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Advent Calendar

Hello Stampers!  I just had to share with you today this amazing advent calendar that was posted on the Stampin' Up! website this week! 

 These are the Tiny Treat Boxes that are in the annual catalog.  You get 25 boxes for only $7.00!  What a coincidence that you get 25 boxes!!!  Just the perfect number for an advent calendar!  You can cover these boxes with any designer series paper that you like.  This calendar uses the Home for Christmas designer series paper pack.  For the numbers they used the Hello December Project Life accessory pack.   

I will definitely be making one of these calendars, so be watching for my version!

Newport Beach days 3 & 4 and Weekly Deals

Hello Stampers!  It's Tuesday, so that means new Weekly Deals!  First let me tell you about the second half of our trip to Newport Beach. 

We woke up really early on our third day so we could go on a whale watching tour!  It was great! 

 We saw a whale which the guide guessed at about 30 feet long!

 We saw a hammerhead shark which the guide guessed at about 8 feet long!

 We saw a ton of seals.

 We saw a lot of dolphins too!  What a cool trip!

We spent some time walking around Balboa Island...

And then headed back and spent the rest of the afternoon at the pool!

Ended the day with another pillow gift!

Day 4 was another travel day!  Just wanted to leave you with another pic from the hotel:

 

and a funny sign we saw while walking around

What a fabulous trip!  Thank you Stampin' Up! for this wonderful experience!  It is such a great company to work for!

Now for the Weekly Deals:

Thanks for stopping by today!

 

Newport Beach Getaway Trip days 1 & 2

Hello Stampers!  WOW!  The last 4 days were fabulous!  Where was I at you ask?  I have been in Newport Beach, California!  I earned this great getaway trip from Stampin' Up!  It was a four day, all expenses paid, trip.  Here are some highlights:

Thursday was our travel day.  We flew into Los Angeles and then had a shuttle to our hotel.  The minute I stepped into the room, I felt spoiled!

 Gorgeous room and look at the view:

 That is the ocean on the other side of the golf course!  So pretty! 

That evening, we ate dinner with four other demos and their guests.

 It was such a fun evening!  We sat and talked for hours!  And it was fun seeing them again throughout the rest of our trip! 

Of course we ended the day with a pillow gift!

 Yum!

Day 2 we woke and had a great breakfast outside. 

 What a gorgeous morning it was! 

We had private shuttles take us to Laguna Beach for the day.  We walked along and shopped and had a great lunch with this view:

That evening we went out for dinner and I had a peach margarita!  Yum!

And of course another pillow gift that night!

 Lots of great product from the Holiday catalog!

Come back tomorrow and check out our last full day and the new Weekly Deals!

Halloween swaps

Hello Stampers!  My Cardinal Stampers team meeting was this past weekend, so today I thought I would share with you the swaps that I received.  Every month we hold a swap.  We set a theme ahead of time and then we create our projects to share!  They are so much fun and we get some really spectacular cards!  This month the theme was Halloween or Fall.  Here are the cards that we received:

 This card was made by Pat V.

 This card was made by Laura

 This card was made by Karen

 This card was made by Pat B.

 This card was made by Lisa

 This card was made by Julie

 This card was made by Sheila

 This card was made by Lynn

 This card was made by Debbie H.

 This card was made by Kathy

And of course I forgot to take a picture of my swap and I gave them all away!  Oh well!  Hopefully some of these will inspire you to make some Halloween cards this year!  I love them all!  When you place an order, don't forget to use this month's hostess code:

Thanks for stopping by!

What's happening:

 

 

Halloween candy holder

Hello Stampers!  This last weekend was our Cardinal Stampers team meeting.  The gals like taking turns bringing the make n' take for the meeting and this month was Karen's turn.  Sometimes they bring cards and sometimes they bring 3D items.  Karen brought a super cute Halloween candy holder for us to make.

 Isn't this adorable?  I'm going to make a video on this next week, so keep checking back!  And thanks Karen for such an adorable make n' take!

Would you like to join us in all of the fun that we have at our meetings?  Contact me and I can tell you what it means to be a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator!

Weekly Deals & Cards 4 Faith

Hello Stampers!  There are some great new products this week on the Weekly Deals list!  Just remember that these sale prices are only good through next Monday, September 28th.  Click the link below to check out this week's deals!

This last week I started a new card ministry at my church.  We will gather monthly to make cards for the church to use.  We already have huge requests for kid's birthday card, baptism cards, sympathy cards, and adult birthday cards.  Our card community is called Cards 4 Faith.

Monday was our first meeting, and I really had no idea what to expect!  I have a good friend, Julie, who is helping me out.  We both came up with two simple card designs and cut supplies for 20 - 30 cards each.  We made them fairly simple not knowing what the stamping experience would be for those who attended. 

We had three lovely women show up for our first meeting.  They all had tons of card making and stamping experience, so the five of us set out making cards.  Before our two hour time limit was up, we had completed 90 cards!  That's right, 90 cards! 

I was absolutely thrilled with the outcome!  Plus now I know that we don't need to do as much prep work for the next class!  Here are some close up pics of the four cards we made:

Thanks for stopping by today!  If you are local to St. Louis and would like to join us for our next Cards 4 Faith community, we meet on the third Monday of the month at both 10:00 a.m. and 6:30 p.m.

 

Framed punch art

Hello Stampers!  Darn it!  I missed another day of posting!  This is harder than I thought to post 5 days a week!  Let's keep at it until I get it right!!!  Tomorrow I'll show the next stamp set that I will be giving away!

Today I wanted to show you a gift that my upline gave me at Convention.  It is just a fun thing that we do every year, make gifts for other demonstrators!

 It is a framed art piece.  Isn't it cute?  And look at the other inserts she made:

 I think that they are super cute!  Thanks again Jeri!

Jeri likes to do punch art and our gifts and her swaps usually involve some type of punch art.

 


 

Sympathy & Get Well cards

Hello Stampers!  I don't know how many times I have heard that people don't like making sympathy cards!  Several of my own customers would rather purchase a sympathy card from me then make their own!  What is it about sympathy cards that people don't want to make them?  I just try to focus on making a beautiful card!  My team decided to hold a sympathy & get well card swap some time ago.  I think we received some beautiful cards!  Here they are:

 This card was made by Debbie H.

 This card was made by Pat V.

 This card was made by Julie.

 This card was made by Kathy.

 This card was made by Debbie N.

 This card was made by Pat B.

 This card was made by Sheila.

 This card was made by Lynn.

 This card was made by Tracy.

 This card was made by Karen.

 This card was made by Laura.

 This was my card.

See, making sympathy or get well cards can be super simple!  Just make a beautiful card!  Thanks for stopping by! 

 

 

Team shoebox swap

Hello Stampers!  I love our team meetings!  We have such a great group of women and we really have a good time together!  Once a quarter we extend our meeting time and have a "stamping day".  We may do projects that I have come up with, we may hold a shoebox swap, or we may work on one big project.  At our last quarterly "stamping day" we held a shoebox swap.  The ten of us that were able to make it to the meeting, created a card and brought enough supplies for the other nine of us to complete that card.  Here are the cards that we made:

 This card made me want to purchase this Sheltering Tree stamp set!!!  I believe this was Lynn's card.

 I think this was Pat V.'s card.

 This was Julie's card.  Love this idea with the Striped Scallop Thinlit.

 Help me out girl's, I can't remember who's card this is!

 I believe this was Kathy's card.  Love how the card stays closed by tucking the front under the cut out shell!

 I believe this was Laura's card.  My new favorite embossing folder, Woodland!

 This was Karen's card.  This card made me want the Bordering Blooms stamp set!

 Sorry, can't remember who's card this was either.  Liked stamping on designer series paper!

 This was Lisa's card.  Great use of the Your Presents stamp set!

 This was my card.  I used the Merry Everything and the Festival of Trees stamp sets.

Now you know why I LOVE our team meetings!  Contact me today and I can tell you how you can become one of our team members!

Weekly Deals

Hello Stampers!  Well it's Tuesday, so that means it's time for some new Weekly Deals!  Here are this week's deals, and I warn you now, they are some great items!

I've decided that I'm going to show you some completed projects using some of these great projects!

Fringe Scissors

 

 

Gold Buttons

 

 

Butterfly Thinlits

 

Remember that these sale prices are good through next Monday.  Hop over to my Inkin With Dink online store and place your order today!  Be sure to use this month's hostess code!

 

September card class

Hello Stampers!  First I have to say Congratulations to Pat!  She was one of my readers to respond to the fact that I forgot to post one day last week!  I had a couple more of you respond, but Pat's name was the name that I drew, so she wins the Happy You stamp set!  Remember to respond within 24 hours by either leaving a comment here or send me an e-mail. 

Want to see what the next stamp set is that I have up for grabs?  Here it is:

 This is the Your Perfect Day stamp set! It is beautiful!  I have seen it used for cards other than wedding and anniversary cards too!  I have seen the circle stamp used with a monogram in the middle for note cards!  So cute!  This set could be yours if you let me know when I have forgotten to post on here!  I am trying to post Monday - Friday throughout September.  You must send me either a comment here on my blog or send me an e-mail.  Good luck!

This morning was one of my monthly card classes.  Want to see the cards the ladies made?

There are still a couple of classes this month that you can make it to:

Thursday, Sept. 17th  6:00 p.m.  Hobby Lobby

Friday, Sept 18th  6:30 p.m.  First Baptist Church

Please RSVP for which class you would like to attend so that I can have enough supplies!

What's Happening?

September Hostess Code:

Weekly Deals:

Your Presents Christmas card

Hello Stampers!  Have you started making your Christmas cards yet?  I have been making tons of them for all of my Christmas card classes and craft fairs.  Want to see a pile of them I made yesterday?

Here is a picture of one up close:

  

Don't you love these colors together?  I used Real Red, Cucumber Crush, and Daffodil Delight.  I used the stamp set Your Presents from the Holiday catalog.  That stamp set is meant to be stamped using the kissing technique.

I have got to show you what came in my mail! 

 This is a tablet pouch.  If you click on the photo you can see that the label says Stampin' Up!  And guess what was on the inside:

  All of our travel documents for our upcoming trip to Newport Beach, California that I earned through Stampin' Up!  I'm so excited for this trip!  It is an all expense paid trip for two.

Well, thanks for stopping by.  Be watching for pics of some more of the Christmas cards I have been making! 

Christmas Card

Hello Stampers!  Today I wanted to share with you a cute Christmas card that was shown on the Stampin'  Up! website!

Isn't this a cute card?  The reindeer is cut out of a piece of designer series paper from the Home for Christmas designer series paper pack.  There are tons of embellishments from the Holiday catalog on this card too!   Enjoy!

Weekly Deals and Clearance Rack items added

Hello Stampers!  It's Tuesday, so it's time for more new Weekly Deals!  Remember that these prices are only good through next Monday, September 14th.  Here are this week's deals:

 

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And Stampin' Up! notified us today that they have added more items to the Clearance Rack!  Check them out and get your order placed ASAP!  These products are only available while supplies last!

 

Thanks for stopping by!