I have been crazy busy in the past week… with my daughter Lauren’s first communion, Megan’s birthday party, Megan’s figure skating lessons, workshops, classes etc…  Didn’t even have the time to go to the gym! Today, my daughter Megan was going to a girl friend’s birthday party.  Madison turned 10 yesterday.  Happy birthday Madison! While I was looking at my new 2009-2010 stampin’up! catalogue while taking a bath ( the only place where I get a few minutes for myself,  lol, it came to me to create a surprise box for Madison where I could give her a gift card loaded with minutes for her new IPod touch, a picture of her with Megan from last weeks birthday party and more pictures of Madison and her friends.  What better way of giving Madison all these pictures, the Sizzix 3D ball!

The link below will show you just how easy it is to create this 3D ball! (Click on Pop-up ball video below)

I sure will miss this amazing Rockability Specialty designer paper and the 2008-2009 retiring in-colors

All supplies Stampin’ Up!

Cardstock: Basic Black, Whisper White, Ridding hood red, kiwi kiss, rockability specialty designer paper

Ink: ridding hood red, basic black

Accessories: Big Shot, Pop up 3D, scallop oval punch, oval all stamp set in French (En ovale), Dimensionals, Crop a dile, Paper Piercer, Mat Pack,button bouquet, kiwi kiss very vanilla satin ribbon,hemp twine, rubberband

 Picture below Megan (left) and Madison (right)

There is still time to earn all these retiring stamp sets, in colors and accessories by booking a party before June 30th.  Also you will receive extra bonus stampin’money to spend.  Contact me to get full details.  kim@stampingkim.com

Details how easy it is to host a show here

I just love the versatility of Stampinup’s Decor Elements!

I went shopping to one of my favorite stores, HomeSense and found this gorgeous tray.  I also found the hand towels which match our Stampin’up! colors.  I applied the Manhattan Flower decor elements in chocolate and kraft.

 I used Urban Garden patterns designer series papers, chocolate chip grosgrain ribbon, the 1" double-stitched grosgrain ribbon in Baja breeze, flower fusion too to embellish the accessories.  I also used from the occasions mini catalogue baja breeze corduroy buttons, the scallop oval punch and the oval all stamp set in french ( En ovale).  I sure hope that new punch will make it to the new 2009-2010 idea book & catalogue.

You can click here to view the decor elements catalogue.  You can also click HERE to view all of the decor elements on SALE while supplies last!!!  I am placing orders twice a week.  So call me or email me at kim@stampingkim.com

Here’s what you’ve been waiting for…the "Last Chance stamp sets and accessories" list!!!!

PLUS to make it more exciting…some of the accessories are on sale up to 50% off! How cool is that?!

WARNING: The accessories will discontinue DAILY and are while supplies last.  Your best chance to ensure that you get what you want is to shop online.   This way, your order is processed immediately.

(The Last chance stamp sets will be available the entire month though).

Here’s are the downloadable lists of the Last Chance items in pdf format.

CLICK HERE for the list  in Alphabetical Order
CLICK HERE for the list in Page Order
CLICK HERE for the Decor Elements “Last Chance” List

CLICK HERE for the list of accessories on sale

Otherwise you can view the list ‘visually’ on my shopping page.

Voici ce que vous attendiez… LA LISTE dernière chance des estampes et accessoires!!!

En plus, afin que ce soit plus excitant, il y a des accessoires à 50% de rabais!  Super!!!

ATTENTION!!! la liste d’accessoires va changer chaque jour en fonction de l’inventaire.  Les quantités sont limitées.  Donc faites vite, la meilleure façon est de commander en ligne.  Donc de cette façon, la commande est placée immédiatement.

Les estampes de dernière chance sont disponibles tout le mois de juin.

Voici les listes des items disponibles:

CLIQUEZ ICI  pour les décors éléments

CLIQUEZ ICI pour la liste des items qui se retirent en ordre alphabétique

CLIQUEZ ICI  pour la liste des items qui se retirent en ordre numérique

CLIQUEZ ICI pour la liste d’accessoires en vente!!!

Sinon voir mon site pour la liste en magasinant ici

 Summer is fast approching and Stampin Up! has this fabulous promotion just for you!

L’été arrive à grands pas et Stampin up! a une super belle promo juste pour toi!

 copyright image Stampin’up! 2009

Dates : Du 1er au 30 juin 2009

Faites vite et réservez votre date pour accueillir un atelier, la promotion Primes pour hôtesse Plaisir estival comporte deux éléments :

• Les hôtesses qui accueillent un atelier d’une valeur de 330 $ à 524,99 $ recevront un montant additionnel de 25 $ en dollars de marchandise gratuite pour hôtesse. Donc un total de 55$ ou + de marchandises gratuites!
• Les hôtesses qui accueillent un atelier d’une valeur de 525 $ et plus recevront un montant additionnel de 50 $ en dollars de marchandise gratuite pour hôtesse. Un total de 110$ ou +de marchandises gratuites! 

Demandez moi, Stampingkim pour un cadeau BONI additionel pour les 3 premières hôtesses qui réserve une date

Communiquez avec moi dès aujourd’hui pour réserver une date pour un atelier chez toi ou chez moi!

Dates: June 1-30, 2009

Call me today to book your stampin up! party and earn one of the hostess bonus promo.  The Summer Fun Hostess Bonus Promotion has two parts:

• Hostesses who hold a $330-$524.99 workshop will receive an additional $25 in hostess free merchandise dollars. That’s a total of 55$ or + of FREE merchandises!
• Hostesses who hold a $525 or more workshop will receive an additional $50 in hostess free merchandise dollars.  A total of 110$ or + of FREE merchandises!

Ask me for StampingKim’s BONUS gift for the first 3 hostesses that book a show!

 Contact me today to reserve a date to host a party at your house or mine!

I know, I have been posting pages lately but have also been working on cards which I will post soon!  This page is my version of the cover page of our Stampin’Success magazine (May2009).  Stampin’Success is a magazine that Stampin’Up! sends to demonstrators once a month.  In this magazine, there is always a note from Shelli Gardner co-founder of the company, business tips, announcements, new specials, new techniques, featured art projects, product of the month,demonstrator promotions, art contest winners and more… 

For this page, I used the simply scrappin’ kit  2 Sweet, item code 113943. For my title, I used the Naturally Serif and Serif Essentials Alphabets compressed with the big shot.  It was quick and simple because the scrappin’ kits contain 2 sheets of all 4 matching colors, 3 sheets of double faced designer paper x  2 designs, 2 sheets x 3 designs of stickers.  You can create a lot of pages or cards with one single kit.  Speaking of kits…

There is a fabulous Stampin’up! special  at this time.  You can purchase a scrappin’ kit, 1 package of 12×12 textured cardstock, craft ink pad and a stamp set, value of $51.95 for only 99$  Click here to see the special.

Do you want your NEW 2009-2010 Stampin’ Up! Catalog in June!!??  

Guess what.. demonstrators have the opportunity to receive their NEW (July 09) catalog the first week in June!!  It will arrive with the first order we place in June!!  Isn’t that too cool!??

So, if you are not a demonstrator yet, but want that new catalog in your hands in June, I’d love to talk to you about becoming a demonstrator now, so that you can place your FIRST order (at 30% OFF) in June and receive that new catalog in your order!!!!  Super Exciting News, isn’t it!?

CLICK HERE to read the details about signing up for only $99 in May and to read the PERKS of being a demonstrator and a member of my Cupcake cuties group!  There are only 10 days left for this promotion!!!

There will be new "sneak peek" sets available to order on June 1st, too… so it’s a great time to order and get that new catalog too and maybe the new in colors!!!

I was busy stamping all weekend.  Stay tuned because I will be posting this week.  Well I have been cherishing these pictures for a while and was waiting for the right technique to create a page.  Thanks to Patty Bennett, I created a perfect and beautiful rose to match Jordan’s pictures.  The rose was created with the watercolor rose technique which I am going to show my stampers group.  I will also be showing this technique to our Sparkledaisies meeting, leader Marlayne Hardy.  I sure hope to wow them!  By the way, at Josee Smuck’s Inkies meeting, there were a few who asked me where I had these pictures done.  It’s a studio called Magenta Studio , in Montreal

Material used:  shimmery white cardstock, pink pirouette textured cardstock in 12×12, pretty in pink 8.5×11, whisper white textured cardstock, Bella Rose designer paper, vellum cardstock, white pearls from the pretties kit, 2 way glue, dazzling diamonds, whisper white taffeta ribbon,  chipboard, white craft ink, ink refills in pink pirouette and pretty in pink, aquapainter, eyelet border punch and naturally serif letters with my big shot.

WATERCOLORING RE-iNKER TECHNIQUE

Instruction:

1.  Take a piece of shimmery white cardstock

2.  Stamp your image with White Craft ink

3.  Apply clear embossing powder on stamped image

4.  Heat the image with your embossing tool

5.  Spray your entire image with a spritzer bottle filled with water

6.  Use a lid ex.  cool whip lid to apply a dab of reinker of your color choice. ( You can use different colors)

7.  Take your aquapainter and dip it in the dab of reinker.

8.  Touch stamped paper with the aquapainter (the color will spread on the wet stamped image)

9.  You can repeat step 7 and 8 with another color and can go over the image more then once if you want to create more colors ( I used pink pirouette, pretty in pink)

10.  Let your stamped image dry standing up (the extra water will drip down)  It doesn’t really matter because you will cut the image after.  It will take approx. 30 min for your image to dry

Voilà! you are done…

To order some of these products you can contact me or order here click on the shop now button

Here is a page I did for a door prize, it included a class for 6 people, a value of $120 and extra designer paper, ribbon and a stamp set.  Erin, a member of my stampers group had asked for a door prize for the Minto skating club Banquet which is taking place tonight.  To show projects we do in a scrapbooking class, she gave me pictures of her daughter Hannah who will turn 8 this May.  Hannah had attended a skating competition, Scarboro Skate which she one a gold medal.  Congrats Hannah!

In this page I used:  Bravo Burgundy, Pink pirouette cardstock and Bella birds designer paper.  And I used the cardstock vellum which I punched with the eyelet border punch.  It really made it look more feminine.   I also added the 1 1/4 grosgrain ribbon in pink pirouette and attached 3 pink rhinestone brads.  Hannah’s dress was so pretty that I added accessories to complement it.  Also, I just have to say, cannot scrapbook without my bigshot!  I used the decorative accents, the decorative accent #2 and my gogo boots alphabet.

My close up of the decorative accents:  I sponged with the dobbers some bravo burgundy classic ink on the pink pirouette cardstock to create a vintage look.  It turned out great!

This month is a great month to stock up on cardstock,  see special below.  Email me to order your cardstock today.

Buy three packs of DesignerSeries paper—including Specialty Designer Series paper—or 12" x 12" texturedcard stock and get one FREE!

As some of you may know, I have 3 girls.  Every time one of my girls starts school, I have this craving for another little baby.  Jordan will be starting school in the fall and we had to go visit and register her to St-Jean-Baptiste in L’Orignal 2 weeks ago.  With our busy lives my husband would have a heart attack if we were to have another baby!  He is already living with 4 girls in the house + our female dog, Maya.  Therefore, I satisfied my cravings by looking through old pictures.  This picture is of Megan, my oldest daughter who will be turning 9 in June.  On this picture she was only 4 months old and had fallen asleep on her grandmother’s hand.  I used this page for my March stampers group:  The technique was to showcase the new circle scissor plus.

Cardstock:  pacific point, whisper white, summer sun, kiwi kiss, Designer paper:  good morning sunshine, On board so tweet, Pacific point corduroy buttons, 5/8" Striped grosgrain ribbon in kiwi kiss and pacific point.

The chipboard was stained with the close to cocoa, ruby red, more mustard craft ink and kiwi kiss classic ink.  I also used the designer label punch with riding hood red textured cardstock.

I would like to thank Aline Martel for the inspiration of this page and Jo-Ann Pullen to help me figure out how to post my pages.

APRIL SCRAPBOOKING GROUP

This weekend we celebrated Easter at Grandma and Grandpa Assaly’s.  It’s a tradition, every year my mother-in-law  displays numerous Easter baskets for her kids, grandchildren and other family members in the yard.  My daughter Jordan took pleasure running outside in the cold wind.  She found this enormous pink basket, just for her!

Here is a close up of the egg using the oval dies

And this picture is a picture of the butterflie die

In this page I used cardstock:  chocolate chip 12×12, Parisian Breeze designer paper, very vanilla, Vellum cardstock.  BIG SHOT dies:  Beautiful butterflies, Swirly, Ovals, GogoBoots alphabet Set.  Accessories:  Circle Scissor Plus with Glass Mat,Canvas Cuts (just love them) with coordinating rub-ons Fashion Districts, dazzling diamonds, versamark, the new wheel in the occasion mini Egg hunt, clear brads, Kraft taffeta ribbon and eyelet border punch.  I just love to make those vellum cardstock butterflies, adding the dazzling diamonds glitter makes it so pretty.  There’s never enough glitter!

Easter just wouldn’t be the same without treats.  In this month’s class you’ll learn how to make these two cards and three adorable treat boxes – two of which can be used either as card boxes OR as treat boxes!

Date: March 30th
Time: 19:30
Cost: 25$ or if you purchase a Good Egg stamp set P.29 (order#114974 )class is just 15$
Location:  Kim’s Studio

Please email me at kim@stampingkim.com to sign up for this class

Supplies

• Stamps: A Good Egg
• Inks:  Basic Black Classic ink (or Black Staz On), Pretty in Pink, Certainly Celery, So Saffron, Almost Amethyst, Bashful Blue, Tangerine Tango (or Pumpkin Pie) Classic inks.  Optional:  Going Gray, So Saffron, Pretty in Pink, Almost Amethyst Watercolor Wonder Crayons (WWC)
• Paper: Tea Party DP, Whisper White, Pretty in Pink, Certainly Celery, Almost Amethyst, So Saffron CS, Medium Whisper White envelopes, mini square envelopes
• Accessories: Sticky Strip, Snail adhesive, Stampin’ Dimensionals, 2-way glue pen, Dazzling Diamonds glitter, Whisper White Organza ribbon, 1/16” handheld circle punch, 1 ¼” circle punch, 1 3/8’ circle punch, Scallop Circle punch,  wide oval punch, double rectangle punch, Stampin’ Scrub, Stampin’ Mist, paper trimmer & scoring blade, bone folder, Stamp-a-ma-jig, Uni-ball Signo Gel pen, Stamping Sponges, pencil & ruler.