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Cheers,

Tomorrow is the last day to order retiring products!!!

That's it, last chance for the last chance sale!! Here are the cards we made this month at my monthly 5 card class. All of them featured retiring products:


This card features the "Sparkly & Bright" set and the retiring Real Red Stripped Grosgrain Ribbon.












Here is another with the beautiful Stripped Grosgrain Ribbon, this time in Certainly Celery. The ribbon is not being retired, just some of the colours. Unfortunately this is one of the retiring colours. The paper, Greenhouse Gala will retire tomorrow along with all the DSP featured in the current Catty. The stamp set I used on this card is the one I am most sad to be loosing "All Holidays".




This Card featured the "Love you Much" set and the very vanilla Taffeta ribbon.











Here's another one of my favorites that is retiring "Autumn Harvest". I love that it can be for either Thanksgiving or Halloween. This also uses some retiring Old Olive Grosgrain Ribbon, a retiring texture plate and an old favorite Hodgepodge Hardware.







And last but not least, a card featuring "Pick-a-petal" and "Wonderful Favorites". I am so sad to see these go...........



So, order now, and don't let one of your favorites slip you by!





Cheers,

Some oldies but goodies, get them while you can!

Just a quick hi to post a few of my old cards that are using sets that will be leaving us at the end of the month! :(

This card uses on of my all time favorite Autumn sets, Autumn Harvest. I love the versatility of this set.

There will be a variation of this set at my Retired Products class this Saturday. RSVP if you wish to attend. $20 for 5 cards with matching envelopes or FREE with a $25 order.

The "Give Thanks" sentiment is from a previously retired Hostess set.

This card was made using the Pick-a-Petal set. I fell in love with this set the first time I used it. I loved the versitility of it. We will be doing a variation of this card as well at my class this week.

Hope you are enjoying your week. Mine has been a wee bit crazy as my Husband is away in Winnipeg for work and the company I work for announced lay-offs as well. For those of who don't know, I work Full-time for RIM (Research In Motion) the makers of BlackBerry. We have been in the news like crazy, and as I have only been here for 6 months, I have received lots of notes from people wanted to know if I still have a job.

I will let all of you know that the news reports are far worse than the situation really is. From my understanding we have only let go a few hundred employees. We employ over 18,000 world wide. RIM is still posting huge profits and huge growth worldwide. This is just a small bump in the bigger picture. So for now, I am still employeed and expect to be for a long time. All I can do is work hard and continue to provide value to my organization.

Have a great week!

Cheers,

A Stampinpalooza good time & a very cool tutorial for you!

I know, I am a bad bad blogger. I am not even going to give you an excuse (although I have MANY). I am just going to apologize and move on.....

Blogland, I am sorry.

However I can not promise not to do it again. I will however promise that I am working on something. Something that I hope will allow me to blog regularly again. Not often, but regularly.

For now, I would like to share with you some thing I demo'd at Stampinpalooza this past weekend. For those of you who don't know what Stampinpalooza is, I will give you some background. Stampinpalooza (or Palooza to us regulars) is an all day stamping event in Toronto that takes place in June and October, and is organized and hosted by the uber talented Stampin' Up! Demo (and my awesome Upline), Caroline LeBel! It is ALWAYS a blast, and this time was no exception!

I have had the great pleasure of presenting at all of the Palooza's. This time I decided to show a selection of things that you can do with the awesome Petal Cone Die for the Big Shot. This die rocks! It was released in the last mini catalogue (Occasions Mini) and is still for sale, in fact it has made it's way into the new Catalogue due out July 1st!!

Here is a picture of the Petal Cone in all it's cone-y goodness. You can close it with the "petal" flaps, or make it like a basket as per the pic below. But it's a cone. what else could you possibly do with a cone???

Oh, let me be the one to tell you that you can do LOTS with the Petal Cone die. Here are just a few of the AMAZING things that you can create with the die:

• Ice cream cones
• cupcakes
• Mobiles
• banners
• Heart shaped cards
• baskets
  
• Chinese take-out boxes

Now, if you are still paying attention, which I hope you are, your jaw probably dropped when you read that list. I know mine did. And by the time you got to Chinese Take-out boxes, you were just too flabbergasted to even comprehend what you were reading. Well, I share your sentiment my bloggy friends. I too could not believe my eyes, until I made one, and then a second one, and then a third and so on.

Look at it! Is that not the cutest thing you ever did see? It's not a big box, it's just a cute little thing, but it holds it's fair share of candy, or jewelery or even a mini cupcake (yum!). When I was demonstrating it the comments I was hearing sounded a bit like this:

"When I saw that die, I was like "what would I want a cone for" but now I am like "how can I live with out this die"??"

Or something like that. Truthfully, the consensus was that people were generally not aware of all the very cool things you can make with it. I honestly believe that is one of the most versatile dies we carry. So, with out further ado, here are the instructions for making your very own mini Chinese Take-out containers:

1. Cut two petal cone pieces using your Petal Cone die for the Big Shot.

2. Fold each of the cut pieces in half along the score line.

3. Place in a paper cutter and line up the score line below the "half circle" at the top of the petal cone along the 3" line and slice off the bottom of the cone. Repeat this step with the other petal cone piece.

4. Line up the now blunt end of the cone at the 1" mark and score the cone piece. Repeat this step with the other petal cone piece.

5. Cut along all the score lines on the bottom of your petal cone pieces just up to the new score lines you just created. These pieces will form the bottom of the box.

6. Using Sticky Strip adhere the sides of the petal cone pieces together by the flaps.

7. Fold up the bottom of the box and adhere with a piece of sticky strip.

8. Decorate your box as desired and fill with whatever treat or gift you desire.

If you don't already have this die, I suggest you purchase one pronto! Stay tuned in the days to follow for more Palooza updates and pictures of other things made with the Petal Cone die, including my 3rd place winning name tag.

Cheers,

$24 for a 4-Person Day Pass to THEMUSEUM (a $52 Value) - iSee Below for Single Admission Option/i

$24 for a 4-Person Day Pass to THEMUSEUM (a $52 Value) - iSee Below for Single Admission Option/i

For friends in the Kitchener/Waterloo, Guelph & Cambridge area. Great deal!

Cheers,

A Fun Sale-a-bration Card

Just a quick post tonight to share with you a super cute SAB card that we will be making at this months card class.

This uses the SAB paper and the SAB Stamp Set sweet summer. You can get both of these items free with ever $60 spent! Got to love Sale-a-bration!!!

Free tomorrow night or Saturday? Join in the fun!! Card classes are $20 or FREE with a $25 purchase. Or $10 for members of my team.

RSVP today!

Cheers,

All the good things Stampin' Up! has to offer

Happy first day of spring!

I know I have been quiet for sometime, but life has just been incredibly busy. I have been very busy doing private classes as it is the busiest time of the year right now, and I have been been very busy in my new job.

I thought I would share this fantastic video with you. It show cases all the things I love about SU.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tGKQ1OVHow&feature=player_profilepage

See something you love? Contact me to learn more about SU or to order products today!!

Cheers,

http://myemail.constantcontact.com/Happy-New-Year-and-an-FREE-Starter-Kit---.html?soid=1102502723881&aid=wlqppHC-iYk

Just back from the annual Stampin' Up! Leadership Convention in Nashville, TN! I don't have a lot of time right now, because I am on my way to my nieces birthday party, but I wanted to share the great news with you.

All attendees have been given ONE FREE Starter Kit to give away!!! That's a $400 value to one person. I am looking for someone who is willing to take on a challenge. They must recruit another person by the end of March! Up for the challenge? Click the link below and read about the details.

Offer is only valid in Canada with a preference to those in Ontario.

http://myemail.constantcontact.com/Happy-New-Year-and-an-FREE-Starter-Kit---.html?soid=1102502723881&aid=wlqppHC-iYk

Isn't this exciting??????? I can't wait to have a new member of my team by the end of the week!!!!

Being a demonstrator has LOTS of perks. Check out my demo page for more info or contact me directly. And addition to all these perks I personally offer all of my demonstrators numerous training opportunities like One-on-One calls, workshop training and more!!!

Check back for a complete run down on Leadership with pictures of all the fun!!!!

Cheers,

Last day to get $400 worth of SU stuff for only $107.50!!

Just a heads up, but a couple of promotions are ending today. The Online Spectacular and the Starter Kit Promo.

Click the picture below to get shopping!!


I wanted to welcome Lisa, Sandra & Katherine to my team. They are the latest smarty pants to snatch up the AWESOME deal!!!


To purchase the Starter Kit, simply click the picture above and then select Join Now. Use the password "Canadian" to join my team!

6 people have already made the fantastic decision to buy the kit, are you going to be next??

Contact me if you have any questions.


Cheers,

The 10,000th Demonstrator in 2010!

Not sure if many of you were aware or not, but Stampin' Up! set a goal of getting 10,000 new demonstrators in the US in 2010. And 1845 new demo's in Canada. Well, we hit both those targets thanks to the AWESOME Starter Kit special on now until Nov. 30th. In honour of hitting the 10,000 mark Shelli Garnder, Founder and CEO of Stampin' Up! flew to Florida to surprise the 10,000th demo!!!

You can read about it on Shelli's blog here. Or watch this video posted on YouTube.



Since we hit the mark in Canada, does that mean that Shelli is going to visit someone here too? I don't think so, but wouldn't it be cool if one of my newest team members was the 1845 new demo in Canada?

I would like to welcome Lesley, Chandra & Meredith to the team!!! Way to go girls!

There is still time to take advantage of 50% off the Starter Kit. But time is ticking away!! The promo ends on Tuesday, Nov. 30th!!

If you are thinking about it, now is the time!!!

Visit my website and click JOIN NOW. Don't forget the password Canadian.

All new team members will be invited to my team Christmas Event on Dec. 12th. So join now so you can be part of the festivities!!

Cheers,

Online Spectacular!! On now until Nov. 30th!

Oh wow! This Monday certainly is not blah! Even despite the rain and chilly weather!! That's because Stampin' Up! has launched the Online Spectacular today!! What does that mean to you?

You can shop Online from now until Nov. 30th and all orders of $200 get FREE shipping!! Plus they qualify for Hostess Benefits of FREE stamps and FREE product!! And as an extra special bonus a number of AWESOME products have been marked down for this sale! Save %50, %40 and %30 on select products and product bundles!! Don't delay!

Click here to start shopping and SAVING!!


Cheers,

MDS and a whole bunch of Stampin' Up! goodies for FREE???

Did you know that one of the best parts of the current Starter Kit specials is that you can get MDS and with it you will get a bunch of Stampin' Up! goodies for FREE? The regular price of our My Digital Studio, Stampin' Up!'s premiere Digital Paper Crafting Software sells for $106.95. Right now, you can get the Digital Starter Kit for only $107.50!! That's only 55 cents more than the cost of just buying the software. With the Starter Kit, not only will you get the MDS software, but you will also get the following:

• 3 Stamp sets & a clear block
  
• Card stock- 2 packs, your choice
• Designer Buttons
• Roll of ribbon
• 4 ink pads
• 2 Stampin' Write Markers
• Snail Adhesive
• Decor Element
• Stampin' Scrub & Stampin' Mist
• Dimensionals
• Mini Glue dots

All of that SU goodness is FREE! And when you purchase the Starter Kit you don't have to pay tax or shipping!! WOW!!

If you have ever considered buying the digital software, now is definitely the time!! Don't delay, this Starter Kit special will only last until Nov. 30th!! And then it will be gone for good. Bring Christmas to your house early this year and buy yourself a gift you really want!

Here is a quick 2 page spread I put together using MDS and some pictures from our Christmas in 2008. I used one of the designer layouts included with the software. This took me honestly about 5 minutes to create.

Click on the pictures to view them bigger. With the designer templates you simply drag and drop your pictures to create professional looking layouts. I added a bit of text to personalize the pages and voila! Scrapbooking in minutes, instead of hours.

Click here to visit my Team page to learn more about joining Stampin' Up! and some of the many advantages of being on my team. All team members will receive training, guidance and more!

















Cheers,

Free Crop Make n'take for the Paper Players Challenge

I haven't played along in this challenge before, but I love the colour combo of Cherry Cobbler, Always Artichoke and a neutral (I decided to use Very Vanilla) because I love that classic Christmas look!

This was designed for my Free Crop Night Make n'take this month. I received that stamp set earlier in the day and decided that I MUST use it immediately. I love wreaths and can't wait to hang mine on my door.

Products used: All Stampin' Up
Stamp sets: Welcome Christmas
Card stock: Very Vanilla, Cherry Cobbler, Always Artichoke.
DSP: Deck the Halls
Ink: Always Artichoke, Cherry Cobbler
Accessories: Cherry Cobbler Seam Binding ribbon, paper snips, dimensionals, 2 1/2" Circle punch.

Hope you enjoy! Want to come to my next FREE Crop night?? Join me on Tuesday, Dec. 7th at 7pm. Space is limited so book early!!



Cheers,

I WON!!!

Yesterday morning I awoke to some fantastic news. I was chosen as one of the winners of Shelli Gardiner, CEO & Founder of Stampin' Up!'s Fall Creative Challenge!!

Every month Shelli posts a creative challenge and encourages stampers, Demo's and customer's alike to post links to their creations. And each month she picks her faves who then win a FREE stamp set, well, this month, I WON!!!

I am so honoured to have won this esteemed prize!! Thank you Shelli for recognizing my holiday crackers!!

Here is the post that was selected. And here is the link to Shelli's Creative Challenge.

Cheers,

50% off the Starter Kit!!!!!??? Wow!!

Santa is coming early this year!! For the first time EVER Stampin' Up! is offering 50% off the Starter Kit from Nov. 15th to Nov. 30th!!!! The kit is already 40% discounted and now you get it for only %107.50!!! It's the full kit, over $400 worth of stuff for only $107.50!!!! If you have EVER even considered joining Stampin' Up! now is the time!!!
Visit my Team page for more info, or contact me directly to find out how you can get 30% off your first order and all the other WONDERFUL perks to being a SU Demo!!!

Cheers,

Stamp-a-stack 2 ways!!

Are you planning on coming to my Stamp-a-stack this Saturday??? Are you sad that you missed last months because you love the vintage cards?

Well, I have decided to offer both Stacks this weekend!! Book a spot in this Saturday's Stamp-a-stack and choose between either one!

OR........
OR.......

Choose to do both!!! That's 24 cards, and 2 packs of paper!!! Wow!!!

Cost: $30 for 1 Stack which includes a pack of either the Deck the Halls paper or the Candy Cane Christmas paper or $50 and do both Stacks!!!

Please RSVP by today as I need to order the paper ASAP! And remember that if you book into any of my November or December classes by today you will get a FREE gift from me!! Choose an ink pad from my retired stash when you come to your class!! Hurry, don't delay! Book Today!!!

Cheers,

Do you have a LONG wish list??

Is your Stampin' Up! Wish List a mile long? Don't worry! Christmas is coming, why not let your loved ones know that you want Stampin' Up! stuff for Christmas!!

Simply fill out my Wish List document and send it to your husband, mother, sister, and so on, and don't forget to send a copy to me! They can choose the items that they wish to purchase for you and I will do the rest, including gift wrapping everything for them!! This is win/win! You get what you want under the tree, and they didn't even have to break a sweat!!

Click here to access the wish list.

Make sure they send it to me at stampwithb@gmail.com, or you can send me the list and provide me with their contact information and I will let them know what you want this year.

This is just one of the many ways I am making Christmas easier for everyone!

Cheers,

Card Designing Service now available!!

Do you want to make homemade Christmas cards but are short on time? Don't even know where to begin? This season I can help you achieve all your crafting needs.

Why not take advantage of my Card Designing and Pre-cutting service??

Card Designing & Pre-cutting Service:

Meet with me one-on-one to design the holiday card of your dreams. Purchase all of the supplies required to make your cards and I will do all the pre-cutting required!!!! All you have to do is stamp the imaged and put the cards together!! Just think of all the time you are going to save!!! Don't have time to meet with me one-on-one? No problem, choose from a number of samples such as following designs.
























Contact me to book your appointment today!!


Cheers,

November Stamp-a-stack!!

Hi All!

I know, it's been a while!! I have been very busy with Halloween, and classes and such! I have a very full calendar, and it is taking it's toll on my blogging. I am going to try and get on here at least once per week however.

Today I wanted to share with you pictures of my upcoming Stamp-a-stack. What's a stamp-a-stack you ask? It's a great chance to get a bunch of Christmas cards made in one FUN afternoon! We will be making 12 cards, 4 of each of the 3 designs you see here.
When: Saturday, Nov. 13th 1pm to 4pm
Where: Stamp & Tea Studio- Morriston, Ontario (South of Guelph, West of Milton)
Cost: $30 and includes a pack of the Candy Cane Christmas Specialty Designer Series paper!! You get to keep the left overs!!

These cards are super fun and SUPER sparkly!! You aren't going to want to miss this one!! Please RSVP by Monday, Nov. 8th as I need to order your paper!!

Can't make it to this class? No problem!! I have LOTS of fun classes this month. Visit my events page to see for yourself!

RSVP to any event before Nov. 8 to get a special gift from me!! :)

Cheers,

All Bundled up for the Holidays!!

I'm not bundled up, YET! It's still quite lovely here in Southwestern Ontario. But Stampin' Up! is helping you get ready for the Holiday season by putting together a number of great bundles for all your Holiday crafting. And the best part? From now until Dec. 16th these bundles are available for 20% off!!! And that's not all, sign up to be a Demonstrator and get an additional 20% off these bundles!! Wow!


Vintage Christmas Card Bundle:

• Bells & Boughs Set
• Deck the Halls Designer Series Paper

Clear Mount- 124068 $24.36, Wood Mount- 124067 $29.96

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Contempo Christmas Card Bundle:

• Contempo Christmas Set
• Jolly Holiday Designer Series Paper

Clear Mount- 124072 $21.96, Wood Mount- 124071 $25.96
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Tags Til Christmas Bundle:

• Tags til Christmas Set
• Decorative Label Punch

Clear Mount- 124078 $41.52, Wood Mount- 124077 $49.52

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Gift Packaging Bundle:

• Gifted Set
• Mini Lunch Sacks

Clear Mount- 124084 $24.72, Wood Mount- 124083 $31.92

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Simply Adorned Gift Bundle:

• Charming Set
• Simply Adorned 1" x 1 1/4" Charm
• Simply Adorned 24" Chain

Wood Mount only- 124076 $52.32

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Frame Gift Bundle:

• Definitely Decorative Chunky Frame
• Small Chocolate Chip Dotted Flourish Decor Elements

124075 $23.12

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Contact me today to take advantage of these awesome bundles or why not book a private class so that you can earn them for FREE! Or shop online 24/7!! Or join my team to get an even bigger discount!!

Cheers,