Tuesday, June 2, 2015

New Catalogue Out Now


Hooray! The new Annual Catalogue is out and there are some new products to share. Click Here to see the new Catalogue.

What's New!!

A new range of In Colors 2015-2017



Lots of new Stamp Sets
A New Gift Bag Punch Board to go with the Envelope and Gift Box Punch Boards
Several new punches, including the Tree Builder Punch.
A whole new range of Hostess Rewards 
and a whole lot more, so what are you waiting for, take a look and send me your orders now.




Pricing Changes with new Catalogue

With the 2015-2016 annual catalogue, you’ll likely notice some pricing changes. I've summarized some of the changes below:


Even-Dollar Pricing: The move to even-dollar pricing means you won’t see anymore $xx.95 in prices (please note, however, that you will still see some products priced at $xx.25, $xx.50, and $xx.75). The benefit of this is a much more simple pricing solution that is also consistent with how many other direct-sales companies price their products.

Clearance Rack: Clearance Rack items will continue to be priced at $xx.x9. This is to distinguish clearance prices from regular prices.

Product Price Increases: As any viable company must do, SU continually evaluate their pricing to ensure they are offering high-quality, competitively-priced products while also remaining profitable.

To that end SU have made the following product-line increases:
Ink pads and refills: It has been several years since they have increased the price of ink. Over time, costs have gone up, resulting in a small price increase.
Big Shot, cutting pads, and crease pads: MSRP (Manufacturer Suggested Retail Price) has increased, meaning they’ve had to increase the retail price.
Paper: Increased costs have resulted in a slight price increase on cardstock and envelopes.
Extra-large punches: Their punch supplier increased the cost on some of the punches, necessitating that they increase the price on the largest punch body style.
Background stamps: SU costs have gone up, resulting in a small price increase.

Product Decreases: While SU have had to make some pricing increases, they are happy to announce that they've been able to lower prices on several products to make them more competitively priced, including several punches; Textured Impressions Embossing Folders; and various tools, trims and embellishments.

Tuesday, May 12, 2015

Oldies but goodies: Pocket Silhouette Mini Flower Pots

I recently spotted some cards on Pinterest by Loll Thompson which inspired me to CASE them. Love the Pocket Silhouette stamp set and how they turned out. Sometimes it pays to hang on to your old stamp sets even when they have been retired.

Materials used:
Rubber Stamps: Pocket Silhouette stamp set - Retired
Sheltering Tree stamp set
Greetings Eight stamp set - Retired
Sentiments from Sheltering Tree and Butterfly Basics stamp sets
Tools: Big Shot (113439) Homemade Holiday Framelits Die (used to make the pots)
Cardstock/Patterned Paper: Whisper White cardstock (106549)
Ink Pad and Marker colours used:
Elegant Eggplant
Old Olive
Garden Green
Pear Pizzazz
Real Red
Rose Red
Pumpkin Pie
Daffodil Delight
Soft Suede





Tuesday, May 5, 2015

Club SUM Workshop 5 May 2015

Tuesday 5th May

For this workshop I had two Mother's Day projects lined up as it was coming up.

For our first project we made a Mother's Day card

Wonderful Mother card
Materials Used:
Rubber Stamps: Something Lacy background stamp from the 2015 Occasions Catalogue; Flower Shop stamp set (130939 W); Mixed Bunch stamp set (128442) - Retired; Well Scripted stamp set (122082 W) - Retired
Tools: Pansy punch (130698); 
Cardstock/Patterned Paper: Whisper White cardstock (106549); Early Espresso cardstock (121686)
Inkpads: Soft Suede ink pad (126978) ;Baked Brown Sugar ink pad (121174)
Adhesives: SNAIL adhesive (104332); Stampin' Dimensionals (104430)
Accessories: Pearl Basic Jewels (119247)


For our second project we made a Flowerpot card with pull out card to write your sentiment.

Flowerpot card
Materials used:
Rubber Stamps: Flower Shop stamp set (130939 W)
Petite Petals stamp set (133155 (C)
For You Flower single stamp (121596) - Retired
Tools: Big Shot (113439); Autumn Accents Bigz Die (127812); Scallop Trim Border Punch (118402); Fancy Flower Punch (118073); Petite Petals Punch (133322)
Cardstock/Patterned Paper: Whisper White cardstock (106549); Night of Navy cardstock (106577); Garden Green cardstock (108605)
Inkpads: 
Adhesives: SNAIL adhesive (104332); Stampin' Dimensionals (104430)
Ribbon: Ribbon Taffeta 1/8" Regal Rose (122965)



Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Retiring Products


The time has come for the Stampin' Up! Retired List 2015 to be released. Say goodbye to retiring products from the 2014-2015 annual catalogue, but before we do, here's your opportunity to order your favourites with discounts up to 50 percent off retail. Retiring products will only be available until 2 June*, or while supplies last, so now's a great time to get them before they're gone!

*Note: Why are these products retiring on 2 June? Since all catalogue launches will now be aligned globally, the current 2014-2015 annual catalogue will end when the new annual catalogue launches on 2 June 2015, rather than its original end date of 30 June 2015. This includes retiring product within the catalogues, as well as the print catalogues themselves.



If you would like to place an order, send me an email or go to the Stampin' Up! Online store to place your orders.

Remember to get your orders in by June 2, as these items are only available while stocks last.

Thursday, April 16, 2015

80th Birthday


My Aunt Catherine commissioned me to make some 15, but later became 20 invites for her husband, my Uncle David's 80th birthday. So I set to work and came up with the above design. 



Then I needed to come up with a birthday card, so I cased one which I saw posted on Splitcoaststampers. It involved cutting strips of coloured cardstock, one good way to use up scraps to make the candles, 80 candles which mean't I needed 8 panels with 10 candles each. For the front of the card, I stamped the background using one of the paint splotched from the Gorgeous Grunge stamp set and then stamped the "Celebrate your Big Day with Cake" on to whisper white cardstock and die cut it using the balloons die cut. Die cut the number 80 using glitter cardstock and used washi tape and bakers twine to embellish.

Sunday, February 8, 2015

Lotus Blossum


The Lotus Blossom stamp set also from the 2015 Sale-A-Brations catalogue is a 2-step stamping process, although in this case it actually needs 3 steps.
For this stamp set, it is best to stamp the 3rd image first and the 1st bold image last, and when using darker colours, it is best to stamp off some of the colour before stamping the image, otherwise you lose all the details.