Fresh Cut Sneak Peek Promotion June 1-30, 2008

Great news!!! The new sets I have seen in the 2008 Fall-Winter Idea Book & Catalogue are sooooo cute. Here is one we get an official sneak peak at!!! This is a do not miss opportunity!.................From June 1-30, Stampin' Up! is providing an advance purchase opportunity for the Fresh Cut stamp set (#111634) and coordinating Fresh-Cut Notes (#111882). These two products will be included in the Fall-Winter Idea Book & Catalogue 2008.

• Buy the Fresh Cut stamp set and get the Fresh-Cut Notes for just $5.95 (limit 1 Fresh-Cut Notes at $5.95). Any additional quantities will be charged the regular catalog price of $10.75.
• Buy just the stamp set for: $25.95.
• Buy just the Fresh-Cut Notes for $10.75 each.

The prerelease of these two products is perfectly timed for upcoming summer projects. These 4" x 4" cards are sized perfectly for a note on a gift, a hand-delivered thank you, dinner name place holders, and many other uses.

The Fresh Cut stamp set is die cut. This feature helps save time and gets you stamping and using the new products right away. In addition, the Fresh-Cut Notes are like no other precut cards Stampin'Up! has ever offered. Die cutting is extremely popular in the craft industry, and this product hits the mark with what my customers are looking and asking for. NO HAND CUTTING :)

Do not miss the opportunity to contact me today and get yours- I already have mine ordered!! :)

New dates to take note of:

The new sales period for the Fall/Winter Preview Brochure is August 11th-January 18th, 2009 so the Stampers Club will meet once a month September through January (5 times). We will continue to make 4 cards per class, learning lots of fabulous new techniques! Please let me know if you are interested and I will send a reminder for sign up and details of the club closer to that date :) The benefit of these new dates is that the end of one catalogue is not at Christmas time!

April Stamper 6 Club Night

I wanted to show ways you could use wet wipes in card making so I designed a fun psychedelic birthday card with a tie die look to it. We first stamped the background to make our own custom pattern. We stamped the girl to create a tie die dress, cut out and placed on top of the shadow image in background. We finally used the wet wipe to die a silk flower from the pretties kit. We stamped the saying and punched out in the small oval shape and layered over a coloured large oval. We used Diamond Glaze and re-inkers to form a coloured enamel in the stylized ribbon slide and then assembled it all together.

Stamps: She's All That (Occasions Mini Catalogue), So Much

Ink: Chocolate Chip, Purely Pomegranate, Wild Wasabi, Blue Bayou

Paper: Whisper White, Purely Pomegranate, River Rock

Accessories: Pretties Kit, Lt Green Gingham ribbon, small and large oval punches, 2-way glue pen, Aqua Painter, Crystal Effects, Stylized Hodgepodge ribbon slide, wet wipes

I wanted a card that would be appropriate for fathers day if applicable. I just loved the little guy and had to use this one at least once! We used another baby wipe technique stamping the words in first and then using the wipe to fill the background paper. We used the circle punch to round the edges of the sentiment strip. We distressed the ribbon and sewed it onto the greeting piece with hemp thread. We watercoloured the image with SU! markers and high percentage alcohol (in a Aqua Painter) layering and layering to add shadows and a more real look...

See how the one little guy is more realistic- just more layers!!!

Stamps: For Father (Occasions Mini Catalogue), All Holidays
Ink: Old Olive, Always Artichoke, Chocolate Chip, Close to Cocoa, Creamy Caramel,
Paper: Whisper White, Gable Green
Accessories: circle punch, Aqua Painter, hemp thread, Tools Kit, wet wipes, Jersey Ribbon Originals

This card uses a chalkboard technique (light colours on a dark background)... I know someone who loves hummingbirds so had to try :) I stamped the flower base in craft ink so it jumps off the page at you less than the bird as he is our focal and the flower... With the chalkboard technique we first rubbed the paper with the Embossing Buddy and layered white craft ink, then dabbed the pastel into the wet ink. Afterwards the excess chalk pretty much rubbed off with a brush or a Kleenex!

Stamps: Pretty Amazing, All Holidays
Ink: White Stazon, Gable Green Craft
Paper: Night of Navy
Accessories: Chalk Pastels, Sponge daubers, Embossing Buddy

This card uses many techniques combined together. We ran a wheel down the centre (some used the guide, some not, depending on if desired a straight or more organic feel). We used a mask over the page and stamped the script in silver and used the sponge cut into a section to dab the green over. We then did two step stamping with the daffodils and cut the paper afterwards with mat and blade to create an out of the box effect. The center was mounted on dimentionals. Some cards looked better on a diagnal some straight, depending on how the flowers lay.

Stamps: French Script, Wonderful You, Stems & SilhouettesInk: Sage Shadow, Barely Banana, Summer Sun, Close to Cocoa or Chocolate Chip, Silver Encore

Paper: So Saffron

Happy National Scrapbooking Day!

This week only (ending May 9th, 2008) to celebrate National Scrapbooking week, I am offering all Simply Scrapping Kits at 15% off. They are very convenient for varying sizes of scrapbook layouts or cards...

Also remember that orders over $40 qualify for a 25% discount on all chipboard product!!!