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This is just a quick reminder for my local stamping friends that tonight is our Annual Holiday Event. I know those of you that attend never miss and I wanted to make sure I got this out to as many folks as I could.
Here are the details:
Here is a sneak peak of our Make n Takes for tonight.
Hope you can join us!
Enjoy!
M.E.
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Yes, you saw that right! FREE SHIPPING on EVERYTHING! April 21st-25th Now is the time to stock up on all things Stampin' Up! This is a great time to get your online profile set up in my store so you can order 24/7 all week long.
ADD HOSTESS CODE: UUHHQTHN
before you check out.
That means you can order while in your jammies or like me lately, when sleep evades you and you remembered you need to restock your Whisper White Cardstock or replace that Red Stampin' Write marker that has been chewed up by the puppy! :( BUT because it's free shipping if you forget something you have all week long to place another order. But do not wait this deal ends Friday April 25th!
Retired Stamp and Accessory list just announced too!!
Download Retiring stamp set list
Download Retiring accessory list
What a great time to get those stamp sets and accessories that will be retiring. Pay close attention because new this year EVERYTHING is "until supplies last" This used to only apply to our retired accessory list but for the first time ever it will apply to stamps too so if have you eye on a certain retiring stamp do not wait, once it's gone....it's gone! Get it now and with free shipping you can add to your collection all week long with no penalty.
Click the links above to see everything that we will be saying Bye-Bye to!
Do not forget to enter the Hostess Code before Checking out! Why? Because there is something in it for you!! Everyone who orders using the Hostess Code: UUHHQTHN
Will receive, in addition to FREE SHIPPING a FREE gift from M.E.! Yes, I will be drawing random prizes from a basket and sending them to you. (Guaranteed value of $5-$15) My basket it plentiful but do not wait! This only will apply to orders placed with the above hostess code when checking out by Friday April 25th. If you have questions feel free to email me or facebook message me.
Enjoy!
M.E.
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What a joy it was this last weekend to have an awesome friend and fellow demonstrator, Betsy come and visit me for a few days. We attended our Annual Stamping meeting together.
She may KILL me for posting this picture! Silly us didn't get a picture together anytime over the weekend!!! This was our selfie right at the airport when she landed after a 3 hour rain delay. I personally think it's an awesome picture of two strong, beautiful women. Yep, I said it! :)
I was my usual busy self all weekend and thought I am going to get to bake for her and cook for her and show her lots of midwest hospitality. Not so much :( We were SO super busy the whole time. I told my husband on Sunday night I feel so bad like I didn't really get to do much with Betsy. He said "Honey, weren't all the activities you were busy with, with Betsy?" Well, yes. "Well, then why do you say you didn't get to do much with her?" Ha Ha as usual he is right. (shh, do NOT tell him I said that! He doesn't read my blog...) We did have a grand ol' time together even if we weren't always together!
My reason for this post was to show you some LOVELY gifts my guest gave me throughout the weekend. It was pure joy to M.E.
Look at this beautiful vase full of paper crafted flowers! I love the color and I love the way she twisted the stems. I just love everything about it! If you don't have the Big Shot and this Die to make these flowers you NEED them! Big Shot can be found here #113439 and the Spiral Flower Die can be found here #129379
The framed picture is a My Digital Studio Project she created. Ok, isn't it just the perfect House Warming Gift for your friends who move? Or a new Neighbor who moves in? You can bet I will be making a lot of these! I am happy to create them for you too, or if you want to learn how to make your own. Visit www.mydigitalstudio.net for a wealth of inspiration and when you are ready to try it out click here My Digital Studio #130647 you can also try it out for FREE here. The Program is only $19.95 if you choose to purchase after your trial! That is what is so fun about this. I am totally INSPIRED to create! Not to mention SO happy to have them gracing my house too!! :) Thank you Betsy!
Yesterday my Sister-In-Law texted me and asked me what I wanted to do about an Easter Egg hunt for the kids this year. We have always had one for the 7 kids we have between us but now they are grown up, my youngest is 15 and a couple of hers are married and well, they really are getting a little too big for an actual hunt. I told her I think I will just make them up a little something.
Wouldn't this little cutie be perfect? I love it! I know Betsy was thinking I would take these with me to the meeting and share but frankly I knew that one of my table-mates would have chocolate (and she did thank you Linda!) and I am selfish that way with my chocolate. I love it that much. But, these will be opened today while I am prepping for class tonight. I guarantee it!
Check back in Friday for another post about the card we created at Friday's coffee class. It's Ubber Cute!
Enjoy!
M.E.
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This last weekend I got to spend it with 100 of the best demonstrators I know! Demonstrators in the ImPECKable group and surrounding area groups. We met in Central Illinois but there were demos from all over the country. From East Coast to West. It was so much fun to be a part of it. I feel very blessed to do what I get to do!
Here is M.E. and just a few of the gals in my downline. We were spread all over the room and I was running around most of the time and forgot to get a grand picture of all of us. Sorry Ladies! xxoo
The day started out with a great opening from our Keynote speaker Lisa Fast from Indiana. She was the second person in the history of Stampin' Up! to sell a million dollars!! She shared tips on keeping your business strong even in times of having to start all over again. She has had several across state moves since joining Stampin' Up! 18 years ago. Very inspiring and I know several of the ladies are walking in her shoes right now and needed to hear what Lisa had to share. Thank you Lisa for your inpsiration.
Then we had Make n Take projects and a demonstration fair where we could watch some new techniques and ideas. I shared why we want to sell My Digital Studio to our customers who already own an e-cutter. So if you have an e-cutter and want more information on why you need Stampin' Up!'s My Digital Studio please ask M.E. I don't know it all but I certainly have some answers for you and if I don't I will try to find out. Do you own an e-cutter? Click here to learn more about MDS and download a free 30 day trial.
Here I am showing some of my fellow demonstrators how invaluable the My Library app can be if you use MDS with your e-cutter or even if you don't own an e-cutter. Check out the My Library App by Stampin' Up! in your tablets App store.
Then in the afternoon after a delicious lunch we started out with some fun Stamping Olympics! Who says Stamping can't be exercise?!
Stamp Curling...ever heard of it? Not sure it will ever make the Winter Games but we sure had fun!
Stamping Biathalon. Even though I am a certified Shotgun instructor even I was happy to see no Wonderful Stampin' Up! stamps were harmed in this event! LOL But lots of fun was had for sure!
Here is a just a little assortment of some of the fun projects we saw this weekend at Spring into Stamping.
Come back to see more this week.
Enjoy!
M.E.
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Well, I am totally beat but in a great way! Today was our annual Spring into Stamping Event. It is something our group of local (and not so local) Stampin' Up! demonstrators have been holding for many years now. It's a day of laughing....
and learning....
Free Stuff! (I won this stampset! YAY!)
Fun Stuff (We played Family Feud Stampin' Style!)
New friendships...
and Old...
It was just such a wonderful day. Tomorrow I will start sharing some of the great ideas I learned. But now I rest....
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Ten years ago tomorrow (March 14th, 2003) I decided to join a company I appreciated. I appreciated their dedication to quality in Papercrafting supplies. They were and have continued to be cutting edge in the craft arena. It's Stampin' Up! of course. When I joined all those years ago I signed up because I wanted the discount on my papercrafting supplies. Now I can't even imagine not using those supplies to make top quality cards and projects to share with all of you!
I have met so many great women over the years from all over the world, most I would never have met without this bond of creativity.
So let's Celebrate!! Place a $50.00 online order here (You must create an account if you do not have one) then use the Hostess Code: GEAVPERY (not case sensitive but make sure it says the hostesses name is Mary Ellen Stites) and not only will you get to pick a FREE Sale A Bration item from these products, but I will also send you a great Make-n-Take Packet to create 9 cards with 1 full card to copy (10 cards for 10 years!). (stamp set not included in Make-n-take packet) You can use a stampset in your repetoire to make a similar card or if you want to duplicate them exactly make sure you add #129120 "By the Tide" to your order. The card was featured here.
This online special will end at noon on Thursday March 21st. After all orders are in I will randomly choose one name to earn ALL the hostess benefits! Wow!! More "FREE Stuff!" You will be contacted via email before the end of that day so get your wishlist ready!
Remember the online 10th Anniversary Party code is: GEAVPERY
I mentioned that I have met many great women in my Stampin' "lifetime". 39 women have signed up directly under me to join me on the Create With M.E. team over the years and numerous more under them! So I have a special one time offer for that 40th woman to join my team. Sign up with Stampin' Up! before the 22nd for $99 and pick out $156.50 worth of stamping supplies from any current catalog. I will also include an additional stamp set of your choice out of any current catalog! Don't wait! You will want to be the first one! Join by clicking here or email me for more details.
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I saw this great box on the Stampin' Up! YouTube Channel the other day and couldn't wait to reproduce it! I had the opportunity this weekend when I was at the retreat I talked about here. We held a swap of hostess gift ideas and this was the first thing I thought of and when I demonstrated the washer jewelry I had just the spot for my washer pin. It's hard to tell from the picture but it has a clear lid on it made from a window sheet. Leave the dividers out for a GREAT card box to hold your gift cards. So if you want to be one of my rewarded hostesses in October make sure you email me, send me a message on my facebook page (like M.E.!) or send me a message on my website here so we can get your private class on calendar ASAP!
It's full of all kinds of fun Halloween goodies. Chocolate of course! some cute little halloween note cards and the pretty washer pins. The box video can be viewed here so you can re-create your own.
So we did our swap the same way you would do a Christmas exchange where we drew numbers and could steal from each other. Lucky M.E. I got the LAST number and if you know what that means you get choice!!! OH BOY i knew just what I wanted! It was really hard because every single item was AWESOME! But this is something I knew I wouldn't have the time re-create and it was just extra awesome to M.E.! LOOKIE! LOOKIE! It was made by Judy Brockway!
Here is a close up of the cat
Isn't it just adorable? Drop me a comment so we can let Judy know how awesome she is!
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While I was in Texas I had the luck to get to visit Austin for a day and spend some time with some GREAT folks. Meg, my upline, and I were welcomed with open arms by her parents Charlotte and Tom at the Airport and they promised me some "experiences" in Austin and they weren't kidding! In case you don't know the saying in Austin, TX is "Keep Austin Weird!" They took us right from the Airport to a BBQ joint called Rudy's where you get to eat scrumptious BBQ right on Butcher paper (my husband would have LOVED this being a butcher and all). There was Brisket and Smoked Turkey and Sausages oh my! A meat lovers paradise. Here I am drooling at the counter with Meg's dad Tom. My excuse for my look is a long day flying without eating all day. This picture was probably taken at about 9pm.
Here is the food because you have to see the food!
The next day they told me they were taking me to a grocery store for lunch. I was like...what? Austin is the Corporate Headquarters for Whole Foods. While I didn't feel comfortable snapping pictures in the actual grocery store I had to show you the way you get down to the 3 floors of underground parking with your cart. This is M.E. being silly with Charlotte in front of me. As soon as you touch the cart onto the escalator the wheels lock in place and can't be moved. It's a very cool system!
Oh about lunch, well they will cook you anything you want! The store is huge and full of delicious goodies. We had crab butternut squash bisque and fish tacos! All fresh to order! The cart is full of snackies and other goodies for our trip to San Antonio because after lunch we were headed that way.
While we were in Austin Charlotte took us to visit one of her neighbors. They had a beautiful home filled with Mexican art. Our hostess, Polly, still had her collection of nativity scenes up from Christmas and the tour probably took a couple hours she had so many and they were absolutely gorgeous and I didn't want to miss anything. Some dated back from the 60's when Polly first started to collect. She also had a big corner in one of her rooms full of 'Day of the Dead' artwork. Everything was so colorful and delightful. She really had an eye on putting together different vignettes. Very eclectic but it all worked. Before we left she presented each of us with a little "souvenier" of our day. A 'Day of the Dead' skeleton ornament all hand woven. So detailed. So I made something to send to her today . A quick card that I think captures the mexican feel with many of the bright colors I experienced in her home.
I saw this similar idea sometime while I was in San Antonio but I made this card from my memory and I do not know who to give credit to for the original idea. (as always if it was yours drop me a line I would love to give you credit) It was just one of those ideas that stuck with me! I earned the "packed for" bundle of stamps from Stampin' Up! for FREE!! You can view the full set in the Occasions mini catalog by clicking on that link above or my signature below. Here is a close up of the image. I cut it from the whole group of images. A great way to use this stamp set.
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APEX time again! APEX is something my upline, Meg Loven, has offered to us for the last several years and I try to NEVER miss it. She offers it every quarter to anyone who has $1200 in sales and/or a new recruit. It stands for A Positive Example and it's what we call an over the top swap or wow swap. If you participate in person it's a shoebox swap but if you live far away or are busy like I am this month you can participate by mail.
I had fun putting these little angels together for the other participants. I had seen something somewhat similar at convention and had snapped a photo and had it in my "ideas" folder on my computer. So when I was trying to decide what to do I pulled up that folder and saw this little cutie and thought it was time to create her.
She's a pretty nice size angel. I started with a 12 x 12 sheet of textured vanilla cardstock and one of my dinner plates. Yes, I needed a larger circle so I did the old trace around the dinner plate trick. I traced with my embosser from the new simply scoring tool and cut out by hand. Then I found my center and went from there with my folds. I would love to give you exact measurements but truthfully I am not sure how to tell you my markings on a circle. If you want to duplicate her I would suggest making a pattern from newspaper or brown packing paper from your Stampin' Up! order you can place with me online ;-) (you don't throw that stuff away do you?!!) Then use it as a template. I had fun embossing then decorating her wings with dazzling details and her dress with glass glitter. She is just heavenly. I went with the very vanilla because I thought it just made her a little softer than the true Whisper White. Although that would be just as ethereal.
I hope you enjoyed seeing my choir of angels. I think they would be adorable made with their choir books in hand. It would mimic the angel I put on my tree. It's an angel my mom bought at the five n dime when my oldest sister was little so I would think that would make it an antique now (ha ha sorry sis!) and my mom never thought much of it. She said it was just temporary, one of those things you get just to get by when you don't have money until you can get something better. Her skirt is made of straws and glitter and cheap foil adorns her head as a halo and her head it a wooden ball her foil choir book it held on with cording. Growing up it was tradition to me and even though mom would buy new angels to put on her tree, as long as I lived at home I never let her. I can't remember if she gave it to me before she died or I got it after now but it's been a part of my tree since my kids were little or even before. Mom's been gone now for almost 20 years and every year I place her on top it gives me a special moment to dream of my mom. I think my kids feel about our angel the way I did as a child. Funny how that works. It makes me smile thinking of our "silly" little traditions.
Share your favorite Christmas traditions. I'd love to hear how you make Christmas special at your house. Leave me a comment.
If you want to order supplies to make this cute little angel or any other stamping project click on my signature or on the Online Order icon at the top of my blog.
*Edited 10/23/2011- Download Elegant Angel tutorial here
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