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  • Lots of Great New Clearance Items and Weekly Deals!

    Lots of Great New Clearance Items and Weekly Deals!

    So apparently today is Super-Deal-Day at Stampin’ Up! and since some of these deals are “while supplies last”, I wanted to make sure you knew about all the great specials.

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    Up to 80% off with NEW Clearance Rack Items

    The Clearance rack was updated today and there is some AWESOME stuff – especially for spring projects that were added to the list.

    See everything on clearance here

    Here are my top new clearance items that I love:

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    **NOTE – This will sell out this morning, so shop ASAP if you want the cardstock!    		imageimage
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    For example, how cute is this card that I made using the Tea for Two designer paper?

    And while you are checking out all the great deals in the Clearance Rack, don’t forget to check out the new Weekly Deals as well!

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    Shop the Weekly Deals online here

    So, get to snagging those great deals before they sell out!  I’ll be placing a group order this afternoon, so if you want any of these deals but want to combine with a group order to save on shipping let me know today by emailing me at jennifer@nwstamper.com.

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  • New Catalog Weekend & Stamps are on Sale!

    Sometimes I hear about the promotions that will be starting up in the near future, and sometimes I log into the Stampin’ Up! website for demonstrators and I’m surprised by a new sale that is being announced.  I figured that since we have the two big catalogs out this weekend that there would be no way they would have anything extra….. WRONG!

    I was so EXCITED because Stampin’ Up! is offering 3 fabulous greeting stamp sets for 25% off!

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    Now, I already love the Petite Pairs stamp set…I love it for cards like this:

    or this:

     

    But I’ve been wistfully eyeing the Sweet Essentials since it came out last year and I think between the retirement of my beloved Curly Cute and this sale, I think this will be the weekend I finally get it!

    So check your wishlist and if Petite Pairs, Sassy Salutations, or Sweet Essentials are on there, enjoy snapping them up for a fab deal!

    Product Share Reminder:

    I also wanted to mention that if you were interested in one of my product shares, please make sure you have let me know this weekend so I can enough supplies for everyone!  You can check out all the options and details here – Get your New Catalog Product Samples Here or grab a copy of the PDF with pictures:

    2013 Stampin' Up Annual Catalog Product Shares

    Get the Available Product Samplers PDF

    Have a fun & inky weekend!

  • Scrapbooking Sunday: Layering, Misting, and More!

    I’ve been trying to start up scrapbooking classes each month… partially because I wanted to have some balance in my classes and also because I am dreadfully behind on my scrapping.  So, creating layouts for a class forces me to get some extra pages done!

    So, this month, I ended up turning to the Tea for Two suite from the Spring Catalog as my inspiration in creating two 12×12 pages.  I designed them so they could stand alone or be a two page spread.

    Layout #1: Best Things in Life

    So, this page is designed with the Basic Grey pieces to be mats for 4×6 photos – that means once you drop in your pictures there will a little grey mat plus the Old Olive mat behind that.

    My favorite embellishment is this layered flower above the photos:

    I took one of the Tea Lace Doilies (one of the best deals in the catalog! You get 24 doilies for only $2.95) and I sponged it with a sponge dauber and Calypso Coral ink.  You just have to be careful that you don’t rub too hard or you will tear part of the doily off.  Thankfully, in this case, you can tuck the yucky part (like I did!) under the grey photo mat.

    Then I stamped the flower image from Betsy’s Blossom and punched it out with the 1-3/4” Scallop Circle punch.  For the top layer, I used one of the new Designer Build a Brads to create a cute topper.

    Now, here is the trick – I snipped off the brad tines from the back of the Build a Brad!  Then stick your brad into a Stampin’ Dimensional and stick it to the front of your embellishment.  This raises the brad up off of the photo mat so you have room to slide your photo underneath!

    I also thought it needed something in the upper corner so I used Besty’s Blossom again for the bird and leaves.

    And I used this great sentiment from the Feels Good stamp set for my title.  If you are wondering about the shape I used for the title block, it is actually the largest of the Labels Framelits that I hung off the corner of the page and then snipped away all of the extra.

    Layout #2:  Misting Fun

    This is the second layout we created.  I’ll try to go fast since I know this post is getting totally long. Smile  This page was my “play with all the tools on my craft table” layout.

    First I started by misting the corners of my base paper.  I started with Whisper White cardstock and then spruced it up by making my own So Saffron mist.

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    To make your own mist, add some rubbing alcohol to one of the Stampin’ Spritzers.  Then add a few drops of your favorite re-inker to the mix and shake it up.   I would add about 10 drops of reinker for about every 1/4 of the spritzer bottle you fill with alcohol.

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    Then I used my Color Spritzer and my Calypso Coral marker and spritzed over the So Saffron mist with Coral splatter.  It adds just a touch of coral to the page without jumping out at you.

    Finally a few more touches… I used some of the Pool Party Core’dinations cardstock (sanded down of course!) to accent my photo mat for my 5×7” photo.  Then I cut out more of the images from the Betsy’s Blossom stamp set for a corner embellishment, which is also popped up on dimensionals so you can stick your photo underneath.

    Finally I had to grab some of my new This and That items to finish it out.  The rotary date stamp for the banner label (I wasn’t sure which picture I wanted to use so I left the date blank) plus some washi for more color at the bottom of the page!

    Whew!  Ok, made it through all those photos!  I just love scrapbook pages though because you can use all your different papers, tools, and accents to make one big cool design.

    So hopefully this gave you some new idea and I’d love to hear what you think about these pages.  I love hearing what you think in comments, so if you have a minute please leave a comment and let me know what you think!

     

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    Supples Used
    Stamps     – Betsy’s Blossom, Feels Good, This or That rotary date stamp
    Paper – Whisper White, So Saffron, Old Olive, Basic Grey, Tea for Two designer paper, Pool Party core’dinations cardstock
    Ink – Chocolate Chip, So Saffron, Old Olive, Calypso Coral, Calypso Coral marker, So Saffron reinker
    Accessories – Tea Lace Doilies, 2011-2013 In Color Printed brads, Stampin’ Spritzers, Color Spritzer, This and That washi tape, Designer Build a Brads, Stampin’ Dimensionals, 1 3/4” Scallop Circle punch, Big Shot, Labels Framelits, Spone Daubers, Itty Bitty Punch Pack, Stampin’ Sanding System

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  • Scrapbooking Sunday: Butterflies & Tea for Two!

    Ugh, I am terrible at titles for blog posts but I am so excited to share this scrapbook layout with you today!  I just LOVE how it turned out and hope you can use some of the ideas I had to dress up your own scrapbooking layouts and cards.  I used the Tea for Two designer paper and the Bloomin’ Marvelous stamp set as my inspiration for the theme of the page.

     

    So, this is a layout that I had to create because each year I always go to the Stampin’ Up! convention and of course, the big celebrity is Shelli Gardner herself!  And so, I had to get Caitlin (and my) photo with her last year and document it.  Because if there aren’t pictures, it didn’t happen…. right?  Smile

    So, let me show you some of my accents and details that went into this page so you can use them on your own projects later:

    Heat Embossed Title

    Ok, so, if you’ve been in my craft room, you know I’m obsessed with alphabet stickers and alphabet dies so I can create custom titles for my pages.  Well, sometimes I have stamps that fit just right for my title and when that happens, I love to do some heat embossing.

    In this case, I pulled the convention-exclusive stamp set they handed out last year and stamped the flourish frame in Versamark and embossed with Basic Black embossing powder.  Then I stamped the words from the same set in Versamark and embossed again with white embossing powder.

    And did you see those butterflies?  My mom suggested earlier this week that you could layer the small butterfly punch on top of the Elegant butterfly punch.  Well, I decided to give it a try by stamping the butterfly from the Bloomin’ Marvelous Sale-a-Bration stamp set and punching it out with the Elegant Butterfly punch.  Add a little Dazzling Details glitter glue in the center of each butterfly and you get this:

    I wanted to add some texture and so I first added the Stitched Grosgrain Whisper White ribbon along the middle of the strip of chevron designer paper from the Tea for Two designer paper pack.  It was a perfect subtle touch.  And then (of course after I glued down my pictures) I decided I wanted to add a doily too.  So, I hacked up one of the paper doilies and gently pulled up the edges of my photos to tuck it under.

    And then finally, even after sponging the entire edge of the page with Calypso Coral ink, I decided that the upper left corner needed something.  So I grabbed some scraps of the different patterns from the Tea for Two designer paper pack and snipped the ends into banners and glued/stapled them to the top of the page.

    I am really happy with how it turned out and hope you got some fun ideas too!  I’d love to hear what you think.

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  • A Little Bit of This and That for a Fun Thank You Card

    I have a “matchy-matchy” mind I’m learning.  When I have product kits or coordinating suites, I tend to make projects that use all the stuff from that one collection.  So, that makes today’s share a bit more impressive for me since I pretty much used a little bit of this and that of things lying around my craft table to create this fun thank you card for a friend.

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    I was playing with a few of my favorite new things (the Oh Hello stamp set and Tea for Two designer paper), but then I wanted to give the new Designer Brads a try.

    I used my Pink Pirouette cardstock to make the small pink circle in the middle of the brad (you use the circle from the Itty Bitty Punch pack to easily punch this out).  Then I loosely formed a bow with the new Two Tone ribbon and then wrapped my designer brad around the center of the bow to pinch it together and make a cute accent.  The wrapping the brad tines around the bow did use up most of the metal from the brad tines, and so I ended up adhering my bow to my card with glue dots.

    But all together, it was fun putting this card together and hopefully my friend liked it. Smile

    And for those of you scrapbookers out there, stop by my blog tomorrow for another installment of Scrapbooking Sunday!  See you then!

     

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    Greeting Card Kids Thank You Recipe:
    Stamps:     Teeny Tiny Wishes, Oh Hello, Greeting Card Kids
    Ink: River Rock, Basic Grey, Pink Pirouette marker
    Paper: Whisper White cs, Pink Pirouette cs, River Rock cs, Tea For Two designer paper
    Accessories: Two-Tone Ribbon (Basic Grey), Designer Brads, Itty Bitty Punch pack, Glue Dots, Stampin’ Dimensionals

  • Smashed Bottle Cap/Soda Pop Top Spring Card

    Ever since I went to Leadership in January, I have been dying to try out the technique of smashing the soda pop tops with your Big Shot to create these super cute embellishments.  For some reason I thought it was going to be super hard or complicated… or something that made me a little bit intimidated to give it a try.  But then one day I decided to just go for it and I was shocked at how easy it was!

    So, I just had to put together a card to share with my group at my monthly team conference call/meeting.  I showed them how easy it was and then had supplies for everyone to make this card:

    I just had to use some of my new favorites including Tea for Two designer paper and the Honeycomb embossing folder for the base of the card.

    But check out this pop top… isn’t is awesome when smashed?!?

    How to Smash Your Soda Pop Top in Your Big Shot

    Ok, so if you want to do this yourself, this is what you need to do:

    1.  Put your white multi-purpose platform on the Big Shot base with all of the tabs/shims flipped open

    2.  Sandwich your bottle cap/pop top between the two clear cutting plates and place on top of the multi-purpose platform

    3.  Run through your Big Shot

    That’s it!  It smashes fast and like buttah!  I have way too much fun doing this. Smile

    I just used the 1” Circle Punch after I stamped my image from the Collage Curious stamp set (stamped on River Rock cardstock) and adhered it to the inside of the pop top.  Then I filled the inside with Crystal Effects. 

    I will warn you it takes a long time to dry!  Like seriously, it took probably about 45 min for mine to dry because I used soooo much Crystal Effects.  But it looks so awesome that I just had to do it.

    So if you haven’t tried this smashed soda pop top technique yet, you totally should!  Give it a try and let me know what you think.

     

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    Smashed Recipe:
    Stamps:     Teeny Tiny Wishes, Collage Curious
    Ink: Crumb Cake, Markers: Calypso Coral, Certainly Celery
    Paper: Very Vanilla cs, Certainly Celery cs, Tea For Two designer paper
    Accessories: Big Shot, Honeycomb embossing folder, Glue Dots, Crystal Effects, Paper Snips, Calypso Coral ruffled ribbon, Stampin’ Dimensionals