Stamped Sophisticates

Thursday, January 26, 2012

Mixed Bunch Valentine Card and Sale-A-Bration

One of my Leadership Swaps
Valentine Card Class this week end
Sale-A-Bration benefits - Free merchandise with each $50 order
$175 Starter Kit now $125, plus it pays for itself with free monthly Designer Series Paper or Digital Downloads

It is such an exciting time of the year! Returning from Stampin' Up!s Leadership conference, we saw how to use so many new products. And now with the new Occasions mini catalog, and Sale-A-Bration in full swing it is a fun time to share with you some of the new products we received at the Conference.

This card is made using the new Mixed Bunch stamp set. We received this set free at Leadership. In addition to the stamp set, the Occasions mini catalog includes a new punch that fits all three flowers in this set.

Here's a swap card I made for Leadership:

Recipe
Stamps: Mixed Bunch (125535 - wood; 125537 - clear mount), P.S. I love You (125460-W; 125462-C)
Paper: Whisper White, River Rock, Red Glimmer Paper
Inks: VersaMark
Accessories: Perfect Details Textured Plate, Big Shot Die Cut Machine, Gold Brads, Gold Embossing powder, Heat Tool, Piercing Tool, Fashionable Hearts Embosslit Die, Mat Pack, Scallop Trim Border Punch, Dimensionals

I did a lot of card swapping at Leadership this year, and we'll be making this card and many of the cards I received as swaps during my upcoming Valentine's class, Sunday, January 29. Join us if you are in the Houston area! Register here: http://www.meetup.com/NW-Houston-F-M-1960-Spring-CardMakers/

Also, Sale-A-bration is in full swing! That means for every $50 you spend from Jan 24 - March 31, 2012, you receive a free product from the Sale-A-Bration catalog. Download a free copy of the Sale-A-Bration brochure now to see what you can earn.

In addition, hostess earn products more during Sale-A-Bration.

And, joining Stampin' Up! as a demonstrator during Sale-A-Bration pays for itself in free merchandise monthly! The $175 starter kit (with $340 worth of product and supplies) is only $125 during Sale-A-Bration... and you get either a free package of Designer Series Paper or a Digital Download every month for the rest of 2012. You can switch each month. Digital Download one month; package of Designer Series Paper the next month. Contact me if you want to learn more. You can sign up on line at the "Join Now" button!

Enjoy!

Donna Ross

Stampin' Up! Independent Demonstrator

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Saturday, January 21, 2012

Stampin' Up! Leadership 2012 - San Antonio, TX

Leadership – San Antonio Texas
Leadership Bag and Gift
Samples from Leadership Convention

This week I’m in San Antonio, Texas, with 1,400 of my fellow demonstrators for the Stampin’ Up! Leadership Convention followed on Saturday by a one-day Regional Stampin’ Up! event.

As always, Stampin’ Up! provided Convention bags and lots of prizes, surprises and give-aways to us. This year the Leadership Convention bags were fabric, and held our free stamp sets, two free markers, Designer buttons, and ribbon. Here’ what the bags look like. Lots of pockets and Designer buttons holding the pockets closed when not in use.

In addition, during our first day of Make & Takes, we were also given a matching journaling cover made from the same fabric.

The fabric theme was continued by Stampin' Up!, by dressing home-office make & take helpers in matching fabric aprons.

Each of the aprons was a different style.

Why is it great to be a Stampin' Up! demonstrator? Besides running your own business, because at Conventions, the prize patrol is busy giving us free stamp sets from the Sale-a-bration catalog, a sneak peek set given every demonstrator from next year's catalog, which I cannot show your yet, plus new larger basic half pearls, rhinestones, ruffled ribbon, a CD for My Digital Studio digital design software of all the Sale-A-Bration content, and a package of new Everyday Enchantment Designer Series Paper...whew! (Sale-a-bration begins January 24 where you can earn free products for every $50 you spend! or join as a Stampin' Up! demonstrator at the reduced rate of $125 to earn 20% discounts on Stampin' Up! products).

Of course, Convention wouldn't be complete without Stampin' Up! showing us fun, unique ways to use these wonderful new projects.

Here are a few of the displays showing samples made from these new products.

Over the next few days I'll be sharing more photos from Leadership Convention displays, card samples, and my swaps with other demonstrators. I'm also attending Regional - a one-day event for demonstrators and guests, which follows Leadership Convention.

Visit my blog and register using your email address so you are notified as I post new ideas from the Occasions mini catalog and the Sale-a-bration catalog: http://www.stampedsophisticates.com/

Enjoy!