Good morning, y’all and Happy Hawmp Day! So here I sit in a part of Utah way out in the middle of nowhere – and it’s spectacularly beautiful! And teeming with wildlife. Bunnies out the wazoo and….
Pronghorns. Not something you see on your everyday drive to lunch, huh? 🙂
The day went from a brrrr-ly 19 degrees this morning to a balmy 40 this afternoon. Snowed again overnight but the day turned beautiful.
Nevertheless, I was pretty glad that I didn’t have to go back over the mountain pass to get home tonight – but…how gorgeous is this?
So – a couple of things to bring to your attention today!
First – I want to remind y’all that I have another Online Host club coming up in January – just in time for the Occasions Catalog and Sale-A-Bration. And, I have some openings left.
Here’s the details. Read them thru and then let me know if you want to be a part of the Club. Tell me right quick – the slots will fill up fast!
You sign up for a 6 month term and commit to:
- A $25.00 minimum order each month
- Placing your order by the 20th of each month
- And using the Host code I’ll provide in an email sent out at the beginning of each month
Once 6 members have joined, I’ll do a random draw to determine your host month. As a member of the Online Club, you’re guaranteed:
- A $150.00 Workshop order during your host month
- $15.00 minimum of Stampin’ Rewards dollars to spend on the exclusive Host Stamp Sets, or any other current Stampin’ Up! product during your host month – and most every Host has ended up with quite a bit more than $15 to spend!
- You earn TWO Peppermint Reward points for every $25 that you order on your Host Club Orders (versus the one that non-club members earn). So your $25.00 order earns TWO Peppermints every month, a $50 order earns 4 reward points, a $75 order earns you 6 reward points, etc. You’ll earn at least 12 reward points during your membership, building up your Peppermints towards FREE Items! When you collect just 16 Peppermints, you earn a free $40 gift of your choice from any active catalog!
- FREE catalogs during your membership term
- FREE shipping in your Host Month
- A FREE STAMP SET of your choice valued up to $20 at the end of the 6 months, any current set (excluding host sets)!
- And, at the end of the 6 months, you’ll get first dibs at signing up for the next 6 month term
During your host month you can gather up extra orders to increase your host rewards (just give your friends the host code for their orders). It’s that easy!
Maybe you know 5 like-minded folks who would want to do this? Well, let me know and y’all can start your own Exclusive Club! 🙂
So, this is a great way to earn Stampin’ Rewards Points – and DOUBLE Peppermint Rewards – and fill up your tool box with the SU! goodies you love.
And – 5 months of this Club will be during the active Occasions Catalog and 3 during Sale-A-Bration!
Like I said – let me know quick-quick so you don’t miss your chance to take part.
Okay – next item.
Year End Clearance Sale!
The much-awaited Retiring Items List will come out tomorrow – along with the list of items on the Year End Closeout Sale. Closeout will run from 1 Dec – 3 Jan 17 and will offer some great savings! Be sure you check back here for all the details – as well as the list!
And…finally…
Unbelievably – today is my Second Anniversary. Yep. Two years ago today, I was signing up to be a Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator under Amy Koenders! One of my better decisions!
So – to celebrate my Big Day – I’m giving away some goodies!
Here’s what’s up for grabs!
- Merry Mice Clear Stamp Set
- Warmth & Cheer DSP Stack
- Regals Enamel Shapes
- Mini Jingle Bells
- Baker’s Twine Trio (Cherry Cobbler, Garden Green and Gold)
How to win? Well, leave a comment on THIS post before 8pm eastern time on Wednesday, 7 Dec (a Day That Will Live in Infamy!). In your comment, tell me why you love Stampin’ Up! products! Easy peasy.
I’ve got comment moderation turned on, so it may take me a few minutes to see and approve your comment. Don’t worry if your comment doesn’t show up right away, it’ll be there just as soon as I see it.🙂
One lucky winner will be chosen by the random number generator from all of the comments received and I’ll announce the winner on Thursday, 8 Dec.
Please note, anyone is welcome to leave me a comment but per the Demonstrator rules from Stampin’ Up!, I’m only able to ship Stampin’ Up! merchandise to addresses within the United States. Thanks for your understanding and good luck!!🙂
Okay – I think that’s got it for today!
I’ll be back tomorrow – a little early! – for the Happy Stampers Blog Hop!
TTFN
Mary
P.S. For those of you following along, Finn is doing well. The pain meds are working. He’s Soldiering through! 🙂
HOST CODE FOR 16 NOV – 30 NOV:ADG4FHKU
HOST CODE FOR 1 DEC – 15 DEC: K2Z3RB2G
Use this host code when you order and receive a free gift from me! But, if your order is over $150, please don’t use this code (you’ll miss out on your own Stampin’ Rewards if you use it) but you’ll still get the free gift – your choice of any item valued up to $10.00 in the 2015-16 Annual Catalog or the 2016 Holiday Catalog. And – you can even select one of the Host-exclusive sets! See my Rewards page for more details.
The Stitched From the Heart 25% Off Stamp Sale Ends Today!!
Only two more days to take advantage of the 25% off sale on selected stamp sets! Click here to open up a PDF with the list of stamp sets that are on sale. Or – you can go right to them in my Online Store….here! 🙂
Details:
- 1 – 30 November 2016: select stamp sets 25% off
- Promotion Deadline (25% off select stamp sets): 30 November 2016, by 11:50 PM (MT)
If you need any stamping supplies, I’d be very happy to be your Demonstrator. Just click on the Order Stampin’ Up! Online Now button on the right side of the screen to go directly to my online store or drop me an email if you have any questions. Happy Stamping!
Shop the Clearance Rack here. Earn FREE Stampin’ Up! Products – Join my Punkin Head Peppermint Rewards – My online customer thank you program!
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Love how Stampin up products coordinate.
They sure make it easy to look like a pro, that’s for sure! Thanks much, Cathy! 🙂
Congratulations on your two year anniversary!! So glad that you’re part of our team. 😀 Beautiful pictures of Utah too…but I’m glad that it was you driving through the snow in the mountains and not me! 🙂
LOL. I was wishing it was someone else on Monday, that’s for sure. Thanks, Amy! I love being part of your team! 🙂
Hi Mary! Happy Anniversary! I read your blog almost everyday, and enjoy seeing your creativity with Stampin Up products. I like SU because of the fun designs, quality products, and matching colors. I also like the creative community that so willingly shares their great ideas… Loads of inspiration and techniques to try. It is a joy to follow you online, and I wish you all the best in this new year of your business!
Thanks so much, Patricia! I’m glad you enjoy what I’m putting out there. And thanks for sticking with me thru nearly the whole two years! 🙂
I love stampin up products because everything coordinates beautifully with each other
I think that has to be one of our very best features! Thanks, Cammi! 🙂
It is beautiful!
Thanks, Mom! 🙂
What I love about Stampin’ Up is their product coordination. I love that it is so easy to pull together colored paper, inks, and designer series paper. Plus, now the suite systems! Totally great!
Yep – the Suites are a no-brainer. Love them! Thanks, Kathy! 🙂
I love Stampin’Up because everything matches—cardstock, ink, markers, and even the DSP. I also like that the DSP shows you what colors to use to match.
Yes, I really like being able to check the DSP to help me figure the colors for my cards. It even helps me use colors together that I might not have otherwise! Thanks, Kate! 🙂
Well, Mary, that is a lot of good stuff for lucky person! My friend taught me a few things about card-making and I ordered some Stampin’ Up products. Now I am hooked. Stampin’ Up card stock is wonderful, and I have purchased other to which I can compare. SU is the best! Also, their designs are great and I LOVE the bundles!
Yes – the card stock has no compare, that’s for sure! Glad you got into SU!, Julie!! Thanks. 🙂
Wow what a beautiful scene and see a prong-horn in road amazing. Thanks for the chance to win!
I know. And he was posing – seriously just standing there looking pretty while I fumbled around for my camera! Thanks! 🙂
I love the way all their products coordinate, which leaves me more time to create. Most importantly, I love knowing that I am getting just what I want delivered to my door 🙂 I don’t have to spend hours in a craft store for inspiration and spending $$ on things I may or may not use. Lastly, Stampin’ Up! Demonstrators are the BEST!!!!
Right? No more pondering in the craft aisle wondering what you’ve got and what you don’t and what will go with what! I love just clicking the button and knowing it’s all going to work together. Thanks, Phyllis! 🙂
I love how everything coordinates–paper, ink, pens, dsp! It makes crafting so much easier. Congrats on two years. Thanks for the chance to win!
Yes – that really makes it easier to make things look like you meant them to, doesn’t it? Thanks so much! 🙂
Congratulations on your wise choice! I love reading your blog every day.
Thanks much, Joni! 🙂
Mary, I enjoy your comments and adventures – and of course cards, look forward to your posts. Congratulations on 2 years, I had assumed you had many more years of being a demonstrator. Keep it up!
Ahh – now that’s a very nice compliment, indeed, Valerie! Thank you so very much! 🙂
I missed seeing one of your beautiful cards today…but I am happy to enter your Blog candy giveaway..I have loved Stampin Up since 2005. As a seasoned citizen, I have a hard time seeing colors correctly.( my greens and blues are sometimes all grey, etc) .So having all the products in matching / coordinating colors is great. Thanks for all the inspiration.
Seasoned Citizen! I love it and will have to remember that!! I love the easy color coordination, too – it’s so handy! 🙂 Come back tomorrow for another card! Thanks, Kay.
Hard to believe it is almost the end of another year! Thanks for the great giveaway.
I know, it’s crazy isn’t it? Thanks, Georgia! 🙂
Congratulations, Mary; how exciting! My favorite products are my paper trimmer, scoring board, paper snips and piercing tool. They make creating cards easy and fun! – Ellie
Thanks, Ellie! As a friend of mine always says – proper tool for the proper job! And we’ve surely got them! 🙂
Congrats on your 2 year mark! I too am a Stampin’Up! lover! I have tried and still do try other products…I keep coming back to Stampin’Up! The product just can’t be beat! I believe and also have heard from many others, Stampin’Up! Card Stock cannot be beat for quality. If I even use a different product…ie…embellishments…I always start with Stampin’Up! Card Stock…to me it assures that firm foundation thing!
Yes, our card stock is the very best! Thanks for the congrats, Cheryl! 🙂
I LOVE Stampin Up products because everything coordinates and the bundles are amazing!!!
Thanks, Vicky – that seems to be a pretty common reason to love SU! It’s sure one of my big reasons! 🙂
The main reason I love Stampin Up is EVERYTHING is co-coordinated! That makes it super easy to come up with a great card. No more searching various stores for items that may – or may not – work together. Another thing I like is that I can order on-line and the products come directly to my house. Stampin Up has such neat stamps, embossing folders, dies – you name it! I love Stampin UP!!!
You’ve hit it all on the head, Bette! All great reasons to love Stampin’ Up! products! 🙂
The quality of the products. I love how everything coordinates with the paper. Blesings to you!
Quality and coordination have been a true theme about why folks love Stampin’ Up! And it’s so true! Thanks, Sue. 🙂
i have always been impressed with the quality of the paper and the fact that it coordinates with the inks and all the accessories!
We really do have the very best paper – card stock or DSP – it’s all top notch! Thanks, Chris! 🙂
First of all……Congratulations on your 2 yr Anniversary! I have been a stamper for about 10 yrs. now & I am a faithful SU purchaser. All their products coordinate so well & are all top quality……..ask me how I know!! Anyway, thanks for a great bundle of goodies to win & hope you have safe travels home. Glad Finn is doing so well……he will be sooooo happy to have you back.
I miss him something awful! Can’t wait to get home to him. Thank you so much, Karen! 🙂
Happy anniversary! Your blog is my daily fix and I love SU for myriad reasons. The stamps stamp, the glue sticks, the paper is top shelf and with all of the coordinating products you can’t make a bad card! I also love all of the tips and examples. Safe travels home and a hug for Finn!
Thanks, Carole – it makes me happy to know that you come by every day and enjoy my ramblings! And I’m glad you love our products! 🙂
I have been stamping with SU since 1999! It give me joy to take the quality products SU makes and to create something worth giving away. The best part about SU is that everything goes together! It give a clean professional look when your project is completed. Mary I truly enjoy your daily posts and creativity.
Even enjoy the pictures of your new family member Finn. Merry Christmas!
Thanks so much, Carrol – I’m glad that our products bring you joy. And thank you for your very kind words! 🙂
I love Stampin Up because everything coordinates so beautifully. I loved your new occasions Valentine/wedding card. I can’t wait to see the new goodies coming out!! Congrats!!
Thank you so much, Suzanne! The coordination – combined with the quality – is surely a big selling point for SU! products! 🙂
Congratulations on your anniversary!! SU is the greatest as far as coordination and quality. Nothing compares. It makes it easy to make great looking cards and projects. And, the employees are the greatest also!
Theses are definitely qualities that make us stand out from the rest, Karen – thanks so much! 🙂
Congratulations on 2 years! Glad to hear Finn is doing well. I love Stampin’ Up! Products because of the multiple uses each stamp set, due, bundles AND all the coordinating ribbons, papers, inks, embellishments!
Yes – it all just seems to work together so seamlessly – letting us create and create with no fear! 🙂 Thanks much, Beth! 🙂
I love how everything is color coordinated. I don’t have to worry that things won’t go together…right down to the embellishments.
Congratulations, Mary on your anniversary🎈Thanks also for your blog. I look forward to reading it everyday😎
You hit it on the head – it takes out the worry and just leaves the fun! Thank you so much for your kind words, Jane! 🙂
Congrats on your 2nd anniversary. I’ve been stampin for about a year now. What I like most is how ds paper coordinates with the ink. Love the stamps and framelits. And I just love your stories about Finn. Glad to hear he is doing better. Thanks
Thanks, Dawn – you have to love how easy it is to make pro-looking projects when the color coordindation is done for you! I love it – cuz that’s not really my strong suit! 🙂
Congrats, you can’t go wrong with Stampin’ Up. If just for your own fun, (I mean constructive and profitable creating.) The products all coordinate and compliment each other and by far the quality is out-standing. Enjoy your remaining days in the wild west and Stamp It Up.
LOL – yes – “constructive and profitable creating”!! Love it. Thanks so much, Seletta! 🙂
Hi Mary, Sure do enjoy your blog. Hearing about Finn keeps it real. So happy you found each other.
Stampin up products are the best by far. Mostly love the paper but everything they sell works well for me. Hard to just pick a few things from all the choices.
Thanks, Paula! It is indeed difficult to pick just one thing to love. The paper is wonderful – I love the heft of the DSP. That really sets us apart, I think! 🙂
Congratulations! I love that everything is color coordinated and the card stock is heavy weight with color all the way through.
Our card stock is the best, hands down. Thanks, Dories! 🙂
First congratulations on your 2nd anniversary with SU. It is a great company. I love their products – colors, stamp sets, framelits, everything. Nothing else I look at compares to SU. Love your blog candy, too.
They do try to keep the quality at top-notch levels, for sure – love that about them! Thanks so much, Micheline! 🙂
Congratulations and thanks for the inspiration and stories! Some of my oldest stamp sets are SU and they are as nice now as when I got them, love how the stand up
That’s so true – they hold up beautifully – as well as giving such clear and crisp images! Thanks much, Carrie! 🙂
Happy Stampin’Up! Anniversary. Love your ideas. Thanks.
Thanks, Debbie! 🙂
Congratulations on your 2nd anniversary and thanks for sharing all your beautiful projects. And of course all your updates on Finn. I love how Stampin’ Up products coordinate and the wonderful quality of all their products.
Thank you so much, Karen! I think the coordination of the products is winning hands down! 🙂
I like that the Stampin’ Up products coordinate. I love the Framelits/Dies because I do not like to fussy cut. I love everything about Stampin’ Up!
Yep – the framelits and thinlits are wonderful tools!! Thanks, Cyndie! 🙂
Congratulations on your two year anniversary! I love Stampin Up because of the product coordination too, but also because of the quality of its products! All the stamps produce clear images. The support of the demonstrators and their willingness to share ideas is wonderful too!
I forgot…How is Finn recovering? I know you miss him!
Aww – thanks for asking, Gail – and yes, I do miss him! Wayne says he’s recovering well – just chaffing at the activity restrictions! Which means he must be feeling pretty good! 🙂
Thank you, Gail! I’m glad we bring you inspiration! 🙂
I enjoy receiving your emails full of great suggestions!!!
Thank you so much, Debbie! 🙂
I love that the products coordinate and the quality of the products! Always enjoy your blog and your stories on Finn and what’s going on with you and the family.
Those have been the most picked reasons to love Stampin’ Up!, Patty! I think that speaks pretty highly for the company. Thank you so much – I’m glad that you enjoy my posts! 🙂
Hi Mary,
I love to use Stampin’up products because they are such quality products. Also, everything coordinates and leaves no guess work as to what matches. Enjoy your blog and seeing you each day right there on my computer. Stay warm and travel safely.
Best wishes,
Karren
Thanks very much, Karren! I love anything that makes life easier – and the coordination aspect of Stampin’ Up! is sure one of those things!! 🙂
I LOVE SU products to as they all coordinate. No running around town to find matching accessories or cardstock. Congrats on your 2nd Anniversary! Way too cool!!!
Thanks, Lynn! I love never having to go to a Hobby Store. Shopping from the living room – and knowing it’s going to be just what I wanted is huge!! 🙂
I love everything about Stampin Up . I love the fact that everything coordinates so well together and all the products are outstanding. I just recently started following your blog and you make everything look so simple. I enjoy the emails everyday and look forward to them. Thank you so much Mary! Enjoy the holidays
Well, welcome, Shari! Glad you found me and decided to follow along! The coordination and the availability of the all the correct tools is a huge part of making it look easy! Have a wonderful holiday, Shari! 🙂