Today is the start, in my opinion, of the best season of the year.  That’s right!  September 1^st, marks the official release of the "2011 Holiday Mini Catalogue".  Everyone who's ordered from me this year should have received their mini by now.  If you haven't or if you're a brand new customer who needs one, please contact me so you don't miss out.  This 2011 Holiday Mini Catalogue is available from today until January 3rd.

Check out the fun new stamps, paper, fabric and embellishments for Fall, Halloween, Christmas, and even Valentine's Day.  All these great new products will make your card, scrapbooking, home decor and event creations come together beautifully. 

In addition to all the above new products, I’m happy to tell you about an all new Stampin’ Up! Product that you’re going to love.  This Simply Scored tool that lets you “take the chore out of scoring!

 

This exclusive scoring tool has been developed specifically for Stampin' Up!.  The Simply Scored ‘s base fits paper or card stock up to 12" x 12" and features score tracks every 1/8".  No more guess work!  It also features two easy-to-read rulers with inch markings down to 1/8" along the top and left side for perfect scoring. There's even a standard left-to-right ruler, a zero center ruler, a set of three markers and a stylus.  And another great feature is that the bottom of the Simply Scored tool is a non-marking base with non-skid feet so it stays securely on your work space.  And, a little bird told me there's more features to be added to this Simply Scored tool in the future.

So what are you waiting for.  If you haven't already flipped to the new PDF version of the catalogue or looked through your printed version, don't miss out.  Start now.  Simply click here.  And, remember my online shop is available 24/7.  Have fun!!!

Monday Monster Mash Halloween Count Down Blog Hop - Week Three

Today I'm joining in all the fun over at Shirley Pumpkin's blog "Look At My Cute Stuff" for week three of her twelve week Halloween Blog Hop!  What fun!  Shirley is picking a winner from all the entries submitted each week and then at the end of 12 weeks she'll draw a winner who'll receive $25.00 in prizes from the Holiday Mini.  It's not too late to join in.  All the details on how you play along are on Shirley's blog and it's so easy,  so come along and join in the fun too! 

Week Three

For my entry I decided to combine this Shirley's challenge with this week's Mojo Monday Sketch 206 challenge.  I really liked this sketch and chose to do the square one.  Here's what I came up with

I'd decided to use my "Wicked Cool" stamp set for this week's card but couldn't decide how to do the witch.  I had her hat and her legs but what to do with the body?  I thought about this for quite a while and then the "light came on" while I was doing another project using the "Aviary" set.  You guessed it!  I decided to convert one of those fancy bird cages into my witch.  And here's the result.

  I used Tangerine Tango, Old Olive, Concord Crush, Basic Black and Crumb Cake cardstocks.  Concord Crush ink was used for the bird carge and sentiment. The Tangerine Tango was embossed with the Spider Web Embossing folder. 

The witches shoes were stamped in versamark and basic black ink and then heat embossed with clear embossing powder.  The same technique was used on the hat but in Concord Crush and I repeated the embossing to give a little bit more shine to the hat.  I also embossed the sentiment using versamark and Concord Crush inks.  The "bird cage" dress was stamped on a small piece of "Cottage Wall" a retired DSP and a few green rhinestones were added at the neck and bottom of the dress.  The leggings were stamped on and old olive piece of the same DSP.  Dimensionals were used to give some elevation to the hat and the two squares and sentiment. 

  

Hope you enjoyed my "Wicked Cool Witch".  Have a great day!