EXTRA HOSTESS MERCHANDISE

Beginning March 18th through April 30th, Stampin' Up is offering an ADDITIONAL $25.00 of hostess awards in addition to the normal $40.00 for a workshop totaling $350.00 or more. The size of this workshop also entitles you to either a Level 1 or a level 2 Hostess Stamp Set. The new Occasions catalog items are available beginning 3-1-08 so this is an excellent opportunity to hold your own workshop, invite your friends and take outside orders to earn these extra benefits. I would be glad to hold a workshop for you and your friends in my house so you don't even have to clean!! This promotion is only for this short limited time, so call me as soon as possible so that we can book a workshop where I have time left available.

Glitter

OH, MY GOSH!!!! Have you tried out the new glitters? Oh, they are so gorgeous and fun. I CAN'T show you yet because I'm doing them for my classes. If you haven't tried the Cosmos Glitter and the Chunky Glitter from the catalog, give it a try. It's sooooo different than what we've had before. The new Occasions Mini Catalog has even more choices of colors!!!!! I'll be showing these off on my "MAD MATTER CLASS" I have advertised. If you didn't get an email from me about this class, let me know and I'll send you a flyer.

Dormant List

I forgot the reason I wanted to post today in the first place because I was so excited about the snow. I just wanted to remind everyone that the Dormant List is still available to order from. Just click on the link to view it. It's hard to remember these sets are still available since they aren't shown in this current catalog. There are so many New and Cute stamp sets to drool over from Celebration and the upcoming Occasions catalog that the unpublished ones get forgotton. Check out the Dormant list because when this last catalog expired, many of the dormant sets did also. You may still want some of these and who knows if they will be available after June

Good Morning. I woke up and 'my goodness' we have over 6" of snow today and a couple more inches are on the way. Here's a picture of my backyard, the very corner out there is a pond, can't you tell? LOL. I just heard that another storm is coming in and we're in for another 1-2 inches. My poor husband isn't as excited about the snow as I am; he works for the county so he's been out most nights for the last couple of weeks sanding, scraping..... actually he gets pretty grumpy about it. Sure does affect our social life when he goes to bed at 6:00 - 7:00 at night.

One of the guys in my office is mostly retired, so he has lots of time to do fun things. His current project is making Doggy Dish stands. I have three Shihtzus so he made a three dish stand. It's so cute, but my "girls" aren't really sure about it. See the bones behind each dish? I thought I would wait to see which "girl" chose which dish was hers then I would put their names over the bowl on the bones.

Erlene Kuntz who's in one of my Stamp Clubs brought some cards over to show me that she has done. They are so cute I asked if I could post them so others can enjoy them as well. Erlene signed up to be a demonstrator for Stampin' Up yesterday at Demo Day; and I think she's going to do really well. She's stamped for years and has such an organized Stamp room, you wouldn't believe it. Check out these cards ... so CUTE.

Well, I want to make some fun cards and rub on projects to show you. Have a nice day and enjoy the SUPER BOWL!!

Demo Day

WOW, I can't tell you what fun I had today at DEMO DAY. I can't even begin to tell you how fun it was and so like a Regionals event. We had lots of our own group demonstrate products and techniques and I KNOW they were every bit as good as any of the demonstrators we see at Regionals or Convention. The day started at 9:00 until 4:00pm and lunch was included.

There were lots of displays of cards and 3D items and the best part is that we could order a DVD of the demonstrations as well as all the individual display items. Now we can look back on the day to see what they showed and HOW TO DO IT!!

All of the demonstration items were raffled off as well as other items, stamp sets, products, etc. The cost of the event was less than what I came home with, both in product and especially in knowledge. We had one of the top Canadian demonstrators come and talk to us and she was so inspirational and gave us ideas on how to focus on being successful. She said when she first signed up she found out about the cruises about three months before the end of qualifying for the event and actually focused and made the cruise. She's one of many demonstrators I've heard tell about family situations that turned their business around because they had to support the family for one reason or another and was able to do it and more.

This is such a fun JOB and I would love to be able to do it full time (where's the stress????). I'm so looking forward to the day I can and my GOAL is a CRUISE. I hear it's attainable....

I'm sure there's lots of you out there that haven't really thought about having such a FUN job where you can choose your own hours to work and choose the amount of money you want to make. What can be more fun than staying home and "playing" like we used to a long, long long time ago.

Maybe tomorrow, I will post some of the cards we made today and some of the swaps I received from other demonstrators. There is sooo much talent in our group.

Sale-A-Bration Cards

I've been really busy this last week making all kinds of really fun and gorgeous cards. Thursday night was our Shoebox Swap I told you about and as promised, I am posting what we made using Sale-A-Bration stamp sets in the slide show over to the right. One of the cards turned out to be from Happy Heart, but that's OK. I'm getting soooo excited for February 1st when Sale-A-Bration starts; there are so many really fun stamps to get for "FREE"!!!!

In addition to the Shoebox Swap on Thursday, I went to Achievers Club on Friday and we made the following really cute cards. The card with butterfly is from Happy Heart. See?.... it's not just for Valentines Day, this one is a birthday card.

This one is my favorite, using Embrace Life (Sale-A-Bration) set. This was fun to make because we used the crimper in both directions, then bleached out the flower after embossing with Black.

This card is also using the Embrace Life set the Ginger Blossom Designer paper.

Then just because I wanted to play around with some new things, I made the following cards today (in my pajamas)..... boy, do I love weekends :D I know my husband thinks I'm crazy for spending all day in my jammies on Saturdays just stamping and having fun.

This was really fun to make. I used my "FUSION FLOWERS". These are little felt flowers that match a number of stamp sets and can be used on top of some of the flowers after they are stamped on cards and you can also use rub ons on the flowers.

This set is one of the Level 3 Hostess Stamp sets, Time Well Spent. I really like this set, you can do so many fun things with it. I've used it on note card boxes as well.

Crab & Company is a fun set. I've used it for Christmas, Birthdays and now Valentines Day. The Stampin' Round wheel at the bottom accents with the shells and starfish.

Check out some of these really fun new sets & accessories and try them for yourself; you'll be surprised with all the fun things you can come up with. Well, the weekend is not over, so maybe you'll see more before it's over.

Catalogs

I have attached a link to the Stampin' Up Spring Summer Collections Catalog and a link to the Sell-A-Bration catalog. So now you can look before you actually get it in the mail!!!