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2014 Stampin’ Up! Retirees Announced!
It’s official! Here are links to the lists:
Both stamps and accessories are available WHILE SUPPLIES LAST! Please view the lists – Stampin’ Up! provides daily updates regarding the availability of retiring product.
Standard Shipping is FREE from April 21 to April 25th. Order now at the Online Store!
How about a deal on My Paper Pumpkin?
Are you riding the Paper Pumpkin train yet? You ought to be! The projects are delightful, simple to assemble, and include exclusive stamps that you will use again and again. The monthly subscription includes pre-measured and pre-cut paper, stamps, ink and embellishments – everything except adhesive that you need to create a project in 30 minute or less.
My Paper Pumpkin is perfect for busy moms who can only steal a few minutes before bedtime for their crafting. It’s a great group project for a Girl’s Night Out. You can even complete one on your lunch hour and have time left over to eat lunch!
Best of all, sign up HERE before August 31 and pay only $10 each month (plus tax) for your first two months! The regular price is $19.95, so you’re saving almost half. The subscription service is easy to manage, and you can suspend it when you are traveling – although who would want to miss one magical box?
Here are some samples I’ve shared previously – click on the photo for to visit the whole post:
The June 2013 pumpkin kit used a hexagon theme for four cards.
The April pumpkin featured the SERIOUSLY fabulous stamp and gorgeous papers to create 4 completely different cards!
This is the Welcome kit, so all new subscriptions begin with this set of stamps and supplies. You’ll love the font for the sentiments, and there’s an awesome splatter stamp that accompanies this set as well!
Want to see the July kit? Mine is waiting at home – and I’m not there yet! Check out THIS video for a sneak peak.
Sign up now to save 50% for your first two months!
It’s all in the packaging…
Don’t you love getting a gift? And if you’re anything like me, don’t you love getting a gift – in a cute package??
But cute packages take time, and planning, and lots of other things that are in short supply this time of year. Fortunately, Stampin’ Up! has a solution:
These two collections are perfect to have on hand for that Sure-to-Delight package! Order these at the Online Store. I’m stocking up myself because 2012 has been the Year of the Airplane in the Maui Stamper Household, and there just isn’t enough time to do all the things on my list!
Our latest flight was to beautiful Sedona, where we spent time with my family. My parents have invited us to join them at their timeshare for years, but this was the first time it was practical. It was a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend that went by too quickly, but I’m so glad we went. In addition to lots of great time with the family – and great food too – we had beautiful weather that was perfect for exploring. The sky was amazingly clear and blue, and the sun was brilliant. We watched a lot of planes fly high overhead, leaving beautiful trails in the sky:
The moon wasn’t quite full, but it was visible in the late afternoon sky; the red rocks, the scrubby vegetation, and that brilliant blue sky created such a stunning contrast:
We stopped for a late afternoon visit at the Chapel of the Holy Cross, pressed tightly into the cliffs:
The chapel interior is extremely simple but has a powerful grace:
And didn’t I do a fabulous job of color-coordination? We hiked the Courthouse Butte Loop the afternoon before we flew home:
I’ll be back to Stampin’ next time.
Crafting dreams – for less!
Do you dream of having your own business? Stampin’ Up! is making that opportunity available to you for only $87.50 until November 30. The Demonstrator Starter Kit offers over $300 worth of stampin’ goodness for you to enjoy with no strings attached. It contains all the product and business supplies you need to start your own business, or if that’s not your interest it’s just a super crafting value!
Stampin’ Up! is making both the Standard and Digital Plus Starter kits available at this price. Click HERE to see a comparison of the two kits, and remember – your cost is $87.50. Need more information? Check my Online Store and investigate the Start Your Own Business button at the top RIGHT of the landing page, or leave me a comment and we can talk more. Ready to sign up today? My special password just for you is TheMauiStamper.
You won’t regret it!
A Fond Farewell to Mellow Moss
Ah, Mellow Moss – there’s a color I’m going to miss. It’s soft, it’s versatile, and it plays so well with other colors. But change is good and I am embracing this Color Renovation for all the wonderful new colors and color combinations it promises.
- All Holidays Stamp Set
- Mellow Moss, Pale Plum, Perfect Plum and Naturals White card stock
- Perfect Plum Classic ink pad
- Big Shot, Little Leaves and Birds and Blooms Sizzlets, and Beautiful Wings Embosslit
- Perfect Polka Dots impressions folder and Stampin’ Up! Backgrounds 1 Texturz plates
- Mellow Moss taffeta ribbon, piercing tool and mat and a silver brad
The Birds and Blooms Sizzlets have 3 graduated flowers that are perfect for this layered technique. I like to scrunch them a little so they have some dimension. My scrunching technique isn’t very sophisticated – it amounts to twisting and bending the paper until it’s soft enough to work with. Once I’m satisfied with the flowers, I stack them up on the piercing mat and push the piercing tool through them. I pick up my brad and then lift the flower stack off the tool and right onto the brad before they can even think about getting disorganized.
This card would be easy to mass produce – the Sizzlets can all go through the Big Shot at one time and you could use at least 3 of the 5 butterflies produced by the Embosslit. You wouldn’t have to use Mellow Moss. And after June 30, if you don’t have a stash set aside, you won’t be able to.
Farewell, Mellow Moss.
A Fond Farewell to Lavender Lace
OK, well maybe only kinda fond. Lavender Lace is one of those colors that I bought as a new demonstrator because I “needed” to have all the colors. It’s never been a color that cried out “Me! Me!” in the stamp room. More often than not, I would use it because I felt guilty that I had neglected it.
As of June 30, I will be 100% Lavender Lace Guilt Free.
That said, I like the way it looks in this card:
- Thoughts and Prayers and Teeny Tiny Wishes stamp sets
- Lavender Lace, Apricot Appeal and Glossy White card stock
- Elegant Eggplant Classic ink pad
- Lavender Lace, Apricot Appeal, and Pixie Pink Classic ink refills
- Styled Vanilla Hodgepodge Hardware; Big Shot and Perfect Polka Dots Impressions folder
- Double Rectangle punch and 5/8 inch Vanilla Satin ribbon
The background behind the fabulous tree from Thoughts and Prayers is the oh-so-easy Striped Wipe technique. I am such a fan of that tree.  It’s graceful and has just enough asymmetry to give you room to embellish away without disturbing the balance of the card.
Lavender Lace looks great with Pixie Pink, which ought to give you a clue to my feelings about Pixie Pink! I’ll miss Apricot Appeal though – my upline uses it a lot and I’ve learned to love it.
Speaking of Crystal, I saw her twice last week and got to feed baby Isaac. He’s a man-child, always hungry. What is it about baby boys? It’s hard to get their little tanks all filled up.
Off to fill up my Stampin’ Tank.
A Fond Farewell to Cameo Coral
If you’ve seen it once today, you’ve seen it a hundred times: Stampin’ Up! announced a complete Color Collection Renovation yesterday. 30 (yes, thirty) colors from the Color Families are retiring at the end of June, making way for 5 brand new colors and a host of beloved In Color selections. The Color Renovation will organize Stampin’ Up! colors into four Color Collections, each with 10 beautiful, trendy, inspiring colors.
Some of the colors that are being retired are certainly ready for that honor, but there are some that it will be a little harder to bid farewell. Today’s card uses the Split Negative technique (a great tutorial is at SplitCoastStampers) and features retiring color Cameo Coral:
- Season of Friendship and All Holidays stamp sets
- Whisper White, Cameo Coral and Basic Black card stock
- Cameo Coral and Basic Black Classic ink pads; Whisper White Craft ink pad
- Embossing Buddy, White Embossing Powder and Heat tool
- Trio Flower punch, Black Gingham ribbon and Black Stampin’ Write Journaler
I’m running a series of Technique Classes over the next few months – it’s a way to challenge myself to try new things – and this card is for the class on Saturday.
I’m a firm believer in change. It isn’t always easy, but it always presents new opportunities. As much as I have enjoyed some of these retiring colors, I am thrilled the Stampin’ Up! is moving forward with a contemporary new face lift and I think you’ll be really pleased when you see the new selections. That said, if you’re a fan of Cameo Coral, I suggest you head on over to my Online Store and stock up on ink pads, ink refills, and paper (don’t forget the 12×12!).
Aloha, Cameo Coral!
Wait! Don’t toss those cards…
Re-use, reduce, recycle.
If you love paper and paper crafts, then it’s likely you save old cards – even commercially printed cards. I’m guilty as charged, and further guilty of saving pretty ribbons from Christmas packages as well. In the past, I’ve used a hand-held tag punch to create small gift tags, but this year I stepped it up.
I certainly hope you bought the Stampin’ Up! Two Tags Bigz die (#115954, $21.95) when it was on sale during the 12 Days of Holiday Sales promotion, because that’s what I used to make these tags. A stack of old cards, a pile of Christmas ribbon and about half an hour with the Big Shot yielded a bunch of tags ready for duty next year. Here’s a closer look:
To encourage my family to wrap their own packages, I have gift wrap, ribbon and tags readily available around the first of December. The tags and some stamped gift card holders are in a basket and everyone knows it’s first come, first served – this year we ran short on the afternoon of the 24th! Getting a head start on next year’s tags avoids panic in December and keeps me from looking like a crazy bag lady when my family discovers packages of old cards stashed with the Christmas decorations. Be sure to check that there’s nothing written on the inside of your image; someone else’s message about their kid’s moment of glory at the band concert shouldn’t compete with “To Kimo, Love Tutu”.
I think there’s another stash of old cards somewhere. Off to crank out a few more tags. Re-use. Reduce. Recycle.
Happy New Year.
Trendy Little Birthday Trees
I saw a card posted the other day that made me stop and think. The creator of the card said she didn’t think it looked like a birthday card, but since it didn’t seem to suit any other occasion, she chose a birthday sentiment.  I’m sure there are exceptions, but in my opinion just about any card is a suitable birthday card.
- Trendy Trees and Upsy Daisy Stamp sets
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Not Quite Navy, Real Red, Soft Sky (retired) and Whisper White card stock
- Retired Designer Series paper
- Real Red, Not Quite Navy, Soft Sky (retired) and River Rock (retired) Classic ink pads
- Riding Hood Red (retired) taffeta ribbon, Scallop Border punch, and Stamp-a-ma-jig
I have to admit that it took me a while to find the right sentiment for the birthday greeting. It wasn’t so much the words as the font that I struggled with. I also confess to struggling with retired colors. I get really attached to some of them! River Rock was one of those colors that I didn’t especially care for until I started using it. If Stampin’ Up! revises their standard color palette, I really hope River Rock gets a permanent slot. Oh, and Baja Breeze. And Kiwi Kiss. And Riding Hood Red.   I guess I have some issues to deal with, don’t I?
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