Handouts

I thought I would share with you what Kimberly VanDiepen does to get new customers every time she moves....... it's fabulous. I decided I would try the same thing so I made up around 50 cello bags with the fabulous new Holiday Mini Catalog, my Business Card and a Mini Note Card made from one of the Mini Catalog Samples in the book.....
I made these cute little notecards using the new French Foliage stamp set. I really love this stamp set, it's the closest I've seen to leaves in a long time and these cards turned out so cute. I used Cajun Craze, Cherry Cobbler, So Saffron and Early Espresso classic inks. I also used a metallic brad to hold "grateful" onto the card.
I've only given out a few at this point, but the plan is to give out 5 a day.... this is a challenge to me and if you want to increase your customer base I challenge you. If you try this, let me know how it works for you!!!

Fabulous Craft Tote

Did you know that you can join my group with Stampin' UP! and receive this fabulous $40.00 craft tote for FREE?????

Stampin' UP! has kept the new Starter Kits as low as $175.00 for both the regular kit and the Digital + starter kit.

Being a demonstrator will save you 20% on ALL your orders and your customers orders; give you pre-order bonuses before anyone else sees the new products/catalogs; gives you the opportunity to attend Convention where you learn so much information and win free product and the opportunity to attend regionals. That's not all..... if you are interested in the saving and incentives, please give me a call with any questions you may have, I can help you decide what you want to do. My group of demonstrators are so talented and fun; we get together monthly for meetings and demonstrations for new ideas and share what we have done and also swap card fronts with each other giving us new samples/ideas to use in our business.

I would LOVE to have you join my group and ALSO GET THIS FABULOUS CRAFT TOTE FOR FREE!!!!

Stampin' UP! Fabric

Did you know that Stampin' UP! has come up with Fabric that matches some of the new Designer Series Papers (Candy Cane Christmas and Deck the Halls)?. It is so cool. At our Demonstrator Demo meeting one of the gals showed what she has done with the fabric with quilting. She used her big shot and big shot dies to cut the images that she sewed into her runners or wall hangings. The other things she came up with is the card with her Monogram. The cardstock on the card was made by using her stamp pad and running it along the cardstock to make it sort of "woody looking". The next card (don't pay any attention to my really vibrant "fingerprints" I got on it after I came home... of course I can't get rid of it) is cutting circles using the big shot and the fabric and adhering it on using the fabric adhesive and an iron... same thing with the monogram above. this last item is a scrapbook page...... now how easy is this????? The page is using one of the pages from the Deck the Halls Designer Series Paper set, adding a piece of the new "seam binding" down the edge; then a piece of the new fabric after it was gathered with thread next to the seam binding. How simple and gorgeous these new products are......

AND, look at this great coaster using the fabric with the fabric adhesive sheets!!! What a fun gift for someone!!

So..... what are you waiting for... get your Holiday Mini Catalog and start planning for all your Holiday events and order what you need so you can get started. This is probably one of the best mini's ever!!!!!

Witches - EEEEEK

My swap card from the new 2010/2011 Idea Book & Catalog at our monthly demonstrator meeting was using the new stamp set "Wicked Cool". I really LOVE this set. I used a couple of new things out of the new Holiday Mini Catalog on this as well.
First of all I stamped the bats on the bottom of the new Crumb Cake Cardstock (formerly Kraft) using VersaMark. I added a strip of Basic Black cardstock on the middle section of the card and wrapped a piece of Pumpkin Pie 1/8" taffeta ribbon around it before attaching to the Crumb Cake. I took a piece of Whisper White Cardstock and stamped the spider web from the Wicked Cool stamp set, then using the NEW FUN Spider Web Textured empressions Embossing folder (120889) I ran my whisper white cardstock through the big shot to get an impressed spider web. On a piece of scrap paper I stamped the hat the cute witches shoes in Basic Black classic ink and colored in with a pumpkin pie marker. Then I "tediously" cut out the shoes and attached both the hat and shoes with dimensions for that 3D effect. Do you see the fun stuff on the right side? That's our new Basic Black Waffle paper. It comes in a set with Early Espresso (120985). I cut off a strip about an inch wide, then after attaching some sticky strip to the side of the whisper white, I gathered the waffle paper onto the sticky strip leaving a little black ruffle on the side. It's so much fun to use. Waffle paper also comes in Silver and Gold (120984) as shown on page 21 of the Holiday Mini.
To finish off my card I stamped the greeting in Basic Black ink on Pumpkin Pie cardstock and punched out with the Large Oval Punch. I layered that piece onto a piece of Basic Black cardstock and added a few black brads and attached to the edge of the card using dimensionals.
Do you like????? My group did, it won first place in the swap contest!!

Simply Adorned Charms

Have you ordered your Simply Adorned Charm yet??? At our demonstrator demo day one of the girls (Britney Slaughter) showed us what she is doing at her classes with the Simply Adorned Charms. I am showing you a picture of Britney's 1" x 1 1/4" charm which was made with the new Just Believe stamp set. She added some of the new Pearls to the image and a Pearl Charm to the base, which is new in the Holiday Mini Catalog. Her charm is hung by one of the new 1/8" taffeta ribbons.

Britney's classes are all ordering the charm necklace and will make an insert each month according to the theme for the month. In this case, the September insert will be the small alphabet and apple. October will be the really cute spider and web for Halloween.

The fall and winter months for Thanksgiving and Christmas are represented by the pine cones and snowman.

Aren't these darling? She also said the group is participating in a ribbon share so each of the girls will get a yard of each color in the 1/8" Taffeta ribbon group so they will have a ribbon to match everything they wear..... What a fun idea!!!

I have my charm, but haven't had a chance to really play with it yet. when I put together some of my own inserts, I will show you.

Have a Wonderful Day!!!

Mystery Night

One night a couple of weeks ago I held a Mystery Card Night... we really had fun. What I did was prepare three cards, but I only gave the cut out supplies and accessories to them that I used and did not show them the cards I made until after they were done. At first they were really lost as to what to do, but after the night was over, they all want to do it again.......

The first card we did was using Sweet Scoops from the Summer Mini Catalog.

My card is the first one along with the prize for the Sweet Scoops winner....... Unfortunately there were only three brave participants (and it looks like I failed to get one of the pictures). Look how good all of them were and they had to use their imagination with the pieces and parts I gave them.

The next card we did was Sentimental Journey...... Again, mine is the first one with the prize associated to the card (I actually made up a pattern to make a suitcase..... and it "worked"!!!). Everyone elses is just as good or better than what I did.

The next card we did was using the Apple Blossoms Hostess Set. My card is the first one with the prize and the others are so great!!!!!



















So don't you think this is an awesome idea? It gives the stampers some insite to creativity and make them less afraid to create something on their own. This is something I will be offering again soon!! Let me know what you think of this idea.

Boy, It's Been a LONG Time

Whew!!!! It's been a LONG time since I've posted anything...... I have lots to share with you so lets start with our Club Party......

One of my club sessions ended in August (of course they all signed up again for the next term), but we decided that this last session we would have a PARTY because #1. it was the last night of the club session and #2. for one of our members who has been battling cancer and was THROUGH with all chemo and radiation and it was her "hostess" night. A couple of the gals brought a Raspberry Tart Cheesecake from the Cheesecake Factory and a couple others brought "the drinks" and I did the decorating... I used the Pennant Die for the Big Shot and made the banner across the room that said "Celebrate Linda" made out of the purples and lavenders that Linda likes. You can't see very well, but when I was at Convention this year the Riverton House had all kinds of fun decorations and I really liked the circle pinwheels that were hanging from the ceiling so I thought that would be fun too. Mine are hanging from the light. We all had balloons, the theme was "flowers" so you can see all our colorful shirts and Leis!!!

Linda surprised all of us with a special treat as well. She does beautiful glass work, and she made each of us a little vase that hangs from the wall and can hold water as well. We are all holding ours, but it's hard to see what they look like. Here is a picture of mine; I absolutely LOVE it!! Everyone's was different.

We had such a fun evening and everyone made sure Linda received good hostess benefits..... I almost had to get a trailer to take everything to her when the order came LOL.

Have a wonderful Tuesday and I guess I'll check back with you NEXT month.... can you believe it?