The Holiday Catalogue has some great new items, including the new gift box board and the specialty designer paper Under the Tree. It seriously only took me 5 minutes from opening the box for the first time to having made this great 4″x4″x4″ box – the the video below to see how simple it is to use.
I was inspired by Patty Bennett to create this tag using the same specialty paper and the Little Letters thin lets to make the tag for the box.
This weeks Weekly Deals include 25% off two punches, a set of framelits, 12″x12″ card stock and a digital item at 40% off. Items are on offer only until midnight EST on August 12th or whilst stocks last. The current hostess code is MJNJAPYR and you can shop online 24/7 here.
If you are like me you have had people telling you Christmas is coming – and however many Fridays it is until the festive season………well to help you with all your holiday needs the new Holiday Catalogue can make your life so much simpler! It is packed with items for gift wrapping, boxes, cards, tags and more, there are so many fantastic ideas in it to inspire you.
You can view the catalogue online here and the supplies used to create the items are listed here.
There are several great bundle deals in the catalogue which save you 15% off the price of the stamps-punch or stamps-framelits like the above tree stamp set and co-ordinating punch.
If you would like to try out some of the items from the Holiday Catalogue or see some inspiring displays of items in it being used, then why not join us on Saturday September 6th for the catalogue launch party and for just $5 you will not only get a paper copy of the catalogue, but make a card, some tags and a box using new items from the catalogue – details are here.
As an added bonus if you host a party (or place an individual order of +$300 excluding postage and handling) in addition to your normal hostess benefits, you will get for FREE a fantastic sentiment stamp set containing 19 different greetings to see you though the festive season. This offer is only until October 31st, so book your party sooner rather than later to avoid disappointment.
Ever considered having your own craft store? Getting all your craft products at a permanent discount? Earn some extra income, meet some fabulous people and have a lot of fun. There is no better time than now to join my Stampin’ Up! team as for the next week, from August 22-29th, you can get a bonus $20 for FREE!
Normally you get to chose $235 of product for just $169, but until August 29th you can chose $255 of product.
The kit is 100% customisable, so you only get what you chose! You can order any current catalogue items, clearance or weekly deal items in your kit or you can chose digital items.
BONUS! You can add items from the new 2014 Holiday Catalog RIGHT NOW! That’s right, you can be one of the few to get the Holiday catalogue items before they become available on August 28th.
You also get FREE shipping on your starter kit – which is another 5% savings.
If you place an order over $300 in your first 45 days of joining you will also get a generous 30% off your first product order.
You will receive a minimum of a 20% discount on anything you purchase while you remain an active demonstrator.
Other benefits include: free catalogues, demonstrators can pre-order items a month prior to them being released to customers, team meetings, exclusive demonstrator events, free product, cash bonuses, incentive trips and more!
I welcome all sorts of demonstrators to my team, from business to hobbyists’, you can see answers to more FAQs here or give me a call and I can answer your questions.
I got this beautiful new stamp from the Annual Catalogue, I love colouring this image, but not everyone likes to spend ages colouring a single image. So I used the beautiful outline image in class recently and just heat embossed it with silver embossing powder and added rhinestones to it. Sadly it doesn’t photograph well due to the high level of light reflections, but it does look better in real life.
I must apologise though as I had no idea until I went to write this blog post that the sentiment stamp set I chose to use had retired oops! sorry about that – you could however substitute it for any number of suitable greetings.
So I am totally LOVING the Blendabilities and cannot wait for my next order to arrive with the other 5 colours in it (well actually 6 new colours got released, but I was fortunate and got given one of these new colour sets at our Annual Stampin’ Up! Convention in May so I didn’t have to wait for it!).
What Sets Them Apart:
I found another really good You Tube video on the Blendabilties from the Stampin’ Up! UK team – definitely worth a look in my opinion.
I recently started making some items for my cherubs school as they put a call out for items for the Father’s Day stall. I always think it’s a shame that they get a lot more handmade items for Mother’s Day, but hardly any for Father’s Day. Anyway I made up these little punch art monkeys and topped treat bags filled with banana lollies. The sentiments were made up on Word and printed on Daffodil Delight card stock.
These treat bags would also be terrific for children’s parties don’t you think?
There are some really versatile new stamp sets in the Annual Catalogue, one that I am loving is Amazing Birthday, here’s a card we made with it in class last week. It’s quite simple in terms of colours and layering, but with the textured embossing, sponging on the outer edges and hand drawn stitching it ends up having a really nice finished effect don’t you think?
The overall finished look of this card changes depending upon which way you layer the textured embossing panel and also if you used rhinestones instead of mini silver brads, but I was going for a masculine look, so no bling or ribbon!
The awesome bonus is that in clear mount this stamp set with 7 stamps in it is only $25.95!! I seriously thought it was a misprint – but it’s not, talk about great value!
When I made yesterdays card using the Pointillism technique I coloured a few of the Blended Bloom flowers with different Belndabilities colour combinations before I made up a finished card. That is one of the things that I love about stamping – experimenting with colour! Any way here is another card made using the Pointillism technique, but in different colours.
The Blendabilities colours that I used for this were all three shades of Daffodil Delight and the medium marker for Pumpkin Pie. I also added the Bronze skin tone marker to the centre of the flower.
I saw a great tutorial on SCS this week on pointillism, which I hadn’t done since I was about 13 years old in art class when we were learning about Georges Seurat work and impressionism. Fortunately the new Blendabilties lend themselves perfectly to this work and I combined that with CASEing a card made by Jan Tink and this was the result.
I really like the way Jan hand drew the border around the finished card front. Here’s a visual of the colour build up using the different Blendabilities colours. So using the light marker of the Coastal Cabana, these were the areas of the flower that I coloured.
Using the medium Coastal Cabana marker I added more dots.
Using the darkest Coastal Cabana marker I added yet more colour to the petals.
Then I added the colour to the centre of the flower with the lightest and darkest Daffodil Delight Blendabilies and added depth with the Bronze marker from the skin tone pack.
I love this colouring technique – what techniques have you got on your to try list?
