The 2019 Holiday Catalogue is here - and a Designer Series Paper Sale!

Hi! Just wanted to let you know that the 2019 Holiday Catalogue has gone live today!  Click on the image on the left hand side to see what goodies are inside, or contact me for one to be sent to you.  I have my eye on a few things so even though I haven't been very good with keeping up this blog, I will try and post some samples for you once they arrive.

The other offer Stamping Up! have at the moment is the Buy 3, Get One Free Designer Series Paper - only selected papers, but a great assortment.

 Click HERE to see what is included in the offer.  No limit to the combination or to how many you can buy too - so stock up while you can - it is only till the end of September!

As always, please contact me if you have any questions or would like to order.  Click on the Shop Now button on the right hand side - please make sure you are shopping with me!  Use the host code to receive a gift from me too!

I have been enjoying the lovely Spring weather we have been having here in Melbourne  - hope its as lovely wherever you are - and thanks for visiting.

Crazy Crafter's Blog Hop with Wendy Cranford

Thank you for joining us today for our Crazy Crafters Blog hop with Wendy Cranford!  It is the first blog hop I have participated in and what better way to start with blog hopping than with the talented Wendy Cranford! You can find her blog here.

I am really excited about being able to CASE (Copy and Selectively Edit) one of her projects for the blog hop.   

Here is the project of Wendy's that I have chosen today -

What drew me to this card was the use of the circle dies to highlight the flowers, and as I have just recently purchased the new Rectangle Stitched Framelit dies from our new Occasion Catalogue, I thought they would be perfect for today. 

 I used one of my favourite sets from the Annual Catalogue - Bella and Friends.  I stamped with Momento ink on our Shimmery White paper and watercolored it using our inks and an Aqua Painter. I then ran this through the big shot with one of the rectangle dies.

Using one of our very versatile Notecards I layered it with a piece of coloured cardstock. I used a larger rectangle die on a layering piece of Whisper White Cardstock, and then added this to the coloured layer,  popped Bella onto dimensionals and placed in the middle of the space.

The sentiment is from the Floral Frames stamp set.   As you can see I couldn't stop at one!

Hope you have enjoyed my CASE of Wendy's card - thank you for looking and it would make my day if you could comment if you have the time.  Don't forget to continue on with the blog hop to see what else the Crazy Crafters - and Wendy -  have created.

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IT'S SALE-A-BRATION TIME, THE NEW OCCASIONS CATALOGUE AND A WONDERFUL JOINING OFFER!

Happy New Year to you all!.  Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and are looking forward to 2019!

Ofcourse the Stampin Up! New Year means a new catalogue and the start of Sale-a-bration!  The Occasions Catalogue has some lovely stamps, papers, dies, embellishments and other items that you will want to add to your wish list!

And Sale-a -Bration means that for every $90- you spend you can choose an item from the SAB catalogue for FREE! You can choose to buy from the Annual Catalogue, the Occasions, and ofcourse the clearance rack where there is always bargains to be had!

You can click on the pictures on the left of my blog to see the catalogues but if you would like a hard copy of these catalogues, contact me, and I will be happy to send one your way.

The joining special during SAB is extra special this year - you have two options when you join.

No 1. - pay $169 and get $315 worth of product of your choice!

No. 2 - pay $210-  and get the exclusive, limited time only Craft and Carry Tote (valued at $87) (click on the SAB brochure to see the tote on pages 4 & 5)  and also $315 worth of product. I expect the totes to sell out quickly, so if you are thinking of joining my team and getting a discount every time you order, consider joining sooner than later - would hate you to miss out!   Click on the Join Now button to your right to join the CraftiNettes!

Please contact me if you have any questions about the catalogues or joining, otherwise click on the Shop Now button and enjoy shopping!

We are still here!

Hi everyone! I hope there are still people out there who are reading this after such a VERY long period of me not posting!  We have been busy creating but unfortunately life gets a bit busy and something has to give and unfortunately the blog was one of them

But we are back! My aim is to post more regularly from now on - Jeanette and I have still been holding classes in Taylors Lakes Vic and would love you to join us! Contact us if you need any further information.

Back very soon - promise! - with creations and all the exciting news with the new catalogue about to go live!

Happy creating!

Absolutely amazing promotions in July!

Stampin' Up! have some absolutely fantastic promotions happening right now until the end of July.

If you have the new catalogue and your wishlist is a mile long like mine, this month's Joining Offer is the best I have ever seen - wish I could rejoin myself!  You may wish to join as a hobby demonstrator to receive between 20 - 25% off your purchases, or grow it into a business. Either way -  look what you get if you join my team for $169!

YOUR STARTER KIT  - YOU get to choose whatever you like from the catalogue to the value of $235 - with free shipping.  You also receive a business pack - catalogues,  order forms etc.  PLUS you will also receive this amazing Essentials Gift Pack valued at $121. These are items that every stamper needs -

• 114845 -  D Block (two of them)!  - Page 217
• 130148 - Grid Paper - Page 217
• 103579 - Paper Snips - Page 204
• 104332 - SNAIL Adhesive  - Page 202
• 102300 - Bone Folder - Page 204
• 144804 - Carols of Christmas Stamp Set (a great set from the upcoming Holiday Catalogue)  

Being a demonstrator either as a hobby or growing a business has some great benefits - earn 20% - 25% on all orders, you can order certain products in a pre order period before they are released to customers, and you get to see new catalogues ahead of time - more time for you to make that wish list!! And you can come along to demonstrator only events - I have been to 2 now and am going in November to the next one in Melbourne - why don't you come and join me? They are a lot of fun!

Please contact me if you would like to join my team or have any questions at all -  am  more than happy to answer them  - nanette18@bigpond.com

The other promotion that is currently running is the Bonus Days. Stampin' Up! ran this last year and it was very popular. Basically, for every $90 you spend in July, you will get a $9- bonus coupon that you can redeem in August.  No limit to the amount you can earn or what you spend them on.

 

Hope there is something here that you can take advantage of - again, please contact me if you need any further information. 

Our creations at our May class

Our lovely regulars joined Jeanette and I at our recent class and we had another lively evening.  I just love our classes - they are probably more a social get together of friends than crafting classes now I think!

I wanted to make a birthday card using the beautiful stamp set Birthday Blast, which unbelievably will not make it to the new catalogue! It, and the amazing dies which matched, were amazing - I hope they may make a return in the next Occasions catalogue but as this rarely happens I will keep my fingers crossed. I used some retired Night of Navy DSP  from the retiring DSP Colour Stacks and love the way this card turned out. There were a few different colours on offer, and all the cards looked great!

The second item I made was a triangle box, inspired by the very talented Heidi Smith (see her post here) - it fits (with a bit of a squeeze) 3 Ferrero Rochers. I changed the pattern paper, label and sentiment from Heidi's and the boxes matched the colour of their cards.  The ladies were already thinking about making more for small gifts to give to work colleagues, teachers etc.

Now Jeanette will fill you in about what she made with the class attendees......

"With some of our favourites soon to be retired, I couldn't resist an opportunity to showcase the Stylish Stems framelits and the versatile white gift boxes. Who wouldn't fall in love with them and just in time to order before they disappeared forever. Luckily our upline Sue had shown us her beautiful card with matching gift box. I'm sure you will love them as much as I do."

 These were a big hit and look even more amazing in real life.

Our next classes are on Friday 30th June @ 7pm and on Saturday 1st July @ 1 pm . Please book in early as places are limited and we would hate you to miss out.

Thanks for visiting - please leave a comment - we both would appreciate your feedback.

Our April Classes - Golden Oldies!!

Now let me be clear - I am talking about the Stamp sets in the title of this post, not us and our lovely ladies!  We were looking at our old retired sets and thought how wonderful it would be to use them again. Everyone was happy to try these old favourites. We had 3 new attendees, which was lovely, and they did an amazing job of all the projects!

Here is what Jeanette created -

 This card is made with Amazing Birthday stamp set and soon to be retired Designer Series Paper.  The class attendees had a choice of Calypso Coral or Pool Party and both turned out very pretty.

Her next project may look familiar - she did a similar one for the team swaps at Onstage - those had little "flag" post its, whereas these ones were the normal size post it notes. She had a range of papers to choose from - everyone was very impressed with the sliding butterfly closure!

The Up and Away bundle was what I used for this card - I made this at my upline Sue's class a couple of months ago - just love it!  I am so excited this stamp set and framelits are carrying over to the Annual Catalogue  - I have so many ideas for this set!  It is only available as a bundle though until the 31st May but will be in the new catalogue but as two separate items. If you would like to save 10% by buying the bundle, get in quickly! The ladies used the big shot to die cut the balloon  - love the effect.

My second card uses retired stamp sets - Both Way Blossoms and Love and Sympathy for the sentiment. I unfortunately had to make a sympathy card the previous week and used this set and loved the elegant simplicity of it.  The ladies had a choice of different sentiments, but all chose to use the beautiful sympathy sentiment and verse inside the card.

 

Our next class is on Friday 26th May and also on Friday 2nd June - would love you to come if you are local to us in Taylors Lakes, Victoria.  Click on the tab at the top of the page to contact us.

Thanks for visiting today - please leave a comment - we would really appreciate it!