The third deals of the week are from October 19, 10 AM (MT) through October 26, 9:50 AM (MT).
| Item | Page | Description | Regular Price | Special Price |
| 114348 | 179 | Basic Jumbo grommets | $6.95 | $4.49 |
| 109857 | 179 | Mini Library clips | $12.95 | $8.99 |
| 112571 | 179 | Circle Designer brads | $5.95 | $3.99 |
| 112581 | 179 | 1/2" Library clips | $6.95 | $3.99 |
The second deals of the week are from October 12, 10 AM (MT) through October 19, 9:50 AM (MT).
| Item | Page | Description | Regular Price | Special Price |
| 115961 | 200 | Perfect Setting Bigz XL die | $42.95 | $25.99 |
| 114515 | 195 | Flower Burst Embosslits die | $11.95 | $5.99 |
| 116760 | 201 | Pop-Up Three Tier Cake Bigz XL die | $39.95 | $25.49 |
Week 1 Deals of the Week
| Item | Description | Special Price |
| 109183 | Trio Flower punch | $10.99 |
| 109041 | 5-Petal Flower punch | $10.99 |
| 110709 | My Way punch | $11.99 |
This deal ends on Oct. 12 at 9:59 am MT and deal #2 begins at 10 am. Don't miss out!
Digital+ Starter Kit Contents:
Dates: September 1-November 30, 2009
Promotion Details:
On October 1, when My Digital Studio is released, this offer will become even sweeter:
From now until then end of November is a great time to be a hostess!
Hostess Promotion
Dates: September 1-November 30, 2009
Promotion Details:
Here is a sweet deal for hostesses September through November:
On October 1, when My Digital Studio is released, this offer will become even sweeter:
Dear Customers,
The following items will be part of the state of Alabama's Tax Free Holiday this weekend, Aug. 7-9, 2009. Don't miss out on this great opportunity to get these items!
Thanks,
Kristy
The last deal of the week is the Heart to Heart punch (item #113694). Regularly $15.95, you can get it this week only for $10.00! What an awesome deal! Don't miss it! Click on the catalog to your right to SHOP or email me at alex00upc@yahoo.com.
Thanks,
Kristy
I am a little late in posting this, so please forgive me...Week #3 in Deal of the Week is the Vanilla Hodgepodge Hardware! Regularly costs $29.95, but you can get it for a limited time for $18.99! Don't miss this Awesome deal! You only have until Monday morning at 9:50 a.m. (item #112454)
Go to my business website to order www.kristyalexander.stampinup.net OR click on the catalog to your right and it will take you there!
Thanks,
Kristy
OK, So I am still a little rusty on the video tutorials, but I hope you enjoy it anyway! Now, go make a card! :)
Thanks,
Kristy
This week's Deal of the week started on Monday, July 6 at 10 a.m. and will go till Monday, July 13 at 9:50 a.m. I previously stated that it started on Wednesdays. My apologies for that. And the Deal is....(Item #113474) Sizzix Big Shot Doctor's Bag Reg. Price $69.95 Sale Price $49.99! You can find it on page 194 of the catalog.
Kristy
Stampin' UP! recently announced that July's promotion will be a Deal of the Week! So cool! Every week there will be an item that is offered at a discounted price. This week's item is the scallop border punch (Item #112091) and the special price is $10.99!
This is such a good deal on an awesome punch! Don't miss out!
Click on the Catalog to your right to look at this punch and other items, as well. You can order directly from my website www.kristyalexander.stampinup.net (clicking on the catalog will take you there!) or email me at alex00upc@yahoo.com.
Thanks,
Kristy
P.S. The deal ends Monday morning at 10a.m. and a new one begins, so check back!
This is my first video tutorial ever! I am so excited! It was actually pretty easy to do and lots of fun! I'm sure there are things I probably forgot along the way, so please stick around while I learn the ropes and maybe one day I will really be a pro! Well, I hope you enjoy watching....
Supplies:
All supplies are Stampin' UP! unless otherwise noted
Winter Post Stamp set
Supersize Snowflake Background Stamp
Chocolate Chip textured cardstock
Kiwi Kiss textured cardstock
Tangerine Tango cardstock
Designer Series Paper
White Stazon
Bashful Blue 1/4" grosgrain ribbon
Coluzzle
Sticky Strip
Transparency sheet (Office Max)
Glue dots (Hobby Lobby)
Martha Stewart circle cutter
Today is the day for the debut of the new 2009/2010 catalog! I am so excited I can hardly wait to see it! It will be available at noon (MT). You can view it at my business web site by clicking here. Come back later and I will have a link over to the right, as well!
Kristy
Hey Everybody!
I just wanted to let you know of a couple events I have planned for this month!
Saturday, January 24 - A new catalog open house at my stamp room! Come see the new catalog, make a couple of FREE projects and eat a muffin or two! Plus, I will have several Retired sets for sale!
Saturday, January 31 - Card Class #1 at Hobby Lobby in Cullman. This will be a continuing series of classes that runs for three months. Each month, you will make two each of four designs (8 cards per month). At the end of the three months you will have two each of twelve cards! The cool thing is, you can choose from the twelve, which four designs to make each month! The fee for this class is $20.
The dates for Card Classes 2 & 3 will be announced soon.
Thanks!
Kristy
Hey Everyone! It's been awhile, but I wanted to let everyone know I am planning a couple of Stamp A Stacks for the month of November. I've got too much going on in October to do one, so right now my plan is to do one at Hobby Lobby the first Saturday in November and do one at my house the 2nd Saturday. So if you are interested just email me or give me a call! I will get back with you soon on more details. Got to get everything worked out first! ~Kristy
Here's the card I did for today's Technique Challenge from splitcoast . It is called a square spring card. I've never done one of these before. It was quite fun! It looks way better in person. They always do. Pray that I'll learn how to work my camera :)
I have really been enjoying participating in some of the challenges on splitcoast lately! It is really so much fun. This is the card I made for today's Sketch Challenge (SC187).
~Kristy
I wanted to post this the other day, but just haven't gotten around to it yet. I've been too obsessed with uploading pictures to splitcoast. Doing the challenges is so fun and addictive! Plus it is really helping me use products that I usually just leave in the drawer. For instance, I used my Pretties Kit for the first time in a long time on a card and it turned out so pretty. Do you see the pearl in the center of the card?
These next two cards I did for a Sketch Challenge on splitcoast.
I thought it was just so cute when I was trying to take a picture of the card I did for Kristina Werner's color challenge from last week, when Elijah just walks up and poses with the card! How cute is that?! I know his hair isn't combed or anything, but....isn't that a sweet little face?!
This is a card I did using Michelle's (mom2jaben on splitcoast) Artfully Asian set. I copied ideas I've seen on a blog I've been tracking called Kiyomi Krafts I really like her style. I may have went a little overboard with the beads, but...oh well! Also, I don't know if you can tell that some of the flowers were stamped on a separate piece of white and cut out, then popped up with dimensionals!
This is just one version of a card I came up with, featuring the sneak peek set, "Fresh Cuts." I've done this same card in a couple other color combos, as well. On this particular one Groovy Guava is the card base, but it is just a quarter sheet (it does not open up). The white piece is the part that actually opens up! This is really not my favorite color combo, the where I used Not Quite Navy and Old Olive really hits the spot! I guess I never took pictures of that one! Maybe later.
These are Criss-Cross cards. You can find exact instructions under resources on splitcoast.
This is just a card I made with some Ginger Blossom Designer Series paper I had cut up to use with the criss-cross card, but it didn't work out right, so I just made this card with it instead.
This is my version of the surprise pop-up card. Again, find the exact instructions under resources on splitcoast.
Just playing around with the emerging color technique. I bought this set (Fabulous Flowers) just for this techniqe, pretty much. It's a great set, though.
Just another card featuring Fabulous Flowers...
Hope you enjoy!
~Kristy
Madison decided she wanted to stamp with me this morning, so she got out HER stash of stamping supplies and got to work. This is what she made:
On this card she used her Stampin' Kids Markers and colored rainbows of color on the flowered petal from Pick A Petal. I told her how pretty it was and she was beaming! You should've seen the smile on her face when I told her how creative she was! I wish I had a picture of that! I just had to post her projects!
~Kristy
Michelle Osoinak and I have been going over to splitcoast
to make some of the cards featured on the Resoures pages lately and decided that we would participate in the color challenge, as well. They have a Weekly Challenge for every day of the week and today's (Tuesday's) is the Color Challenge. Our colors to use were: Chocolate Chip, Barely Banana, and Groovy Guava. My user name on Splitcoast is: KristyAlex. Go check my 7 cards out!
Michelle is: mom2jaben.
Here is my Color Challenge(CC174) card:
~Kristy
At my last club party (Rachael's ) I demonstrated this totally cute Note card holder! It is just so neat and it is really easy to make! I got the directions right here. The blog is called Dannie's Designs and she has several tutorials, mostly featuring 3D projects. Ya'll check it out! ;)
Here are a few pictures of some of the ones I made.
For some reason I only took a picture of the inside of this one.
~Kristy
I am participating in Kristina Werner's color inspiration challenge again! I like this week's colors way better than last weeks! Hope you like it as much as I do. I got to use a retired set that I hardly use. It was fun! Click here to visit her site.
This is a card I made for a Color Inspiration Challenge featured weekly on Kristina Werner's site. Click here to visit this great site! I have never done this before, so I hope she likes my card. I had to get it in by tonight for the cut-off. Below is the Inspiration photo. ~Kristy
4. With a sponge dauber, "paint" your chipboard star using Brilliant Blue Classic Ink. All you do is slip the cute little dauber onto your painting finger ;) dip it in the ink a couple of times, then rub onto the chipboard using circular motions. Repeat as many times as needed to get it completely covered (just on the top).
5. I took a few seconds to heat set mine so it would dry a little faster. You want it to be dry before moving on to the next step. If you wanted to use Craft ink, you could actually skip steps 5 and 6.
6. Cover the entire chipboard star with the Versamark pad.
7. Sprinkle Iridescent Ice embossing powder liberally over the entire chipboard star.
Note: This is what it looks like covered in the unmelted embossing powder.
8. Heat set it with the Heat tool to melt the embossing powder and this is what it should look like. When that is done use the Crop-A-Dile to punch a hole in the star using the 3/16" hole punch.
This is what the three pieces of ribbon should look like:
9. Using a sponge dauber and the Classic ink "paint" one of the small pieces of ribbon Real Red and the other small piece Brilliant Blue. Go ahead and paint both sides, unless you just prefer to only do one. I did both.
10. Next, take the longer white piece of ribbon and tie one knot around the hole in the chipboard star and hold it in place. (btw, sorry for the blurry picture)
11. Now lay the red and blue painted pieces of ribbon criss cross over the single white knot, then go ahead and tie the second knot. When you are finished tying, turn it over and glue the back side with Tombow multi and adhere to the card.
12. On your scrap piece of whisper white, stamp the #4 in Real Red ink, the "th" in Brilliant Blue ink, then the word "happy" using a Brilliant Blue stamp n' write marker to ink only the desired word and omitting the rest.
13. Punch it out using the 1 3/8" circle punch.
14. On your Brilliant Blue scrap, punch a hole using the 1 1/4" punch, then with the 1 3/8" punch a hole around the outside of the first circle creating a "rim."
15. Glue the blue "rim" you created to the white piece, punch a hole using the 1/8" hole punch and thread your silver cord through. Now all you have to do is add two Stampin' Dimensionals (stack them on top of each other to make it high enough) to the back of this tag and stick it to the rest of the card.
Ta-Da!!! All done! Wasn't that easy?!
Here is a variation:
Well, I guess that does it for my very first tutorial. Tell me what you think! Am I a professional now??? Haha!
O.K. I think I am going to attempt to do something that will either be totally cool or totally dorky! Haha!
I hope everyone reading this has the "Cool" opinion. I keep visiting these blogs that have catchy names for their posts and they do it on the same day of the week every week so their followers will know when to check.
Mine is Template Tuesday! I am using templates off of Stampin' Up's website and sharing them with you! These are so simple anyone can do it! You just take this simple layout and make it fit you-change the colors if you like or the images, but this can be your starting point. Hopefully this will help you if you want to make something, but don't know where to start. It takes a lot of the guess-work out of it! Good luck and go make a card!
~Kristy
Here is the second card that I made for a friend whose sister just had quadruplets! I got the idea from a sample in the current mini catalog and just changed it a little to fit what I needed. The card base is going gray , the other colors are regal rose, wild wasabi, and either so saffron or barely banana (I can't remember now!). The "b" is done with a sticky cuts letter and dazzling diamond glitter. I just adhered it to the cardstock, added the glitter , then trimmed around the letter. I love the sticky cuts letters! They are so cool! Hope you enjoy!!
I am going to teach 2 scrapbooking classes at Hobby Lobby in May! The dates are:
I was going to post tonight's project on here so everyone could see what we are going to be doing. For some reason I am having trouble and it will not allow me to upload the pictures. Sorry Kimi:( If I have time I will try again, but I really doubt it since I should be up there finishing up right now :) I will get on here soon hopefully.
~Kristy
Here is a card I made as a sample last summer. It is using a set called Pick a Petal. It has several different petals you can use to customize the look of your flower. It is really more versatile than you would think. People make all kinds of other things with the petal besides just flowers. Check out the samples of this set on www.splitcoastsampers.com for tons of ideas.
~Kristy
Our April Stamp Club Meeting is this Thursday night (17th) at Sis. Bittler's house. We will be doing the May and June pages for our Calendar Scrapbook.
Here is a card I c.a.s.e.d. from the Spring/Summer Catalog. It is one of the samples shown with one of the Simply Sent Kits.
Stamp Set: Time Well Spent
Card Stock: I used a Basic Gray card base, Soft Sky layer, and of course, Whisper White for the image.
Accessories: Vintage Brads, Purely Pomegranate Satin ribbon. (The Purely Pomegranate satin ribbon was part of a promotion during the holidays. I really like it! I hope they bring it back!)
Inks: Basic Gray, Purely Pomegranate, Soft Sky
OK, I have been spending way too much time on the internet looking at samples lately. I start out on splitcoast and from there I have been finding all these stampers have their own blogs, too. So, I start out looking at a sample, click on a link to their blog, then on another link to someone else's blog and then again.....you get the picture, right? Well, there are a lot of cool ideas out there! So I am going to start copying them and maybe it will get my creative juices flowing. One of the things I have noticed is that some ladies have certain features that they post on a regular basis.
For example:
* www.kwernerdesigns.com does a MACM (make a card monday). She is a very good stamper and her tutorials look very professional. They are video tutorials, and are also on You Tube.
*http://zindorf.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/ is a natural artist (by this I mean with no formal training), but her samples show how creative she is. She also has several fascinating tutorials, mostly using the brayer. The brayer can give some very cool affects. Here are a couple of cards I made after seeing her tutorials....
I don't know when Stampin' Up! started the philosophy of Copy And Share Everything (C.A.S.E), but I take it very seriously! You can get way more accomplished when you are duplicating something than having to come up with it all on your own! So I am going to attempt to do something slightly fun! I am going to start posting C.A.S.E. FILES. A while back I went through my catty and marked several samples that I thought would be easy to copy AND/OR were appealing to me in some way or another. I will post the samples as C.A.S.E. FILE #....
This will be my code so you can find the exact original in the catalog:
IBC = Idea Book and Catalog (this will be followed by the date on the cover)
SS = Spring/Summer (IBC)
FW = Fall/Winter (IBC)
OM = Ocassions Mini Catalog
P = page # (this will be followed by the number for the page)
....I guess this is good enough to get it started....I will put a legend on the side of my blog so you can refer to it a lot easier and I will add to it as more catalogs come out.
Well, I hope this makes sense and you enjoy it! (By you, I think I am talking to Amy, Von de Leigh, and Amanda! - maybe more people will find this site soon!) haha!
I am going to post the first C.A.SE. FILE in my next post.
A friend of mine called one day and asked if I could make her a couple cards for her sister who is having quadruplets. She said all the cards in the store were for one baby or twins and she wanted it to be more fitting. The card I gave her was similar to this, in that it had four little monkeys on it, but the layout is a little different. This card was made out of the leftovers I had from playing around trying to figure her card out. The stamp set are Zoofari and Lots of Thoughts (SAB 08)
~Kristy
I was making these cards the other day and decided to do the corners around the bird a little different. Which one do you like best?
On the bird, I did a short cut I found on splitcoaststampers.com....
Since I don't have a black craft ink pad, I just used black classic ink and dipped it in an old versamark pad that was already dirty then stamped it on the white cardstock. After that I embossed it with clear embossing powder. I just used my blender pens and classic inks to color in the designs at the bottom. You could get the same look by just using black embossing powder, as well. Hope you enjoy looking! ~Kristy
I ran across this website just now and I wanted to share it with you...www.thecontainerstore.com!
It has storage solutions for every room in your house, including your scrapbooking area! It really is a fun and interesting site! There are a lot of neat and useful ideas. Go check it out and see if it will help you with ideas for your scrapbooking area! ~Kristy
I was playing around trying to fix up my blog a little bit and I added a video roll. I typed in Stampin' Up! as my subject, and to my surprise several videos came up! Check them out over there on the left column. These videos are from You Tube, so I went to You Tube and searched for more tutorials and I was happy to find several. (I am only allowed to have four on here.) Now I have stayed up way too late looking at them. I also found another demonstrator's blog that I think is very good. Her vids are on You Tube, as well, and her samples on Splitcoaststampers.com. This weblog is called kwernerdesign.com/blog and her splitcoast and You Tube user name is starofmay. She is very good. I think you'll like her!
~Kristy
Every month at our club meetings, we do a card swap. The ladies that choose to participate make a set amount of cards and then at the party we swap them! That way you leave with one of each! It's really neat to see what people come up with! Here are a few samples.
I don't
have pictures of all of them, but as I get more I will add them. The ones shown here are from different months. The pink friendship card is from Rachael, the black and pink butterfly card is from Jennifer, the pink with black thank you card is from Alicia, the paisley happy birthday card is from Judy (mom), the blooming with happiness card is from Jennifer too, and the noble deer card is from Tammy. Didn't they do a good job?
~Kr
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I started a Stamp Club a while back and we are a little over halfway through our second year! A lot of the same ladies have done it both times, but we do have some new ones too! I think it is a lot of fun! We get together and learn new techniques and stamp a project. Right now we are back to focusing on Scrapbooking. We are going to do an 8 1/2 x 11 Calendar Scrapbook. We will do a page for each month of the year plus a front and back page. We already did a front and back page at last month's party. This month we will be doing the January and February pages. We are using the following Stampin' Up! sets: Calendar, Calendar Cues, and Full Calendar. These are the basics sets we will be using for the pages. Each month I will still highlight a technique and we will most likely use that technique on that month's page, therefore there will be other sets that I will combine with these mentioned here. I am really excited! I think everyone will enjoy this and in a few months we will have a completed book! How cool is that?!
~Kristy
A great website to go to for thousands of samples using Stampin' Up! products is www.splitcoaststampers.com. Not everything on the site is SU!, but most of it is.
There are several ways to look at samples:
1. On the home page about halfway down you can click on a link that says "view all of today's additions" and see everything that has been posted recently.
2. Or you can click on the gallery link at the top of the page and from there you can look up a SU! set alphabetically.
3. Another option is to look at a user gallery. If you see a sample you like, you can look through that user's gallery by clicking on their user name and a drop down list will appear and just choose their gallery from the options.
These are a few samples I made a while back. A lot of the ideas are c.a.s.e.d. (which means Copy And Share Everything). The brown and pink giraffe card is a window card. You'll notice the front and inside pictures. The green giraffe card has a window on it as well, just in a different place...the moon and stars are peeping through! The pink and purple smile card was made by clear embossing (in this case I used a wheel) on the bottom of the card then sponging around the area with white craft ink and sponge daubers and again with the purple, just not covering as much area. This makes it "pop" a little more.
O.K. Ladies, If you are thinking about placing a Stampin' Up! order, now is a great time to do it! You can earn free stamps! It's a promotion called Sale-A-Bration and it is going on thru March 17, 2008! Check out the details:
