As promised, here are the cards I made using the beautiful free products from the Sale-a-Bration brochure! This patchwork card is made using 2cm squares of the Everday Enchantment Designer Series Paper and then embossed in the Sqare Lattice embossing folder.

And here is the postcard I made using the Fresh Vintage stamp set. I chose Stampin’ Write Markers in the colours to match the DSP and coloured direct to rubber before huffing and stamping! Again the stamped piece is embossed in the Square Lattice embossing folder, mounted onto Poppy Parade cardstock and then onto a postcard back. You can find the templates on the internet to print and create your own postcards.

Don’t forget you can earn one of these and other Sale-a-Bration products for free with every $100 you spend! Host a workshop over $600 and also earn one Sale-a-Bration item free along with your hostess benefits! Contact me today if you would like to hold a wokshop to take advantage of these beautiful free products!

Sale-a-Bration is here!

Sale-a-Bration is the best time of the Stampin’ Up! year!

Click on the image above to download the Sale-a-Bration brochure!

Customers can earn a free product with every $100 purchase!

Host a party and get free exclusive products with a qualifying workshop!

Join Stampin’ Up! and take advantage of the $249 Starter Kit special and get a free stamp set of your choice!

Contact me today to place your order and get your free Sale-a-Bration product, to book a party or to discuss the purchasing the specially priced Starter Kit !

Here’s the sneak peak of the two cards we made at last weeks stamp club. The card on the left is made with the Fresh Vintage stamp set, and the one on the right is made using the Everday Enchantment DSP – I love it! I’ll show you the complete cards after next week’s stamp club!

Happy New Year! I’m back into the swing of things after a much needed break over Christmas and New Year, and well, yes, a bit of an extended break into January! My classes and Stamp Club list is up for January and February – you can find it here. This is one of the pages we did at my monthly Scrapbooking Night back in November – if you visited our stand at the Albany Show you may remember seeing this one on our display. It rather simple but has a stunning result! The circles are made by masing and sponging, and then stamping before removing the mask. The colours are Pool Party and Island Indigo on Very Vanilla cardstock. And of course a black and white photo can be added to just about any colour combination! Lovely couple aren’t they?!

Well, today’s the 23rd January and that means SALE-A-BRATION BEGINS TOMORROW!!! For every $100 that you spend during Sale-a-Bration (24 January – 31 March) you can choose one of four Sale-a-Bration stamp sets, or one of the matching Everyday Enchantment Designer Series Paper or Ribbon & Brad Pack (matches Fresh Vintage stamp set). I am loving this stamp set and the DSP and let me tell you the matching ribbon and brad pack is so sweet! Stay tuned tomorrow morning for a sneak peak of two cards we made at my Stamp Club on Friday night. I’ll post the whole pictures after next week – can’t spoil it for the other Stamp Club girls who will have their turn at making them next week!

 I’ll try and get the brochure up tomorrow as soon as I get home from work in the morning, or you can visit the Stampin’ Up! website at www.stampinup.com and view it there. I also have plenty of spares, so let me know if you’d like one and I will pop one in the post for you.

Contact me today to take advantage of these never before seen prices!

Okay, so we all know the Summer Mini catalogue is due to be released on 1 December? Yep – only next week! Stampin’ Up! have announced an early release of the Stitched Stockings Set and Stocking Tag Punch -these are in the new mini catalogue and are now available to order! Even though the Summer Mini doesn’t begin until 1 December, Stampin’ Up! has decided to release these items early so you can use them in readiness for the Christmas festivities! Just to show you how cute this duo is, I quickly threw together this little gift card!

Contact me today if you would like to order these items!

During November, get 10% off select Big Shot Dies and Embossing Folders!

Don’t have a Big Shot yet? Get 10% off our exclusive Big Shot Bundle! The Big Shot Bundle includes the following:

Contact me today to take advantage of this limited – time sale!

Stampin’ Up! love to reward their demonstrators, customers and hostesses! During October, purchase this pair of coordinating Christmas products early–before the debut of the 2011 Summer Mini Catalogue:

• Stitched Stocking Set
• Stocking Tag Punch

It gets even better. Get them both for FREE when you host a $450 workshop!

Yes – you can earn a FREE Stitched Stockings stamp set and coordinating Stocking Tag Punch when you host a $450 workshop! You can view the stamp set and punch here. Contact me today to book your October workshop – it’s too good an offer to miss!

Did you know you can join Stampin’ Up! for only $169? Yep – it’s fair dunkum, true! You can purchase the Mini Starter Kit for only $169 ($310 value) or the regular Starter Kit less 20% during the month of September and join in all the perks of becoming a Stampin’ Up! demonstrator! Imagine 20% off all your orders, hostess benefits for yourself, the endless inspiration and support from Stampin’ Up!, and the friendship and creativity shared by fellow demonstrators! I’ve been a Stampin’ Up! demonstrator for 6 years now (I even received a gorgeous little 5 year pin in the mail yesterday!) and am proud to admit I love Stampin’ Up! I love the stamps, love the product, love the company…… I guess I just love, love, love it all! Can I interest you? Just a little bit? Contact me today for more information (obligation free of course!) on the fantastic benefits of joining Stampin’ Up!, if you are interested in purchasing the Mini Starter Kit for $169 or the regular Starter Kit for 20% off!

With the Retired List now out, it’s a good opportunity for a blog hop to say “goodbye” to many of the stamp sets which are retiring! I’m a member of ESAD-SU, which is an on-line group of Stampin’ Up! demonstrators across Australia and New Zealand, and today there are 26 of us taking part in the Blog Hop! We have all chosen retiring stamp sets to showcase on our projects for today’s Blog Hop.

What is ESAD?

ESAD stands for “Extra Special Australasian Demonstrators” and it is an on-line group just for Australian and New Zealand Stampin Up demonstrators.

 We so love what we do and not only do we love to share it with our customers, friends, and wonderful blog visitors, but we share our love for what we do with each other as demonstrators.  We run swaps, challenges, tutorials, product know-how, and cyberstamps, and we are always there to help and support each other when it is needed.

So if you are a Stampin’ Up! demonstrator located in Australia or New Zealand, then please feel free to click here to join our wonderful group!

I thought I’d give myself a bit of a challenge, and use Dreams du Jour. I loved this stamp set from the first time I saw it, but really on used it on a few occassions. So, it was a good opportunity to get it off the shelf and ink it up again!

First I made this chocolate box. I’ve used Riding Hood Red card for the box, and Chocolate Chip card and Love Letter Designer Series Paper to decorate the lid of the box. I’ve stamped the “Dreams” image in Chocolate Chip ink onto Very Vanilla Card, and watercoloured the image with inks and a Blender Pen. The decorative edge around the box is made with a 1.5cm strip of Very Vanilla card and punched using the Scallop Trim border punch. I’ve added some 3.2mm Very Vanilla Taffeta Ribbon to the punched strip, and added a bow to the front of the box.  The flowers are made by using the Fancy Flower, Five Petal and Boho Blossoms punches, and layering the punch outs together and inserting an Antique brad. The flowers are spritzed with water and scrunched.

I made an insert for the inside of the box, to help separate the chocolates and keep them in place.

Each chocolate is wrapped in a strip of Vanilla card stamped with the “Love You” image and again watercoloured. I think this would make a lovely Mother’s Day gift, don’t you?

I decided to go with the same romantic vintage theme and make a matching centre step card. This card was so easy, and came together very quickly! The thing I love most about Stampin’ Up! is how everything coordinates – it makes stamping and paper crafting a breeze!

This card is decorated in the same manner as the chocolate box, and I have utilized the other two stamps in the Dreams du Jour stamp set. If you would like to purchase this stamp set, or any others from the Retired List, remember they are only available while stocks last. Contact your demonstrator today if you wish to order.

The next blog to visit on the Retired List Blog Hop is the very creative Tanya Bell

Thanks for visiting, enjoy the Blog Hop and have a great weekend!

1.    Keryn Campbell 

2.    Michelle Martin 

3.    Richelle Fletcher 

4.    Sharlene Meyer 

5.    Karen Southwell 

6.    Carole Stedman 

7.    Sherylee Tutt 

8.    Monique Fielder 

9.    Juliette Chapman

 10.  Rebecca Scurr

11.    Yvonne Walker

12.  Karen Rogers

 13.  Dani Fender

 14.  Cathy Clark

15.  Tanya Bell  

16.  Kelly Nelson

 17.  Sharlene Torres 

18.  Kari Hughes  

19.  Mel Sharp

 20.  Christie Kunkel

 21.  Debbie Lamb  

22.  Clare Mcilhatton

 23.  Michelle Halling

 24.  Nicole VanSteelandt Derendorf  

25.  Elizabeth Dyson

26.  Joanne Kechagias