Tomorrow

Tomorrow is the deadline for all the following:
Fall/winter catalog (at least the retiring sets and accessories)
Current sampler promotion
inventory blowout sale (including items in new catalog).

The new catalog will be available starting at noon on Monday the 19th. I'm so excited. Can you tell? I already have a list a mile long. :)

It's that time of year again. Coming Feb 1st - Sale-a-bration (the period where you spend $50 in product you get to pick a free item out of the Sale-a-bration brochure. If you'd like to host a party during that time let me know - we can do catalog parties too for those of you that prefer that route.)

Also starting Feb 1st thru April 30 - anyone who places an online order and chooses a demo will receive a free catalog. You can do that at Stampin' Up! and then chose me as a demo or you can go directly to my SU website at www.detailmama@stampinup.net or click here to go there.

Sorry, I don't have a picture today. I spent the time watching my kids basketball games and hanging with some friends. We haven't gotten much time to do that lately, so it was good to do that. I hope to post another picture soon.

new catalog coming Jan 19th

The new catalog is right around the corner and I'm excited as usual. There is quite a few new things coming out in pretty much every area from stamps to tools to decor elements. It's all pretty exciting. Can you tell my list is already a mile long. :)
This card shows little snippets of one of the new DSP. It's called Raspberry Tart. The circle saying (which fits our punch) is from a new hostess set. The little flower is a little embosslet from Sizzix and is cut out of the DSP too. Of course I had to use a square punch and the scallop border punch. Did you hear that there is a new border punch - it has a lace type look to it. There are also two new heart punches. A new circle cutter, lots of sizzix products, corduroy and latte buttons, new ribbons, canvas cuts, one set of colored rub-ons, single stamps, new stamp kits, scrap kits and gift type kits.... Oh, I could go on and on.
Can you tell I'm addicted. I love fun new stuff. You'll have to visit soon to see what all is new. I hope you are having a great day today. Hope to talk to you soon.
I got this card idea from a fellow demo. I'm sorry, I'm so bad with remembering names. If you see this and you know the who the idea came from, let me know. Thanks

Love is the permission to be...silly

Here are a couple of pages I made with the Love Stories SSKit. I think it's funny. I haven't hardly scrapbooked in a few months and what do I scrapbook - something gross.
I don't know if you can see it very well, but my kids were pulling out their gum and making it long like "a jump rope". Next thing I know their dad has joined in and it's mayhem everywhere. It was pretty funny once you overlooked the "ewwwh" factor. These pages were super easy to put together with the kit. I added a cardstock circle and inked some edges, so in no time they were done. Of course for me, picking out the pictures are the hardest part. Here are a couple of close ups of the pages. You ought to try our kits, they are nice. This one will also be in the new catalog as well as several new sets.

party hearty gift card sample

Hi everyone,
This is pretty much the last week to get the retiring items both stamps and accessories. There are already some accessories sold out. If you are interested let me know or go online to my site to get what you need.
Anyways, I wanted to show you this cute card I made. It uses the kraft open ended envelopes that are retiring.
What I did was fold the envelope in half under the flap, then added another piece on top of that (this is optional) to make it more square looking. I stamped over the kraft in versa mark with the party hearty stamps and then stamped Make a wish from a Little Birthday cheer set in riding hood red. Then I closed it and on the front I added pacific point and white paper. I stamped Happy Birthday (from a little Birthday Cheer) in riding Hood Red. I then took a scrap of white and stamped the top of the cupcake with pacific point ink. I cut that out and added Crystal Effects to it. While wet I added orange and red beads from the duos to it. I then took a scrap of kraft ran it through my crimper and then cut to match the bottom. I inked the raised area with chocolate to give it dimension and then glued it on the page. After the Crystal Effects dried I then added the top of the cupcake with dimensionals. It was fairly quick and easy to make and then you can just slide a gift card, money or note into the top pocket.

Scrapbooking

Gosh, I didn't realize it had been so long since I had posted. I guess I've been busier then I thought. I have been busy creating and scrapping. Can you believe I actually got time to scrapbook a couple sets of pages. I can't remember how long it's been since I've done that. I've also been getting club and class ideas together for the spring. I hope to post those soon. I'm still working out some ideas there. I'm also gearing up for Sale-a-bration which starts Feb. 1st. So much to do so little time. :)

Anyways, I wanted to show you these two pages I did. I thought they turned out kind of cute. I'm using the Summer Home paper which is on the retiring accessories list. If you need to see a copy of that let me know. If I get a chance I'll post it on here.
The flowers are like cardstock stickers. You just pop them on in whatever design that you like. I used the Big shot to cut out my letters. I used that saying because this gets sung to my kids every night and since they looked like they were sending hugs I thought it was appropriate. What do you think?

triangle box

Here are closer pictures of the triangle box we made at club. It shows the front and side views. It can hold candy or a small gift. It is stamped with the Winter Post snowflake with Versa Mark. I also used the faux metal technique to do the tag. I talked about the one version of faux metal with the Christmas card and this is the other technique. You create this technique by embossing an image on silver paper. The silver paper was inked using Versa Mark and covered in silver embossing powder. It was heat embossed and punched with the curly label punch. It gives just enough of a difference to look like a little metal tag.

Now how do you make the triangle box? Well, I took a piece of cardstock (here 5 x 10"). I used Hunter Green for this one. I then scored it at the 5" point (middle) on the long side. Then you mark the middle on the short sides. This little image should give you an idea. The lines inside the rectangle are all scored. The little rectangle on the top left side represent where you place your sticky strip. Once you have it all scored and stamped you then place sticky strip in the one corner and fold up your box but don't adhere the one side yet. Then you take your crop-o-dile and punch a hole in the center of the side. Turn around and open back up that end and punch the other side ( so you have one hole on both sides of the point. You then adhere the one side together. Then you add your candy or gift and then pull your ribbon through and tie in a bow to hold it all together (I used Riding Hood Red tafeta ribbon). I then put it all together and then put dimensionals under the tag to help it stick out.
It was a pretty easy box to make. So what do you think?

You can click on the little picture to get a better view of it.

December club

It just dawned on me that I had not posted what our club members did in December. We got delayed a week because we were worried about an ice storm. It ended up being just a couple of days before Christmas and I got caught up with that that I forgot to post what we did.
We made three item and I gave them 2 plus a box.
This first picture shows what I gave them. I made a little candy cane mouse holder which I learned from fellow demo Dawn Griffith. The other item was what I call my sparkly ornaments made with refills and glitter. Each one got a different color. This one shows one of the dark greens. I put each one of the ornaments in a box made from the envelope die made with my Big Shot. I wrapped it in ribbon and used a hostess set colored in red and Olive to place a tag on it. I thought these were all really cute to make and fun to see.
The three items we made were all Christmas in nature. First we made an ornament ball made with dsp from the mini catalog. They had choices on how to pattern the ball. This is shown with the 20 circles cut from the die from the Big Shot.
The tag uses the Top Note Die and is a sample that I saw in the mini. It uses the Winter Post stamp set, jumbo eyelets, Chocolate chip ink and the cording from the mini.
The last item was a triangle box. It's hard to see in this picture but it's stamped with the snowflake from the Winter post with Versa Mark. It has tafeta riding hood red ribbon tying it together and has a faux metal tag on it, wishing everyone a Merry Christmas. You can fill this little box up with goodies or you could even use it as an ornament for your tree. My next post I'll post a close up of it and post some instructions on how to make it. But for now I need to get ready for bed. I stayed up too late last night to ring in the new year.
I hope you all had a great New Year. I can't wait to see what 2009 brings.