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!

Fresh Ideas from my Demo Meeting

Each January my Stampin' Family gets together to enjoy a post Holiday party.  We have found over the years that before the Holidays is just too busy to have a Holiday party.  So a few years ago, we started holding ours in January when things have slowed down a bit.

I love this party!!  The best part is we each make an item with a Christmas theme to swap.  And it is an old-fashioned Yankee swap.  Each person picks a number and gets to pick a gift in the order of the numbers.  After each person opens their gift, they can exchange their gift with a gift that was previously opened.  Then at the end, the person with number 1 gets to swap out their item for something else if there is something they like better.  As you can image, it can get very competitive if there is an item that everyone wants!

Here are a couple of the items that were swapped last night.  I swapped my Victorian Christmas Candle that I had made a few weeks ago.

Karen Gagnon - my sideline and partner in crime made this beautiful wreath!  She had given me one for my birthday - so I already had one!

Michele LaCerda made a beautiful Christmas scrapbook.  I unfortunately don't have a good picture of the front of the book.  Here is a side picture.  Gave me a great ideas for a Mother's Day gift class!

 Lisa Fuller made this great Christmas frame
with Christmas designer papers.

Nancy Flanagan found this really cool tape dispenser in the shape of a shoe!  So she of course added some girly bling to it!  It was just beautiful!

And Laura Perioria made this cute Winter Survival Kit.  A little basket with tissues, Halls cough drops and sanitizer in it!  How cute!



We had such fun!!  I'll post pictures of cards from the night over the next couple of days.

Sneak Peak at Valentine's Cards

 I am starting to play around with my new stamp sets from the Occasions mini catalog which goes live today!!  As a demonstrator, we get to pre-order items the month before. 

This is a card that I designed using the new Twitterpated Designer paper in the mini catalog and the Take it to Heart stamp set shown below.

I am also working on a couple of Valentine's card kits which I will be offering over the next couple of weeks!

I made this particular card for a card swap with my other Demonstrator friends...  I can't wait to see what they have designed.

I think that my favorite thing about this new mini catalog is not the stamps (although, there are several sets that I love), but the new cutting and embossing tools that are available for the Big Shot!  Notice the beautiful cut of the layer on this card?  There are new edgelets and nestabilities with this new catalog!  A new product for Stampin' Up!

Yay!!  All I can say is stay tuned for more ideas!

My Christmas Cards

I hope that everyone has had a great Christmas holiday.

These are the cards that I made and sent to my family and friends.  I get bored very easily so I usually make 20 of 4 or 5 different designs so I don't get too bored...


This card was made with Beautiful Season.  I used old olive for the card base and layer.  The technique is a spotlight technique.  The image is stamped in black. Then stamp a second image on a scrap piece and color that image.  Punch out a piece of the colored image with a circle punch and use a dimensional to layer over the black image.

This next card was a CASE of a card that Ann Schack had posted on her blog a couple of weeks ago.  I used the Christmas Lodge set and Ann used Winter Post which I don't have.  So if you see a card that you really like but don't have that exact set.  Look through what you do have and look for a stamp that is a similar size and can be easily substituted.

Ann's original card can be seen here.

We had a great day today with my husband's family.  Tomorrow we are leaving to celebrate Christmas with my family...

Time to start designing new ideas with all the goodies from the upcoming Occasions mini and Sale-a-bration sets!!

Talk to you soon!

Clearance Blitz

Good Morning!  Well - Stampin' Up! put the whole store on sale today!! 
From December 15, 2011, through January 5, 2012, nearly 200 products are being added to the Clearance Rack in the Online Store--with some discounted up to 80 percent!

You can check it out here.

There are many items on sale, including retired designer papers, retired punches, etc.  But.... these are retired items, so there is a limited supply and they may go quickly!  The only way to get these items is by ordering directly off my online store.

If you are in my Stamper's Club and would like to this to count towards your monthly total, send me the order by MOnday. 

Happy Shopping!