Oct 16, 2015 | Announcements, cards, Seasonal Catalogue, specials, Stampin' Up!
Stampin’ Up!’s Hearth and Home Thinlits Dies make a fun combination with the Happy Scenes set (discounted in a bundle!) – and you can match the scene to the season! This scene was coloured with Stampin’ Write markers and a wash with the aquapainters in the sky & ground, but I was a little too delicate with my background colouring so it’s a bit washed out here, but the leaves (and wind!) match the scene outside my window today. (oh, and Room With a View is one of my favourite films ever, so I love that I can use that in a blog post title!)
A heads up that if you have a lot of stamp sets on your wish list, you will want to have your list ready for MONDAY….because we just found out that Stampin’ Up! is going to be having a limited time discount on stamps! More details here on Monday as soon as I get the details. Great news for Stampers Club members as we get together on Monday so extra bang for the buck! In the meantime, check your wish list and GO JAYS GO!!!
Oct 13, 2015 | specials, Stampin' Up!
Here are the latest Stampin’ Up! Canada Weekly Deals – special prices in limited amounts. I love those metal rimmed pearls! So classy. Great embellishments for your holiday crafting. You can go to YamStamps Online Store to place your order or contact me if you need help doing so, or have any questions.
I hope that you had a wonderful Canadian Thanksgiving yesterday! It was gorgeous weather. I went along with the Burlington Teen Tour Band to the Kitchener-Waterloo Oktoberfest parade – it was an early start to the day but we were home by noon! Plenty of time to relax, watch baseball (Go Jays!) and eat leftover turkey.
A last reminder that there’s a November Christmas Card Class, plus I’ve added a Stamp a Stack of Christmas Cards at the end of November as well – no excuse not to have a few handmade cards on hand for those special people in your life!! See the YamStamps Events page for more information and registration links. I look forward to seeing you in class!
Oct 11, 2015 | cards, Seasonal Catalogue, Stampin' Up!
Here in Canada it’s Thanksgiving, so I’m sharing this appropriate autumn card with you! It uses the Stampin’ Up! bundle Among the Branches, which includes the Among the Branches stamp set and the Woodland Embossing Folder. You may have noticed this card on the table during my appearance on Morning Live – I made it really quickly the evening before! After embossing the cardstock, I used a sponge dauber to run Early Espresso ink over the tree trunks, and stamped on just a few leaves. Stamping negative impression sentiments onto coloured cardstock can add an extra layer of colour to your projects, rather than just stamping on Very Vanilla or Whisper White – not that there’s anything wrong with that, but sometimes it’s nice to do something a little different. A little gold thread and it’s done!
I hope that you are able to spend some time with friends and family over the long weekend. I plan on enjoying dinner with family and taking some time to reflect on my many blessings. Happy Thanksgiving!
Oct 6, 2015 | specials, Stampin' Up!
There are some great items included in Stampin’ Up! Canada’s Weekly Deals to make a cute package of treats for your special Hallowe’en visitors! My favourite item this week – I love a good Big Shot Die, so the Hamburger Box is up there. Despite the mess they make when I knock an open container over, I also love the Metallics Sequin Assortment. Don’t forget that the Weekly Deals are a limited quantity, special priced group, so if you want to take advantage, the best bet is to place an online order through the YamStamps Stampin’ Up! Canada site. Contact me if you need help placing your order or have any questions. Happy Shopping!
Oh – and that comment about the mess? Photographic evidence of my clumsiness from Instagram:
Oct 1, 2015 | cards, Christmas, Events, Stampin' Up!
A reminder that TODAY is the deadline to register and pay for the October 15th Christmas Card Class! Your $30 fee will include a package of Seasons of Cheer Designer Series Paper (see above) and a package of Rhinestone Basic Jewels. We’ll make four cards using a tiny portion of your product and you take the rest home – to either duplicate the cards or come up with your own designs! Start time is 7pm. If you can’t make it that day – consider having a private Seasons of Cheer Christmas Card Class – same idea, but you can host in your own home with your friends on a date that better suits you. See the YamStamps Events page for the PayPal link to complete your payment and registration, or contact me for details on booking your own class!
Sep 30, 2015 | Announcements, cards, specials, Stampin' Up!
I’m excited to be on Morning Live today (estimated air time 9:45 am) – sharing some cardmaking ideas in honour of World Cardmaking Day (this Saturday). I’m also hoping to boost my donation amount! For each Paper Pumpkin subscriber, Stampin’ Up! is donating to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation – $1 per subscriber, and $2 for each new subscriber by October 10th. I have pledged to match that donation personally for each Paper Pumpkin subscriber who is signed up through me. So please sign up! It’s a fun monthly paper crafting kit, and right now you’ll help raise funds for a worthy cause. Plus it comes in a pink box in October!
I’m sharing this card that I am NOT planning on sharing on TV today, since we know how that goes for me in general….I plan a blog post with a project that I’m intending to show on air, and somehow run out of time or forget to show it during the segment….so I’m not even going to try with this one! This was made with the Stampin’ Up! set You’ve Got This and stamped with the new format Archival Basic Black ink which gives a great, sharp imprint, and withstood watercolouring with an Aquapainter.
Last but not least – be subscribed to the YamStamps list by 1pm Eastern today to get the first week of the Twelve Weeks of Christmas projects! (Yes, it’s true…12 weeks until Christmas…). These projects will not be posted anywhere else – they’re exclusive to my mailing list subscribers and will NOT be resent -so don’t miss out on getting all 12 of these projects! You can sign up by filling in the box at the top right of the blog…or get more information and sign up here. No shortage of options to get on the list!
