Club, class, and a little Stampin Up news

Hi friends!

Some stamping news to brighten your day.....Enjoy!

Clubs:

• The monthly hostess stamp club will meet this Tuesday, February 12th at 7pm at my house. Each month you'll learn new techniques and get to play with the latest and newest Stampin Up products. Club members commit to placing minimum $25 order each month and in return get hostess benefits (minimum $25 FREE products) once during the six-month club. This is a great way to slowly build up your crafting supplies. Upcoming club dates (all Tuesdays): February 12th, March 19th, April 16th, May 21st, and June 18. SPACE is limited, call today to reserve your spot!

• Schedule uncertain? Can't committ to a monthly club? You can attend any club meeting on a space available basis and pay a $10 tuition fee (or FREE with a minimum $25 order). RSVP needed each month to confirm space available.
• Here's a sneak peek of one of the February club projects. It features several FREE sale-a-bration items -- sycamore street dsp, sycamore street ribbon, Madison Avenue stamp, pretty petites stamp, vine street embossing folder. Contact me today to RSVP your club spot!

Classes:

• Easter card class on Tuesday, March 5th at 7pm. Make 4 cards, 2 each of 2 designs. Tuition is $10 (or FREE with a minimum $25 order). Call today!
• Birthday card class on Tuesday, April 2nd at 7pm. Make 4 cards, 2 each of 2 designs. Tuition is $10 (or FREE with a minimum $25 order). RSVP now!
• Remember -- stamping experience not a prerequisite to joining the fun!

Stampin Up news:

• A new limited-time offer from Stampin Up: you can purchase the exclusive Sent with Love Stamp Set or Sent with Love Designer Series Paper-or bundle them for a special 20 percent discount! Use the Sent with Love product suite to make an array of travel-themed projects. This offer is available until April 30th.
• Looking for quick papercrafting projects that can be completed in 30 minutes or less, won't leave you with a crafting aftermath mess, and takes up no precious real estate in your home? Then check out Stampin Up's monthly MyPaperPumpkin crafting subscription. You'll get fabulous projects delivered each month right to your door with everything you need to create the monthly project--it's prepped and ready to go, all you will need is your own adhesive. Learn more at www.mypaperpumpkin.com

• Stampin Up is celebrating it's 25th anniversary this year and they will be celebrating all year. Each month they will introduce another "best of" stamp set containing 6 or so retired stamps from the past 25 years plus a new stamp. These sets will sell for $14.95 and be available until March 2014. Buy 6 "best of" sets during the year and you can select any $14.95 or less stamp set for FREE! Check out the January and Febuary sets here. I hear they have more cool stuff planned for their anniversary--and I'll be sure to share it with you!

Stampin Up is sharing really awesome creative ideas on their new inspire blog -- check it out, many wonderful ideas posted almost daily. Sale-a-bration (SAB) started on January 22nd....it's a great time to get FREE stuff; for every $50 you spend (before shipping and tax) you get to pick a FREE item from the SAB flyer. SAB is a great time to host a stamping party with lots of FREE stuff for you and your pals. Call today to book your party. Every hostess of a $150 show gets a FREE pack of silver glimmer paper!

If you do not have a local demonstrator, I would love to have you select me for your Stampin Up demonstrator (& creative coach). Thanks!

Terri
terhare@hotmail.com

Super Bowl Champs!

My home team won the Super Bowl!

Joe Flacco, Super Bowl MVP

Ravens win it 34-31....and another nail-biter game to boot! Awesome game!!!

Epiphany Tea

Hi friends!

I am fortunate to be included in a group of women who get together for tea whenever one or two or three of them decide to throw a tea party. The most recent one was a Epiphany tea held at my friend (& upline) Susan's house. Besides Epiphany, it happened to be Chris's birthday a few days before the tea, so we added a birthday celebration to the festivities.

I like to make small gifts for my tea friends. This tea gave me a chance to make a project I had seen on my friend Tangee's website (KricutKrazy). The project involves wrapping Hershey's chocolate nuggets with designer series paper (DSP); the nuggets fit perfectly in pretzel rod bags. Wondering how they turned out? Well wonder no more....

I used the Snow Festival DSP from the 2012 Stampin Up Holiday catalog. These are very easy to make. Cut the DSP to 1"x3", for the tray cut a piece of coordinating cardstock 2"x4" and make a 1/4" score along both long sides. Place the covered nuggets on the tray and then into a pretzel rod bag. It's that easy!


Some of our tea pals couldn't make it---some were out of town, ill, or at the Ravens football game (watching them win--Go Ravens!). I captured the day with a few pictures and wished I taken more--- like of the birthday pennant banner Susan made for Chris and a holiday door swag Susan also made. Sometimes I am so lame!!!!

Our tea hostess---Susan

A beautifully festive tea table

My tea place setting---Susan really out did herself!

We each chose a tea cup -- I love the pink flowers on mine

 

scones with cream

Roasted cauliflower soup -- I brought this to share

The savory course

Desserts!!!

More desserts---these were THE best cupcakes!

My tea friends Barb, Donna, and Susan

The birthday girl--Chris

Stamping is fun---and so are tea parties with friends!!

Terri
terhare@hotmail.com

Creative Coaching -- an example

Hey friends!

One of the services I am happy to provide to my customers is creative coaching. This service worked really well for my customer Gail (who also happens to be my awesome step-mom). Gail likes to bless her family, friends, and her church family with hand-stamped cards wishing them a happy birthday.

She asked me to design several birthday card samples using several retired Stampin Up stamp sets that were gathering dust in her craft room. The sets she sought help with were:

1. Echoes of Kindness
2. Botanical Blooms
3. Polka Dot Punches
4. Never Ending Joy
5. Sweet Stems
6. Up in the Air
7. Vintage Vogue

I did some searches on Pinterest and Splitcoaststamper.com and copied several designs; I made the 13 sample cards below. I tried to tailor the samples to cardstock and ink she had on hand but also made them in other color combos so she had options. She then purchased the supplies to make the samples she liked the most.

If you do not have a local demonstrator, I would love to have you select me for your Stampin Up demonstrator (& creative coach). Thanks!

Stamping is fun!

Terri
terhare@hotmail.com


Sweet Stems

Sweet Stems

Sweet Stems

Echoes of Kindness

Echoes of Kindness

Never Ending Joy

Never Ending Jot

Vintage Vogue

One of Gail's favorite designs; my upline copied this design and I copied hers!

 

Up in the Air

Up in the Air

Up in the Air

Polka Dot Punches

Polka Dot Punches sample in Not Quite Navy and Cherry Cobbler

Polka Dot Punches sample in shades of pink with Blossom punch

Polka Dot Punches



Botanical Blooms


Botanical Blooms in Cherry Cobbler

Botanical Blooms sample in Pacific Point and spritzed with shimmer paint

Botanical Blooms in Pretty in Pink with Crumb Cake

It's a bargain, while supplies last -- don't miss out!

Hey friends!

I love a sale and swoon over a fantastic bargain......and this news had me at Hello!

Stampin Up annouced today that all of the Digital Content Discs on the clearance rack are just $1 – One Dollar – Yes that’s right. But only while supplies last so hurry.. this amazing clearance won’t last long. SHOP HERE

The 7 content discs are (photos below):

• Avant-Garde Collection DVD (item 125841)
• Cheerful Treats Digital Content CD (item 124237)
• Express Booster Pack DVD (item 124889)
• His & Hers Collection DVD (item 125842)
• October, December, Whenever Collection DVD (item 124485)
• Simple Snapshots Content CD (item 127185)
• Sweet Retreat Collection DVD (item 125840)

Digital stamping is fun!

Terri
terhare@hotmail.com

If you do not have a local demonstrator, I would love to have you select me for your Stampin Up demonstrator (& creative coach). Thanks!

Stamping Extreme Weekend Extravaganzas (SEWE)---or How lucky am I????

Hey friends!

I have to share how lucky I am....I was invited to travel to Ocean City, MD with my best stamping buddies for a long weekend of girls-only stamping. And another friend invited me back to the ocean the following weekend for another girls long stamping weekend. I feel like I must be the luckiest girl in the world!

I wanted to share some of the stamping projects I made and some my stamping pals made...I hang out with some awesomely creative stampers!



Chris made some beautiful vintage-y tags; love the bottle caps!

some of our supplies

a bunch of the cards we made





Susan made a pirate card for a special little guy who loves pirates 

 

Susan also designed these 3x3" cards using SAB stamps and DSP





my best stamping buds--Barb, Susan, and Chris

 

The next weekend I did it all over again but with different stamping friends at a different location; this time we were ocean view and it was beautiful! I enjoyed actually getting a glimpse of the ocean as the weekend before our place was on the bayside and I never even saw the ocean during that trip because we were too busy stamping to leave the condo!

A snowy ocean view

although chilly---still beautiful!

Again lots of stamping....

Lynn and Kim at our mad creativity table

Lynn's card--too cute!

a card I designed for an upcoming valentine card class

another card for the upcoming valentine card class

a masculine valentine card

 

Lynn's card for a little guy in her life---so adorable!

 

Stamping is fun!!!

 

Terri

terhare@hotmail.com

 





My latest video -- fantastic!

Hey friends!

I posted my newest video today and thought I would share it with you.

I needed a thank you note recently and wanted to use my current favorite designer series paper (DSP), First Edition. It all came together fabulously in this thank you card.

Stamping is fun---especially if you can stamp with FREE products and you can get FREE products during Sale-A-Bration (SAB). For every $50 Stampin Up order you can pick a FEEE item from the SAB catalog.

If you do not have a local demonstrator, I would love to have you select me for your Stampin Up demonstrator (& creative coach).

Stamping is fun!

Terri
terhare@hotmail.com