1/30 Stampin' Up! See Ya Later ~ Birthday

Good Morning Friends!

It's a busy week here in the studio with stamp club!  I love my stamp club members, there's 30 of them!!  They all come through over the course of the last week of the month.  Over the years my stamp club and my team have become like extended family! 

In good times and in the not so good times, we build each other up and come together for a short break from the CRAZY that life dishes out and we craft together.  I'm proud just to know so many wonderful, successful, happy women. THAT'S the thing that you cant TOUCH that Stampin' Up provides, but you can certainly feel it! 

This pretty card is another creation for my big Sale-A-Bration kickoff event.  The event serves as a quarterly training for my downline and a way to celebrate the new free items that you can snatch up with every $50 order through the season.  The cards are all designed and mostly prepped, now I'm onto doing the little things that will make the event special.  Gifties ~ of course there's a bundle of FREE raffles.  Oh we will have so much fun! The event is open to everyone, and if you're a demonstrator, we will also have a baggie book option, if you prefer to have something you can easily show your customers, you can check out an example of that on this post. 

Aren't these colors to die for??  I'm a big cheater!!  I grabbed the colors in the designer paper and just went for that!  If it ain't broke, right??  So there's blushing bride, and raspberry ripple, bermuda bay, and gumball green.  Such a fun and AWESOME color combo!  The splash of color on top of the candles is daffodil delight.  It uses two products from the sale a bration catalog, the decorative dots embossing folder, and the birthday stamp from See Ya Later.  :)

Want one of your own?  The SAB kickoff event is open to everyone if you can get here!! :) I'd love to spend some time stamping and laughing with you!  Thanks so much for popping in here today.  See you tomorrow!

Love,

Selene Kempton
Stampin' Up! Creative Coach
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1/28 You make me happy. Stampin' Up, See Ya Later Stamp Set ~ Sale-A-Bration is ON!! Woot!

Good Morning Stampers! 

You do make me happy!  Thanks you for visiting today! 

As promised I'm back with a share from my upcoming Sale-A-Bration kickoff party and quarterly training event for my team.  This event is open to all. 

If you want to make the baggie books and you're a demonstrator, just let me know when you register and I'll make you a packet to make your own baggie books like the ones shown below.  I have a whole bunch of surprises and raffles.  My good friend Leigh-Ann will be cooking for us and OH MAN is she an amazing cook!  I hope you can make it.  Food, fun, FREE RAFFLES, swapping and of course STAMPING!  Here's what the baggie books look like in case you're wondering.  :)    So, how about some details about this fun card?

 I didn't think we needed another grey... Alas, I was wrong.  I'm in total LOVE with smokey slate, and when I saw the image from this stamp set See Ya' Later, I thought of using the new Starburst framelits right away to make a sun!  :)

 

 This cute little image layers up quickly to make a wow in the middle of my smokey slate background.  I stamped my sentiment in basic grey twice.  I stamped it on whisper white and on crushed curry cardstock.  Then, I cut a paper banner out of the crushed curry, and punched the whisper white one with a 1 3/4" circle punch.  The yellow "sun" layer was cut from the new starburst framelit dies, and I layered a 2 3/8" coastal cabana scalloped circle punch behind that.  Easy, and a wow!  So here are some measurements.

Measurements:

Base Layer: Smokey Slate Cardstock 5 1/2" x 8 1/2", scored and folded at 4 1/2"

Layer 2: 5 x 3 3/4" Smokey Slate Cardstock, embossed with the

Layer 3: 3 3/4" x 1 1/2" piece of Eastern Elegance Designer paper

Layer 4: White Organza Ribbon. 

Layer 5: Coastal Cabana Cardstock, punched with the 2 3/8" scalloped circle punch

Layer 6: Crushed Curry Cardstock, cut with the starburst framelit dies

Layer 7: Stamped image from See Ya Later Stamp Set on Whisper White with Basic Grey Ink, punched with the 1 3/4" circle punch

Layer 8: Crushed Curry Cardstock Banner

I finished off the card with a few self adhesive pearls.  So beautiful!!  I can think of a LOT of people I could send this one to.  :) 

With any $50 purchase you can pick any of the gifties in the sale-a-bration book for FREE!  This is my FAVORITE sale of the year!  

The stamp set shown above comes in both (133533) wood mount or clear mount (133536) options. 

If you want to register for the Quarterly Training Event I'm having for both my team and customers, click here to check out more details!  

Every person will receive the following products to complete their projects:

• 1 sheet of dimensionals
• 1 package of self adhesive pearls
• 1 package of doilies

Demo's will also get the baggies, brads and toppers to complete their baggie books!  Swap theme is Spring!  :)    You take the extra's home with you!! 

Thanks for visiting today! 
Love,

Selene Kempton
Stampin' Up! Creative Coach
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1/27/14 Stampin' Up Undefined & Really Good Greetings

Well hello there! 

I have not dropped off the blog-o-sphere.. :)  Well, maybe I did for a little while.  I've been a busy girl!  I went to the stampin up leadership conference in Houston and had a BLAST!  I've also been planning a huge quarterly downline training event for my demonstrators.  That is scheduled for February 9th, and yesterday, I finished prepping the 12 different projects we will be making.  If you live local to me and would like to attend as a demonstrator or a customer, you can click here to go to that event page.  All the projects will feature the four new sale a bration stamp sets that go live tomorrow!  I'll be posting some sneak peeks this week.  (promise)

The above photo is of me and my wonderful friend Patti Chesky.  We got a BRAND new stamp set from the upcoming July idea book and catalog, but I'm not allowed to show the actual product we won.  :)

Let's get down to business!  Check out this AWESOME stamp I carved while I was at leadership!!  My stamp club this month are going to make this pretty little gem.  I had so much fun!! 

 I started out by drawing a picture of my favorite flower, a daisy with a pencil.  From the paper drawing, I used the back of the carving tool to transfer my image onto the rubber, then I carved it out!  It took me about 40 minutes to carve the image as there was some detail to my flower.  My rounded edge drawing took on new form when I carved it. I just LOVE the effect! I chose to leave some of the imperfections, as it added to the image when you really analyze it.  I think it looks a ton better than my original drawing.  It sort of came to life when I carved it! I'm addicted!  I think the hardest part of undefined is deciding what image to carve.  

I'd love to make some more artwork with undefined and I have a favor to ask! What image would you like to see me do next?  Leave me a comment and I'll get to work on it!!  :)  Thanks so much for stopping by today!  I'm back and I have a TON more to share with you!

Love,

Selene Kempton
Stampin' Up! Creative Coach
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Christmas Card Project Parade~ Whoop Whoop!

Good Morning Friends!

Over the season I have made a TON of cards with the intention of blogging them.  :)  Well, Christmas is all done and I wanted to take the time to clean out my "blog" folder.  :)  So here is a Christmas parade of card ideas for you. 

I hope that you had a VERY awesome holiday surrounded by those who love you!

 Silver glitter glue on the embossing folder.

 I believe in soft suede!

 This one is pretty cool, it has a flap inside that extends...

 Warm Wishes Snow Man!

 Envelope punch board, file folder card

 Grunge Christmas!  Make a wish!

 Striking Red and White beauty!

 More Snowmen!

 

Beautiful Poinsettia 

 

 Joy to the World!

 

Color Me Christmas

 Believe Card for Cards for Hero's Day

 Color me Christmas

 Color Me Christmas

 Fancy folds Color me Christmas

If there are any products that you "have to have" the last day to order from the holiday Catalog is coming up on January 2nd.  Thank you for stopping by today for a little inspiration! 

Love,

Selene Kempton
Creative Coach
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12/5 Stampin Up! Season of Style, Color Me Christmas, and Greetings of the Season

Good Evening Friends! 

It was a happy day here at the studio.  This is one of the six cards we made in tonight's Season of Style Class.  Such a beautiful, simple, easy to reproduce card!  

Supply list 
Stamps: Color Me Christmas, Greetings of the season
Ink: Cherry Cobbler Ink Pad, Stazon Black and Old Olive, Cherry Cobbler, and Crumb Cake Markers
Paper: Whisper white, cherry cobbler, season of style designer paper, Crumb Cake Card Stock
Accessories: champagne Glimmer Paper.

That's my daily share of inspiration for you today.  Thanks so much for stopping by!

Selene Kempton

Creative Coach
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12/4 Season of Style, Color Me Christmas, and Greetings of the Season,

Good Morning Friends!!

I have another card to share from my upcoming class this Thursday.  I love this little reindeer from the Color Me Christmas Stamp set.  I paired him up with the Greetings of the season Stamp set and some Whisper White Bakers Twine.   Isn't he adorable!  

The Chevron Border was made in seconds with two punches on my border punch!  Dude, I love that punch!!  The card uses a whisper white insert measuring 5 1/4" x 4" so you see through the punch to the white.  So super cute!!  The designer paper is cut 1 3/4" x 5.5"  That's it!  Straight, marker color, easy peasy.  So, how about a supply list?

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Supply list 
Stamps: Color Me Christmas, Greetings of the season
Ink: Cherry Cobbler Ink Pad, Stazon Black and Old Olive, Cherry Cobbler, and Crumb Cake Markers
Paper: Whisper white, cherry cobbler, season of style designer paper
Accessories: Whisper White Seam Binding, Chevron Border Punch

Thanks so much for stopping by today!

Here are this week's weekly sales:

Wisteria Wonder 3/4" Chevron Ribbon, Item 130017
Was: $8.95 Now $6.71

 

Merry Minis Punch Pack, Item 126882
Was: $16.95 Now $12.71

Hearts Collection Framelits Dies Item 125599
Was $26.95 Now $20.21

1-1/4" Scallop Circle Punch 127811
Was: $15.95 Now: $11.96

Fun Flowers Bigz L Die, Item 121812
Was: $32.95 Now $24.71

Think Back Photobook Templates - Digital Download Item 133021
Was $19.95 Now $11.97

Paper Doily Sizzlits Die, Item 125592
Was: $21.95 Now:$16.46

Selene Kempton

Creative Coach
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12/3 Season of Style, Christmas Collectables, Greetings of the Season

Good Morning Friends! 

I have been running classes around the Season of Style Designer series paper.  In the first class in the series, we made these adorable gift bags. The bags were designed by my friend Ronda Wade.

 

Thursday night, we will be making SIX beautiful cards that match the bags, like this card. This one uses the season of style designer series paper, and is my design. :)

Such a simple card, we stamped greetings of the season, in cherry cobbler right on the designer paper.  Then, just tie your cherry cobbler ribbon on.  Stamp the ornament and punch it out, pop it up with some dimensionals and you're done!  I love how beautifully simple this card is and how easy the trendy designer paper makes it to make a gorgeous card! 

Supply list 
Stamps: Christmas Collectibles, Greetings of the season
Ink: Cherry Cobbler Ink Pad
Paper: Whisper white, cherry cobbler, season of style designer paper
Accessories: Cherry Cobbler ribbon.

Super simple, quick, but GORGEOUS!!  Thanks so much for stopping by today!

With Gratitude,

Selene Kempton

Creative Coach
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