Holiday Mini Catalog Is Available!

Holiday Mini Catalog is available! This is one of the best yet Stampin' Up! has published. I am so excited about some of the new offerings. Stampin' Up! has a new digital software, My Digital Studio, for digital scrapbooking and cardmaking. It will be available for customers for purchase on October 1. If you are a digital scrapbooker, you will now be able to use Stampin' Up!'s images and colors. If not, you can learn this new art. You can have the pages professionally printed.

There will be images for downloading if you currently use another software and future downloads as images are added for the new My Digital Studio software.

Stampin' Up! has also partnered with Build-a-Bear to offering a selection of products. There are dies and stamp sets for Build-a-Bear products.

A new hostess promotion is available. Details are:

Hostess Promotion

Dates: September 1-November 30, 2009
Promotion Details:
We're excited to bring you this sweet deal for hostesses September through November:
Host a workshop totaling $250 or more and choose any one item* from the 2009 Holiday Mini Catalog for only $10! *Offer excludes hostess sets and My Digital Studio.

After My Digital Studio is released, this offer will become even sweeter:
Host a workshop of at least $400 and get My Digital Studio for 50 percent off the retail price (retail price: $79.95; promotional price: $39.97)!

There is something for everyone in this mini. I have included another card using Delightful Decorations from the Holiday Mini. We will be making this one in my upcoming Christmas Stamp Camp in October. Hope you have a wonderful day and happy stampin'!

Holiday Mini Card - Delightful Decorations

I am loving the products in the Holiday Mini Catalog. Starting tomorrow, September 1st you can order from the new mini through January 4, 2010. I will post a link in the side bar to the mini tomorrow. I had the chance to preorder some of the products and am sharing a card I made with a set in the Holiday Mini catalog named Delightful Decorations. The ornament was punched with a new punch named Ornament. How simple and easy to do!

I heat embossed two ornaments using Taken with Teal craft ink and clear embossing powder. I used the new Ornament punch to punch one out. I punched the 1/4 inch circle out of the other. Another ornament was embossed with white embossing powder and punched with a 1 inch circle punch. I layered the ornament together using Stampin' Dimensionals. Using the Stamp-a-ma-jig, I heat embossed the Merry Christmas stamp from Teeny Tiny stamp set using White embossing powder.

So Saffron, Whisper White card stock and Holiday Lounge Designer Series Paper were used. The ribbon is 1/4 inch grosgrain ribbon. On the inside I used the leftover portion from the white embossed ornament and added a 1 inch circle of a

stamp in the set to fill in the center of the ornament. I glued a strip of the Designer Series Paper to the bottom inside. I like decorating the inside. I will add a sentiment later. What do you think? Hope you have a wonderful, creative day.

Stampin Up! Lattice Die and Simple Flower Embosslit

I love Old Olive and adding Chocolate Chip as the neutral color worked perfectly with this card. The Lattice die is cut out of Bermuda Bay card stock, one of the new In Colors. I think Bermuda Bay is my favorite of the new In Colors. I heat embossed the sentiments from Warm Words with Detail White embossing powder. The button is from the Playground Designer Buttons. I tied a little crochet thread through the button. The Chocolate Chip flower brad is from Designer Brads Flower Assortment. Isn't it cute? The sketch for the card came from Stampin' 411 blog. I missed the deadline for uploading this one. :-( Have a wonderful day! Happy Stampin'!

Items Used:
Flower Assortment Brads 112583 $6.95

Playground Designer Buttons 116313 $7.95

Stampin' Up! Simple Flower Embosslit 114514 $11.95

Stampin' Up! Lattice Bigz Die 115958 $21.95

Old Olive Card stock 100702 $5.50

Chocolate Chip Card stock 202128 $5.50

Bermuda Bay Card stock 115317 $5.50

White Embossing Powder 109132 $4.75