A Noel My Paper Pumpkin

If it wasn't for my December My Paper Pumpkin Kit arriving in today's mail, I wouldn't have remembered to post November's My Paper Pumpkin project. Sorry for the delay.

November's project came with pre-die cut mini star garlands to embellish the Christmas card project. It was already threaded together and ready to use.

The card itself is too cute, it was needless for me to make an alternative card for the remaining 3 cards that came in with the kit. I made all 4 of the cards in the kit the way as it is shown. I love it! This is totally my style. My Paper Pumpkin, you know me well, my friend. 

December's kit arrived today and I can't wait to put it together! It is a complete kit to a mini smashbook! It will be perfect for a trip I will be taking later in 2014!

Want in on the monthly surprises that arrives right at your door? Join us for $24.95 (shipping is included). Everything you see in the kit sample instructions card is included. Just use your own glue and spend 30 minutes one day to ease away to your own creative land. More details here.

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Stampin' Up! weekly deals Dec 16-24

This week's weekly deals. Order thru my website or contact me to place an order.

Don't forget! Clearance Rack Blitz: Rare and hard to find retired items are currently up to 80% off. Clearance rack items are while supplies last. Items from $1.29. Shop clearance rack now.

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Simple quick and easy Christmas cards

There's only 9 days left until Christmas 2013! and it's just this last minute that I realize I didn't make enough Christmas cards. Luckily I had paper left in my Winter Frost Designer Series Paper stack. 

A quick die cut with the Holiday Ornaments Framelits makes a cute window to reveal the winter holiday pattern on the designer paper in the back.

With so little time, I was still able to make 6 of these cards in just 40 minutes!

This card was a CASE from Catherine Pooler. Hats off to her for a simple quick and easy design! Pin It now!

Scruffy Core'dinations texture

Happy Wednesday! I'm struggling a bit to keep up with all the Wednesday updates. I'm sure it is busy to many of you during this crazy holiday season.  With all the holiday festivities around us, this week I'm featuring a birthday card.

This card was actually a stamp club project we made in November. It was made using the Stampin' Up! Core'dinations cardstock. This is the only cardstock that Stampin' Up! carries that allows you add fun texture by sanding, ripping or creasing the stock. With this card, we sanded the embossed cardstock to reveal a lighter tint of the cardstock. A very simple technique that adds extra depth to the card.

Clearance Rack Blitz: Rare and hard to find retired items are currently up to 80% off. Clearance rack items are while supplies last. There are Core'dinations cardstock for just $3.99! don't miss out and stock up on these paper to try out today's Creative Wednesday technique. Check out my top picks.

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Clearance Rack Blitz 2013

Fill your Christmas wish list with the Clearance Rack Blitz. These retired items are up to 80% off! Some of these rare and hard to find items go for triple the posted price on auction and used websites. Better to get them here and new!

All clearance rack items are while supplies last.

Contact me to place an order or order online directly using hostess code: 7FZYETK4 for a chance to win the hostess dollars from me.

Here are my top picks that will for sure fly off the shelves quickly.

Holiday Stocking Bigz L Die 124098

Price: $24.59 Original: $40.95

Mitten Builder Punch 127824

Price: $13.19 Original: $21.95

Color Spritzer Tool 107066

Price: $6.59 Original: $16.50

Snow Festival Designer Series Paper 126908

Price: $5.39 Original: $13.50

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An Afternoon as Sherlock Holmes

There was a reason why I have been MIA from my blog over the past few weeks. Yesterday I celebrated my milestone birthday with a Sherlock Holmes themed Murder Mystery tea party. I spent a month planning the party along with preparing decorations to turn my living room into a 1938 atmosphere.

Be prepared for a lot of photos. Please note that I used some retired Stampin' Up! items in decorating this party.

The murder mystery required me to print the individual characters' scripts, put it into an envelop and seal it immediately. Rather than a boring brown envelop, I stamped it with top secret and labeled it individually with the characters' names. Each of the characters are also given a magnifying glass as a fun prop to take home.

And what fun is it without taping out the shape of a victim. Here's me posing.

	Obviously where there is a private consultant, there is a private criminal consultant too. Moriarty. It isn't a tea party without having some Moriar-Tea. I designed the tea label and wrapped it around an old tea bag can. The tea bags were also labeled accordingly.

And of course, it is always exciting to dress in character and for a chance to win a fun prize with a bag nicely decorated by yours truly! I used the World Map and the From My Heart stamp set to put together this bag.

And a tea party isn't a tea party without cupcakes! I ordered these customized Sherlock cupcakes through my friend, Cathy Wong of SweeTease Cupcakes.  It was everything I wanted and the best way to celebrate a milestone. We'll see what the next decade brings. I'll have to start brainstorming for the next milestone to find a way to top this one.

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Huge Holiday Sale Starts TODAY

This Christmas season, fill your wishlist with fabulous Stampin' Up! products at up to 50% off!
From November 20 to December 2, 2013. 12 days ONLY!

PLUS, today ONLY. There are 3 door crasher items!

For anyone who places an order with me before November 25, you will be entered to win $35 hostess dollars to spend on anything in the catalogue.

If you are placing your own order online, use hostess code: US7E297M and be entered into the draw too.

Click here to shop now

or contact me to place an order.

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13th Annual Nikkei Place Craft and Bake Fair

Come visit me at my table at the 13th Annual Nikkei Place Craft & Bake Fair.

November 16th ONLY!

11am - 4pm

6688 Southoaks Crescent, Burnaby, BC

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Christmas Stamp-a-stack class III

This month's Stamp-a-stack (series III), the last of the series has a mix of traditional vintage to contemporary fun color cards.

Christmas Stamp-a-stack III.

Make a total of 9 cards. (3 of 3 designs)

This class will be offered at my home in Vancouver (Killarney area)

December 3 7:00pm - 9:00pm

Price: $25 supplies included

or

FREE if you place a $35 Stampin' Up! order the day of the class

RSVP required by November 25, 2013 to secure your space.

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Alphabet Press Stamp Club

I missed out on posting last week's Creative Wednesday. I wanted to catch up on the missed post on the weekend but I got hit by another migraine. I'm finally well enough to get out of bed today just in-time for this week's Creative Wednesday post.

We used a fun embossing folder stamping technique last week to make this card. Sometimes you never know what else you can do with your embossing folder other than putting it through the Big Shot machine.

In this card, we used the Six-Sided Sampler bundle that comes with a coordinating punch. I also used a small sliver of washi tape in the background to add a bit of texture and subtle yellow color. Another quick and fun card!

Weekly Deals: Did you know that each Tuesday Stampin' Up! releases a list of Weekly Deals that runs to the following Tuesday. Check out this week's weekly deal here!

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An Evergreen Wednesday

Happy Wednesday!! In Vancouver today, the air is crisp, the sun is shining and creative juices are flowing!

This week's Creative Wednesday card is actually the make and take project we did last month at my Holiday Open House.

The card is a quick and simple 5-minute card featuring the Evergreen stamp set on Pool Party and Island Indigo colors. The trick with is card is to remember to stamp the images on the cardstock first then do the Big Shot die cut with the Apothecary Accents framelits and finally Textured Emboss the polka dots.

The designer series paper used here is the Winter Frost Designer Paper Series Stack. ($8.50 for 48 sheets)

It really is unneccesary to spend more than 5 minutes on a Christmas card when you got so many to make each year! Keep it simple and this year you'll have a stress-free holiday season.

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Christmas Stamp-a-stack card class II

This week's Creative Wednesday post is also the announcement of my next Christmas Stamp-a-stack class. This month we are making the following 3 design. In my Stamp-a-stack class we make a total of 9 cards, so 3 cards of 3 designs.

Christmas Stamp-a-stack II

This class will be offered at my home in Vancouver (Killarney area)

October 29 7:00pm - 9:00pm

Price: $25 supplies included

or

FREE if you place a $35 Stampin' Up! order the day of the class

RSVP required by October 23, 2013 to secure your space.

The stamp sets we will use to make these cards are: Special Season, Greetings of the Season, and Festive Flurry.

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I'm super excited that the $25 Starter Kit has started! This promo ends October 21! It's only going to be around for 2 weeks!
Here's a chance to test drive Stampin' Up!'s exclusive products and discounts for just $25! Your discounts are guaranteed until April 2014! Take it as a membership to Costco or your local fabric store. However unlike Costco and fabric store memberships, you get something back right away with the $25 signup fee!
You get to choose up to $26.95 worth of products and then the ability to enjoy exclusive demonstrator discounts immediately.

You can sign up through me or contact me for more details.
Learn more on my group of Stampers Without Borders here.

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2. Submit via email a one-page description explaining i) "Why you'd like a Starter Kit?", ii) "What inspires you?" iii) "What can you bring to my team of Stampers Without Borders?"
3. Share the contest post on your Facebook Page.

A winner will be chosen based on your one-pager on Friday, October 18, 2013. So please submit your submissions to idacwchan(at)hotmail.com as early as possible!
Contest open to Canadians over the age of 19 only.

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Painter's Tape with Beautifully Baroque

Happy Hump Day! That means it's Creative Wednesday posting!

This week I'm showcasing one of the cards we made last week at our monthly Stamp Club meeting.

As usual, we learn a new stamping technique in our monthly Stamp Club. This month we learned the Painter's Tape technique to create the subtle background of this card. We then stamped the Beautifully Baroque stamp 3 times in different colors, cut out smaller pieces of the stamped image and layer on top of each other to give the Beautifully Baroque image a bit of dimension.

Colors used on this card are: Daffodil Delight, Midnight Muse, and the new incolor Pistachio Pudding.

Want to participate in my monthly Stamp Club? It's easy and free with a commitment of 8 months of a $25/month purchasing plan. More details here.

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Join Stampin' Up! for just $25

For 2 weeks only from October 7 until October 21, 2013, you can join my team of Stampers Without Borders for just $25! Down from the original $125 to join my team, this is a great opportunity to become part of a group of creative stampers and inspire those around you. 

Remember to become a demonstrator, you don't necessarily need to sell, sell and sell! You can keep the minimum 20% discount to yourself.

This special is only offered because it is Stampin' Up!'s 25th Anniversary. 

In this special $25 Starter Kit, you will get

• $26.95 worth of Stampin' Up! product of your choice
• Business Pack which includes
• a box of annual catalogues
• a package of the current seasonal catalogue
• getting started DVD
• Starter Kit Business Brick
• Customer postcards

As a new demonstrator, you will receive a bonus 10% additional discount to your existing 20% off your first order of $200.

Don't be late and contact me for more details today!

Want to know about my team of Stampers without Borders? Visit my page here.

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An Apothecary Thank you

Taking a break from holiday and Christmas cards, today's Creative Wednesday is a thank you card. We all need to remind ourselves that Thanksgiving comes first before we get into the Christmas mood (but don't forget Halloween).

I used the Apothecary Art stamp set and colored the stamp using different colored markers. The coloring on the medium sized stamp took a bit of time. Luckily for the huff-and-puff technique, there is no worries on having the ink to dry before I actually stamp on the cardstock.

 

The cardstock colors I used: Wisteria Wonder, Calypso Coral

September 28 OPEN HOUSE: Don't forget about my Holiday Open House this Saturday! 12noon - 3pm. RSVP required.

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Layers of Festive Flurries of the Season

The Festive Flurries stamp set is clearly my favourite and top pick from this year's Holiday Catalogue. I love any stamp set that is versatile and has a coordinated Big Shot Framelits set. And the best part is getting 15% off with the Festive Flurries Bundle.

These intricate snowflakes when layered together brings out a dimension that is unique and makes a marvelous Christmas greeting card. Another quick and simple 5 minute card.

Want to see more holiday ideas? Don't forget about my Open House on September 28. RSVP here.

Butterfly stamp set and punch promotion ends September: Love savings? Just another week left to save 15% off the Butterfly stamp set and punch bundle. Get the savings here.

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