Sneak Peek

Tonight was a late night for me. It is once again the time of year in Stampin' Up! where they reveal the Retired Stamp Sets and accessories. Usually it is posted on our demonstrator site by 11pm. Unfortunately, it is now 11:30pm and there is no list available. I promise to check for it first thing tomorrow morning!

However, I do have a sneak peek for you of the new In Colours that will be in the new Catalogue starting July 1, 2007! Thanks to Bev who took these pictures while on the Panama Cruise that she earned as a Stampin' Up! demonstrator!
I can't wait to order these. They all look wonderful! I also heard that there will be some "bling, bling" in the accessories as well as a wider grosgrain ribbon. I guess we will just have to wait and see!











Here are the colour names: Blue Bayou, River Rock, Groovy Guava, Soft Sky, Wild Wasabi, and Purely Pomegranate.

Check back tomorrow(hopefully) for the Stampin' Up! list of retired stamp sets and accessories.



Stacey

Regional Highlights!

Hello Stampin', Scrappin' and Paper-craftin' friends!

This past weekend was absolutely incredible. It was amazing being in a room with hundreds of Stampin' Up! demonstrators from the western provinces of Canada and some from the United States! The energy in the room was uplifting. This is part of what Stampin' Up! Regionals is all about.

The minute we left the Fairmont Vancouver Hotel, you could just feel the energy. When we arrived at the Canada Place, the energy was all around us. We went inside, put our bags on the ground in the line-up, and it was instantly then when we began to swap! Here is a picture of me swapping with other demonstrators.

The excitement continued all day long. One main highlight of my day was meeting Shelli Gardner, the CEO and co-founder of Stampin' Up!. Her presence is amazing. You feel inspired just listening to her talk. Here is a picture of Shelli while welcoming everyone at the beginning of Regionals. We also had a picture taken with Shelli with our demonstrator group Canadian INKspirations. This is our teams name.

Another highlight from Regionals was being asked to go on stage and partake in a friendly Stampin' Up! version game of Family Feud. Bev, Sonia, Maggie and myself made up our "INKspirations" family team... The questions were all related to being a Stampin' Up! demonstrator and we had a blast! We were tied going into the third and final round and unfortunately the other team managed to steal the 140 points we had managed to get up on the board... oh well, we each left with a free stamp set and some extra memories! Here's a picture of us up on stage. I am just about to ring in for my question.

I learned many things at Regionals and I will be thrilled to share them with you all! I took 199 swap cards and managed to swap just about every one of them. There should be a card or two on my display boards that each of you will be inspired by.

Happy Stampin'!

Stacey

Off to Regionals!

Hello Stampers, Scrapbookers, and Paper Crafters!

I am so excited for the weekend! I will be heading to Vancouver today for the Stampin' Up! Regionals!

In my last post I showed you how I begin a card. Well, I have completed all 200 of my swap cards and I thought that I would share with you all 200 of them before I left!

I will post them individually when I return.

Check back to see some highlight from Regionals!

Happy everything!

Stacey

The Makings of a Card

Hello Stampers and Scrapbookers!

As most of you are aware, Stampin' Up! Regionals is drawing near. I will be heading to Vancouver next Friday the 27th. I will be attending a 'by invitation only' Demonstrator's function on Friday evening. All day Saturday is the Stampin' Up! Regionals training seminar. I am very excited to be able to attend. I look forward to bringing back many new and exciting ideas for all of my customers.

In preparation for these two events, I have been working on 200 Regional swap cards, another 15 swap cards for the Friday evening, 10 Scrap-A-Card swaps, as well as a Make 'n Take project for the attendees at the Friday evening event! I have a lot of work cut out for me over the next week!

As I was preparing original cards for these events, I sat back looking at the makings of some of the cards. I thought that I would share with you how my cards start out. First, I start with an idea of which stamps I will use. This gives me an idea of the proportion I will need to keep in mind for the main image piece of card stock. From there, I start sketching! Yes, I actually sketch my cards out. Here are pictures of the sketches I did of two of my cards. They are very rough drawings. I am no artist when it comes to sketching! After the sketching is complete, I take my stamp set out. From there, I go to my card stock bin and also bring out the Colour Coach. The colour coach really makes choosing colours a lot easier. The guess work is already done!

I know that this post is not very colourful, but I thought that you might be interested how I design a card. I think that you will agree that designing a project is the tough part. Making the initial project is a bit easier once the idea is in place. Making multiples of a project takes time, but it is far less tedious! These sketches were completed while I was at my step-son's karate lessons. I guess you can say that I take stamping everywhere I go! I guess it was a great place for inspirtion! It must have been the focus, concentration, and dedication of the karate students seeping out to me!

These cards are still at the sketch phase. However, I have the card stock colours picked out! I do still need to make them! I will post pictures of them once they are completed! As I said, I have my work cut out for me over the next week!

Cheers!

Stacey

Scrapbooking Easter!

Hello Scrappin' and Stampin' Friends!

A few weeks ago I held a scrapbooking class. We completed a 2-page 12X12 layout. The layout's theme was around Easter or Spring. You could change the theme to suit your needs. Although I keep my class projects primarily to my Studio only, I thought that I would share this scrapbook layout with everyone. This will probably be one of the only "class scrapbook layouts" that I will post on this site. I want to show all of my customers the outcome of the projects that I offer in my classes.

The colours used for these scrapbook pages were Whisper White, Close to Cocoa, and Pretty in Pink(card stock and classic ink). There were two stamp sets used for this layout: Headline Alphabet(page 192 in the 2006-2007 IB&C) and the Polka Dots & Petals stamp set (Page 10 in the Spring Mini Catalogue).

The left "HAPPY" page of this layout features a cute little bunny! This cute little bunny was created by using an array of Stampin' Up! punches(pages 220-221), uni-ball Signo white gel pen(page 224) and Stampin' Write Markers! The punches used were: Small Oval, 1 1/4 , 1/2, 1/4 inch circles, and the hand-held 1/8 inch circle punch. A little touch of classic ink using a sponge dauber(page 222) finishes the bunny. The whisper white card stock piece is for journalling.

The right "EASTER" page of this layout features the basket full of Easter eggs. Again, using punches created this fun little embellishment! The punches used to create the basket were: Small and Large Ovals, the new Round Tab punch (page 17 in the Sprind Mini Catalogue), and the1/4 inch circle punch to make all of the little Easter eggs. You'd be amazed at just how quickly these little projects go together. Using the right adhesives makes creating theses cuties even easier!...Sticky Strip and Liquid Glue (both found on page 226).

The month of May is SCRAPBOOKING MONTH! If you are interested in attending a scrapbooking class or punched embellishment class, please contact me for more information at staceysstampingstudio@shaw.ca.

Happy Scrappin'!

Stacey

One Sheet Wonders!

Hello Stampin' and Scrappin' Friends:

My blogger connection has been down for some time. My apologies for not posting. I had to start up my computer in safe mode in order to even be able to log on.

I am really excited about my One Sheet Wonder class this evening. When prepping for all of the cards I layed them out over the table to make it easier to organize them for all of my customers. I just had to share with you a picture of all of the cutout cards once I was prepped for tonight's class.

I look forward to seeing everyone who has registered for tonight's class. Everyone will go home with their 10 WONDERful cards, a scanned colour photocopy of all of the cards, as well as a template sheet so they may go home and make more One Sheet Wonders whenever they want! This is a great class to make 10 cards.

Hopefully I will be able to get a computer tech to check out my computer soon. Then I will be able to post more often!

Happy Stampin' and Scrappin'!

Stacey

Say It With Stamps Promotion!

Say It With Stamps Promotion

April 1-30, 2007 Nothing says "buy me now" like stamps at a discount! During April only, you can purchase the following versatile greeting and alphabet sets at 20 percent off with no minimum purchase required.Details: Purchase any of these six stamp sets at a discounted price of 20 percent off. No additional purchase is required and there is no limit on the number of discounted sets you may purchase.

Item Code -Page Number -Description -Regular Price -Discounted Price
102176 pg178 All Year Cheer II* $40.95 $32.76
103877 pg190 Tiny Talk* $22.95 $18.36
107123 pg177 Warm Words $27.95 $22.36
107351 pg183 In My Thoughts $39.95 $31.96
104383 pg191 Everyday Flexible Phrases $54.95 $43.96
107325 pg194 Short Order Alphabet $53.95 $43.16
105725 pg178 De la joie toute l'annee II* $40.95 $32.76
107741 pg177 Mots chaleureux $27.95 $22.36
107678 pg191 Phrases flexibles de tous jours $54.95 $43.96*

*These sets will be retired as of June 30, 2007 and will not be available for purchase in future catalogs.

Contact me at staceysstampingstudio@shaw.ca if you would like to place an order or for more information on the workshop and business opportunities Stampin' Up! has to offer!

Happy Stampin'!

Stacey