Friday, November 23, 2007

Stampin' Up! Great Sales

So right now, Stampin' Up! has some great specials!!

FREE SHIPPING in Canada for the month of November

Buy 3 packs of Double Sided Designer Series Paper (in any pattern), get a 4th one FREE in November

Time to "Wrap Up the Holidays". With the holiday gift giving season approaching, you will want to wrap your gifts in true Stampin' Up! style. From Friday, November 23 through Saturday, December 15 there are a number of items on SALE. It includes:

- Holiday Tag Bundle (item 112409) A new item created just for this promotion!
This bundle includes several pre-cut pieces from the Holiday Glitz kit and makes 15 quick and easy toppers for gift giving.

- Empty Accents and Elements Tin-3 Pack (item 112410) A new item chosen just for this promotion! - This tin is great for gifts, skinny things like gift cards and you can decorate the outsides.

- Tags for All Stamp Set* (item 110380) 20% off! (page 13 of holiday mini)

- Hand Selected Accents & Elements (item 110228) 25% off! (page 12 of holiday mini)

- Designer Gift Cards* (item 110264) 30% off! (page 14 of holiday mini)

- Purely Pomegranate (item109863) and Chocolate Chip (item 109862) Satin Ribbon* Buy 1, get 1 free! (page 22 of holiday mini)

Contact me or your Stampin' Up! demo for more information. These specials are so good! I'm definitely taking advantage of them. I have flyers to email if you would like to see them. I just don't know how or if I can upload them here.

Oh, and the Spring/ Summer Preview catalogue is here - would you like to see it?? Send me an email or reply to this post to let me know and I'll send it your way.

Friday, November 9, 2007

Birthday Cards

My birthday was over a month ago, but I have finally taken some photos of the handmade cards that I received to share with you. Thank you to all of those who sent me some birthday wishes!

A birthday RAK from Jacqueline (Cookiehead on SCS):
Another birthday card from a fellow stamper at SCS, Mama Kim:

And one more birthday RAK from SCS - Leesa Berry:

My friend Sharon and her little daughter made this one (and a very yummy almond pound cake):

My dear dear husband made this card. He is quite creative and it shows in his papercrafting abilities as well. He likes to say "Ola", hence the cut out circle in the front for the "o" and the hand written "la" inside the card - he did have to explain that one to me. I thought he just gave up writing my name after the la. Go figure. And on the back, he signed it 'Meshed together cards" as his name is Mesh - quite creative, isn't it?!?

My sister made this cool card:

And my birthday was the same weekend as Thanksgiving this year and my parents came here for the weekend. This was a thank you card for hosting them.

Sunday, November 4, 2007

Cakes

I have always wanted to take a cake decorating course. I knew nothing (before this course) about cake decorating and thought it would be fun to know for our (future) kids and also for my wedding planning business, Noteworthy Designs.

It was 4 weeks long at Michael's and we made 3 cakes to decorate. Here are mine (please remember, they are my first 3 cakes I have ever done). Oh, and crappy photos I took to boot!

My very first cake. Way too thick of icing, but fun to do!


Creepy clowns but it was still okay. Michelle is a lady who I work with that had her birthday on the day I was bringing this cake into work to eat.


Our final cake - I was very happy with how my roses turned out - they came a long way from the cabbage looking things I started with.