Thanks to those who came and played Bingo with me last week....If you would like to join us on Thursday evening, 730pm for about 20 minutes. I share something that I have been working on this week. Each person picks 5 numbers (when I post I am ready for numbers) between 1-75. At 740pm, I start calling numbers, and the first person to get all of their numbers called, posts the word Bingo under the last number called. That person wins the prize. No obligation to do anything but message me your address (if I don't already have it) Not many people playing so your chances of winning are good. You must be a friend of mine, not this page, so if you are not friends with me, leave a comment and I will Friend Request you, when you accept, I can add you to the group. Last night only 2 people playing, so the winner got her choice and the other person got the other item.

Stampin' Up! New Sale a bration items start today!

Today starts the new items that you can earn FREE with a $50 order.  Here they are:

These new offerings replace Sky is the Limit and Hello Stamp sets and Perfectly Artistic Designer Series Paper.   I can't wait to get all 3 of these items.   What is your Favorite Sale a bration (SAB) item this year?? 

Leave a comment telling me your favorite SAB item to win some FREE Stampin' Up! Goodies from Me.

Here are the Weekly Deals this week...starting today.   I used the Envelope Punch Board so much last week making the little Valentine treats to hand out.   It's not just for envelopes!  I will share a cute gift item made with it next week...

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To place an order for any of these items or any items, you can do it EASY...Go to my website and click on the SHOP NOW tab and shop away.....Don't forget, if you order is $50, you earn a FREE SAB item.   The Hostess Code for February is 7XR646QD, use the Hostess Code for a chance for some FREE Stampin' Up! items.   Everyone who orders, no matter how little or how much, gets their name put in for the drawing.  If your order is over $150, please do not use the Hostess Code, as you will receive Hostess Rewards for your order, as well as 3 SAB items.

Sale a bration is also the best time to join Stampin' Up!  Freebies all around.... Stampin' Up! gives you extra Stampin' Up! goodies.   Instead of getting $125 in Stampin' Up! merchandise (your choice),you get $155 in merchandise (all at your choice)  for the price of the Starter kit -  $99.   There is no obligation for anything else, just enjoy the discount...that's is what I signed up for, almost 12 years ago.   There is so much more to earn when being a demonstrator, at your own speed!!!  Want to learn more?   Contact me today.

Don't forget to leave a comment below on your favorite SAB item.   I will pick a winner this Friday, February 19th.

Enjoy!


Carol Valentine

Grateful Bunch by Stampin' Up!

When I first saw this set in the Occasions Catalog, I loved it, but then thought.    Do I really need another flower set?????    Anyone think the same thing?    Well, I started seeing some cards made with the set and coordinating punch on Pinterest and various Facebook groups that I am on and knew that I HAD to have it.

Like a lot of stamps I purchase, when they arrive, I ooh and aah over them and sit them aside and keep saving  samples I see made with them to my computer, but don't seem to get around to actually using the stamp set.   One of my goals is to USE what I BUY!    And one of the ways I am achieving that goal is to go to my downloads on my computer and bring up a few samples that I have saved and get the stamp set out and start to create, either copying completely or changing it a bit.   Then on Facebook, I created a group for a game, a bingo of sorts and I give the winner some of the cards I created.   The group is a closed group, but all you have to do is let me know either here in a comment or email me and we have to be friends of Facebook, then I can add you to the group.   It takes place every Thursday and starting this week it will be at 730p EST.   I will post that you can add your numbers and that is when all who are playing, enter their 5 numbers from 1 -75 in a comment under that post.  At 740pm, I will start calling numbers in a separate post and the numbers will appear in the comments below that first number.   When all 5 of your numbers have been called, you enter the word bingo under the last number and I stop the game.   Check the numbers and announce the winner.   The winner receives the prize that night.   Usually 2 new cards made with either a new stamp set or bundle from the latest catalog, or maybe a set or tool that I have in my possession that has been sitting unused....

Here is the prize from last week.  I used the Grateful Bunch and almost copied exactly one I had saved on my computer.   The other card uses the new Sunburst Die that I thought I didn't need!!!!! Then I started seeing projects and I have made a few cards with it already.

Let me know if you want to join in on the Facebook Bingo, so I can add you.  

I will be holding a Spring/Easter Stamp class here in Florida, in Rockledge....

Date:   March 10, 11am.   Making 3 projects.   Cost is $10 or FREE with a $20 order the day of the class.

Wear Green (my favorite color) since we will be close to St Patty's Day and receive a prize from Me.

Deadline to RSVP is March 7th.   Contact me to RSVP for this class.

Dates to remember:

Feb 15th - Last day to get some of the Sale a bration items.   A few new ones will start on Feb 16th

Contact me to place an order or go to my website, choose Shop Now and shop and order at least $50 before shipping and tax and receive one of the Sale a bration items free.   Please use Hostess Code at the end of ordering 7XR646QD.   

Feb 20th - I will be at Cornerstone Flea & Farmers Market 901 Talplin St, SE Palm Bay, just off Emerson Rd South of Waco Rd.   I will have a table filled with Retired Stamp sets, punches, Big Shot items, Cards for sale for $2 each.  Time is from 8a - 1pm. 

March 31st - Last Day to order from Sale a bration catalog.   Last day to get extra Hostess $ for a qualifying party.   Last Day to get extra goodies in your Kit for the same $99.   Contact me to find out more.

For those of you who would like to get together and stamp or scrapbook?  Me too!   I wish I had the space to have a group over to craft, but I just don't have the space.    Maybe you do, or know somewhere we could meet, let me know.   It's always fun to craft with others.   

Bloomin' Love so many ways!

A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of meeting some great women who get together and craft.    I planned a couple of cards and they each made one.   We used the Bloomin' Love stamp set and framelits, and they all turned out so different, it was great to see these ladies getting creative.   I wish I would have taken some photos, but one gal posted her finished creation.   Instead of a card, she made it into a refrigerator magnet.    Love it!



Here is the card I planned for them to make.

Here are a few more using the Bloomin' Love stamp set and framelit bundle.

Here is one we made at the Stampin' Up! Onstage Event that I attended in Baltimore back in November.    

Here is one more,, from my Sweetheart Class I held yesterday.

And here's a little treat I made, handed out about 25 of these to various people over the last week.   So easy, took Sam's - from Pootles.com.uk.   I made some in December using Andes candies which fit perfect.   This time I wanted to use chocolate candy hearts.....and that template was too big that I had to glue the candy down.   SO, I thought....you are an adult and you should be able to figure this out.   I sat down and wasted a few small pieces of DSP and it worked!!!   SO SO Easy with the envelope punch board and only a 3x3 piece of DSP!!!

Happy Valentine's Day Everyone

Sending Lots of Love

Carol's Wacky Wednesday Paper crafting Tiips

What to do with extra punched out, die cut shapes leftover from projects????


 Here's the first. When making a project and you need to punch out a image or shape... Have scraps of DSP or cardstock left over?? Go ahead and punch or die cut those shapes and store in a container . Then when you need a shape, image, you can quickly grab one and finish your project. Here is how I store mine, some old stamp cases hold bigger shapes, the heart framelits, larger butterflies. The small cases with compartments, I picked up at a yard sale for a quarter each!  I used an empty button container for the hearts I punched out for an upcoming class.

Do have some tips for storing punched out shapes? Share them here...either in a comment below or contact me, I would love other ideas too.  

Lots of Stampin' going on here in Florida

Here's some updates.....

My knee is undergoing Physical Therapy and still limited walking!   My "pimple" on my back was actually a cyst and had it removed removed a few days ago, stitches to come out in 10 days!

I did not win Powerball :(. You gotta play to win and I forgot to play....  I would have given most of it away anyway.   

Since I am limited on my walking I have been doing lots of stamping...  New products from the Occasions and Sale A Bration  (SAB) catalogs.  Now if I could get my computer working faster, I would have had this post done yesterday!

I started a Facebook group, it's a closed group and if you want to join, you must let me know either comment here or check me out on Facebook, Stampin' with Stampergirl.   This group is a "Bingo" of sorts..... Every Thursday at 8pm, you pick and post 5 numbers from 1 to 75 (under my post saying post your numbers).  You will have from 8 pm to 810 pm to post your numbers.  At 810 pm I will start a new post calling numbers, when all your numbers have been posted, you comment below the last number, "Bingo".  You will win the prize that I have made or decided to give out that day.  The prizes are going to be either finished cards or projects made with products from the Occasions and SAB catalogs....at least for now, I might change my mind at some point and have Stampin Up merchandise.     

Here are the cards that went to the first winner last Thursday, my Mom won....since there was some confusion this first time, I have sent each of the other participants each one of the cards....

This first card uses Flowering Fields - from the (SAB) catalog...Demonstrators who atteneded an OnStage event in many states received this one for FREE.  I mounted mine while I was still at the event in Baltimore knowing I could not wait to use it.  I stamped the image on whisper white cardstock and colored the images in with my markers and a blender pen on the melon mambo flower. I cut the butterfly out by hand and used the greeting from the stamp set, Enjoy the Little Things in the Occasions catalog and attached both using dimensionals.

This 2nd one, uses the Heart framelit and coordinating Stamp set from the Occasions Catalog.   I wasn't going to get this framelit, but a customer wanted to use it for her party next week, so I relented......OH I am so glad for her wanting to use that for her party!!!   After a few "broken hearts" in the trash, I figured out the best sandwich and plate for the optimum result.    I used the magnetic platform, with the precision plate (yes, I said I wasn't getting that either) magnetic side up, the cardstock, the heart framelit - cutting side down - and then one cutting pad on top.   I ran it thru the Big Shot, 6 passes total.   Then took the framelit and the cardstock still attached to it, and used the brush tool and foam pad that the brush comes with and brushed over a few times and all the tiny pieces came out and I just flicked the heart once to get the last bits out...   I ended up cutting 10 hearts out and took me about 20 minutes.  A great workout for your biceps!!!
I cut this heart out of a 5" x 3 3/4" piece of whisper white cardstock so that I could put the heart back in when I got all the little pieces out.   I added some Watermelon Wonder ribbon to tie in with the cardstock and ink and added some pearls.  I cut the greeting out by hand since I do not own the framelits to cut it out (yet) and put it onto the card with dimensionals.

This 3rd card uses the Sky is the Limit from the SAB catalog.   I knew the minute I saw it, at the Onstage Event - another perk to being a demo, we got to see the new catalogs early and  even receive some of the products from those catalogs FREE...... I also used the World Traveler embossing folder from the Occasions Catalog.  I cut the airplane out by hand and attached to the Soft Suede 2 1/2 circle using dimensionals.

I swear I use dimensionals for almost every card I make.   Where would I be without them?  trying to poke those cheapy ones I used to buy at the box stores out, only to have to waste a few, plus time and frustration with them.  

You guys are probably thinkin'   - what the heck?   this is a long post!   Yep, it is.   Sorry but I didn't want to leave too much out.  I didn't list the cardstock or the sizes of each, but if you have questions, please contact me.   AND if you want to play Bingo on fb next Thursday, friend me on fb so that I can add you, or text or call me.

Here are the items I used, if you want to purchase any of these items, you can either go to my website and order or contact me to order...no matter how you order, if you order totals $50 before shipping and tax, you receive a choice of one item from the SAB catalog, so if you are close to that amount, and need an idea of what to add to = $50, contact me.   Don't forget to use Hostess Code, RHRPRZWK, for the month of January to get in on the drawing for some FREE Stampin' Goodies, unless your order is $150 before S+T, then you get all the hostess benefits and don't use the Hostess Code.

ENJOY!

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Stampin' Up! Sale a Bration and Occasions catalog have started

The occasion's catalog and Sale a Bration (SAB) have begun....did you receive your catalogs?   If not, contact me so I can get them to you.

What is SAB?   Stampin Up offers a group of items FREE with the purchase of $50 (before shipping and tax).  There are 7 stamp sets, 3 different designer series paper, one of them is vellum and a Project Life Speciality Card Collection.   Two of the stamp sets are only available until February 15th, and at that. Time, they will have a few other items til the end of SAB, March 31st.

To earn SAb items- Purchase $50, (before shipping and tax) and choose a FREE item.    Host  a STampin party in your home, gather your friends for a fun morning, afternoon or evening together, crafting some fun projects.  A qualifying party of $150 in orders, earns you 10% of the total sales to purchase Stampin goodies from yourwishlist.  If the total is $250, you receive 10% of the total sales for FREE merchandise PLUS $25 in FREE merchandise.AND if you join my team, for $99, you receive $155 in your choice of merchandise for your starter kit.   AND the Kit sHips for FREE.

I have been dealing with knee pain, waiting for physical therapy and staying off my feet as much as possible....while I have time to stamp, I haven't felt like it too much.....well, I have some physical therapy set up for next week and things are looking up!

By next week, I hope to locate a venue to hold classes here in Florida and am planning a class now .  I will also have a class to go kit for long distance Stampin' friends.

Want to place an order?   use Hostess Code RHRPRZWK to get in for a drawing for Stampin' Goodies.   oRder $50 (before shipping and tax) receive a sale a Bration item and get on my 50/50/50 board for a chance to win up to $50 in. STampin' Up! Merchandise of your choice.

Until I get a d finite date for the class, here are a few cards I have made with new stamps for Occasions and SAB.

ENJOY!