature in MDS!

Thanks for stopping by!

Sherry