Just 24 hours until the HOLIDAY EXTRAVAGANZA!!!

NOVEMBER 19-28, 2012

Stay tuned for Stampin Up!'s biggest online sale of the year: 

Online Extravaganza! With discounts up to 50 percent and 24-hour-only doorbusters on Monday and Wednesday, You won't want to miss it!

During these nine days only - November 19-28, 2012; you can get incredible discounts-up to 50 percent off - on some of your favorite products!

To See everything on Sale - view the PDF HERE

WOW Select stamps are 50% off!!!! Some of my Favorites!!

Door Busters: Monday, Nov. 19, midnight - 11:50 PM (MT)

 
181  #125586 Simply Scored Diagonal Plate sale $9.56
186  #113439 Big Shot Die-Cutting Machine sale  $79.96
186  #113474 Big Shot Doctor's Bag sale             $55.96

Door Busters: Wednesday, Nov. 28, midnight - 11:50 PM (MT)

7      #118941 Clear Block Bundle (Blocks A-I) sale $53.56
7      #120279 Clear Block Storage Caddy  sale      $13.56
175  #109127 Stack & Store Caddy sale                $27.96

NOTE: Even though it's called an Online sale ...you can also call (805-404-8183) or email (crazystampinglady@gmail.com) your orders directly to me also.  Orders to sent directly to you should go through my website: www.stampingwithmaureen.stampinup.net just click "Shop Now".  If you order from me orders will be put out on my porch for pick up when ready and will include a small thank you gift.  

If you want to take advantage of the Monday 11/19 or Wednesday 11/28 one-day only Door Buster sales...be sure to contact me by 5pm (pst) those days in order to ensure your order gets placed on time.

Thank you for Shopping with me!!   ~Maureen

Open House Bonus Project

If you brought a friend to my Open House you got to do a BONUS project - here it is ~

Instructions for Bonus Bird Punch Treat Holder

1) Pour about 10 Jr. Mints (or candy of your choice) into open metal container, close and put a small piece of 2-sided tape on each side of container covering seam to help seal. These containers are available many times at the $ stores -but I think I ordered mine online.

2) Wrap ribbon around container starting at one piece of tape and go all around till it meets. Be sure there is enough tape to hold it down, and cut ribbon.

3) Use the rest of the ribbon you have cut off to make a bow and attach it to the place where the ribbon meets with a glue dot. This will hide that seam.

4) Punch a scallop out of Barely Banana cardstock and adhere to top of container with a piece of 2-sided tap.

5) Using Bird punch, punch a Bashful Blue bird and a Certainly Celery branch and wing. Adhere wing and branch to bird with 2-sided tape. Adhere entire bird/branch combo to top of scallop with 2-sided tape at the bottom and 2 dimensionals stacked at the top. This will put the bird at a slight angle so you can see him better from the front of the box.

6) Add a small gem from the Eggscellent Egg kit for the birds eye.

7) Voila! You're done.



Now that you've seen all four of the Open House projects, why don't you try one and send me a picture. I'll post any that I receive.

Open House Project 3

Vintage Flower - here is the 3rd project we made at last week's Open House - it is a simple flower made by punching 4-5 Extra Large Fancy Flowers using the SU Punch. This is similar to a project Shelli showed us at Leadership this year - and it was a hit at the Open House.

Instructions for Vintage Flower Make and Take

1) Tear a page out of an old book that you no longer want. The dollar stores are great for this. (you'll want to be sure the parts you punch do not include any off color words or sayings).

2) Randomly stamp over page any colors or stamp designs you wish. We used - the flourish with Handsome Hunter and the Medallion with Melon Mambo.


3) Punch four to five big flowers out of the printed area that has been stamped.

4) Gently crumple each flower in your hand and reopen it.

5) Sponge with a coordinating color (Melon Mambo) around the edge of each flower.

6) Punch a hole in the center of each flower and feed the corduroy brad of your color and size choice through the holes.

7) Spread out the petals the way you would like them to lay, and make sure prongs of brad are tight.

8) Flower is now ready for you to attach to your own gift, card or scrapbook page.



Stop back tomorrow to see the final project from my Open House.

Open House Project 2

Cute carrot treat holder - we saw a project similar to this that was being swapped at Leadership this year, so we decided to try and duplicate it for a make and take. I think it turned out so cute.

Instructions for Carrot Make and Take

1) Sponge Pumpkin Pie around outside of large Pumpkin Pie scallop made with the Scallop Circle die.

2) Punch 3 scallop ovals from the Old Olive Cardstock scraps, and sponge around each with Old Olive ink.

3) Gently curve large scallop into a cone shape with sponged side on
outside, so sides overlap, attach with a small piece of 2-sided tape and punch a hole for the brad to go through both layers. Put brad through and secure.

4) Attach the three scallop ovals to the large scallop using 2-sided tape as indicated in the picture.

5) Stamp the Happy Easter from the Well Scripted stamp set on a piece of white scrap and punch with the large oval punch.

6) Layer that onto a scrap of Old Olive and punch scallop oval around it.

7) Attach saying to the front of your carrot with 2-sided tape.

8) Put in Easter grass and carrot is now ready to take home and fill with a goodie of your choice.

Customer Appreciation Open House

Well last Sunday was my annual Customer Appreciation Open House. Here is part of the group doing their make and takes.So for the next four days I'll be sharing a project we did for a make and take and the instructions. Hope you like them. Here is the first the Bunny basket tag - this was what I shared in our preview -Instructions for Bunny Gift Tag/Bookmark

1) Using 2-sided tape layer a 2x3 3/4" Close to Cocoa rectangle on the Hugs layer; then layer
a DSP 1 3/4 x 3 1/2" rectangle onto the Close to Cocoa.

2) Punch a whole through all 3 layers (see picture for placement) and attach the
long white ribbon.

3) Stamp the Chocolate Bunny using Chocolate Chip Ink on a Close to Cocoa scrap and cut around him leaving a little border of Close to Cocoa showing.

4) Attach the bunny to the tag using dimensionals.

5) Attach a small bow to the neck of the bunny using a glue dot.

6) It is now ready to be tied on an Easter basket or gift as a gift tag; or used as a bookmark in your favorite book - maybe "Peter Rabbit" :)

Customer Appreciation THIS coming Sunday!!

CUSTOMER APPRECIATION EVENT
1:00 -4:00 PM
SUNDAY, March 14, 2010
Maureen’s Home in Simi Valley (RSVP for address if needed)
Okay - so I'm Cancer FREE - and now I really want to celebration!! It's time to have some FUN!! Come join us for my annual customer appreciation event - open to all customers old, current and potential - so mark your calendar, call a friend to come with you, and RSVP to join us. We'll have some great snacks, make some cute and creative make and takes, have a discontinued stamp and merchandise sale, draw for some great door prizes PLUS more! Come see all Stampin' Ups! great new products - new stamps, new jewelry items, new punches in a new punch design, and our brand new acrylic blocks and stamps. This event is an open house -so feel free to stop by when you can - but be sure to RSVP by March 13th to be sure we have enough food and projects. The FIRST 10 RSVP's get a special gift from me the day of the event. Bring a friend whose not currently my customer, for a chance for each of you to make a BONUS make and take. Hope you can all join me in this celebration!!

Sample of one of the make and takes at my Open House!!

These two events Co-sponsored by:
Stampin’ Up! Manager and Independent Demonstrator – Maureen Rauchfuss
Phone: 805/581-6209 Email: mrauchfuss@aol.com
*************
Stampin’ Up! Sr. Supervisor and Independent Demonstrator - Heidi King
Phone: 805/241-4589 Email: heidi_ids@yahoo.com

LEADERSHIP 2010

Phoenix, Arizona - what a fantastic time!!
Here are Heidi, Toni and myself - shortly after check-in and our first trip to Momento mall (but not the last) We had the greatest time!! I hope anyone reading this will consider joining my TEAM of Crazy Stamping Ladies and next year hopefully you can join us at Leadership! See the cute reusable bags we were able to buy - LOVE them!Later that evening it was time for our Make and Take session - Heidi and Toni are showing off their creations below. The projects were super cute!! and easily reproducible for a Stamp Camp or class -Here are the projects we made a Make and Take - a couple cards, a gift tag, a scrapbook page and a cute little milk carton treat holder. Watch for more on Leadership and the Manager reception coming soon. Thanks for looking.

~ Maureen

Holiday Simply Scrappin' Stamp Camp

Simply Scrappin' Holiday Stamp Camp -
So Everyone - we have three spot still open in our Stamp Camp this Saturday - see the post below for full details. Here are the final three cards we'll be making. Plus we'll have some ideas on how you can use the extra materials still left from your 1/2 kit -such a fun, quick way to make your Holiday cards. We'll be prepping the kits tomorrow night, so please let us know ASAP if you'd like to join us! -Maureen

Stamp Till You Cramp - October 2009

Saturday, October 3 was our Semi Annual Stamp Till You Cramp. It is a joint effort of the Crazy Stampin' Ladies (my downline) and our October event is in celebration of "World Card Making Day". We had such a great day stamping and sharing with our customers and I wanted to share a few of the pictures with you -

Here are some of the group getting settled in to do a project - we actually offered four different project tables, and attendees rotated through and got to all of the projects by the end of the day.
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We also offered two mini classes - one in the AM and one in the PM - here is one of the projects - a small Halloween box made out of our scallop envelopes from the Scallop Envelope die. So cute!






Here is a group of attendees working on a mini class project - Doorprizes - doorprizes - there were enough doorprizes for every attendee to get at least one - some got two and three!!Displays - here is just one of over a dozen displays that were throughout the room to offer our customers ideas and samples to take pictures of.Thank you to attendees - each of us who had customers attending made them each a hand-stamped thank you card as well as a decorated giant candy bar. The demos were able to do the cards and candy bars any way they wanted. Here are the ones I made for my customers attending. Hope they liked them. Here's a close up of one of the candy bars - I thought they turned out so cute.

Finally - here is an adorable "BOO" frame that Julie Williams (one of the CSL's) made for a doorprize donation. We all loved it so much, that the following Saturday for our recap committee meeting she hosted a "BOO" party and we all got to make our own - thanks Julie!!

I'll try and post more pictures soon 0f the rest of our projects - our next STYC is scheduled for March of 2010 - so what for details and plan to join us! -Maureen

Convention - Oh My!!

DON'T FORGET TO CHECK OUT YESTERDAY'S POST FOR A CHANCE AT MY CONVENTION BLOG CANDY GIVE-AWAY.

Hi all from Day 2 at SLC - and I am exhausted - but having so much fun. Today started with mainstage and then lunch with time to check out some of the boards - this is one of the make and takes we get to make tomorrow - I can't wait. Then they announced the new product for Momento Mall - isn't she the cutest?!? She's stampin' Build a Bear. I am not a stuffed animal person, but when they added the little Stampin' Up! apron and the exclusive stamp to her - how could I resist. So this baby is going home with me :)

Finally here's a peek at one of 3-dimensional displays - there are so many talented stampers and sooooo many creative ideas.

Tonight was the awards ceremony - Stampin' Up! is amazingly generous with their top sellers. My downline Kathy and I went over. It was fun seeing who the winners were, but it's now 11 PM here and we need to meet at 6:30 am downstairs for breakfast to get to Convention bright and early. They have a great cook to order breakfast here which is nice and Starbucks is on the way - so I'm good :) For those of you who don't know - I'M ADDICTED TO COFFEE - and love Starbucks. Good things that there are lots of them around. See you all soon!

Hostess Appreciation Event 7/11/09

Hi everyone - yesterday my daughter Heidi (in my downline) and I had our annual Hostess Appreciation Luncheon event. If I had know I was going to try and get my blog off the ground I would have taken more pictures, but I did want to share the two make and take projects they got to make -

This is a 3x3" gift card made with Bella's Bloom. The new Melon Mambo in color worked great with Chocolate Chip and Old Olive - to create this cute little card that Heidi designed. Then I used all the cute jars in Stampin' Up's current catalog as the inspiration to design this little jar (which I purchased at Michael's) using Whisper White, Chocolate Chip and Crushed Curry. It also showcases the Daisy diecut. I love the touch of little butterfly on top - and then we had them fill their jars when completed with yummy chocolates.

We appreciate our hostesses so much and we all had so much fun! Contact me know to book your Stampin' Up! workshop so you can come to our next Hostess Appreciation event. Thanks for stopping by - M