It's been a long long two days so the post is going to be short!  Wanted to share a few things with you…

first…there is a super sale going on right now…our CLEARANCE RACK has up to 80% off on certain items (lots of punches are on sale) as well as scrapbooking stuff,  Big Shot Dies, punches and so much more.  Make sure you go to my website and check it all out – click here for a direct link or click on the picture below to see what is available.  When you get to page 10 keep clicking, there are nearly 200 new items on the Clearance Rack and they don't stop at page 10.

Good from December 15, 2011-January 5, 2012

Details:
Nearly 200 new Clearance Rack items are being added to the Online Store at discounts up to 80 percent off retail–while supplies last!

Things to Remember

• You can only order these on my website (click the picture above to get you to the correct spot) 
• The Clearance Rack Blitz includes old-body style punches.
• There is no minimum purchase required you can order as much or as little as you want.
• Qualifying Clearance Rack orders are eligible for hostess benefits which are also called Stampin' Rewards.
• Clearance Rack Blitz items are only available while supplies last. There are no refunds or exchanges on Clearance Rack items.
• You may view Clearance Rack Blitz items in my On-Line Store.

One of the items in the store is the Tulipe Big Shot Die.  Do you remember this project I did for the Ronald McDonald House?  Well her wings are done with that die and THAT die is on the clearance rack.

front view

Back view – see the Tulipe Die, I cut part of it off but it's PERFECT for her wings.  So make sure you check out the Clearance Rack, there are lots of good things on there.

Here are a few more of my favorites.  I ordered a lot off the clearance rack myself.

1.  The old fashioned (the easier one) 3/16 corner rounder #109047 – $4.19

2.  Scallop Edge Punch #112091 – $9.59 (see sample below)

3.  Spiral Punch #109973 – $4.99

4.  Tulipe Big Shot Die #113457 – #113457

Do you remember this card?  We HAD to use the old fashioned Scallop Edge Punch because the new model cuts it off…so make sure you get this one (# 112091) if you want to do this style card.

see how it does not cut off the edges!  Beautiful!  So make sure you check  it out.

I had my Demonstrator Team Get Together on Sunday.  It was so much fun.  I will share more pictures and project ideas with you later on but for now here are just a few…

Great Food

and yes this is our snowflake die

Deanna used it as a stencil for her snowflake cake – it was just beautiful…

Super Great Friends…

and FABTABULOUS projects! 

More sharing for another day, for now, I'm off to bed!   Thank you for stopping by.

I just LOVE August 22nd…and this year is August 22nd, 2011 which means today is the day THREE years ago I become cancer free…YIPPPPEEEEE another year under my belt!  Phew….So here are a few pictures to share…

For all my friends who are going through this now,

for  all of you that have beat this, 

and in memory of all that didn't,

I pray for each of you every day…

I love this card.

And here is my screen saver!  Ya gotta love it!

And my card pick for the day…it was a card that was on one of the desks at the Stampin' Up! home office.  Look at our new punches and are those brads too stinken cute!?!

Gotta run…HAPPY AUGUST 22nd!!! 

Just a quick post tonight to show you a card I just fell in love with at Convention.  As you know, my Stamping Studio is called "Sunflower Stamping"…here is one of my swaps that I received while at convention…I just LOVE it!

Look at all the Big Shot stuff in this card…

Perfect Polka Dots Embossing Folder #117335

Square Lattice Embossing Folder #119976

Tasteful Trim Bigz Die # 120893 (the rick rack stem)

Flowers Daisy #2 Die #114520

and then the punches! 

It was just a really cute card that I wanted to share with you!  Hope you liked it as much as I did.  REMEMBER that we have our Sale on Designer Series Paper – Buy three and get one free.  Check out my website at www.stampladee.stampinup.net to purchase yours now…the sales ends at the end of this month!!!!  Take care, thank you for stopping by.

Hidy Ho Stampers,

I just LOVE the beginning of a new month!  It's always a time of excitement….and August is no different. 

During August, get a FREE package of Stampin' Up!'s exclusive Designer Series Paper – a $10.95 (plus free shipping and tax on that one) – when you buy three.   Choose from a wide variety of designs and colors available in the 2011-2012 Idea Book and Catalog and 2011 Summer Mini Catalog.  Click on the link below and see for yourself how beautiful the papers are!  This is a fantastic deal!  Check out the card below done with our papers.  I LOVE DESIGNER SERIES PAPER!

This is a Congratulations card made from our Designer Series Paper by my friend Jan Burnett…Love Love Love all the punches too…

And here is Jan Burnett herself.  Notice her beautiful apron.  She sewed it herself!!!

and here is the one she made for me!!!  I JUST LOVE IT!!!!!

Thank you for stopping by!  Hope you enjoy every minute of your day.

We've all heard of Jelly Bellies but have you heard of Bunny Bellies?  Here they are.

Today's post is from one of my team mates Deanna Whitney.  She made this adorable bunny card  with our punches and our treat cups.  His little belly is filled with jellie beans.  Too stinken cute!

and here is her entry into the Three Dimensional Spring Inspired Challenge.  All I can is

B – E -E – E – E- E - U – T – I – F – U – L!!!!

Thank you Deanna for participating.

Hope you enjoyed!

We had another team get together on Sunday and what fun we had.  My Challenge to them this month was to create something three dimensional that had to do with Spring.  Here is one of the entries…

This is the cutest basket made from the Petal Cone Die in the Occasions Mini Catalog.  The chics are made from the Big Shot Scallop Circle Dies.  Isn't this the cutest.  It was submitted by Barb Stomieroski. 

Here is a view of the detail under the basket.

And here's a closeup of the chick!  The feathers just make him even more adorable than he already was…Barb was telling us the funny story of where the feathers came from.  Too cute.  Okay now look at those eggs.  Each one was punched out and put in the styrofoam egg with pins.  Lots of work but so worth it.  Thank you Barb for your entry.

Ruth Baxter is our Challenge Coordinator and this is the voting registration she came up with…oh how organized!!!  THANK YOU RUTH!

Okay Ms. Karen do you really think you can pull that off as your entry??  That's the voting bucket!  You are too cute.

I hope you enjoyed this post.  Come back tomorrow for more entries!  Wait until you see the winner!

It's getting close to Easter, did you do your cards yet?  Here are a few that were swapped at my team meeting last month.  The theme of the swap was punches.  How cute.

Aren't they cute.

Have a great day.

Do you remember that song by Marie Osmand?  Paper Roses, Paper Roses…okay okay so I just dated myself!  Well one of my friends and downline came over today to show me the most awesome paper roses she made.  They are gorgeous.  Well here, take a look…

Aren't they beautiful!  She is going to show us how to do them at my Demonstrator get together next Sunday.  They are done all with punches and you KNOW how much I love punches.  I'll show more with these after next Sunday.  She's going to make some cards with them.  I can't wait.  I was so excited for her, as she was telling me about them she was beaming from ear to ear!!!  I don't know if you can see it or not but it's sprayed with our Shimmer Paint and alcohol mixture.  LOVE IT!

And have I been busy….After my Punchbook Class today, I got busy on some of my upcoming projects…here I am in the middle of one of them.  Such a busy little girl I am!!!  :0)  I just love all this stuff and I can't wait to share it with you but if I do before the events, then my recipients will know what they are getting.  Gotta wait :0)! 

Have a great day!

I have to show you a piece of jewelry that was made from our buttons…

I know these are not punches but I just love this and needed to share again!   LOVE LOVE this.

Okay here are the punches…

These two cards were made from one of our free Sale-a-bration sets called Punch Bunch (#121847 wood mount or #123211 clear mount) found on page 5 of the Sale-a-Bration catalog.  The upper card is also made using the Ice Cream Parlor Ribbon (#123529)  which is FREE from the Sale-a-bration Catalog found on page 7.

I've been having so much fun this week.  In New York, most of the schools have this week off (it's called WINTER BREAK).  So I try to have classes for them during the day.  We did punchbook makeup class and today we did a 10/10/10 and tomorrow is my regular monthly punchbook class.  So anyway, I was chatting with one of my friends, she attends punchbook class regularly.  I told her that I had another gal looking for a punchart  "crane" so she could do her son's birthday invitations.  She said to me that she would help me look or create….well…..wait until you see what she did!!!!

Do you believe this????  It was done by Carolyn Berrian.  She went home and found this picture on the internet and took our punches and duplicated it!!! OMGosh!!!!  The one on the left is the internet picture and the one on the right is done with all our punches!!!  What a fantastic job!!!  Thank you Carolyn for sharing!

And today was my 10/10/10…I'm all set up and ready to go for the morning class.

and yes, I DO time them…they do 10 cards, each one of the cards will only take them 10 minutes or less and it's only $10.00 (and the morning class started at 10:00).  Do you remember my earlier post?  I did a 10/10/10 on 10/10/10 (that would be October 10th, 2010) at 10:00?!  That was a blast!

And I just had to share with you!!!  Yesterday, February 22nd, was my HALF way mark.  It was 2 1/2 years since my cancer was removed!!!!  YIPPEEE, I only have 2 1/2 years left before I hit my 5 year mark….to anyone that has had that horrible disease…you really do look forward each and every day to that five year mark.  So…February 22nd was half way for me.  It's like walking up a moutain and reaching the top (it's so hard to get there) and now…I'm RUNNING down the other side!!!  YIPPPEEEE for me!  My daughter came home with this beautiful bouquet of flowers and balloons!!!

Have a great day, I am!