NEW Stampin' Up! Product Samplers

The more I look through the NEW Stampin' Up! catalog, the more I WANT everything! Especially all the great new Designer Series Papers, Ribbons, and Embellishments.

And I know you will want to try everything too....but to buy it all would be a huge expense.

To help you get a sampling of everything new, I am offering 3 different PRODUCT SAMPLERS. This is a great way to try everything, see what your favorites products are--and then, order more of just what you love!

Order 1, 2 or all 3 samplers. Simply email me to let me know which ones you want.

Before I can order the products for a "Sampler", I will need 8 orders for it....once I have enough orders, I will let you know--at that time, payment will be due and you will receive your products in approximately 2 weeks.

If you order all 3 samplers--you will receive a special bonus gift from me!

To order--simply email me at: stampingsfun@yahoo.com

I can't wait to get my products so I can start showing you some great ideas with everything new!

Ribbon Sampler

Would you like to receive one yard of each of the wonderful new Ribbons from the NEW Stampin' Up! catalog?


When you order this sampler, you will receive one yard of each of the items described below for just $17.00 (this includes the shipping.) If you were to buy a full package of each new ribbon, it would cost approximately $69, plus tax and shipping.

You will receive one yard of each of the following ribbons (12 yards total):

So Saffron from the "Dress Up" Originals

Whisper White from the "Dress Up" Originals

Riding Hood Red from the "Dress Up" Originals

Kiwi Kiss from the "Pig Tails" Originals

Pumpkin Pie Rick Rack from the "Pig Tails" Originals

Baja Breeze from the "Valet" Originals

Chocolate Chip from the "Valet" Originals

Basic Black from the "Valet" Originals

Striped Old Olive

Striped Pretty in Pink

Striped So Saffron

White Organza

Buttons, Brads & Clips Sampler

Would you like to receive one of each of the new Buttons, Brads and Clips from the NEW Stampin' Up! catalog!?


This Sampler is a great way to try all these awesome new embellishments. If you were to buy a full package of each of these, it would cost you approximately $107, plus tax and shipping. If you purchase this sampler, you can get one of everything for just $16 (this includes shipping.) You will receive the following items (44 items total):

3 Kiwi Kiss Corduroy Buttons

3 Chocolate Chip Corduroy Buttons

3 Kraft Corduroy Buttons

3 Pacific Point Corduroy Buttons

3 Pumpkin Pie Corduroy Buttons

3 Summer Sun Corduroy Buttons

3--1/2" Library Clips (one each of Chocolate Chip, Old Olive, White)

10 Latte Buttons (one of each style, Chocolate Chip, So Saffron, White)

4--5/16" Jumbo Brads (one each of Chocolate Chip, Very Vanilla, White, Silver)

4--5/8" Jumbo Brads (one each Chocolate Chip, Very Vanilla, White, Silver)

1 Clear Rhinestone Brad

4 Flower Brads (one each of Pumpkin Pie, Pretty in Pink, So Saffron, Chocolate Chip)

Designer Series Paper Sampler

WOW--great new Designer Series Papers, including 4 packages of "Specialty" Designer Series Papers.


This sampler is a great way to try all of them, for a fraction of the cost. You will receive a 6" X 6" piece of each of the new papers--84 pieces total! If you were to buy a full package of each, it would cost you approximately $147, plus tax and shipping. If you order this sampler, you can try each one for just $23 (this includes shipping.)

January Club Projects & Valentines Bundle

This month in Stampin' Club Class we used the Valentine Bundle that is on sale right now for 20% off.

When you join the Stampin' Club, you sign on for 6 months. Each month, you place an order of $25 before shipping and tax. One month will be your hostess month, where you are guaranteed $150 workshop sales. Should you choose to host an outside party or collect additional orders, your hotesses benefits increase!

Each month, you get to come to a special class held just for club members. Here you make one 2 page scrapbook layout or 4 cards (2 each of 2 designs). I teach you new techniques and show you how to use our products, not to mention the fun night out each month with the girls!

Then next round of club starts in FEBRUARY and there is still room if you want to join us! If you get 5 of your friends together and form your own club, I will give you a stamp set from my Secret Stash for free!

Here is the scrapbook layout we did this month. It is the 8.5 x 11 version. Other sizes to choose from are 12x12 and 6x6. This layout was created by my friend Kaisa! Don't you just love it! Again, the Valentine Bundle includes: The triple heart punch, Love you Much stamp set, and the Candyland Designer Series Paper. It is on sale right now for $41. In February you will be able to order the pieces individually AND add a FREE Sale-A-Bration stamp set of your choice to! Either way it is a FABULOUS deal!

The rosettes on the page are super simple to do, stay tuned for a tutorial!














The card was also designed by a fellow demonstrator, whose name I do not know. (I surf a lot of blogs and message boards for ideas and inspiration.) I added the distressing, red ribbon knot, and glitter to the hearts. The glitter is kinda hard to see in the scan. Sorry.

Sale-A-Bration is Almost Here!

Every year Stampin' Up! does a Sale-A-Bration. It is one of my favorite times of the year, because they give a free stamp set to qualifying hostesses, customers, and new demonstrators! Here is how it works:

CUSTOMERS: can pick a stamp set or other item out of the Sale-A-Bration (SAB) brochure for free every $50 order. Order $100, you can choose 2, and so on. How fabulous is that?!!

HOSTESSES: can pick an item out of the SAB brochure when their workshop sales hit $350! Plus they get all the other hostess goodies too! Splendid!

NEW DEMONSTRATORS: who sign up during February and March will be able to pick any stamp set out of the Idea Book and Catalog they want (up to $47.95) to add to thier Demo Starter Kit!

Want to see what is in the Sale-A-Bration brocure? Well click on the pic! Then hurry and look at your calendar because SAB workshops fill fast.

Leadership Highlights - Orlando 2009

Wow! What a week! I absolutely LOVE going to Leadership. It is so much fun to reconnect with old friends, make new friends, share ideas and rub shoulders with some of the top demonstrators in Stampin' Up!. This leadership conference was the best yet, for me though.

We left in a snow storm on Wednesday around Noon. The freeway was a slick mess. They had to de-ice the plane before we left SLC. We stopped over in Dallas and the plane there had trouble so we sat for a bit while they worked out the kinks. We finally arrived in Orlando, FL at 11:30pm. We were an hour late, but what was great was Heather, my downline, flight was an hour early so we got there the same time which was fantastic!! After we gathered everyone together, Me, Sherri (my upline), Heather, and Candice (a sideline), we all grabbed a shuttle to our respective hotels. There were 3 other demonstrators on our shuttle. What a hoot! I tell ya, stampers are some of the most fun people!

Sherri and I were next to last being dropped off. Our poor shuttle driver was having a bad day. His GPS wasn't working and he had no idea how to get us to our hotels. He even blatantly - we were stopped at the red light for 3 lights, and then he decided to just go and ran a read light almost resulting in getting us hit! But we made it there and met up with our roomies- Ashley, Maxine, Kristine, Terry, and Janice. I also met Wendy who was staying on a different floor. We talked until about 3:00 AM!

I got up early I had to be at the convention center by 7:30 to work as a Make and Take Helper. Wendy's roommate Toni was also a make and take helper so we were able to share a taxi that morning. So, Wednesday was full of shopping at the Stampin' Up! Momento Mall, stamping and learning our make and take projects, and then working our assigned stations to help the incoming demonstrators do their make and takes. There were 2 different sessions. It was a long day, Toni and I didn't get finished till a bit past 8:00pm, but it was worth it! Then Toni and I met up with Ashley, Janice, Sherri, and Kristine and went out for some ice cream. Then, back to the hotel room to chat until oh, I'd say 2:00am!

Thursday was the first day of meetings. We started with a great opening session where Shelli announced that we will be offering Digital Scrapbooking later this year....OHHhh it will be awesome! All of our exclusive colors, embellishments, images! AND, you can even have the option to use the real embellishments in a hybrid fashion so you can keep the texture and layer look if you like! I can't wait till it is available! Stampin Up is famous for it's door prizes at the events, so of course the Digital scrapbooking was the first one given for the day and guess what....YAY! I won one and so did Ashley!!!!! We will get it as soon as it is available, so keep checking back!

So then it was off to lunch. Leadership is so fabulous, you don't get a box lunch like at convention or regionals, you get to sit in a dining hall with table cloths, and actual plates and silverware and a fabulous meal complete with a peach cheese cake slice for dessert! MMMMmmmm!

The training meetings were great. There is always something new to learn. Thursdays classes included things like Creating Balance and Optimism, which was one of my favorite classes.

That evening, Stampin' Up! spoiled it's upper title demonstrators with an exclusive evening at Universal Adventure Island - Marvel! They closed down that section of the park just for us! There was a wonderful gourmet buffet for dinner, superhero's wandering the streets, 4 rides for us (with of course NO LINES!) a DJ and dancing in the streets that were decked out with banners saying "Punch", "Crop", "Stamp" and such in comic book fashion! How fabulous is that!













We topped the night off with a free stamp set packaged in this adorable Spiderman Lunch box! I LOVE Stampin' Up!

Friday was filled with more business training meetings. Again, always something good to take home with you. Lunch this day was fabulous! Baked chicken, mashed potatoes, steamed veggies, warm rolls, and a delectable chocolate cake for dessert.

At the closing session we heard a wonderful Keynote Speaker, she talked about changing the tune in your head, and how having a good attitude is vital for success.
Of course Stampin' Up! likes to end things with a bang and they gave all the attendees 2 free packages of new Decor' Elements!

Our group split up for dinner. Sherri, Janice, Kristine, and Ashley went to a Sleuths Dinner Theater. Sounded fun, but $50 was a bit too steep for me. So I joined Wendy and Toni and we at at Wonder Works at the magic/comedy show. It was fun and made me miss my kids who I know would have enjoyed it. This building was really neat. It was built to look like it had been dropped out of the sky upside down. It even creaked and moaned when you walked inside.

Saturday was a SU! Regional training that we stayed for. I get one FREE Regional Training a year based on my title of Sr. Manager. It was chuck full of great demonstrations, new product sneak peaks and business tips. I loved this regional.

Afterwards, Sherri, Me, Wendy, Janice, Ashley, and Kristine all went to dinner at a really neat local place called Cafe TuTu. It was a FUN place to eat. Everyone orders a couple of appetizer dishes, and then shares. Super fun. The best part was the artists that were there working in the restaurant. There was a painter, a sculpter, then we were graced with the talents of a belly dancer, hula hoop dancer, and another dancer! What a fun environment- and the food was great too!














Sunday morning Sherri, Wendy and I all got to sleep in since our flight didn't leave till 5:30 pm. So we went to brunch at IHOP and then hung out at the hotel for our shuttle to come take us to the airport. Sherri and I got home a little after 1:00am. That was a LONG day.

Next year Leadership will be in Phoenix! I am so excited! I would love to have you come too!

Leadership Swaps

Well, I am on my way to Leadership Training. I am so excited. Leadership offers training geared toward demonstrators who have built their businesses and hold a title of Sr. Supervisor or above. Leadership is a much anticipated event and I am so excited to be going with my uplines Sherri & Brandi, and for the first time a downline too, Heather, PLUS several sidelines.

Swapping is a standard practice at Stampin' Up! events and Leadership is no different. Swapping is where you (I) make XX number of and identical item-cards, 3D, Scrapbook pages, etc. Then you "Swap" with other demos. So you only make one design and come home with LOTS of ideas.

This year, I signed up for 3 group swaps. These are generally smaller groups that have a particular project in mind. I joined a No Layers Card Swap, a Mini Album Swap, and a 12 x 12 scrapbook double page spread swap

I am going to show you my swap for the Mini Album. I made an album that uses clear envelopes as page protectors. Here is the cover:


Each album also has to have at least 4 decorated pages in them. I was unsure of whether that meant 4 pages including front and back, or 4 page protectors. So I put in four "page protectors" and decorated each page front and back. Here they are:

















I used a variety of supplies in this project, including: Chipboard, rub ons, ribbon, punches, cosmo glitter, heat embossing, Clear buttons, the extra space from the sticky cut letters to punch out stars, not to mention the stamping. This was a fun project to put together. If you would like to learn how, I would be glad to to a mini class for you and your friends, you could even get hostess benefits!

Retiring Accessories List & Inventory Blowout SALE!!!

The list of retiring accessories is now out, all items are while supplies last and that usually means they are not around for long. I think this will be especially true with the first ever Inventory Blow Out Special. Many of the accessories are up to 50% off!

The best way for you to order these items this week while I am at Leadership Training is to use the online ordering on my website available for you24/7. Click on the yellow Shop Now button at the top right corner. PLUS each online order will be entered in a drawing for a Stampin' Up! Gift Certificate and a Free Catalog!

Below is the list of retiring accessories and you can find the INVENTORY BLOW OUT SALE items HERE.

Remember, while supplies last and they WILL go fast. Don't hesitate if your favorites are on the list, and don't forget about the retiring stamp sets here

Retiring Accessories:

111377 ACCENTS & ELEMENTS ROOF GARDEN
112012 ACCENTS & ELEMENTS SEASON TO SHARE
112088 ACCENTS & ELEMENTS TRUE ELEGANCE
102782 ALBUM LEATHER BLACK 12X12 Not Available
104188 ALBUM LEATHER BLACK 6X6
105384 ALBUM LINEN POST MELLOW MOSS 6X6
104516 ALBUM LINEN POST NAVY 6X6
105381 ALBUM LINEN POST REAL RED 6X6
103977 BUTTONS BOLD BRIGHTS
103978 BUTTONS EARTH ELEMENTS
103981 BUTTONS EARTH ELEMENTS & NEUTRALS
105446 BUTTONS RICH REGALS
105445 BUTTONS SOFT SUBTLES
103604 DAYS-TO-REMEMBER CALENDAR 12X12
102174 DAYS-TO-REMEMBER CALENDAR 8 1/2X11
112465 DESIGNER SERIES PAPER BANBURY
112462 DESIGNER SERIES PAPER GEORGIA PEACH
112463 DESIGNER SERIES PAPER GHOSTLY GREETINGS
112040 DESIGNER SERIES PAPER GREEN TEA
112470 DESIGNER SERIES PAPER HAIKU
112460 DESIGNER SERIES PAPER HAWAII PAPAYA
112469 DESIGNER SERIES PAPER HOLIDAY TREASURES
112458 DESIGNER SERIES PAPER JUNIOR VARSITY
112459 DESIGNER SERIES PAPER MAINE BLUEBERRY
112466 DESIGNER SERIES PAPER MUIRFIELD
112149 DESIGNER SERIES PAPER PARISIAN SUMMER
112467 DESIGNER SERIES PAPER PRESTWICK
111355 DESIGNER SERIES PAPER SUMMER PICNIC
112039 DESIGNER SERIES PAPER WINDSOR KNOT
112963 ELEMENTOS PARA TARJETAS DIAS FESTIVOS HECHOS A MANO SIMPLY SENT
106523 ENVELOPE TEMPLATE FIVE-IN-ONE CARD COVER
104104 ENVELOPE TEMPLATE MINI
107298 ENVELOPES CONFETTI WHITE MEDIUM
110695 ENVELOPES OPEN END KRAFT SMALL
109115 ENVELOPES OPEN END VERY VANILLA SMALL
103372 METAL EDGE TAGS ALUMINUM WHITE SQUARE
107925 ON BOARD BITTY BOOK
109190 ON BOARD CLIPBOARD 9X9
109180 ON BOARD SIMON UPPER
112086 ON BOARD SOMETHING SEASONAL
107923 PAGE PROTECTORS RING 3.25 X 3.25
104942 PUNCH 1/4 INCH CIRCLE
104943 PUNCH 1/4 INCH SQUARE
107273 PUNCH 3/4 INCH SQUARE
104389 PUNCH DOUBLE CIRCLE
100391 PUNCH HANDHELD 1/8 INCH CIRCLE Not Available
104830 RIBBON GINGHAM CARAMEL
104829 RIBBON GINGHAM LIGHT BLUE
104828 RIBBON GINGHAM LIGHT PINK
104831 RIBBON GINGHAM MOSS
109037 RIBBON GROSGRAIN MORE MUSTARD 1/4 INCH
110282 RUB ON ANCHORED
111806 RUB ON CHILLS & THRILLS
111805 RUB ON SCHOOL DAYS
111417 RUB ON WORD FLURRIES
110283 RUB ONS TAKE NOTE
112193 SIMPLY SCRAPPIN I WISH
112186 SIMPLY SCRAPPIN PINA COLADA
112068 SIMPLY SCRAPPIN SUMMER HOME
112043 SIMPLY SCRAPPIN U R SWEET
112061 SIMPLY SCRAPPIN WINTER RETREAT
112016 SIMPLY SENT CARD ELEMENTS HANDMADE HOLIDAY
109868 SIMPLY SENT CARD KIT LIFELONG NOTES
103647 STAMPIN STORE MINI
105813 WRITE ME A MEMORY FONT CD VOL II

3 Ways to get it FREE

The new Spring Summer 2009 Idea Book & Catalog will become available in just a few weeks. In fact, you will be able to start ordering from it on January 19 ! If you are as excited as I am to get your hands on it, hot off the press, well, I have some ways for you to get it for free!

#1-Be a Hostess! That is the most fun way to get it. There are plenty of dates available in January and February for you to book on. Just go over to my Stampin' Up! Website and pick a day from the events calendar and email me the date and time. I will deliver a hostess package as soon as the new catalogs get here.

#2 - Join the Stampers Club. The next round starts in February and will run through July. You order a minimum of $25 each month (plus S&H&T) and one of the months you get to be the hostess but are not required to host a party. You will also have access to my special Club Class each month where you will make scrapbook pages or cards or even both. I will teach you how to use the products in the catalog and show you awesomely fun techniques.

#3 - Place a $50 (Before SH&T) and I will include a new catalog in your order!

If non of these free options work, then you can pre-order your copy for a discounted price of $5 (plus priority flat rate postage if needs to be shipped). However, the Pre-orders must be made by January 19, 2009.

Don't forget, you can also shop online 24/7 on my Stampin' Up! Website (link is in the right hand column).

Have a wonderful day!