Sale-a-Bration 2022

It's time to Celebrate with Sale-A-Bration, Stampin' Up!'s biggest annual promotion. We have exclusive products you can get FREE when you SHOP and/or HOST a Stampin' Up! party.  For complete details on the Sale-A-Bration Promotion and to see the exclusive products you can get FREE when you Shop and/or Host, click HERE.

We also have an AMAZING JOINING OFFER. Choose $125 of product, then choose 2 more stamp sets from the Annual Catalog and/or New Mini Catalog absolutely free, and pay just $99 plus tax, and it ALL SHIPS FREE. Then start enjoying the wonderful relationships and perks  including a discount on all your future purchases.

I have a list started with oh so many new things I want to get!  So get out your pencil and paper and start your list!!

Lots of Pun

 I finally received my Paper Pumpkin for December!  It's a really cute kit called Lots of Pun.  I'm having fun coming up with alternate cards from the kit.

Here are a couple I have made.

We had a good weekend during MLK ... just not what we had planned!  Ashley came down to visit on Friday.  We took Mom out for lunch on Saturday which she loved.  We were planning on having our family Christmas on Sunday but Mother Nature had other ideas.  We woke up Sunday morning to a white yard and snowed all day on Sunday.  So, no family Christmas this year!  Ashley planned to go back home early on Monday but she couldn't get her car out of our cul-de-sac because of the snow/ice until about 5 pm.  And here it is several days later & we still have a yard full of snow and the weatherman is calling for more snow and freezing rain tonight.  We'll see!

Birthday Kit

 Hope you had an enjoyable weekend.  I spent a lot of time in my craft room trying to put things where they belong instead of all piled up on the table and floor!  We watched a lot of football - especially the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday afternoon.  It was a great game and went into overtime.  But we came out the winner which makes us in the play-offs.  I doubt we'll go very far but at least that gives us another week to watch our team and say good-bye to our quarterback.  The first time we saw Ben Roethlisberger was the weekend my son got married.  We found a bar in Tuscon where we could watch the game the day after the wedding.  That was 18 years ago which blows my mind!  

While cleaning up today I ran across a project kit from Stampin' Up that I have probably had 5 or 6 years.  So I made a few cards using things in the Birthday Kit.  Here are a few of the cards I made today.

World of Good

January!  How time flies when you're having fun!!  Maybe I can be more diligent this month with the holidays over ... well, almost!  We are having our family Christmas next weekend.  We were all spread apart during Christmas and New Year.  My husband and I drove to Maryland to spend the holidays & her birthday for a couple of weeks.  My sister and her family spent most of the time at her son's home along with my other sister and my mom on Christmas day.  So we are all getting together next Sunday to enjoy our family time.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

I was so busy during December that I didn't realize I never received the new mini catalog or the Sale-a-Bration catalog.  As a demonstrator, I should have received the catalogs in early December.  And to make things worse, I also didn't receive my December Paper Pumpkin kit!  My catalogs were supposed to arrive today and the Paper Pumpkin is scheduled to arrive on Monday.  But, who knows, they are both coming with USPS and mine tend to get held up in Butner or Greensboro a lot.  (note:  so much for thinking the catalogs were delivered today - no way!  Hopefully Monday!)

After working in my craft room this morning getting everything put away, I made a couple of masculine cards.  I going to try and use up some of my DSP ... to make room for the new stuff!  I made these cards using the World of Good DSP and stamp set.

I used some DSP on this card along with Marina Mist and Cinnamon Cider cardstock.  I'm sorry to say that this DSP, dies and stamp set are all retired.  I love the Old World Paper 3D embossing folder & was sorry it was retired.

This card is made using Early Espresso that was embossed with the Old World Paper embossing folder.  I stamped the compasses on Kraft Paper using my Stamparatus to line them up.  I used the Taylor Made Tags die to die cut the tag.  The sentiment was stamped with VersaMark and embossed with Copper powder.