Spring Card Kit

Spring is just around the corner and I just love the fresh look of these cards!  So perfect for spring!

These cards use the Apothecary stamp set and the Loving Thoughts stamp set from the occasions mini catalog.  It also uses the Labels Framelits dies for the Big Shot which are new in the mini catalog.

As you know, nestabilities have been a favorite tool of mine for quite a while!!  So I am excited that Stampin' Up! is bringing in the Framelits line with shapes that match their beautiful stamp sets!

Items used to make these cards:

• Apothecary Art Stamp Set:  125525  $34.95 wood  or  125527  $27.95 clear mount
• Loving Thoughts Stamp Set:  125843   $29.95  wood or  125845  $23.95  clear mount
• Labels Collection Famelits Dies:  125598     $26.95
• Attic Boutique Deisgner Paper:  125407     $10.95

I am offering several options for this card kit. The kit includes detailed instructions for cutting and making these cards.

Option 1

You can order the kit which includes all the pre-cut cardstock and supplies for 12 cards and envelopes including the designer paper and ribbon for $25 (add $3 for shipping if you are not local to me).

Option 2

Order the Apothecary Stamp set and Labels Framelits from me and receive the instructions for the kit for FREE.  You can order directly from my website here.  You may also want to order the Attic Boutique designer paper and Loving Thoughts sentiment set as well.  When I receive an email that you have placed an order via my website - I will email the directions to you.

Option 3

Order the full instructions including cutting and assembly for the card for $5.

Options

Card Kit (for pick up) $25.00 USD Card Kit with shipping $28.00 USD Directions only $5.00 USD

Please note:  These are my unique designs.  Demonstrators may use them for classes and workshops, but please do not use them for contest entries.

Computer Update - Lessons Learned

So I have learned the hard way to backup your computer on a regular schedule!!  My computer is now back up and running but I lost all my files from last October to last week.  And worst of all I lost all my photos from the past two years (all photos that were in the My Pictures Directory).  That included all my pictures of creations that I had made and all of my family photos from events for the past two years.  The only pictures I have are the items that I have posted on my blogs.

The first thing that I did on Saturday was to contract with an online service that backs up my PC on a daily basis.  I went with MyPCBackup.com.  It is $5 per month and the program runs on your machine in the background and backs up your files every day to their "cloud" center.  You can also access your files remotely (through their cloud data center) from other PCs etc. via their site. 

The most painful loss is the photos from our family trips last year.  I had just finished a digital scrapbook of the trip that we took to New York City for my daughter Emily's 16th birthday.  Fortunately, I had that book printed off through My Digital Studio. 

But I had not backed up a book that I was working on for our trip to Bermuda last year.   I had two pages left to finish and was then going to print the book.  Everything is gone.  All of the pictures and all the work that I had put into the Digital book.  I am trying to get copies of pictures from my sister-in-laws to recreate what I can.  But I lost the pictures that were from my camera.

So learn from my mistakes and make sure that you back up your PC at least weekly!!

Stay tuned for posting of new items!!

Darn computers...

Good Morning, It is Tues. the 7th and my PC has decided to take a day off... 


 So I am without email and my usual methods of contact... 


 So tomorrow is still Open stamp from 10am to 3pm. Friday night is Bring Your Own Project Night and I have some great things for Valentine's Day!!  I am also adding a Valentine's Class for Sunday afternoon from 2pm to 6pm. 


I have ordered several of the black scotch tape dispensers that look like a shoe.  So these are available to make on Friday or Sunday afternoon!

 If you need to reach me, the best method is to call me since my email is down!  978-458-0729.


Have a great day!

February Stampin' Up! Promotion

I am soooo excited!! For the month of February, Stampin' Up! is offering a 30 FREE trail of My Digital Studio (MDS).  This fantastic digital package is great for making beautiful cards, scrapbooks and calendars with Stampin' Up!'s copywrited images and beautiful papers.

At the end of this message are a  couple of examples of items that I have made with MDS.  I just love this software!!  It is so easy and quick to use!!

So I have added Friday night Feb. 17th at 7pm to my schedule.  I will provide a FREE demo of MDS.  If you have a laptop - load up the free version and I will get you going!

MDS is Stampin' Up!'s digital software (My Digital Studio) that provides all the great Stampin' Up! images to use for creating online cards, scrapbooks, calendars and more!  So now, you can check out MDS and give it a whirl before you take the plunge. Just click here: Try MDS for FREE

An Important point - the free trial does not include the all of the stamp sets, papers, and products that the full software offers on the MDS disk.  However, the software functionality is the same, so you'll still be able to learn hands-on how the program works, and you are welcome to use the stamps and papers that come with your free trial. 

If you decide that you like the software, you can upgrade to your own version for $39.95 via the internet and purchase the disk containing all the papers, stamp sets and embellishments for $39.95.  That is the same as the price of $79.95 for the full disk of software - however all the content is downloadable via the internet rather than placing and order and waiting to receive your disk.

And if you purchase MDS this month, you'll also receive a FREE Sale-a-Bration product! You can choose anything in the SAB catalog, including the Special Edition MDS disk that includes 5 digital stamp sets, 12 digital Designer Series Papers, 6 ribbons, and 5 brads. What a great way to boost your brand new digital collection! Wow!

Stop by on Friday the 17th to learn more about MDS!

Examples of projects I have made with MDS.

As many of you know, my daughter Emily is a Junior at Notre Dame.  They have a ceremony when they receive their rings for their Junior year.  This is an invitation that I made up and printed for the class.  This took about 10 minutes to create in MDS!

This is another invitation that I drafted very quickly for a Christmas party that my husband and i were giving.  Below is another Christmas card that I designed.  The software also comes with some great templates to get started. 

 

Sale-a-Bration is HERE!!

Yay!!  Sale-a-Bration is HERE!!!  My favorite sale of the Stampin' Up! Year!!

For every $50 you purchase in product from the catalog or Occasions mini catalog, you will receive an item form the Sale-a-bration catalog for FREE.

Sale-a-bration is a great time to join my Stampin' Family!  The starter kit is just $125 and you will also receive a FREE package of Designer Paper or a download for My Digital Studio each month for the rest of 2012!! 

Watch a short video here about becoming a demonstrator and set aside the weekend of April 20th for my annual Girls weekend retreat!!

So book your class today or place an order via my website!

www.marilynsanclemente.stampinup.net

New Card Kits - Valentines

 Well I have been busy designing ideas for Valentine's Day... I have two kits to offer this time.   One more formal and the second is more whimsical.   The full instructions are available for only $2 or the kits are available with full instructions and all cardstock pre-cut.  Also all the supplies needed to make the cards.

The first set is made with the Mocha Morning designer paper which is flocked and absolutely beautiful!  The kit contains all the pre-cut supplies that you need to make 8 cards with envelopes (4 of each design) for $15.  This kit uses the doily die from the new Occasions mini.

The second kit is made with the new Sale-a-bration set that is available starting this Tues. the 24th.  It uses the Twitterpatted designer paper from the current Spring mini catalog and the new pleated ribbon which is absolutely gorgeous!  This kit cotains all the supplies to make 12 cards with envelopes (4 of each design) for $18.

Please add $3 for shipping if you are not local to me. 

Instructions only are available for $2 each.

Mocha Morning Kit

Card Kit with shipping $18.00 USD Card Kit - no shipping $15.00 USD Instructions only $2.00 USD

Twitterpatted Card Kit

Card Kit with shipping $21.00 USD Card Kit - no shipping $18.00 USD Instructions only $2.00 USD

Happy Stampin'!

getting together for Lunch

Friday a few members of my Stampin' Family the New England StampINKers, got together for lunch at my upline Lynn's house.

We had such a good time winding down and relaxing after a stressful holiday season!  Laughing, stampin' and just catching up!  Pictured below from left to right - Lynn Thieret, Karen Gagnon, Lisa Fuller, me & Michele LaCerda.

 

 Over the past two months our group of stampin' friends has been touched by the nasty diagnosis of breast cancer.  Lisa found these cute tool belts at Lowes and so we of course had to decorate them with our own Stampin' Up! style!  Nothing can go un-embellished in our world.

Stampin' Up! has this beautiful fabric that matches our designer papers.  I just happened to have a little laying around waiting to be used!

So Lisa and I cut out some flowers and butterfiles from the Springtime Vintage fabric (from last spring's mini catalog) and the Twitterpated fabric from this year's spring catalog.  I also cut the same flowers from light weight iron on interfacing and we ironed those to the back of each layer.  We then added some buttons and sewed the flower layers together.

We used a hot glue gun to attach the flowers and butterflies to the tool belts.  Pictured to the left is a flower and butterflies cut from the Springtime Vintage designer fabric.  Below is the Twitterpated fabric from this year's spring mini catalog.

 I just love these.  What a great way to embellish a tool belt!!


Happy Stampin'!

Folding Birds

Here are some more great ideas using some of the new designer papers and  a technique called the Swing Card.

This card is made using a Big Shot and a round or oval die.  My downline Nancy Flanagan, made this beautiful card with the Elements of Style set.   The bird is cut using the bird element on the Movers and Shapers Big Shot die.

At my Bring Your Own Project Night, my friend Karyn Gouveia CASED (copy and steal everything) Nancy's card changing the colors and designer paper.

Want to learn this beautiful technique?  I will be teaching this technique at my upcoming technique class on Thurs. the 26th.

More new things....

These are some more great cards that members of my Stampin' Family made for our anuual Holiday party last week.

The first card was made my Michele my downline and Stampin' Friend. Michele is the person that taught me to stamp! - Little did I know that she would later join my downline.  Michele's card uses the new designer paper that will be available next week for Sale-a-bration.  The layers are made with the new nestability dies that are in the Occasions mini catalog.  The stamp set is Flower Fest.

 

Well - at my BYOP night on Friday - my friend Karyn saw Michele's card and copied the layout but used different paper and flowers.  Karyn used the same layout with the Pawsitively prints designer paper.  The flower are cut from the Sizzix flower die.  To add some dimension to the flowers, Karyn added score lines to the layers of the flower with the new Scoring Tool.

So which card do you like best??

New Samples

Over the next couple of days I'll post some cards that me and my group have made using the new sets from the Occasions mini catalog and the upcoming Sale-a-bration mini catalog.

 These first two cards are made with the new edgelet cutting and embossing dies for the Big Shot.  I just love the really neat edges that we can now cut and emboss using these new dies!

The first card is one that I made using the new designer paper and stamp set from the Sale-a-bration catalog.  The edgelet die and embossing folder are now available in the Occasions mini catalog.

The second card is one that my friend and downline Jeanne Nielsen made using the new Twitterpated Designer paper in the Occasions mini catalog.  She used the scallop border die and the embossing folder.

I have been seeing so many great ideas with these edgelet dies!

Stay tuned for more postings!