New SU Promotions

Here are a lot of new SU promotions that might interest you...

Promotions at a glance (read further for more details on each)
-Oct 1-31, 2008 - Spend $20 get 20% off select birthday stamp sets; Large tip Aqua painter promotion
-Oct 1-Nov 30 - Host a $460 workshop and choose a free stamp set
-Oct 4-11, 2008 - 20% off Simply Send Card Elements and Card Kits
-Now-Oct 11, 2008 - Become an SU demonstrator two ways: 1) $249 starter kit with free stamp; 2) $119 starter kit where you choose stamp, scrapbook or home decor focus
-Oct 1, 2008-Jan 18, 2009 - Holiday Mini Catalogue available
-Phase 2 of Decor Elements now available

This year is Stampin Up's 20th birthday and they are celebrating with a new promotion! If you spend $20, you can get 20% off select SU birthday stamp sets. Plus, they are offering a product promotion in which you can buy the large tip aqua painter for $8.50. Click here for more details. Host a $460 workshop from October 1-November 30 and you can choose one stamp set from the Fall-Winter sampler for free! Click here for more details and email me to book your workshop!

Did you know that October 4 is World Card Making Day? SU is celebrating by offering its Simply Sent Card Elements and Card Kits (on pages 176-177 of the catalogue) at 20% off from October 4-11th only! Click here for more details. Now is a great time to sign up to be a Stamping Up demonstrator - there is just over a week left to take advantage of these great offers. If you want to earn extra money or buy Stampin Up's great products at a discounted rate - there are two great promotions going on until October 11th that you may want to consider. If you join as a demonstrator with the regular $249 starter kit, you can choose any stamp set (of any value) for free! Or, if you have lots of SU product already, take advantage of the $119 starter kit special where you can choose your kit based on if you wanted to focus on stamping, scrapbooking or home decor. Click here for more details. From now until January 18, 2009 you can purchase items from the SU Holiday Mini Catalogue. It features great products for Thanksgiving, Christmas, Valentine's Day and more! For more details click here. Phase 2 of the Decor Elements line is now available to order. It's great vinyl products for any hard, smooth surface in your home! This line features great products for decorating a childs room and for the upcoming Christmas season. Click here for more details.

SC195 Joyful Santa

It's getting close to that Christmas season - so I thought I had better start thinking about making some Christmas cards. This card was made inspired by SC195 but I altered the way the squares sit so it looked a bit better for this card. I contemplated using a bit more colour but I liked it with just the red and white! The "joy" sentiment was heat embossed with white embossing powder so it would jump out against the red paper.

Stamps: SU A Holly Jolly Christmas
Ink: SU real red, versamark
Paper: SU real red, ww, real red dp
Misc: SU punches, white ep

TECC35 Lots of Ribbon

This has to be one of my favourite cards I have ever made! The layout was inspired by Taylored Expressions: TECC35. I had really been wanting to play with my Verve Visual stamp set "Asian Flair especially this particular sentiment. Since it had to do with ribbons I really wanted to use a lot of ribbon (which is my favourite embellishment) on the card - and what better way than creating a ribbon weave! I love the way this turned out!

Stamps: Verve Visual Asian Flair
Ink: SU groovy guava
Paper: SU groovy guava, ww, ginger blossom dp
Ribbon: SU groovy guava

WSC59 Spider

This is my card for Beate's WSC59. This was a fun sketch to play with and it took me a long time to decide which of the adorable Halloween papers to use! This card is very simple and quick to make - I'm trying to do more "quick" cards that don't have a lot of layering like I usually do!

Stamps: SU Batty for You
Ink: SU Basic black
Paper: SU basic black, kiwi kiss, ghostly grettings dp
Misc: Su punches

Batty for You Pixie Stix

I love all of the stamps and papers for Halloween although I don't actually have much use for them as we don't have kids and we live in an apartment so kids don't trick-or-treat here. I decided to go ahead and use my favourite Halloween set SU's "Batty for You" to decorate some pixie stix since they are so cheap. These use the new In Colours tangerine tango and kiwi kiss. For the white images on black paper, I used white embossing powder so it would be really noticeable. The scallops were attached to the pixie sticks by taking a glue dot and wrapping it around the stick. I love the way these turned out. I'm at home with an injury from work so Grant ran to the store to get the pixie stix for me and he even got them orange specifically since he knew I wanted them for a Halloween project! Thanks G! Maybe I'll give them to my sister to use for school or something.

Supplies

Stamps: SU Batty for You
Ink: SU kiwi kiss, tangerine tango, basic black, versamagic
Paper: SU basic black, tangerine tango, kiwi kiss, ww
Punches: SU scallop punch, circle punches
Misc: SU white ep

Criss Cross Thanks

This is a card I had created quite a long time ago, when I first learned how to make a criss cross card. It was before I got a lot into stamping so I used the Bazzill Basics chip topper for the sentiment - I still love these because they are great when in a rush for a cute card. It is still one of my favourites because of the soft colours. You can find directions to make your own criss cross card here. They are really easy and look great!

Supplies:

Paper: Bazzill Basics pink, green and white cardstock, KI Memories and Costco dp
Ribbon: Pink Spool O'ribbon
Misc: Bazzill Basics chip toppers, Provo Craft snap ease fasteners, Fiskars decorative scissors

Rock Silhouettes

Here are the last of the cards I made using the pocket silhouettes stamps and layout I posted a few days ago. These too are made using only SU supplies but they use last years In Colour River rock. Tip for stampers/cardmakers: When you find a card layout and design you really like, make a few of it all at once. This way, it goes quicker to cut the cardstock all at once and create a kind of assembly line process! I would have loved a yellow or green version of these too, but I don't have those ribbons yet! Guess I know what I'll have to add to my next order. Hope you've enjoyed these!

The thing I really enjoy about these cards too is how versatile they are. Without a sentiment on them, they can be used for just about any occassion!