More Stamps For Your Money!

Who doesn't want more for their money - I'll raise my hand too! Well guess what?! For a limited time Stampin Up has an offer you can't ignore! Read more about it below;



Get Ready for Sale-A-Bration

February 1-March 17, 2008

Our Sale-A-Bration promotion gives everyone a reason to celebrate!

Promotion Details:

Customers: For every $50 purchase you make, you will receive a free Sale-A-Bration product! Don't forget we carry scrapbook "must haves" too!

Hostesses: In addition to our regular hostess benefits, hostesses will receive a free Sale-A-Bration stamp set for workshops that reach $300 or more.

Recruits: Anyone who joins as a demonstrator during Sale-A-Bration can choose any stamp set--a value of up to $47.95--from the current catalog.

Do I have your interest?! Let me know if you'd like to see a catalog! Better yet, let's schedule a party so that you AND your friends can all take advantage of this great offer!
If you don't live near enough to see a catalog (The Sale-A-Bration mini catalog is available for viewing on February 1st) or would like to place an order - no problem as Stampin Up has direct shipping available!

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Baby Stars

Well, what do you think?! I'm not quite sure it's "there"! It could just be me but I keep looking at it thinking "what's wrong with this page"! Okay, maybe I'm being critical and I need to let it go! LOL! I did this page for a counselor at my school. She's going to a baby shower and one of the things they were asked to do was to creat a scrapbook page around a poem. This one is about a moon so I put it amongst the stars! Is there really ANY way to put vellum to paper and have the adhesive NOT show?! LOL! I did discover that by taping my vellum to another sheet of paper before heating the embossing powder that it helps it not to curl from the heat! Tape, however, does melt! LOL! So let me know what you think! I really loved the input on my cards!

More Valentines!

I was playing around with my "stuff" while I watched Prison Break with my DH tonight! We love that show and can't wait for the DVD to come out! Anywhooo, I made a couple of Valentines to share with you! One I really like and the other, well, I just couldn't come up with anythint else to go with it - I need input please!! Oh, it needs to stay all Stampin Up products as I'd really like to show it at my Open House this weekend!

Here they are!

I like this one;



I'm not too sure about this one......



What do you think it needs?!!

Fun Challenge

I had a friend give me a challenge recently! She had a glass plate from an air freshener and wondered if I could do something with it! Soon as I saw it I knew exactly what I could do with it! If you look below you'll see what I did

Before;



After;



I made it into a picture frame that will go on my desk tomorrow! I used a flower from the Stampin Up Pretties and colored it with my Purely Pomegranate ink pad and added beads with my Crystal Effects for the center. The words are from the Stampin up Set called "Wonderful Favorites". I really like this set as it suits both cardmaking, scrapbooking, altering (obviously :)!) etc! It has the words "wonderful" and "favorite" in big script writing and then it has family member suggestions like "mother", "son", "daughter" etc.... to include extended family members like aunts, "in-laws"! I see lots of possibilities to cut down on my journaling here! My handwriting stinks to this was a worthy investment for me! I also used some of our new double sided designer paper called "Ginger Blossoms"! If you look a few posts back you can see what a full sheet looks like!

Thanks for the challenge Chantal.....got any more?! LOL!

Karen Day Wants To Say......

"Purple Monkey Dishwasher"
http://karen-day.blogspot.com

Valentine's Day Cards

Valentine's day is getting closer and closer.... so with that in mind I made up some great new cards! I used traditional colors and non-traditional colors in these cards! Stampin Up has a great Valentine's day offer that you can't pass up - I didn't! Take a look below;

The adorable elephant below is from the SU Valentine's special. It could go either way - boy or girl! It's so cute but I have other ideas for that elephant! Can't you just see him as a "don't forget" type card or a children's congratulations type card or even for a lunch box love note! My daughter and I trade those back and forth so I think she might be getting one soon with him!



I used a "Level 3" hostess set I recieved as a gift from Stampin Up (a benefit of being a demo btw!) for the flower and the butterfly. If you look closely the butterfly is actually cut out and placed on the card with a "pop dot" type adhesive! I used the words from the Valentine's day set to make it a Valentine's day card! I love purple so I'm really please with how it turned out in the non-traditional Valentine's day colors!



Enjoy my ideas and let me know if you'd like to place an order for that special! It's so versatile beyond Valentine's day so stay tuned - you'll be seeing more!

Valentine's Ideas

I can't believe Valentine's day is less then a month away - wasn't Christmas just last week?! LOL! I was home "ill" yesterday with a lovely bladder infection (these rascals hurt btw!) so I took advantage of my time, that I wasn't sleeping of course, and made some neat altered items for Valentine's day! I think it's true one woman's trash is another woman's treasure! A couple of co-workers were nice enough to give me some of the things I used! Tell me what you think?!

If you look to the left of each decorated item you can see it's humble beginnings! I used the new SU Valentine's day set for most of it and several of SU's great cardstock, inks and ribbon! I also added some flowers from the "Pretties" kit. If you want to know the names of everything just let me know and I'll send you an email!



I really like how they all turned out! It was my first time using "Stazon" ink on glass (Starbucks bottle) but I really had no problems at all! I did find out that if you don't like how something comes out that Stazon, when used on glass, it can come off with just plain alcohol! Now I wish my daughter were young enough to take these to school for her teacher, sigh! Instead I'll be giving these away at my "Open House"!

I hope I inspired you!