Jan 1, 2009 | Uncategorized |
Hi everyone!
Two posts in one night, that’s got to be a record for me! Anyway, as promised here’s the details for Sale-A-Bration. (SAB for short!)
Join me in celebrating the start of 2009 and take advantage of any (or all!) of these offers! FREE STAMPS – that’s got to be good! Click on the picture to the left to view the brochure online.
Customers:
Select any one of the stamp sets in the Sale-A-Bration brochure for free with a purchase of $120*. There’s NO LIMIT – for every $120 you spend, you can choose a free SAB set! Don’t miss the opportunity to own these exclusive sets!! (If you check out my previous post, I’ve already made a card using the “Yummy” stamp set – a super gorgeous set in my book, and I’m aiming to collect them all!)
Hostesses:
When you host a workshop of at least $700*, you’ll receive a free Sale-A-Bration set in addition to our generous hostess benefits! You’ll receive a second set when your net workshop sales reach $1400, and a third set if you reach $2100 or more at your workshop! This offer also applies if you’re just shopping lots for yourself (go on admit it, you want to!), or if you host a catalogue party and collect orders up from your friends.
Recruits:
Sign up to be a Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator during Sale-A-Bration and select any stamp set up to a value of $94.95 (does not include Hostess sets) from the 2008-2009 Idea Book & Catalogue for FREE! But wait, there’s more – if you place your first order during SAB and within 45 days of joining, you’ll get a 30% discount AND you’ll be able to earn the SAB sets too – the same as above, one for every $120* you order! I would love to share this opportunity with you – I have a wonderful team of Demonstrators, and offer lots of support to help you with your business, or just creative inspiration if you want to be a hobby Demo. I recently held a full-day team training event with technique and business training, swaps, challenges, and prizes – it was so much fun!
Note: values given are before shipping costs are added, these are usually 5% of your order. Please contact me if you’d like to know more details about shipping costs.
I’ll do my best to post more examples here using the SAB stamps for your inspiration in the coming weeks –
contact me here to discuss how we can get these gorgeous sets for you!
Happy New Year!
Jan 1, 2009 | Uncategorized |
Hi everyone!
I hope you’ve all had a wonderful Christmas and a Happy New Year! I had a very hectic lead-up to Christmas, no rest for the wicked as my Mum says (but I’m not wicked, really!). With my job I was going from one supermarket to the next for over a week before Christmas, making sure the freezers were well stocked. I actually really enjoyed it – jumping out from behind my desk crunching numbers all day to getting out there and helping to sell food to shoppers, it was good fun! I had some wonderful news on Christmas Eve, a legal problem we’ve been battling since the end of March was finally resolved that afternoon, so what a relief and a wonderful Christmas present that was! If you are one of my customers and thought that I seem to have been distracted this year at all, that’s why. I won’t bore you with the details, just know that I am a lot happier than I’ve been for quite a while! My New Year’s resolution is to get my house in order (literally!) and sort things out so I can keep in touch with everyone better. Posting regularly on here is a good start, so we’ll see how I go!
This week’s colour challenge that
Kristina set us was fabulous, just four colours to work with, I can cope with that much easier! I very quickly whipped up this card last night while everyone else was celebrating New Year’s Eve (well, when you’ve only got a 4 year old to party with, it doesn’t get to be a loud party does it!). I was in my element though totally, ahh yes I’m an old nanna before my time 🙂
I am so grateful to Kristina, she may not realise it but my design and photography / editing skills are getting a real push with doing her challenges. I have Photoshop Elements 6 and only just figured out how to lighten shadows tonight (blush!). She’s also making me use the stuff that I, err…. hoard and drool over usually and don’t use, but that’s all changing! I kept this card super simple, I wanted the image to stand out and not be overshadowed by too much other “stuff” like I always want to add. Believe me, I stared at this card for longer than it took me to make it. I resisted the temptation to round the corners, add a knot of ribbon, mat the white cardstock, put more felt flowers on…
And guess what? This is made using a brand new stamp set – called Yummy, it’s one of our Sale-A-Bration sets! SAB started today, yahoo!! I will do a separate post for it, up next. But for now, here’s my card.
The swirl and the words are all one stamp, so I used my Rose Red, Old Olive and Pretty in Pink markers to ink it up. Isn’t it beautiful? Love that swirl border. I wonder whether I should have used the Rose Red for the word “Something” and the Pretty in Pink for the smaller words instead though. Oh well, I still think it’s nice this way. I added some felt flowers in Rose Red and Old Olive, secured with a clear Rhinestone brad from the Pretties kit. Then I simply layered the Whisper White cardstock over the 1″ wide stitched Rose Red grosgrain ribbon (yum!) on a Pretty in Pink base card. The Whisper White is 3D mounted using Stampin’ Dimensionals, I just love using those. There’s a lot of them in this card! You can just make out the fact that it’s 3D because of the shadow on the left edge. I put the felt flowers so they were slightly off the top edge of the white piece so they connected with the ribbon, otherwise it’d look like I just plonked them on there and they’d be floating in nowhere land. I resisted the urge to fill up the remaining white space with stamping or more flowers – a bit of white space is good, right Kristina?!
Hope you like it, please do post a comment or e-mail me and let me know what you think!
