Shoe Box Swap ~ Stampin’ Up

Late last month I was invited to a shoe box swap – never done one before and was not at all sure what I had committed to…….. but it sounded interesting and as it turned out I had a great time.

Each person who joins the swap designs a card and prepares supplies for everyone  ~ 15 in this case! – we then make up the cards and leave with lots of different cards and ideas.  It was fun but making 15 cards in about 2 hours was a challenge!

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Gift Card Holder using Stampin’ Up!’s Mini Treat Bag Thinlit

We were invited to a first birthday party on the weekend before Christmas.  It is very difficult to know what to buy for a one year old, so I wimped out a bought a gift-card ~ I figured his Mum would know exactly what to get and choose something she liked as well 🙂

Rather than simply give the gift-card in the little holder they give you at the store I made a birthday card/holder using the new Mini Treat Bag Thinlit from the new Stampin’ Up! Occasions mini catalog*…………….

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Designer Series Paper ~ Share

This week the first of the my new product shares from the 2014/2015 Stampin’ Up catalog arrived.  There are 10 brand new designs for the year and they are absolutely scrumptious.  Well, I wanted some of everything and so did a lot of my customers.  The most cost effective way to get this is to share between us and so everyone who took part in the share recieved a 12 x 6 piece of each of the 60 different papers available. Continue reading