Friday, August 15, 2008

WIN $35


Stampin' Up! will be posting the Retiring Accessories List on July 21!
If you are like us we can not wait to see all the NEW exciting Stamp Sets and Accessories Stampin' Up! will have in there new catalog!
Do you want $35 to spend in the NEW CATALOG or pick any Stamp Set $35.95 or less out of the NEW CATALOG?
Here is what you do-
Make a comment on this post-
Guess 15 Accessories you think will Retire
Get 10 right and you WIN!
It is that easy!
*All post must be made by 11:55 pm on July 20th.
*One entry per person
*If multiple winners we will randomly pick 5

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

We have a website!

Please visit our website at: http://stampinteam.com!
We will be posting our class information there and keeping up on all of the Stampin'Up! news.
Bookmark our new website and visit often!

Thank you!
Robin and Tiff

Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Getting caught up after convention!

Gosh, I feel like my feet are finally touching the ground once again after convention! We had so much fun and learned so much! It really gave us a ton of energy to focus and expand our business! Which means totally awesome workshops and classes for all you guys!
I feel the biggest announcement at convention was their partnership with Sizzix and the Big Shot. SU! will have ten exclusive dies! And of course the dies will match our great stamp sets and decor! So look forward to seeing our examples of new projects and upcoming classes using the Sizzix!
They also announced on-line ordering. So now if you're up in the night and just can't wait to order something, you can go right ahead and do it! We will give details and instructions on how to do that when the on-line ordering is up and running.
They also announced at Phase 2 for the Decor Elements. As soon as we get information and pictures for that, we will be posting them!
Also, there's a great promotion for 15% off ten stamp sets from the NEW catalog! The promotion runs from August 11 to September 30. Look for the list on the left-hand side of our blog!
We also will be posting a Starter Kit promotion for $199. Be looking for that to be added to our blog!
Thanks for looking and have a fun day!

Sunday, August 3, 2008

Discounted Retiring Accessories Promotion - Ends August 10th!

Discounted Retiring Accessories Promotion
Dates: July 21-August 10 (or while supplies last)
Promotion Details:
Save 25% off the following retiring accessories:
Item # Pg. # Description Regular Price 25% Off Price
109117 167 Pocket Notes assortment Sold Out
110479 168 Jersey Shore Designer Series paper $9.95 $7.46
110699 168 East Coast Prep Designer Series paper Sold Out
109159 169 Flowers For You Designer Series paper $9.95 $7.46
110273 169 Spring Fling Designer Series paper Sold Out
110748 170 Notebook Designer Series paper $9.95 $7.46
109153 170 Porcelain Prints Designer Series paper Sold Out
110751 171 Azure Designer Series paper $9.95 $7.46
109164 171 River Rock Prints Designer Series paper $9.95 $7.46
109175 171 Almost Amethyst Prints Designer Series paper Sold Out
109168 171 Groovy Guava Prints Designer Series paper Sold Out
109169 171 Close to Cocoa Prints Designer Series paper Sold Out
110284 182 Eastern Elegance Rub-Ons $10.95 $8.21
110285 182 Urban West Rub-Ons $10.95 $8.21
110281 182 Cherished Memories Rub-Ons Sold Out
109185 190 Jersey Ribbon Originals $12.95 $9.71
109187 190 District Ribbon Originals $12.95 $9.71
109189 190 Beachfront Ribbon Originals $12.95 $9.71
110716 191 Wild Wasabi striped grosgrain ribbon $7.95 $5.96
109062 191 River Rock double-stitched grosgrain ribbon $8.95 $6.71

Saturday, July 19, 2008

Thank You! Our Open House was a huge success!

Thank you so much to all of you who came out to our open house! We had a house full all day long and it was great!
We had club last night and the girls were awesome! We had so much fun!
I'm hoping Tiff took some pictures because I just realized I didn't even take a picture of the projects we made! Oh, well! I will post them later!
Of course you all want to know who won the basket! Well, I don't even know yet! We were so tired after our day, that we decided to wait until this morning to pick the winner! So stay tuned, it will be posted shortly!


Here are the two cards that we are making for our class on Tuesday night, the 10 for $15. These two stamp sets I love! They are from the sneak peek that we got for the new catalog coming out on August 11th! WooHoo! I can't wait! The one on the right is Dream du Jour and then of course the Sock Monkey! So come and be the first ones to make cards from these sets! It will be a riot!

I made this card for a swap for convention. The technique I was to use is the gel technique. You put hair gel in a little baggie and it appears to be like a window or water. This is another brand new never seen before stamp set! This is the Window Dressings set. I was a little disappointed that the "so thankful for you" didn't show up as much as I wanted. I should have embossed! But other than that, I thought it turned out pretty cute!






I am so in love with the little Sock Monkey! I made this baby shower card out of him!




I made these thank you cards as part of her gift. I love the banana!
Thanks for stopping by!
Have fun!

Saturday, July 12, 2008

The NEW Fall/Winter In Colors are....




We Love Stampin' Up!'s NEW Fall/Winter 08'-09' In Colors!

Kiwi Kiss- So cute!

Riding Hood Red!!


We are so excited to start making NEW stampin' stuff with are NEW never seen before Stamp Sets and Accessories!

More to come....

Tuesday, July 8, 2008

I got my sneak peek pre-order today!

Oh, my, you guys should be soooo excited!
I love, love, love the new stuff I got today!
I'm going to make some sneak peeks for everybody and post them, so stay tuned!
We will actually show them live and in-person at our Gratitude Journal class!
All you coming will be the first to see! WooHoo!
Have fun!

Monday, July 7, 2008

Elegant Gratitude Journal





Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity.... It turns problems into gifts, failures into success, the unexpected into perfect timing, and mistakes into important events. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow.


July 11th, 7:00-9:00 p.m.
Join us to make this Elegant Gratitude Journal.
Cost- $15.00
RSVP & Pre-Pay July 7th.
As Always Club Members and The Creative Stampin' Team get 10% off. If you drive more than 15 minutes you will get 5% off.

If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice.

Thursday, July 3, 2008

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Good Morning!

It's almost time for the new catalog to come out! I am sooooo excited! We were able to see a "sneak peek" and order from that, and I'm here to tell you, you are going to love it!
We are getting ready to go to convention at the end of the month, so we are very busy preparing swaps to do there. I think we signed up for too many! LOL
We will come back with all the latest and greatest that Stampin'Up! has to offer for this next year.
We will have our new "sneak peek" stamp sets to use for the 10 for $15 class. Come and join us and use the BRAND NEW stamps! How much fun is that? Sign up for the class, cuz you for sure don't want to miss it!
Keep watching for the pics of the examples. As soon as we get them, we will get them ready to post.
As we get our swaps done, we will post those pics too.
Thanks for looking!
Have fun!

Sunday, June 29, 2008

Sunday night, time to get caught up!

Gosh, I have been so busy I haven't had time to update! So...here it is!

I really like designing and making cards, so I've been joining a lot of swaps on our Stampin'Up! forum.



I did this card for a 10 + 1 swap:

It was so much fun to make, but very labor intensive! I had to cut most of the apron out by hand. And then since I loved the rick rack - reminded me of my grandma's aprons! - I sewed all that on too!

I love this card though cuz you can use it for so many events!

Especially thank you when somebody gives me something very yummy!




This card I did for a 25 + 1 swap. Wow, that's a lot of cards to make!

I made my own designer paper for the backgound piece (the very vanilla with the really rust flower stamped on it) and that was tons of fun! I have never done that before. I think it turned out pretty cool, huh?

My niece, who is a twin, is having twins, so we went to a baby shower for her. I saw this card on Stampers' Showcase and knew that I had to make it for somebody. Well, she was the lucky one! I altered the card from the one I originally saw by changing a few of the colors, adding the wire for the hangers, and then of course making two onesies because of twins, one boy and one girl!
For part of her gift, I made these thank you cards for her. I did five in the pink and five in the blue.

I love this flower with the Build A Brad in the middle! For the flowers on the bottom, I dry embossed and then lightly sanded the raised portion. I think it turned out pretty cool looking! The picture doesn't do it justice. Of course I had
to use a pink paper out of the Berry Bliss DSP so that I could get the white to show through. If I had used a regular piece of Pretty In Pink cardstock, it wouldn't have had the same effect since the cardstock is colored all the way through.



This card was a little tricky to get a good picture of since it's a pull-out card.

It was super easy to make.

I used a B out of SU's chipboard and covered it with DSP.

For the heart in the center of the star, I used a chipboard star from SU and covered it with Real Red and then embossed it with Glassy Glaze a couple of times to get it all shiney and thick.



Hope you enjoyed my cards tonight.
Thanks for looking!
Don't forget to enter our contest for the retired accessory list!

I'm Here- Baby Gift


I made these cute cans for my cousin that is having twins ; )

10 for $15 Birthday and Thank You


This was such a fun class! I love to see how creative you can be! Your cards turned out so cute. Now you have 10 cards that are ready to be mailed out!

Stampin' Hostess Club!


We just had the first meeting and it was so much fun! Their projects turned out great! See you next month!

Saturday, June 21, 2008

Celebrating great Open House success!





And the winner of our $200 basket is.....Wendi! Congratulations to Wendi!

Thank you, Wendi, for coming and supporting us!






Thank you to all the women who came to our open house! It was great! We had the best time and lots of great card making!



Are we having fun, or what?? LOL!

I love this group of women and all the support they give us and our business! A big thank you to Lorie and all her girls!

This is my beautiful niece Kendra and my cutest ever granddaughter Rachel (who is doing so much better!). Kendra was our children's project queen/babysitter!
Thank you so much, Kendra, for helping us! We couldn't have done it without you!




Of course there were lots of other people that came (sorry we don't have your picture!), but we didn't take enough pictures! Next time...more pictures!

We are off to Bear Lake for the weekend! I'll be back on Monday!
Have fun!

Friday, June 20, 2008

Tiff's Stamp Room

Me and my Mom have most of the same stuff...


I did get these white book shelf’s at Big K and I love them to hold all my 'play' stuff!

I got the paper holders from Ikea.







II think the black shelf came with my husband, I am glad I could put it to good use! It holds all my Designer Series paper perfect!
It also keeps my On Board Chip Board very nice and neat and a great place for my sewing machine.




This has got to be my favorite spot of the house! All our stamps! My mom made me alphabetize them... I would rather have them in theme or categories but she won that argument ; )
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Tiff's Work Space


I love to stamp! These are two of my favorite places in my house! I love my computer because I can get inspired to go and stamp!





I love my work table- it is the perfect height and is right next to the kids play room! They get to play and so do I!
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Father's Day Cards

I made these two cards, one for my Dad and one for my Grandpa.
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Wallet


I made this very cute wallet for my husband for Father's Day.
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Inside...

Inside of the wallet I made for my husband.
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More Father's Day Cards for my Husband

This card was just from me : )
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Birthday Cards for the Birthday Club

These are the cute Birthday Cards I sent out for the Birthday Club this month.
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Congrats!


I did not love the colors used, but them more I look at it... it might not be so bad : )
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To my Secret Sister

Just a little note to my Secret Sister to let her I know I am thinking about her!
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Get Well Card for my Dad

This Stamp Set, Farm Fever is retired ; ( but I love it so much!
I made this card for my dad after his shoulder surgery.
My Dad is such a hard worker that he made my Mom drive him to his job sites two days after!
Get better Dad - You can take a break : 0 )
I love you!
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Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Good Morning!

I wanted to share pictures of my stamp room and some of the things I use for organization that I absolutely love!

This shoe organizer is what I use to put all my stamps in. It's the perfect size and is very strong . I love it! It's so easy to see all my stamps. I put them in alphabetical order so I can keep track of them all!










I got these racks from IKEA. I can't remember what they were called, but they were in the kitchen department. They were very easy to install and are the perfect size for the punches. Even the baby punches stay on. Obviously I need another rod! And then, of course, more punches! I love punches!






I got these boxes from IKEA. I had to assemble them myself, and I put a coating of paint on them. They are the perfect size to put all my stuff in! I put my ribbon in the middle box. I have my "designer" ribbon in the top drawer, and my spools of ribbon in the two tall drawers.





This is how I store my cardstock and DSP. I haven't really found anything that I love to store my DSP in, but this is a good start. It keeps it organized and keeps it from getting bent. It's an easy way for me to see my cardstock. This seems like a really good way to store it to me. I have all the colors right where I can see them to help my designing process.



Last but not least, this is the cutest thing I found at IKEA. It was actually in their curtain hanging section. It's a metal type of cord and then there's a little clip to attach your pictures, cards, whatever to! It's so cute and was very easy to install. Well, at least it was easy for my husband to install! LOL!


I'm off to get ready for my open house On Firday! I'm looking forward to seeing everybody and to see who wins my HUGE basket of SU! products!