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Sales Tax Holidays Are Coming!

Sales Tax Holidays are coming in at least a few states and some are in July! These sales tax holidays are to help with buying back to school supplies and clothes. Depending on the sales tax in your state it might not be very much, but if you buy a lot it can add up. At a minimum, it saves you a little bit of money. Of course it is not just back-to-school parents and students that get to use this Sales Tax Holiday! Anyone can as long as you buy eligible items.

I suppose since some of the Stampin’ Up! products can be used for school supplies (and how many times have we moms had to share our craft or stamping supplies with family members for school, Scout or other projects?!). Even if you don’t have a child going back to school, if you order during your state’s tax holiday you can take advantage of this savings.

Just some examples of Stampin’ Up! products that “may” qualify (depends on your state) are adhesives, markers, Stampin’ Blends (yea!), In Color Markers, Grid Paper, the new Pressed Petals Journal, Paper Snips, Watercolor Pencils, and more. Zoom in and look over that chart!

To read this Sales Tax Holiday chart, click HERE and even then you may have to zoom in on your computer screen to be able to read it. You will have to check the dates and items for your own state. Note that Alabama starts July 19-21 and Tennesee and Wisconsin are later in July. Several begin almost right away in August. Just sayin’….be ready! You can plan ahead if you are going to order.

However, remember the Bonus Days in July where you get a $5 coupon to spend in August with every $50 purchase of merchandise. Those early July states can double-dip!

I’m still thinking that school just got out for the summer (because once your kids are grown, except for school crossings when you are driving, your life doesn’t revolve around school schedules anymore) but I have already seen Back-to-School supplies out in the store! And even crazier, someone on Instagram said Halloween items are going out in craft stores already!

So it is coming up on Back -to-School time and you may be able to save a little bit of money during the Sales Tax Holidays on “your” school supplies for stamping!

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Colorful Seasons 4th of July Card

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It’s time for fireworks so here is a Colorful Seasons 4th of July Card all ready to inspire you to make some kind of fun card for the 4th of July! Can you believe it is July 1st already?!

I don’t have a “4th of July” stamp set so I had to use what I had. I looked through some stamp sets looking for something I could use for fireworks. I noticed these little stamps in the Colorful Seasons Stamp Set that I stamped in Real Red and Night of Navy Inks. I used the stamp that was half that image but stamped it on both sides to make the firework, but I also see in the stamp set there is one stamp that would have made a full image! Oh well. I think mine came out all right! The Crushed Curry fireworks are actually the tops of palm trees from the Waterfront Stamp Set!

The chairs are stamped from the Colorful Seasons Stamp Set. Originally I was going to die cut the Adirondack style chairs in the set of Seasonal Layers Dies but then I changed my mind and stamped these cloth folding chairs, something more like we will take to watch fireworks Thursday night.

The background on the card is stamped with images from the Waterfront Stamp Set for the grass and some blue sky. I used my Aqua Painter to soften the ink a little bit, although you can’t use much water on Whisper White Cardstock. You could also just sponge on some ink for a background. I do love that Waterfront Stamp Set after ignoring it when it first came out!

I didn’t add a greeting, mainly because there wasn’t any good space to put one! Maybe I will add one later or just stamp something on Whisper White cardstock inside the card.

And Stampin’ Up! has a July special! BONUS DAYS!

For every $50 you spend (before shipping and tax, of course!) you will receive a coupon for $5 to spend on merchandise in August! Your coupon will arrive by email after you place your order. Make sure you hang on to that code! It’s best to print out the email, write down the code somewhere or put it under lock and key in case of a computer crash or natural disaster! No limit to the codes you can earn.

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So I think our July is off to a good start! Shop for Stampin’ Up! products in July, spending $50 or more or in increments on one or more orders, and receive a Bonus Coupon to use on an order in August!

Make a card or something for the 4th of July and get in the spirit of the holiday! It’s a short week! Happy 4th!

DISCOUNTED Select Last-Chance Products!!

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Surprise! Just last night Stampin’ Up! told us that they were discounting select retiring products on the Last-Chance List in both the Annual Catalog and the Occasions Catalog!

Sale begins at 1:00 PM CT on Thursday, May 30! Discounts up to 30% off!

This sale will run through June 3rd, but products are only available while supplies last. You know what that means! The early bird gets the worm! No telling what may or may not sell out (except, of course, the things you want!) so if you see something you want, get it as soon as you can.

Click here to see the list of items that will be discounted from the 2018-19 Annual Catalog retiring list.

Click here to see the list of items that will be discounted from the 2019 Occasions Catalog retiring list.

(This is odd…..the prices must not have fit going across the page for the Occasions Catalog so scroll down to page 2 and you will see the chart that should be at the end of the rows!)

Probably easiest to just go look online at the Stampin’ Up! store!

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May’s Everything Is Rosy Product Medley

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Everything is Rosy Products — Images (c) Stampin’ Up! 2019

Remember, the Everything Is Rosy Product Medley is available only during the month of May, while supplies last. This is a whole collection of coordinating products, which is one of Stampin’ Up!’s strong points in their product lines. It’s also exclusive, as you won’t find these products anywhere else. It comes with Rose Gold accents and Shimmer Paint. Have you noticed how much Rose Gold jewelry is out in stores now? It’s the new trend. Rose Gold is a mixture of gold and copper to produce that pinkish look.

Here are a couple samples by Stampin’ Up to show what you can do with all these products in this collection.

Everything is Rosy Sample Pink Card — Image © Stampin’ Up! 2019

This card is made with the designer paper, die cut flowers, rose gold foil, and more. With the congratulations greeting it would be perfect for graduation!

Everything is Rosy Sample Narrow Card and Envelope — Image © Stampin’ Up! 2019

This fun card is made with the Whisper White Narrow Note Cards and Envelopes. The card is decorated with die-cut stamped flowers and an already die cut tag. Wouldn’t you love to get this card with such a cute decorated envelope?!

This Everything is Rosy Product Medley is only available during May so don’t delay if you really want this product. I know you will be able to make gorgeous cards and projects with all these products. It may look pricey but consider all that you are getting for that price. Everything you need in one box to start creating! All you have to do is enter this one number on your order! #150059 It can be a belated Mother’s Day gift for yourself! Why not?!

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Stampin’ Up! Last-Chance Products 2019

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It’s Here! The Stampin’ Up! List of Retiring Products!

(Check Edit at the bottom about Cling Stamps!)

2018-19 Annual Catalog

Download the PDF HERE.

2019 Occasions Catalog

Download the PDF HERE.

SHOP Last-Chance Products Here!

The Fine Print:

Promotion Dates: April 15–June 3, 2019

All retiring items are only available while supplies last and will be discontinued after June 3.
Due to the high demand for retiring stamp sets, these items will have guaranteed availability until May 24; all other products are not guaranteed and are available while supplies last only.
Retiring items are eligible for Stampin’ Rewards with qualifying orders.
Retiring host sets may be purchased using Stampin’ Rewards from a qualifying party only. If a customer buys a product at retail price and then it is later discounted, Stampin’ Up! will not refund the difference.

There! That’s enough to get you started I think! You will need your reading glasses or magnifying glass to read the lists! Maybe someone with technical skills will make them better.

Let me know if you have any questions! I haven’t even looked at the list yet! Just wanted to get it up!

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Edited to Add: If it looks like almost all stamp sets are retiring, remember the transition to Cling Stamps! All wood-mount (except Background stamps) and Clear-mount stamps will be replaced with the new Cling Stamps (with the really sticky label!). Here’s a note from Stampin’ Up! plus a list of the Carryover Stamps:

Effective immediately, stamp sets offered in clear-mount or wood-mount in the 2018–2019 annual catalog that are carrying over into the 2019–2020 annual catalog will be offered in clear-mount and/or wood-mount until existing inventory has been depleted or until June 4, 2019 (whichever comes first). If our inventory is depleted, you will be notified of the automatic switch to cling when placing an order for that stamp set. This means that you may end up purchasing select cling stamp sets (in carryover artwork) before they can be ordered from the catalog! All carryover rubber stamp sets will be available in cling medium only (with the exception of background stamps in North America) beginning June 4, 2019.

Carryover Stamps Transitioning to Cling PDF

De-Stress on Tax Day With the Stampin’ Up! Retirement List!

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Today is Tax Day so I hope you got yours done and sent off to the IRS so this afternoon you can de-stress and relax with the Stampin’ Up! Retirement List later this afternoon at 1:00 PM (MT) when it comes out! You can mark off in the catalog what is going away and decide which Stampin’ Up! products you can’t live without.

Over the weekend the Stampin’ Up! event called OnStage was held in Auckland, New Zealand with local events of one day held in scattered cities around the world. Demonstrators received the next new Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog, so you can look online and probably find a picture of the cover! They were also allowed to show photos of some of the new stamp sets, paper, and In Colors coming and the prizes and gifts they received. Any Stampin’ Up! event is a fun thing to attend, I can tell you for sure!

Just be thinking ahead if there are things you fear could sell out when the Retirement List comes out today so you are ready to POUNCE! Who knows, of course, but sometimes the In Color refills and cardstock that are going out are the first things to go. Any accessories with those colors are also susceptible! There are new In Colors coming!

The Retiring List is supposed to be released at 1 PM (Mountain Time) (2:00 pm Central) today so give me some time to check it out and get it posted and then come back to my blog and/or Facebook to find out all about it! Get your work done early so you can de-stress with the Retirement List!

Last Two Days of Sale-A-Bration! Get Your Freebies!

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Hard to believe, but this is the last weekend for Stampin’ Up! Sale-A-Bration! Seems like the holidays just ended, the new Occasions Catalog came out and Sale-A-Bration started! Whether you have already placed your order or not, the deadline is tomorrow night for sure! We all like free stuff and what is better than Stampin’ Up! free stuff during Sale-A-Bration!

Here are some of my favorite projects I made with SAB products!

Tiny Treat Box With So Hoppy Together Frog

Love What You Do Frog Card

Butterfly Gala Card

Free Butterfly Paper During Sale-A-Bration

Butterfly Gala Note Cards

Hello Cupcake Birthday Card

Butterfly Gala Gift Bag

Azaleas and Petal Promenade Designer Paper

Quick and Easy Petal Promenade Floral Card

Country Floral Embossing Folder

Colored Country Floral Embossed Card

Country Floral Embossed and Colored Floral Birthday Card

Those are just a few projects I’ve made during these Sale-A-Bration months! I thought this year had really good products to choose from. Obviously, they were great because several sold out! But we knew it was “while supplies last”. And this year, the supplies did not last!

Be sure to check your Wish List and basic supplies. Maybe you just want to stock up on ink refills, adhesives, new ink pads, cardstock, ribbons, whatever! You can get to $50 easily….and more, for sure! Or splurge on something like the Stamparatus!

You can also order a 3-month Prepaid Paper Pumpkin subscription to get SAB credit, even if you already are on a month-to-month subscription. It will work out!

Go ahead and shop and then choose your free Sale-A-Bration items with every $50 you spend!

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Time Is Short! Sale-A-Bration Ends Soon!

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March 31, 2019 is almost here, so time is short! Sale-A-Bration comes to an end that night and the “free stuff” will be all over! Don’t miss out! Stock up on some basics for your stamping or choose those things you’ve been lusting after in the Stampin’ Up! catalogs. With every $50 you get to choose a FREE Sale-A-Bration item. Upon reaching $100, you can choose two free items OR one $100 category choice…..and so on! No limit! And with a $150 you also get Stampin’ Rewards….and with a $250 order you earn an EXTRA $25 in merchandise (plus Stampin’ Rewards).

If you would like to JOIN Stampin’ Up!, this is the week! Check out the extra benefits PLUS you can choose to get the special Craft Tote Bag along with your Starter Kit.

Here are the Sale-A-Bration choices (as I write this!):

All Adorned Photopolymer Stamp Set
$0.00

Botanical Butterfly Designer Series Paper
$0.00

By The Bay Cling Stamp Set
$0.00

Country Floral Dynamic Textured Impressions Embossing Folder
$0.00

Delightfully Detailed Laser-Cut Specialty Paper
$0.00

Hello Cupcake Photopolymer Stamp Set
$0.00

Home To Roost Cling Stamp Set
$0.00

Lovely Lattice Cling Stamp Set
$0.00

Mini Pizza Boxes
$0.00

Painted Seasons Designer Series Paper
$0.00

Part Of My Story Cling Stamp Set
$0.00

Pearlized Doilies (X2)
$0.00

Petal Promenade Designer Series Paper
$0.00

Rich Razzleberry 1/4″ (6.4 Mm) Velvet Ribbon (X2)
$0.00

Scattered Sequins Dynamic Textured Impressions Embossing Folder
$0.00

Share What You Love Embellishment Kit
$0.00

So Hoppy Together Cling Stamp Set
$0.00

And here are items you may choose with a $100 purchase!

Lasting Lily Photopolymer Stamp Set
$0.00

Tea Time Framelits Dies
$0.00

Painted Seasons Bundle
$0.00

And here is the Craft Tote you can choose if you want to join Stampin’ Up!

Last Month of Sale-A-Bration & New Choices and Products For You!

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Surprise! It’s the last month of Sale-A-Bration and Stampin’ Up! has added some new choices from the Annual Catalog to choose as your FREE product with every $50 purchase! Additionally, Stampin’ Up! has taken apart the Bundle for a $100 purchase from last month of the Painted Seasons Designer Series Paper and the All Adorned Stamp Set and made them each available with a $50 purchase! So if you just have a $50 purchase, you can get just the beautiful paper!

Here are the additional products you may choose as your FREE Sale-A-Bration product.

NOTE: The Sale-A-Bration item codes provided in this flyer must be used in order for the items to be redeemed for the Sale-A-Bration promotion. (click to view)

PLUS: Beginning today, you can PURCHASE these products that coordinate with Sale-A-Bration products! If you would like the framelits that cut out the frogs in the So Hoppy Together Stamp Set, now you can get them! Just click the photo below or the link for the Sale-A-Bration Coordination Page in the Online Store!

Check out these new products and Sale-A-Bration choices in the Stampin’ Up! Online Store today! Available through March 31 or while supplies last.

Botanical Butterfly Thank You Card

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This card was made and sent to me by one of my dearest friends (and the person who got me into this Stampin’ Up! world many years ago!) as a thank you card for the birthday gifts I sent her. The card is made with the beautiful Botanical Butterfly Designer Series Paper. It is available only during Sale-A-Bration with a $50 purchase. Honestly, I am surprised this paper is still available (knock on wood) with many products being so popular and selling out or being backordered.

The interesting thing about this Botanical Butterfly paper is that one side is a colored print, mostly butterflies, but a couple sheets are just a monochromatic floral design. All the other sides are black and white designs of one kind or another. And it is FREE! Some of the butterflies can be punched out with the Butterfly Duet Punch although unfortunately, this punch is backordered right now. Perhaps it will be back in stock in early April.

On this card, made by my friend Jan, she used one of the black and white paper designs of flowers and butterflies and colored in just the butterfly with Stampin’ Blends markers. There is some Wink of Stella glimmer added to the butterfly too, which you “might” be able to notice in the photo of the card now that you know it is there! I just love using the Wink of Stella just for a little jazzing up!

Jan also said in her note that she was having a lot of fun with the new Rectangle Stitched Framelits Dies. On this card, you can see she used two rectangles, one black, and one Calypso Coral to frame the colored butterfly! Then she added a greeting with the Itty Bitty Banners Stamp Set (retired) and Bitty Banners Framelits Dies (retired).

It’s so fun to receive a real card in the mail, especially from a friend I don’t get to see very often. We should all be reminded to send more cards as we make them! #makeacardsendacard And this friend always makes beautiful cards that usually have that simple, elegant look to them!

If you don’t want to miss out on getting this Botanical Butterfly Designer Series Paper FREE during Sale-A-Bration, be sure to put in your Stampin’ Up! order of $50 or more soon! Remember, a couple of new items were added to Sale-A-Bration from which to choose. If you spend $100 or more, you can choose one of the higher value items instead of two $50 items. Your choice! They’re all good! Then get busy and send a beautiful card like this Botanical Butterfly Thank You Card to a special friend of yours!

Sale-A-Bration 2019 2nd Release: 3 New Items To Choose From!

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Beginning today, there are 3 more items to choose from during Sale-A-Bration 2019, the 2nd Release. This is about the halfway point of the great promotion called Sale-A-Bration by Stampin’ Up! With every $50 you spend, you can choose a free Sale-A-Bration product. With a $100 purchase you have a couple of choices for one more valuable item instead of two $50 items.

The new items are a stamp set called All Adorned, a great stamp set to use with the Stamparatus, a new embossing folder called Country Floral, and with a $100 purchase, there is a beautiful choice, the Painted Seasons Bundle. This Bundle comes with the Painted Seasons Stamp Set and the Painted Seasons Designer Series Paper. This is really a beautiful set! And in March you can purchase the coordinating dies separately.

Watch the Stampin’ Up! video to see this Bundle!

Here is a Stampin’ Up! video about the All Adorned Stamp Set and how fun it is to use it with the Stamparatus!

Keep these new releases in mind when you choose your Sale-A-Bration free items with your $50 or $100 or more Stampin’ Up! orders! They are available starting TODAY! If there is something you really want, don’t delay. Sometimes there are backorders!

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Precious Parcel Sale-A-Bration 2019 Card Kit

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Sale-A-Bration is the biggest promotion Stampin’ Up! has during the year and the one that everyone gets the most excited about, because who doesn’t like free stuff like this Precious Parcel Card Kit?! With every $50 you spend on any Stampin’ Up! products, you may choose a FREE Sale-A-Bration item! This promotion goes on through the end of March and a few new SAB items to choose from will be available February 15th.

One of the choices this year in the Sale-A-Bration Brochure is this Precious Parcel Card Kit. It makes eight beautiful cards, four each of two designs. And they are unusual cards with the special card that is inserted in the slot on the front of the card where you can write or stamp a note or greeting plus the card actually opens with plenty of room for a personal greeting.

Everything is included in the kit and adhesive strips are already applied to the inside of the card. I have to say this is probably the easiest card kit I have ever put together and it looks so nice when finished! The only hard part is remembering to tie on the little twine bow through the front holes of the card before adhering the folded portion of the card! But even then I was able to reach inside and insert the twine through those poked holes! And if not, I could have just tied the bow and glued it to the front! The little gold foil accents to look like metal pieces for the corners of the card as so cute. And I love the little clip and stamp that is attached to the inserted card in the “mailbox”. The whole thing is very cute and I loved making these cards!

This Precious Parcel Card Kit has been very popular so if you are planning to order and really want this kit, you might consider getting it soon so that it doesn’t go on backorder just when you want it. This and the Grapefruit Grove and Lovely Lipstick Foil Sheets are both in danger of backorder. Might not happen, but both of these items are really great!

If you would like something where you just sit down and make beautiful cards with no planning, no getting out supplies, then choose this Precious Parcel Kit with your $50 or more purchase during Sale-A-Bration!

SHOP STAMPIN’ UP! DURING SALE-A-BRATION!

Hello Cupcake Birthday Card

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The stamp set to make this Hello Cupcake Birthday Card can be yours FREE during Sale-A-Bration! This is Stampin’ Up!’s biggest promotion of the year since the early days of Stampin’ Up! Usually, a special promotion doesn’t have a history behind it!

Until March 31, just spend $50 on any Stampin’ Up! products and then choose a FREE product in the Sale-A-Bration Brochure! This Hello Cupcake Stamp Set is one of the popular choices! Just think of all the cute cards you could make with this cupcake! I really like the greetings and the font, too.

To make my card I used Blushing Bride Cardstock for the card base. Next is a layer of Whisper White on which I stamped the cupcake. The whole cupcake is actually three pieces….the cupcake wrapper, a bottom piece of the frosting, and the top of the cupcake. I stamped the cupcake wrapper in So Saffron and the frosting in Blushing Bride. I stamped some sprinkles in Melon Mambo and colored them in with a Melon Mambo Stampin’ Write Marker. And to fill up space around the cupcake, I stamped the teeny little flowers in the set.

On the side panel of Blushing Bride, I stamped the greeting three times with Blushing Bride ink using the Stamparatus! When you use the Stamparatus, you can move the stamping plate down one hinge at a time and get perfect placement of the greeting all lined up. After stamping three greetings, there wasn’t enough space for another one so I just stamped three flowers at the bottom. Then there is a small strip of Soft Seafoam Cardstock to match some of the Soft Seafoam stamped flowers!

Just for a finishing touch, I added one of the Frosted Flower Embellishments right over the center stamped flower. And one little Share the Love Artisan Pearl in the center looks perfect.

The Stamparatus would actually be a good thing to purchase during Sale-A-Bration, plus one other item (because the Stamparatus is $49) to easily earn a Free SAB item.

What’s more fun than shopping for things you want to buy and then getting to choose FREE things?!

SHOP STAMPIN’ UP! ONLINE DURING SALE-A-BRATION!

Love What You Do Frog Card

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Do you “love what you do” like this guy on this frog card? When I went to stamp this frog on the unicycle, he looked happy and like he is loving what he is doing! Just like you would love what you do if you became a Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator and became part of the Stampin’ Up! family! Join now during Sale-A-Bration for some special deals!

If you would like to own this fun froggy stamp set, just spend $50 on Stampin’ Up! products (believe me, it’s easy!) and choose this So Hoppy Together Stamp Set from the Sale-A-Bration Brochure! Spend another $50 and choose another free SAB product!

To make this card I used a card base of Garden Green Cardstock layered with a piece of Granny Apple Green Cardstock. The frog is stamped on Whisper White Cardstock with Memento Ink so I could color in with my Stampin’ Blends markers. Just use a couple different greens to color the frog. The butterfly stamp also comes in the set. The greeting, however, is from the Love What You Do Stamp Set. For a little bling, I added some sequins in the Basic Adhesive-Backed Sequins. I’ve been adding sequins a lot lately, but when they already have adhesive on them, they are so easy to use I can hardly help myself!

This is a project I made the other day with another of the frogs in the So Hoppy Together Stamp Set. You can use the frogs to make treats and lots of things!

I also thought this card was appropriate for the New Year! Think about the greeting “love what you do” and make sure you are loving what you are doing….at least some of the time! This Hoppy Frog looks like he is happy and living a fun life, so should we! And if you ever wanted to be a Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator, now is the time, during Sale-A-Bration!

Stampin’ Up! Sale-A-Bration!

Last Day Today! Holiday Catalog & Year-End Closeout Sale!

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Shop the Year-End Closeout! Today is the last day to take advantage of this Stampin’ Up! Year-End Closeout of retiring Holiday Catalog products and some discounted surplus products.