New Occasions Catalogue

On January 6th Stampin Up will release the new items in the 2015 Occasions catalogue and the excitement is running high. As demonstrators we get to pre-order the products one month in advance of the release date and I have ordered some wonderful new products to show you! The stamps and accessories are some of the best I have seen to date. Especially loved this year is the Butterfly Basics set and Framelits. I know it is one of my favourite items.

Spring Occasions Catalogue and Sale-a-bration Brochure

I am hosting a couple of Open Houses at my Studio in Mount Forest and you are welcome to attend if you live in the area. The first one will be Tuesday Jan 6th and the second one will be Saturday afternoon Jan 10th at 1:00pm.

Pictured below is a new image called From the Herd,  it such a fun set! It has all kinds of nice greetings that go along with it. I know it will be a favourite.

Happy New Year to you all!

Banner Blessings Stamp Set

Today I have a new Photopolymer Stamp Set to show you that one of Stampin Up's employees designed. It is a great little set that I am sure all of us can use on our projects. It features four words with a verse in inscribed in the centre. The set is called Banner Blessings and retails for $19.95. I am ordering this set next week and if you would like a copy please let me know and I can get one for you too!

Coming up soon at the studio are the annual Stamp-a-Stacks, this year I am hosting two, one on Monday November 24th and one on Tuesday Dec 2nd both starting at 6:30pm and going till about 9-9:30pm. You will be making 12 cards in total three each of 4 designs, pictured here below. I have room in both class so if you are interested in joining us and you live in the Mount Forest area just drop me a line and I will be happy to include you. Have a wonderful day!

Fall Frenzy Card Harvest Fundraiser

This past weekend my Team and I hosted an event called Fall Frenzy Card Harvest. We invited our customers to come out for a day and make an assortment of cards and the proceeds from the registration would be given to our local hospital's building project. We had such a great time together but rather than me tell you about it I will post a few pictures of our day to give you a better idea.

The girls all enjoyed the Discontinued Stamp Sale we held in the beginning of the day, lots of bargains to be had for everyone. 

Angie is demonstrating how to use the Big Shot in making her card.

 These girls look like they are having lots of fun making cards and enjoying each other's company.

 Elizabeth and guest are looking at our display table to check out the fantastic project ideas.

And here we are from left, demonstrator's Elizabeth, Carolyn, Kayla, Angie, Tammy and Sarah.

Happy Fall! I can hardly believe the season is upon us but as I look outside my window today the sun is shining and the temperatures are warm so hopefully the season stays that way.
I wanted to show you a special Hostess Set that Stampin Up is offering to Hostesses this fall. In addition to the great Hostess Benefits that you already received for having a Stampin Up workshop they will give all qualifying workshops this beautiful new set called Good Greetings. I have used this set in my studio and the images are crisp and clear. If you would like to host a workshop and earn this stamp set please contact me today to arrange a date.

In other news I was fortunate to be away on a trip with my daughter this summer for a trip to England and Scotland. What a great time we had and what incredible things we saw. I am enclosing a picture of the scenery near the city of York in England. I love the stone walls, the cobblestone streets, the old buildings but not so much the narrow roads, driving on the wrong side of the road and amount of rain:)

Today's post is about the upcoming class in August called Summer Stamp Club part 2. The last couple of summers I have offered the new In Colour Collection of Stamp Pads and Paper to my students and when they purchase those they get a free class. Next month, on Tuesday August 2nd they are getting the In Colour Paper Pack and Markers and these are the cards we will be making in the class. If you are interested in taking this class and live in the Mt Forest area, drop me a line and I will get you some supplies.
I am not sure where you live but over here in Mid-Western Ontario we are having a wet summer, the grass is still nice and green and the temperature is a balmy 18C today. I love these temps but not everybody does. Hope the weather is great in your area and that this note finds you well.

Blendabilities

Today I just wanted to tell you about another project I have done using the new Blendabilities Markers from Stampin Up. If you have ordered from me in the past you will know that I like to put thank you tags on my bags when I give them to you. I have made thousands of tags over the years but it is always fun to make up a new one to go on your parcel. Today I made up a bunch in readiness for the launching of the new Stampin Up Catalogue. I anticipate that like me you will "need" a few things from the new Catalogue. So I took one of flower Stamps from the stamp set called Fabulous Florets and coloured it in with the Rich Razzleberry markers in all three shades. Then I took a little Dazzling Diamonds and added just a pop to the centre of the tag. Our new Scalloped Punch did just the trick in making these 2 inch strips look like tags on top. What do you think? Would you like one of these tags on your bags?
If you have not done so already you can register for the Open House workshops on June 17 or 23rd and receive a free Stampin Up Catalogue.

Blendabilties

Stampin Up announced at Leadership in January that they would be coming out with a new marker that would allow shading and highlighting. The new marker collection is called Blendabilities. It comes in 12 colours and each colour has 3 shades to allow shadow and highlighting. I was very excited about this announcement. Having painted for 15 years I love the ability to shade and highlight and to this point Stampin up products have not been able to do this. I have gotten 6 shades of the new markers in and have been playing around with them. Here are a few samples that I am working on.

 The cake plate uses the Coastal Cabana combination and as you can see there are lots of shadow and highlight.

 This fun new stamp set called In This Together also uses several of the new colours and I had lots of fun adding in shadowing here and there.

Finally this ones shows the vividness and shadow/highlight the best. This stunning new stamp called Blended Bloom will be a hit when it comes out as you can really see the colour gradation in the three samples. I am planning to have a try it night here at the studio, anyone can come and make a sample or two and from there decide if you would like to be part of the Blendabilities Club. This club will run for a year with participants getting one colour family each month.