Strawberry Stampers

It's Spooky!

Make your home and Halloween projects spooktacular this year with the Spooky Spider Décor Elements!

^{Decorate your candy jar to thrill the treaters, or adhere it above your door to scare off the tricksters. Whatever you do, you’ll be a Halloween hit! The exclusive Spooky Spider comes in three sizes and two colors and is designed to coordinate with our Ghostly Greetings Designer Series paper and our Chills & Thrills Rub-Ons from the Fall-Winter 2008 Idea Book & Catalog.}

Spooky Spider is just in time to help you get ready for Halloween and is priced low so it won’t break your candy budget. And you can buy it online using my websites "Shop Now" feature!

Black	White	Description	Price
114761	114764	Spooky Spider Décor Elements (S)	$5.95
114762	114765	Spooky Spider Décor Elements (M)	$10.95
114763	114766	Spooky Spider Décor Elements (L)	$14.95

Spooky Spider is a limited time offer, and will no longer be available after October 31, 2008.

View the sales flyer here!

The Holiday Season is Here!

The Holiday Mini Catalog is here! As usual, this year's holiday mini is filled with lots of great products to help you with your holiday card making and gift giving ideas!  there are felt snowflakes, window decals and lots of stamps, paper, ribbon and more!  Take a look and then be sure to order your favorite products through my online store - just click Shop Now to get started!

It's Our Birthday, So Let's Party!

October officially kicks off Stampin' Up!'s 20^th Anniversary and we're ready to celebrate!  We love being part of Stampin' Up! so we're throwing birthday parties all month long to celebrate this significant milestone.  Contact us to find out how you can host one of the following:

• *A Stampin' Up! birthday party complete with cake and balloons. Make invitations and party favors using the promotional stamp sets.
• *A birthday themed stamp camp. Create banners, cards and party favors using our exclusive Big Shot dies from the Holiday mini catalog.
• *A birthday card stamp-a-stack where guests make birthday cards using the promotional stamp sets.

Birthday cards are one of the most popular reasons for sending a card; everyone needs a birthday set (or two!) to be ready for the occasion.  Even if you already own a birthday set or two, we've got a number of brand new birthday sets that you're just going to fall in love with!  Spend $20 in October and get selected birthday sets at 20% off!

Also, while supplies last,  we're also offering a single, large-tip Aqua Painter (item 114617) for $7.25. This product goes great with this promotion as several of our promotional stamp sets are well suited for the watercoloring technique.

Remember you can purchase Stampin' Up! products from us anytime online--day or night.  Visit our website and click the "Shop Now" button in the upper right hand corner.

To take advantage of this promotion, plan a Birthday Party, or learn how to watercolor, contact us at donna@strawberrystampers.com.

View the Sale Flyer here!

One Day Left For Never Before Seen Promotion!

The Never Before Seen Promotion has been a big hit!  You can still take advantage of this great offer through tomorrow, September 30th by placing an order through my Online Store or contacting me at donna@strawberystampers.com.

While it's probably hard to pick your favorite, my favorite and the top seller right now is Upsy Daisy.  Purchase Upsy Daisy or one of the other stamp sets on sale online and receive a set of free hand-stamped cards from me.

View the Never Before Seen flyer here.

Join in World Card Making Day!

It happens every day: you walk to the mailbox, pull out the mail, and shuffle through a stack of ever-present bills and junk mail. But every once in a great while, hiding among the dull and dreary stacks of envelopes, you find something that makes your heart beat a little faster and brings a smile to your face—someone has taken the time to send you a card. What a great feeling!

World Card Making Day on Saturday, October 4th is a holiday to celebrate the creativity and personal connection of handmade cards. Each year, card-making enthusiasts of all skill levels and styles are encouraged to come together on the first Saturday in October to share their creative passion for the art of card making.

In celebration of World Card Making Day on October 4, I am hosting the "Brighten Someone's Day with a Handmade Card" contest.  Join thousands of others in giving someone a happy surprise in the mailbox this season!  To enter just send a handmade card to someone, then email me and tell me about it!  It's that easy!  The contest ends October 15th and the winner will win a free stamp from Stampin' Up!

Never made a card? No problem! As a Stampin’ Up! demonstrator, I am happy to get you started in this immensely fulfilling hobby.    Stampin' Up!'s Simply Sent Card Kits make stamping a snap with precut card stock, stamps, inks and accessories plus detailed instructions to create beautiful cards.  Stampin' Up! also offers Simply Sent Card Elements.  Both Simply Sent product lines are on sale for 20% off October 4-11 (see pages 176-177 of the Fall-Winter Idea Book and Catalog).  You can order online here by clicking the "Shop Now" button on the upper right hand corner of my website or contact me at donna@strawberrystampers.com.

View Wold Cardmaking Day flyer here.

Kip & I at Convention

Here is a picture of Kip and I at Stampin' Up!'s Annual Convention in Salt Lake City, Utah last Saturday.

We drove to Utah early and left late so we would have time to visit with Kip's family near North Ogden.  We stayed with his grandma and had a big family dinner with everybody at his brother's house.

It was really nice to have the opportunity to see family we do not see that often and to also enjoy our vacation together doing something we love...stamping and swapping.

Here are a few projects I made for swapping at convention. 

This is a 5" x 5" mini scrapbook using the new Bella Rose designer series paper.  I used the "Define Your Life" stamp set to decorate the cover and inside pages.  I used the cardboard backing from the designer series paper as the chipboard for the front and back cover.

This is a swap card made with the new "Flight of the Butterfly" stamp set we received free at convention.  The stamp set has 10 different stamps and retails for $31.95.  It is one of 5 free sets we received at convention.  We received 3 at check in, one from UPS, and one as a door prize.

Convention Samples with Big Shot

Here are some pictures Kip took of Shelli's examples at convention usingn the Big Shot.

Speaking of Shelli Gardner, Co-founder of Stampin' Up! and CEO...did you hear she has a brand new blog at www.soshelli.com? 

Stampin' Up! announces another new product!

There's a new big shot in town--the Sizzix Big Shot for Stampin' Up! The Big Shot is a sturdy manual die cutting machine used to die cut materials for use on crafts, home décor projects, and even clothing--it's a big deal! You'll love what the Big Shot machine, a 6-time winner of Creating Keepsakes Reader's Choice Award for best die cutting equipment and dies, can do for you.

Design your own custom pillow appliqués using the Tulipe Bigz die or make custom fabric flowers to embellish a quilt. From sewing to quilting to home décor, the Big Shot is the perfect tool for many types of crafting.  Plus Stampin' Up! has exclusive dies to create die cuts and stencils with their artwork and designs for all your craft needs.

Planning and preparing projects is fast and economical with the Big Shot machine. Cut out eight of the same chipboard letter or 20 scalloped pennants in just a few minutes. You'll be able to cut and score 3-D items in seconds, and the projects will be ready for you to enjoy. Or create embellishments for cards, scrapbook pages, or any other type of project by cutting multiple images at once.

I received mine today and will be demonstrating it this Friday and Saturday at the Marysville Homegrown Festival on Third Street.  You can view the sales flyer here!  Customer orders are accepted starting September 1, 2008.  Contact me today to schdule your workshop where you and your friends can try this cool machine!

Celebrando Creatividad!

I am excited to announce that Stampin' Up! is entering into the Spanish-language market starting August 11, 2008.  With an estimated 44 million Spanish-speaking people currently in the United States, the Spanish-speaking population accounts for 15% of the US population.

The Spanish-language offering will include the same amazing quality of artwork in stamps sets and plenty of samples to excite customers -- all in a beautiful Spanish-language supplement:  Celebrando Creatividad.  The 48-page supplement will showcase Spanish-language stamp sets, Spanish-language hostess sets, and a selection of accessories.

In addition to the Spanish-language supplement, Stampin' Up! is offering business materials including customer order forms, Starter Kit order forms, Independent Demonstrator Agreements, Recruit Brochures, a Spanish-language Customer Web Site, a limited Spanish-language Demonstrator Web Site, contact center support, and many of our Stampin’ Success articles on-line in Spanish.

If you know anyone who enjoys creativity and speaks Spanish as their primary language, please have them contact me to reserve their complimentary copy of Celebrando Creatividad.

Stock up Before They're Gone!

The six current "In Colors" offered by Stampin' Up! (page 163 of the Stampin' Up! Catalog) are about to be gone for good!  These trendy colors introduced last July are available until supplies last or August 10th (whichever is sooner).

In Color products include:  ink pads, re-inkers, card stock, double stitched ribbon, assorted designer series papers and Simply Scrappin' kits.  Here are the In Colors:

Contact me ASAP if you want to stock up on any of these supplies before they are retired forever!