Rubber Stamping & Card Making with Yapha

Have you see Stampin’ Up’s Occasions Mini catalog yet? It is fabulous! If you ordered from me in the last year, you should have gotten one in the mail. If not, please let me know. You can also view it the following ways:

• Online Flash Catalog
• PDF of the Catalog
• Stampin’ Supplies used in the samples
• Stamps available in Spanish
• Through my Online Store

What are some of my favorite products? I’m so glad that you asked! Here are three of my favorites:

125599 Hearts Collection Framelits Dies $26.95

125408 Sweet Shop Specialty Designer Series Paper $12.95

125585 Cherry Cobbler Dazzling Details $2.50

Happy Stamping!!

Whoo-hoo!! Another freebie from Stampin’ Up! In celebration of their reaching 100,000 fans on Facebook, Stampin’ Up is giving everyone a free digital download! This can be used either with or without My Digital Studio. You just need to take a little survey, and at the end choose if you want it for Windows, Mac, or to use with other programs.

The Freebie is the Day in a Life Kit, which normally sells for $14.95. (You can click the picture to learn more about it, but you have until January 10th to download it for free! You need to use the link below for that.)

128876 Day in the Life Kit (normally $14.95)

Download includes:
* 38-piece stamp brush set
* 12 Designer Series Paper patterns
* 21 embellishments
* two-page 8″ x 8″ designer template

Features:
* Digital-exclusive
*Template designed to use for everyday projects. Also great for year-in-review photobook, planner, journal, and more.

Coordinating colors:
Basic Gray, Cherry Cobbler, Crushed Curry, Daffodil Delight, Early Espresso, Marina Mist, Not Quite Navy, Old Olive, Pear Pizzazz, Pool Party, Pumpkin Pie, Sahara Sand, Taken with Teal, Very Vanilla

Click here to take the survey and get your freebie!

As you know, Stampin’ Up’s Holiday Mini catalog will be coming to an end soon. Very soon. January 3rd is the last day to order the products in it. There are however, some items that Stampin’ Up has announced will continue to be available after that. You can see a flyer with these products, but here is a quick list of the Holiday Mini items that will remain available for purchase:

• Red Glimmer Paper
• Silver Glimmer Paper
• Holiday Stocking Die & Holiday Accents Die
• Peek-a-Boo Frames Die
• 1″x8″ Cellophane Bags (yay!!!)
• Spice Cake Designer Fabric (not the paper)
• 1″ Square Punch
• Dazzling Details
• Shaker Frames
• Pewter Embossing Powder
• Snow Burst Embossing Folder

If you are interested in anything else from there I suggest you get them before January 3rd. You can shop the Holiday Mini Catalog right here. There is always a chance that a few of the stamp sets will show up in the Big Idea Book & Catalog in July, but there are no guarantees.

As long as you are shopping, take a look at the Clearance Rack. Stampin’ Up just added more items (again!) including  great stuff from the Celebrations line, the Play Date line, and the Sweet Stitches line, as well as some fabulous Valentine’s Day bargains! (Note: Be sure to choose “Show All” on the right hand side or you may miss some items.)

The new Occasions Mini Catalog will start on January 4th,, and tomorrow is the Stampin’ Addicts’ Occasions Mini Blog Hop! You can start right here. I will be featuring a new Valentine’s Day stamp called Candy Conversation. The hop will run all weekend. I hope you have a chance to join us. The projects will be amazing!

Run, don’t walk, over to Stampin’ Up’s Clearance Rack!! There are amazing deals to be had on punches, ribbon, Big Shot dies, even the Watercolor Wonder Crayons! Here’s an important tip — to be sure to choose “Show All” from the drop down menu on the right. Otherwise you will miss the last few pages of goodies. Happy shopping!

In case you missed it this morning, Shelli Gardner, co-founder and CEO of Stampin’ Up, was on the TODAY show presenting a donation of more than 500,000 craft items to the 18th annual toy drive. She also shows off the super cute Sweet Pressed Cookie Stamps. (Yes, they are stamps you use on cookies. How awesome is that?)

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Happy Cyber Monday! Are you getting great deals? I just wanted to remind you that Stampin’ Up’s Online Extravaganza is still going on, through the end of the day on Wednesday! Here are some examples of fabulous deals (there are plenty more!):

• Flight of the Butterfly Stamp Set — regularly $31.95 — now just $15.98
• Many Merry Messages Stamp Set – regularly $34.95 — now just $17.48
• On Your Birthday Stamp Set — regularly $33.95 — now just $16.98
• Candy Cane Christmas Designer Fabric — regularly $9.95 — now just $3.98
• Deck the Halls Designer Fabric– regularly $9.95 – now just $3.98

Plus if you’ve been thinking about getting My Digital Studio, you can get My Digital Studio Express for $39.95 with your choice of one of three download bundles worth $40!  Don’t let these great deals slip away!

Whoo-hoo!! Stampin’ Up’s Online Extravanga is here! It starts today and runs through Wednesday, November 30th. There are some absolutely amazing deals! Stamps, ribbon, fabric, digital downloads, and more!! You can view the PDF with all of the info, or take a look at everything in my online store. Please note — the prices in the store DO NOT reflect the discounts! Discounts will be applied at checkout, so please look at the PDF for the exact pricing.

In addition, there are two items that are on sale today (Monday) only!! You can get the Simply Scored scoring board and the Sweet Pressed Cookie Stamps for 20% off. But that offer expires at midnight Mountain time, so don’t miss out!

Also included in the Online Extravaganza promotion is the opportunity to receive a free bundle of preselected digital downloads (at least a $39.95 value) with the purchase of My Digital Studio Express. This is a great way to get started with digital crafting! The bundle options are:

Bundle #1: My Digital Studio Booster Pack

Bundle #2: Holiday Themed Downloads
-Merry & Type Stamp Brush Set
-Letters to Santa Designer Series Paper
-Letters to Santa Embellishments
-Baker’s Twine
-Dasher Stamp Brush
-Holiday Harmony II Kit
-Merry Delightful Digital Tape
-25 & Counting Stamp Brush Set
-Deck the Halls Designer Buttons
-And a Happy New Year Photocard Template

Bundle #3: Scrapbooking Themed Downloads
-Day in the Lift Kit
-Thoughtful Overlays Stamp Brush Set
-Fun Flowers Shapes
-Delightful Digital Tape
-Sweet Details Alphabet & Numbers
-Word Play Stamp Brush Set

To view a PDF of the images in each bundle, visit the online store under My Digital Studio Express.

Please let me know if you have any questions! Happy shopping!

Happy Digital Scrapbooking Day! One of the free downloads from Stampin’ Up is the Neutral Delightful Digital Tape. This comes in 5 colors — Basic Gray, Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla, Whisper White, and Transparent. It also comes with an 8″ x 8″ designer template for a scrapbook page. I love the My Digital Studio designer templates! They are always fabulous to use as is, and very easy to modify if one wishes! Let me show you. This first scrapbook page uses the designer template as it came. I just put in a picture and typed my text.

As I looked at the page, I realized that the colors almost matched our school uniforms, if only there was some red on the page. So I changed the background to Cherry Cobbler, as well as a couple of the stamps used on the page. I also removed the original page title, and replaced it with one of the stamps from the (also free this weekend) So Typefelt Stamp Brush Set.

As always, you have the option to download these free items either to use with My Digital Studio or with any software program that uses JPG or PNG files. Yes, even Microsoft Word! So what are you waiting for? Get your free downloads today!

Get an additional $35 in FREE Stampin’ Up! products when you host a $350 workshop November 1-December 15, 2011! This is in addition to all the other benefits you get as a Stampin’ Up! hostess.

Contact me to schedule a workshop today and get set to create for the holidays with all of the exciting hostess rewards you’ll receive!

Things to Remember

• Only customer, hostess, and workshop order types qualify for this promotion. Online orders do not qualify.
• Orders must be $350 or more to qualify.
• Orders larger than $350 are not eligible for additional hostess free merchandise dollars. For example, a $700 workshop does not receive $70 in additional dollars. All orders over $350 always receive $35 in additional free hostess dollars.
• Hostesses may use their additional $35 in free merchandise on any catalog/mini catalog products.

Mark your calendars and join Stampin’ Up! at www.MyDigitalStudio.net as we celebrate Digital Scrapbooking Day with a four-day online event, November 4-7. This event is for everyone, whether you are a digital scrapbooker, want to be a digital scrapbooker, or are just thinking about digital scrapbooking!!

Join us for:

• FREE digital downloads
• Project ideas
• Announcement of 2011 My Digital Studio Contest winners

Don’t have My Digital Studio yet? Anyone who purchases it through me will receive an hour of one-on-one training for free! (In person if you are local, by phone if you are not.) Contact me for more information!