Nutz about Stamping

Sundays with Sizzix

Due to my Superbowl Sunday special, my regular Sundays with Sizzix video tutorial will be posted on Tuesday instead. Check out my special below and don't forget to drop back by on Tuesday! (teaser: my two-part video tutorial will feature a cute container)

Superbowl Sunday Special

Go Colts! Go Saints! Go Stampin' Up!

It's Superbowl Sunday and that is a perfect reason to offer my own Superbowl Sunday Special:

Place an order with me on Superbowl Sunday (either by email or by phone) that is a minimum of $50 in product. Then:

• If the Colts win, I will throw in a FREE Classic ink pad, color of your choice.
  
  
   
  
  

• If the Saints win, I'll throw in a FREE 8 1/2 x 11 pack of single color card stock.

 

Don't forget that with a $50 order you get to pick one FREE Sale-a-Bration product so no matter who wins the Superbowl game, YOU are a winner anyway!

So get your game on and have a SUPERbowl Sunday! Email me at: terri@nutzaboutstamping.com or call (919) 518-0607.

(Offer good only through Terri Walker on Superbowl Sunday and cannot be combined with any other offers)

RemARKable Open House Blog Tour - Day 3

Welcome to Day 3, the final day of our RemARKable Open House Blog Tour! Are you "wowed" by the creativity and imagination of my fellow team members?

Today I have two final photos of my Ronald McDonald House to share with you. Here's a peek inside my Ronald McDonald House looking down from the roof:

 

And here are the other two cards, using the Very Thankful stamp set, that you will make to pop into your house at my Houseful of Cards class:

    

Don't forget to register for my Houseful of Cards class on February 27, 2010 at 3:00 pm. Click here to go to my Calendar of Events and register now. The class includes the HOUSE PDF/Pattern, and an IDEA sheet highlighting 30 different house ideas.(Prepayment must be received by February 17th)

If you are unable to attend on my class date, you may sign up and take the class at my February 20th Crop Night. If you are on my mailing list, you will receive details on how you can participate in this class via mail as well as other class and club options. 

So…. are you ready to move into the Remarkable Stampers neighborhood yet? If so, we would love to have you! Stampin’ UP! has  a great "move-in" special going on right now. If you don't have a Demonstrator you currently work with, feel free to contact me at terri@nutzaboutstamping.com.

Thanks for participating in our RemARKable Open House Blog Tour. I hope you saw lots of GREAT ideas and will pop by to visit with me again soon! Now hop on over to your next stop on the tour.

 

RemARKable Open House Blog Tour - Day 2

Welcome to Day 2 of our RemARKable Open House Blog Tour! You are going to wowed by the creativity and imagination of my fellow team members once again. Each RemARKable on this tour is offering the same class to their customers that includes the HOUSE PDF/Pattern, and an IDEA sheet with a total of 30 house ideas on it. 

As one of my customers, if you have not yet registered for my Houseful of Cards class, it is being held on February 27, 2010 at 3:00 pm. Click here to go to my Calendar of Events and register now. 

If you are unable to attend on my class date, you may sign up and take the class at my February 20th Crop Night. If you are on my mailing list, you will receive details on how you can participate in this class via mail.

     

I thought you might like to see a close-up of the roof:

 

Before I adhered the Whisper White card stock strips, a GREAT use for leftover card stock, I ran the Real Red roof through the Big Shot using the Texturz Plates #4 (#114531) to add some interest to the roof. Isn't it amazing what the Big Shot can do?

Here are two of the cards using the Very Thankful stamp set that you will make to pop into your house at my Houseful of Cards class. The other two cards will be posted tomorrow, so come on back to check them out!

   


So…. are you ready to move into the Remarkable Stampers neighborhood yet? If so, we would love to have you!! We are friendly, supportive of each other, and as you can see very creative and we love to have new people join our community. To find out how you can be a part of our neighborhood, contact your RemARKable Demonstrator on this tour. Stampin’ UP! has  a great ”move-in” special going on right now. If you don't have a Demonstrator you currently work with, feel free to contact me at terri@nutzaboutstamping.com.

See you tomorrow!

 

RemARKable Open House Blog Tour - Ronald McDonald House

Welcome to Day 1 of our three-day RemARKable Open House Blog Tour! You are going to wowed by the creativity and imagination of my fellow team members.

Each RemARKable on this tour is offering the same class to their customers that includes the HOUSE PDF/Pattern, and an IDEA sheet with a total of 30 house ideas on it. As one of my customers if you have not yet registered, my Houseful of Cards class is on February 27th at 3:00 pm. Click here to go to my Calendar of Events and to register for my class. If you are unable to attend watch your email Inbox – customers on my mailing list are receiving details on how to participate in this class via mail.

All of you know my commitment to Ronald McDonald House in Chapel Hill and so when I learned how to make these cute house containers I decided to make one to honor Stampin' Up! as one of the national sponsors of this charity.

Here's the Ronald McDonald House I created:

 

You can't see it very well but I used the Stampin' Up! Backgrounds I texturz plates on the yellow house base - the plate with large polka-dots on it. This is just one idea and if you follow the Blog Tour through each spot you will see other fun ideas for houses.

And here's the best part: you can attend my House of Cards class and learn how to make one of these houses. The class includes four cards with envelopes to pop inside, using the Very Thankful stamp set. Plus, you will take home a complete set of instructions so you can make more houses at home. You have two registration choices: one with the stamp set included (to take home after the class) and one with no stamp set included. (When you purchase the Very Thankful stamp set, Stampin' Up! will donate $2 to Ronald McDonald House Charities)

Here's what the Very Thankful stamp set looks like:

 

Did you know that you can also get the Very Thankful stamp set for FREE with a $50 order? To take advantage of Sale-a-Bration, email me directly at terri@nutzaboutstamping.com.

Come on back tomorrow and Sunday to see the cards you will create at my class! And to register for my House of Cards class, click below.

House of Cards Class

Basic Class fee $20.00 Class with Stamp Set included $38.00

Are you ready to move into the Remarkable Stampers neighborhood yet?  If so, we would love to have you!! We are friendly, supportive of each other, and as you can see very creative and we love to have new people join our community. To find out how you can be a part of our neighborhood, contact your RemARKable Demonstrator on this tour. Stampin’ UP! has  a great ”move-in” special going on right now. If you don't have a Demonstrator you currently work with, feel free to contact me at terri@nutzaboutstamping.com.

 

Love Bandit Card

Today I dusted off my Love Bandit stamp set and created this cute card to mail to one of my customers:

 

I received the Love Bandit stamp set for FREE at the Manager's dinner at Stampin' Up!s Leadership conference in January and hadn't used it yet (gasp). I decided to make a Valentine using Love Bandit but wanted to point out that you could replace the phrase to make it a birthday card, a get well soon card or a friendship card. And do you recognize the designer series paper? Yes, the paper is from the Merry Moments pack, which is Christmas themed but doesn't have to be! Take a second look at your left over designer series paper and create beyond its original purpose. 

Tomorrow is the final day to register for my Be My Valentine class. Don't miss out on making 5 Valentine projects, each with a matching card! Click here to go to my Calendar of Events page where you can register for this fun class.

The next photo I'm going to scrapbook

This past June my son graduated from high school and to honor his hard work over the past 12 years I decided we should celebrate in style. One place in the world that Sam wanted to visit more than any place else was Japan so I set my target on making that happen. I had been saving up travel miles through my credit card program (and thanks to sales from Stampin' Up!) so I cashed them in for two tickets on this dream trip. I wish I could have captured the shock on Sam's face when he opened up his graduation plane ticket gift - a memory I will never forget.

We had a marvelous time and I took over 300 photos of the fabulous places we visited on our two week trip. Here's just one photo I plan to scrapbook: the Golden Temple.

 

I have a few choices when considering the scrapbook I will create: a basic scrapbook using paper, accessories and journaling, a My Digital Studio scrapbook done electronically, or a hybrid scrapbook. (See my February customer newsletter, published today, for an article on hybrid scrapbooking)

Whichever choice I make, I can see this photo featured in the center of a scrapbook page using Chocolate Chip and Old Olive with a touch of So Saffron. We have many Asian style stamp sets in the 2009-2010 Idea Book & Catalog and I can visualize a background using the branch from Embrace Life on page 104:

 

Do you have photos gathering dust and you'd like to learn to scrapbook? Contact me at terri@nutzaboutstampoing.com to learn how. To learn about My Digital Studio, RSVP for my FREE class on Sunday, February 21st at 7:00 pm. To sign up for my customer newsletter, use the "subscribe" button in the top left-hand corner of this blog.

Open House Blog Tour - coming this week!

I am excited to announce that I will be participating in my first Blog Tour, along with some of my teammates in Stampin' Up!

 

The RemARKable Open House Tour begins February 4^th.

And after you participate in this blog tour, you are going to want to make a house of your own! So you are invited to attend a special class featuring a Houseful of Cards for all occasions and the cute house box made with your choice of designer series paper. In addition to making a house box and receiving the pattern you will receive a special PDF with at least 30 house samples on it to inspire you to use your pattern for more fun.

See my Calendar of Events for the class date or schedule a private one-on-one with me.

If you are unable to attend this class contact me for long distance options available only to my personal customers that will include all the supplies to make the house box, the pattern, idea sheet PDF and cards (less greetings).

Join my mailing list today for reminders of this Class, Tour and other great events I have coming up. (Use the sign-up box in the top left-hand corner of this website) Our tour will consist of awesome samples such as a Tool Shed, Garden Shed, Art Studio, Bakery, Victorian home, Dog House and more! I can't wait for you to join our tour beginning February 4th! 

Sundays with Sizzix: Valentine's Petal Card Pocket

Today's project features the Big Shot and the Petal Card die to make a cute Valentine's treat pocket. This project was a huge hit at my Anything but a Card club meeting on Friday night so I decided not only to create a tutorial showing how to make it but also it will be one of the projects at my Be My Valentine Class on Saturday, February 6th.

Here's a close-up photo of the Petal Card pocket:

 

Valentine's Petal Card Pocket

Stamp Set: Short & Sweet #115060

Ink: Real Red Classic ink or marker

Card stock: Pretty in Pink (4 ½ x 2 ¼”, scraps), Real Red (2 ½” square, 5” square), Sending Love designer series paper (4 ½ x 1 ½”)

Accessories: Big Shot, Standard cutting plates, Big Shot Platform, Petal Card die #113467, Scalloped Heart of Hearts Embossing folder #117332, Small Oval punch, Scallop Trim border punch #118402 (FREE with a $50 order), Stampin’ Dimensionals, Sticky Strip, Snail Adhesive, Paper Snips

And now for the video tutorial. Enjoy!

To place an order for the supplies needed to make this cute pocket, or to become a demonstrator on my team, email me at terri@nutzaboutstamping.com. To register for the Be My Valentine class, click here.

Chat and Challenge: Sweet Pea Stitched Felt

I caught the tail end of a Stampin' Up! demonstrator Chat & Challenge this past week and really loved the card I created using the card map we were challenged with. For those of you who are new to my blog, a chat and challenge is an online chat room for Stampin' Up! demonstrators only. One member in the chat room shows us a card map and we chat online in the chat room while we work on creating our own version of a card using that map. It's a fun way to connect with demonstrators around the US and Canada and see what creative ideas we all come up with during the hour we spend in the chat room.

Once the chat time is up, we upload our cards to a demonstrator-only art gallery for other demonstrators, who may have had other commitments during the chat room time, to see. I really love these challenges as I find I can instantly envision what I want to make once I see the card map. And I always love the card I end up creating.

Here's the card map for this week's challenge:

And here's the card I created following the map:

 

Sweet Pea Stitched Felt Birthday Card

Stamp set: Well Scripted

Ink: Chocolate Chip Classic pad

Card stock: Chocolate Chip, Sending Love designer series paper

Accessories: Corner rounder punch, Wide Oval punch, Sweet Pea Stitched Felt, mini glue dots, 1 3/8" Circle punch

It may look like I have three strips of Sending Love designer series paper as layers on the card front, but I actually have two 1/4" strips of Chocolate Chip card stock adhered on top of one large layer of Sending Love paper. It's kind of an optical illusion.

What can you create using this card map? I challenge you to make a card this weekend following the map I used for my chat and challenge. Send me a photo by email as I'd love to see your creation. And don't forget you can order the supplies I used to make this card – contact me at: terri@nutzaboutstamping.com. Long distance orders welcome!

Anything but a Card Club

I am very excited about tonight's club meeting which focuses on projects that are not cards or scrapbook pages. This club gives the members some different ideas for the Stampin' Up! supplies they may have at home but not know how to use them. The club members meet every second month on a Friday evening and each time they meet, one member gets to be the hostess and earn free hostess stamp sets and other products.

Here's one of the projects they will make tonight. (I hope I am not spoiling the surprise!)

 

This super cute heart pocket was made using the Big Shot and the Petal Card die. I also used the Sending Love designer series paper and the Scalloped Heart of Hearts Embosslit die. Wouldn't that make a nice Valentine's candy holder for someone special to you?

To get a demonstration on the Big Shot or to learn about my Anything but a Card Club, please email me at terri@nutzaboutstamping.com.