Happy New Year!

Happy New Year to you!

We made these fun labels to hang onto a bottle of wine or champagne at our last Stamp Club.
This one was made by Rhonda - she had fun making the different numbers and changing everything up. In the bottom one Barbara used the snowflake embossing folder along one edge of the silver foil cardstock, I love how this turned out! We used the frosted embellishments as charms to hang around the neck of the bottle. Too cute!

BLISS team tea party!

Our team had a really lovely meeting on Monday! It was a tea party so I baked English scones for us to eat with cream and preserves - yum!

 Some of our team bought along some of their samples to share, aren't they so cute!

I love this frame-able Fall piece that Teresa made...

She also made this cute little winter scene, I love this tree made with the festive flurry snowflake framelits... 

 Here I am attempted to eat a whole pumpkin cheesecake... no contest!

Please let me know if you might be interested in joining our team, we have way too much fun and you can join locally or long distance as a hobby or business demonstrator.

Have a wonderful week! Brenda

Happy 25th Birthday Stampin' Up!

And Happy Deals for US! Yippee Skippee! (and that's one of the sale stamp sets, how appropriate!)

Here are thumbnails of all the stamp sets that we have on sale for 25% off for just one week... To order you can email me OR go online and order and use the Hostess Code ZQAXD2GR.

And wait - there's MORE! These items are on special too... squeal!
And there's MORE! The special to sign up to join the Stampin' Up! family as a business or hobby demonstrator is extended until TONIGHT too! Yippee indeed!!!

Please let me know if you have any questions... Have a wonderful week, Brenda

Eek! Join for just $25!

JUST ANNOUNCED - CONTINUING THROUGH TONIGHT! TUESDAY, OCT 22ND!!!

In honor of Stampin' Up's 25th anniversary YOU can join Stampin' Up! For Only $25!

October 7 - 21

 In 25 years there has NEVER been a deal like this!

 You can join Stampin' Up! between October 7 - 21 for just $25.

YOU PICK what you want in the "kit"  You get to select between $25 - $26.95 worth of ANY PRODUCTS.  You also receive catalogs and other supplies.  FREE SHIPPING!

 Once you purchase this kit, you are a demonstrator.....but what does that really mean????

• Most Importantly--THERE IS NO COMMITMENT!!!!   Once a demonstrator, YOU can choose if you want to do anything as one or not...
  • You may choose to do nothing
  • You may choose to purchase for yourself at the discount
  • You may choose to do some parties, classes, events and make a little money
  • You may be looking for a fun, flexible, part-time job--this is the best one in the world!
• 30% OFF FIRST ORDER--if you place an order of at least $150 within 45 days, you will get 30% off!!!  Great chance to stock up. 
• FREE STAMP SET OF YOUR CHOICE! - if you place a workshop order of at least $150 within your first 30 days you will also get a free stamp set of your choice! (Yes, you can combine this with the 30% off promo!)
• At least 20% off all other orders while you remain active
• ABSOLUTELY NO RISK OR OBLIGATION!!!
• To stay active you need just $300 by March 30th.......if you don't make it, no big deal at all!!  You would simply become a customer again...

BESIDES THE DISCOUNTS, OTHER BENEFITS OF PURCHASING THIS KIT

• Access to Stampin' Up! "demonstrator only" websites
• Pre-Order NEW Occasions Catalog Products in December
• Opportunity to earn FREE stamps
•  You would be part of our BLISS team of demonstrators! 
  • FREE product incentives through me
  • Sharing of lot's of projects and stamping ideas
• 12 years of experience to help you, no matter what your goals are as a demonstrator!
  • I am always there to help you--all you have to do is ask!
  • I could go on and on and on about this incredible opportunity........Any Questions?  
  • E-mail BrendaStamps@Q.com
  • Or give me a call at 970-884-733
  • Or sign up on my website

Please don't hesitate to ask me if you have any questions - I hope you're having a great day! Brenda

A little bit CRAZY!

I have been sooooo.... busy! But it's all good :-) Had some lovely visitors from the UK, kids are back in school (but have lots of activities that are keeping me running) and I took on a part-time job at the Bayfield library. Phew! Lots of transition and a pretty steep learning curve. I am LOVING the way everything is shaping up though. I do apologize if you've been feeling neglected. I have been pretty spacey but am planning some fun new things for October - I do hope you can join me... check out my  events calendar for details.

Check out this super easy Halloween card! I used the Witches Brew Washi Tape - have you tried this? It's so fun! Just tear off a strip and stick it on, it's a little translucent AND you can even write on it, it's a fun option to decorate with or to stick layers together.

I also used the fun stamp set Halloween Hello, it's only $14.95 in the clear mount set and it has 9 cute little images that are the perfect size to decorate cards or candy wrappers! LOVE!

Now that's Spooky!

Look at this super cute banner!!! Don't you just love it?! I had SO MUCH FUN making it... I used a couple of kits from the Holiday catalog, the Build a Banner simply created kit ($19.95 133507) and the Halloween Banner Simply Created Accessory Kit ($9.95 132698) 

The Build a Banner kit comes with a whole bunch of stencils and I simply sponged through the openings, easy peasy!

I will be holding a class to make this adorable banner? Are you interested?! Let me know and I'll try and schedule it when you can come...

If you sign up to join my team via my website www.brendamarshall.stampinup.net then you can add both the Build a Banner kit AND the Halloween OR Christmas Accessory kits onto your starter kit for FREE! Yay! And you already get $125 worth of stuff for only $99 so it's already a great deal even without that promo.

Have a wonderful day and please let me know if you have any questions.

Brenda

Stampin' Up! meets Minecraft!

My youngest son, Callum, is obsessed with Minecraft, know any kids like this? I have to admit I absolutely don't get it! To me it looks really old fashioned and boxy but (if I let him) he would spend HOURS in front of the computer screen building weird and wonderful landscapes, baking cakes, farming pigs and avoiding creepers. This summer he showed me a Papercraft App on his iPod that allows you to design your own "skin" and then print it out and build these cool 3D sculptures. As it involved paper and not the computer screen I was happy to let him do it (although, not so happy, when he and his friend decided they needed to print out 90 lime green wool blocks and used up all my color cartridges!) 

Then he dug into my Stampin' Up! supplies, apparently you need those nice pointy Paper Snips to get into all the corners...

 And the Simply Scored and Stylus are exactly what you need to score all the crease lines...

He and his friend are listening to Minecraft songs on their iPod, while wearing Minecraft t-shirts and creating Minecraft sculptures - I told you, it's an obsession!

Here he is with one of his creations, aren't they cool? He entered this one 'Steve' into the State fair and got a blue ribbon and a $2 prize! Go Callum!