All Oval Double Pocket Bags Galore!

That about sums it up! I was up late last Wed, way too late I might add, working on these gifts for teachers, bus drivers and aids at the kids school as an end of year thank you. But you know, that this how I roll.. LOL I had a ton of fun making these and using all the designer paper. You can see my origianl post here along with some additional pictures of the inside. All the bags included (4) 3x3 note cards & envelopes and the other pocket held some candy, chocolate of course! I used the All Ovals set along with the Lg Oval and Scalloped Oval punch on all the bags and cards. This set and the designer paper made it sooo easy to whip these up! I really love the set, it can be found in the Occasions Mini catalog along with the scalloped Oval Punch. I really think it is a must have set...I took a picture of all the designs I made to share with you.... I hope to be able to stamp tonight if I can stay up. My stamping time is after everyone goes to bed but unfortunately I have a bad cold and might not make it. I know...who gets a cold in June right? Lucky me.... You will probably have to click on the pictures for a bigger one or to see detail...I made them small so they wouldn't take up so much space! Enjoy!

The two above feature the Bella Rose Designer Series paper.This one features the Sweet Always Designer Series paper. One of my favorites!

This set uses the Pink Pirouette DSP along with the Daisy Big Shot die with a ch chip corduroy button in the middletwith some pink grosgrain ribbon !

A close up of the flower...it turned out so pretty!
This one also features the Sweet Always DSP paper. I was experimenting with some different toppers besides a purse handle but have deiced that the handles look the best!

That's it for now, it was hard to pic a favorite on and which one to give to who!
....stay tuned for some samples of some last chance items as I go though my sample bin!

June is an awesome month! Hostess Bonus

Shew, my head is spinning! What a busy and exciting week! We have had 2 softball games, cheerleading registration, last week of school and teacher gifts(can't wait to show you them but that will have to be tomorrow)! But that is nothing compared to the stampin news! The Last Chance List and Sale was annouced on Monday which you can read about by clicking here, demonstrators were able to pre-order items from the up coming catalog that will be released in Julay but the best part is the Hostess Speical for June!!!!! I love it when Stampin Up gives extra hostess $, which they don't do often! What a great time too to stock up on the last chance items or whatever a hostess wants really! Yahoo!

I know many of you LOVE to host your own workshops in order to get your Stampin' Up! items FREE! So here is your chance to earn an extra hostess bonus! From June 1 - June 30th Stampin' Up! is offering extra hostess dollars for you to spend!!!

You can even place your own order or do a catalog party to qualify for the June hostess specials! These apply to in home parties as well as your personal and catalog party orders!!

June Hostess Bonus:
Hostesses who have a party total between $250-$399.99 will receive an additional $20 in in FREE rewards. That is at least$45 FREE!

Hostesses who have a party total of $400 or more will receive an additional $40 in FREE hostess rewards. That is at least of $85 FREE!

So contact me to book your June get together today - OR simply place your own personal order ON-LINE 24/7 HERE!
Remember, all June get togethers will feature 3 FREE projects for you and your guests to make! First 3 to contact me to schedule thiers will even receive a FREE copy of the yet to be released, 2009/2010 Catalog and Idea book for FREE and an extra $15 to spend at their party!

Remember this Page?

Remember this page that was featured on the post for my last scrapbook class? I couldn't remember where I found the inspiration for it and I am sooooo glad Rochelle at http://www.stampingwithrochelle.com/ let me know today she was where I found my inspiration! I loved this page and did it from memory, but it looks like I came pretty close to her original you can see here! I always want to give credit where credit is due! You should pop over and check out the rest of her creations, she is an amazing stamper! I changed a few things from hers but you can see from hers why I loved it! I so LOVE scrapbooking and looking and drawing inspiration from other scrapbookers! Not only did it inspire my scrapbook page it inspired 6x6 pages and a card! I love it!


For the card I used a summer sun corduroy button but for the scrapbook pages I punched out a circle in summer sun and added crystal effects to the circle and then covered in micro beads for the center of my flower! so many possibilities with this Big Shot die!
Thanks again Rochelle and to all those out there who share their creations!

Last Chance SALE for Stamps and Accessories!

It's a sale -- and who doesn't love a sale! Stampin' Up! has put some of their most popular accessories from the Last Chance List on sale -- some for 25% off and some for 50% off! What's on sale at these prices? Well, the list is too long to list everything but at 50% off there are Ribbons, Rub-ons, Designer Hardware, Corduroy Buttons and more and at 25% off you will find Decor Elements, More Ribbons, some Designer Series Papers, Punches and lots of Embellishments. And Don't forget all those beautiful In Colors that will be leaving us -- Baja Breeze, Pacific Point, Kiwi Kiss, Riding Hood Red, Pink Pirouette and Tangerine Tango! This is your LAST CHANCE to stock up on Re-inkers, Cardstock, DSP and Ribbons.

Click here for Retiring Stamps list as a .pdf

Click here for Retiring Decor Elements as a .pdf

Looking for the Last Chance Accessories and the sale? Click the link below for my website and follow the directions below! Please note that you will not see the sale price until you click on the product and add it to your cart. Please let me know if you have troubles!

Retiring Stamp Sets are only available until June 30th and Retiring Accessories are only available WHILE SUPPLIES LAST (and you can bet that won't be long). Go shopping today and pick up some GREAT deals. To find out exactly what's on sale and to shop online, go to My Website (just click on "shop now" at the beginning of the page to get started). Or, if you would rather, you can call or e-mail and I'll place your order for you. Either way, don't miss the chance to get those favorite Stamp Sets and accessories before they're gone forever!

SPECIAL FROM ME!! Purchase $75 or more during the month of June and receive the New, not yet released 2009/2010 Catalog and Idea Book from me for FREE! I am able to pre-order them right now so you won't even have to wait til July to get it!

***Purchase $100 or more during July and you will stap for FREE at my New Catalog Open House in July! If your long distance I will make them for you and mail them to you!

**Get FREE 2008/2009 Catalog & Idea book also by Hosting a stampin or scrapin get together party during the Month of June and you also get one FREE! Let me show you it all in person plus bouns Hostess $ from Stampin Up!! All June classes will include 3 FREE Make N Takes for you and your guests to make at your party! Contact me today to get on my calender for June, I only have a few openings!

All Ovals, All Holidays and Designer Series paper organizer

Before I head off for my day of doctors appointments and hair cuts and girls scout trip (wonderful day off right?)...I thought I would start the day with these cards! These were really easy cards made simple by our beautiful Designer Series Paper! It takes all the guess work out of it!
First up is this awesome fathers day card. I always struggle with masculine cards, I have a hard time with them...I decided to go check out what was in my Designer Paper bin and found some scraps of Urban Garden so I used that, then stamped the Happy Fathers Day from the All Holidays set I got FREE as my reward during Sale-A-Bration this year! Yep I said I got it FREE! Actually this year I was able to choose 5 stamp sets of any price for FREE! It is GOOD to be a demonstrator! :) I finished up this with a scrap of Kiwi kiss ribbon! The designer series paper sampler is PERFECT for cards like these! Don't miss out on getting one for endless possiblities for your projects!

This one uses the Bella Rose Designer Series Paper. It is so beautiful and one of my favorites. I used a 4x4 piece of the paper and cut a strip of Kiwi Kiss cardstock for the top and used my Eyelet Border punch along the bottom of that piece. Tied some Riding Hood Red taffeta ribbon around the top and finished off with the All Ovals Stamp set along with my Lg Oval and new Scalloped Oval punch!
Here is a close up of the All Ovals Stamp set. I stamped it in Riding Hood Red and punched it out with the Lg Oval then put some crystal effects over the butterfly and words. You may have to click on the picture to get the full effect



Last but not least I wanted to share with you something I did last weekend when I was cleaning up my office and work area. I had a mess of Designer Series paper on my table. I have paper keepers like this one all over but I am always in a hurry and just leave them when I am done. So I came up with this! I am so excited..Ia m not claiming this is my original I prob ally seen it somewhere and stored it in the back of my brain somewhere for future use! Who knows! But anyway I felt like a genius!



Here is what I did. I took the cardboard insert that comes with the designer series paper and punched our the information on the back with my 1 3/4 in circle punch. then I took some sticky strip and adhered it to the top! Hopefully the the picture gives you a good idea...if not let me know and I can explain more!


Have a blessed day!

May Speicals and Product Samplers coming to an end

These all end this Sunday, May 31st...don't delay!

From Stampin Up!

Buy 3 Get 1 FREE!
Get one pack of beautiful Designer Series paper or Textured Cardstock when you buy 3! Mix or match! Stampin Up has made a wonderful video you can view on-line with some ideas with it. You can click here to view it!

Then Click here then click on Shop Now! All orders will receive 4 free samples in the mail from me this month! No min purchase...your free projects will ship out when I get order confirmation!

Limited Time Mini-Kit!
This is truly the best deal EVER! You can join the Stampin Up Family and my team for only $75! Purchase for the great deal and to get a discount on your own purchases or use it to earn extra money!! You choose what you want to do with it! There is no obligation! Click here to read more and then click Join Now to purchase yours! The password is inker08!

**First 2 to purchase a Kit will receive a FREE Ribbon Sampler from me along with a Free Make N Take Kit for 10! Use to have a fun stampin time with friends or use it for your first party! You can e-mail me with any questions!

Product Samplers !
Have you visited my new Store yet? I have created another blog that features product shares and future kits in the mail! If not take a min to go look at what is offered! Click Here to check it out!



I have 3 current product samplers I am offering through May 31st! These are a perfect way to get a sampling and try them out with out buying a whole pack of each! Current shares offered:

• Pretties Kit Sampler
• Designer Series Paper Sampler
• Embellishment Share

I am taking orders for these through May 31st. You can pick yours up or have it mailed!

Have a wonderful weekend! I am looking forward to mine! I will be joining my oldest daughter Taylor on a weekend getaway with her girls scout troop. It is a mystery trip so the girls have no idea where we are going or what we are going to do! I am going to take some Designer Series paper along to make some more of those purses I posted last week for year end teacher gifts! I can't wait to give them to them!

Scrapbooking

Well I appoligise for my abscense.. I was on a role. The school year is coming to an end and I just have been soooo busy! Memorial weekend was very productive though! We did not go anywhere really so one night I spent scrapbooking and cleaning my office (not in that order!) I was really productive! I got 6 pages done...I know your impressed right? Well I have to confess they were not f rom scratch....I went through my pages I created for my scrapbooking club and put picutres on them! It felt so good to just sort through the pics and adhere on the page...felt very productive. I even went back and jouraled on some pages I had not done yet. I use to alwasy leave that becuase I didn't like my handwriting but have decided that in itself is an heirloom! My aunt found some things my grandma wrote and I loved seeing her handwriting! So here are some pages

This is one of my sweet baby Shelby at 9 months. I used some Sweet Always designer paper(DSP) to make it all work. I covered a piece of chipboard with some of the same paper. I love how it all goes together! You can't go wrong with DSP!

Here is a great page that I just added pictures to. This page was created by a fellow demonstrator Melissa Roberts. last year some fellow demonstrators did a scrapbooking swap and this is one of the spreads I received in the swap. Great itsnt' it? This is only one perk of being a demonstrator or purchasing the kit!
These were some pictures from a long time ago...I am guessing about 6 years ago..I still need to figure that part out. The page uses some Urban Garden Designer Series paper and then I did some journaling with a white gel pen (love those things!)on a top note cut from the Big Shot. I used a corduroy button from the 1st embellishment sampler I did. I love a having a few of each of the embellishments to try out, it has worked out perfect! Some I have went and bought full packs of because I love them so much (like the rhinestone brads and corduroy brads!)

There is still room for the accessory samplers and designer paper samplers which I am extending for orders til this Sunday the 31st! Click here to find out more about them! You also have until Sunday to take advantage of the buy 3 get 1 Free on packs of Designer Series paper and Textured Papers! Click here to read more about this special and then click Shop now to see all the beautiful papers to choose from!

Here is another one of Shelby. This one uses the Happy Heart Day stamp set. This was a page we did at a scrapbooking club last year. I love this set, it has a lot of possibilities!

Designer Series Paper Double pocket bag FUN!!

Ohhhh.....I had so much fun playing this weekend!!! This is one of the extra projects the card club ladies got to make this month! Isn't the cutest! I am so addicted to making them.....I had never tried them before but they are so easy! What is it called you ask? It is called a double pocket bag. I didn't come up with it but have seen other demonstrators make them and had to try them for my self! A deffant perk of being a demonstrator all the fun ideas other demos share! It is made from 1 sheet of 12x12 Designer Series Paper( I used a sheet from the Pink Pirouette Prints Pack) and a series of scoring and adhering! Isn't it WONDERFUL! So much better IRL! What do you do with it you ask? Why you can do anything you like with it! Kidding...but I personally think it would be great year end gift for teachers with some 3x3 note cards in one side and candy in the other? Or you could fill it with girly things for a little girls birthday...the possibilities are endless really! Have any ideas for it? Leave them in the comments!

Here is the inside view....

And a close up of the flower I created with the Daisy Big Shot die and my Big Shot! I just can't get enough of that machine! Come try it for yourself at the Card/Scrapbooking Class this Thursday. We will be using it for one of the cards we will make!! I finished of my flower with a ch. chip corduroy brad! I love these corduroy buttons and brads! (you can get a sampling of the brad and other great accessory's with my Accessory Sampler found here.)

May Card Class & Product Samplers

Come join me this Thursday, May 21st for a fun night of stamping !

Card Class:

Come make (7) AWESOME all occasion cards including a graduation, birthday, fathers day, new accessories, and learn how to make a fun shaker card! No experience necessary! Plan a girls night!

Cost: $15 or place in a min. of a 15.00 order that night and you stamp for FREE!!
When: Thursday, May 21st..... 10am - noon or 6:30-8:45pm
Where: Darcie Stampin Studio, Laingsburg

Scrapbook class:
Come make (2) Beautiful 12 X 12 scrapbook pages! These pages will be ready for you to go home drop you own photos to capture those precious memories! Learn how to use stamping in your scrapbooks and have fun using the Big Shot Die cutting machine!No experience necessary!

Same time and place!

Cost: $15.00 or place a min. of a $20 order that night and make your pages for FREE!

*Please RSVP for classes by Wed, May 20th so I can prepare.
*Space is limited to first 10 to RSVP.

*Bring a friend who has never attended a class and you will receive a FREE stamp pad or roll of ribbon of your choice!

***Long distance and can't make the Card Class? For an additional $5 they can be made for you and mailed to you or if you place a $50 or more order from my website (click shop now)I will mail them to you for FREE as soon as I receive notice of your order! This offer is good on any orders up until May 22nd.

Teacher Appreaciation and more Designer Paper samples!

Well it is Thursday which some of you know is my day off from my other job at the Chiropractic office. So today we are off first thing to go get a hair cut for my son Julian then after I get back I am going to go do a bit of stamping to get ready for my card class next week so I can post some samples and then I am off to lunch with one of my bff's Jackie! I am so looking forward to it...we have been friends since we were 10 I think. We met at a Cake Decorating Club for 4-H, we would have probably never known each other if we didn't meet there even though we lived only about 3 miles away from each other! Anyway..I do have some things to show you today that I wanted to post last week!
Last week was teacher appreciation so my friend Susan was telling me about a really cute idea she found somewhere on the net. They took a hand sanitizer bottle and peeled off the front and back and put stickers on it and decorated it cute. Well I don't own any stickers but I thought Stampin Up! rub-ons would be PERFECT! I loved how easy they were and they took me about 2 min to do!

Aren't they cute! I used the Summer Love rub ons from the new Occasions Mini on the one on the left and some rub ons from the Perfect Day package that can be found in the main Idea book and catalog on page173. Best thing of all about Rub-Ons is they can be used on anything you can get to stand still long enough to apply them! they go on cards and scrapbooks but also things like the bottles and glass picture frames, wood, anything really! I am going to experiment tonight with Taylor's softball glove tonight. So many girls have the same glove(it is pink and black...go figure) and we were thinking of something that could set her's apart besides writing on it with a sharpie.... I will let you know how it goes!

Next up is a cute post it note holder the Stamping Club made last month! We used the Walk in the Park Designer paper to cover it and for the Big Shot Butterfly! I cut some of the hard cardboard that comes in the Designer paper and cut that to the size I wanted and then cut some designer series paper to fit. We then used the Stampin Up glue stick to adhere to the cardboard. We then used the Big Shot to cut the butterfly with the Beautiful Butterflies Die. We tied some pretty in pink grosgrain around the center of the butterfly and adhered with a Stampin Dimensional. Then to finish it up, we used some rub ons from the Summer Love pack in the mini catalog to add the word friend and the lines above and below it....

After it was all put together we added a magnet to the back using some Crystal Effects to adhere the magnet to the project... I LOVE Crystal Effects....it adds dimension to your stamped images but it also is a great strong adhesive for things like magnets! Just let it set for about 10 min! What do you think? I love it! I am officially over the hording phase with my rub ons...I am going to use, use, use them til I have to buy more! I loved them as soon as they came out but found myself hording them waiting for the "perfect project" to put them on.....but I found any project was perfect! Are you a hoarder?.....I know you are so stop and use them! :)

Have a blessed day! I am looking forward to enjoying the sunshine that is supposed to make a presence today! Til later....watch for the details and some sneak peaks from my card class next week! I am going to leave you with this picture of my youngest daughter, Shelby....her sister Taylor was practicing her makeup artistry skills on her! Boy was I surprised when they came out of the bedroom! LOL Taylor insists that the lip gloss was on straight but Shelby kept licking it! Defiantly Priceless! Can't wait to scrapbook it!