Retired List Promotion

Dates: April 15-May 31, 2012 (select items available while supplies last)

Details
Hundreds of stamps and accessories from the 2011-2012 catalogs are retiring, and this is your and your customers' chance to get them before they're gone. Many products are only available while supplies last, so be sure to get your orders in early!
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Available April 15 - May 31, 2012 PDF Sortable Excel file

Coming Soon! Available April 25 - May 31, 2012, or while supplies last PDF

Coming Soon! Available April 25 - May 31, 2012, or while supplies last PDF Sortable Excel file

Things to Remember:

Retiring accessories are only available while supplies last.

• The accessories list will be updated each business day by 4:00 PM (MT) with availability information.
• Because these items can go quickly, you may not receive all the items you ordered.  If the item is not available, please indicated a substitute item the original item is no longer available.

To order you can go directly to my online website 24/7 www.laclem.stampinup.net
or email me at ladyl.crafter@gmail.com

Summer Smooches Suite Promotion and Retired List Dates

Summer Smooches Suite Promotion and Retired List Dates



The Summer Smooches Products are full of bright colors, patterns and a darling little Petite Purse Bigz L Die just in time for your spring and summer projects.  I will be posting some Summer Smooches Projects this week.  

http://www.stampinup.com/ECWeb/ItemList.aspx?categoryid=908

RETIRED LISTS DATES
Can you believe that the new catalog is only a couple months away? With the new catalog strategy, the current catalog will end on May 31, and the new catalog will begin on June 1. And with new catalogs always come retiring products!

Here are the dates:

Retired Stamp List will be released on April 15, 2012. - This list will be available through May 31, 2012. 

• Retired Accessories/Décor Elements Lists will be released on April 25, 2012. - These lists will be available through May 31, 2012. Retiring accessories and Décor Elements will only be available while supplies last, so if you see something you want, I encourage you to place your orders early.

Thanks for stopping by and if you have any questions, please leave a comment or send me an email. Summer Smoochees

Paper Crafters Sampler: Easter Blessings

Paper Crafters Sampler: Easter Blessings

Easter Crosses

I had so much fun last night and today making these crosses.  When I viewed the template and sample of the Wedge-Base Cross on Paper Crafters Sampler (designed by Melanie Schulenberg) and saw that there was a free download of the cross template, I knew that I had to make these for Easter gifts to give my family.  Then it dawned on me that my upline was having a group meeting today, so I decided to make one for each member attending the downline meeting.    I have a ton (figuratively speaking) of retired Designer Series Paper that I have been trying to get rid of and thought this was the perfect project for that paper.  The roses are made from current Stampin' UP! cardstock and In Colors. 

I began working on the crosses and roses last night.  I took my samples to our monthly Coffee and Craft Group meeting this morning and the leader fell in love with them.  All four of her children are being baptized tomorrow and she asked if I would make four of them for her and I said that I would.  All in all, I made nine crosses for today's downline meeting, have four to make for our craft group leader, one to make for myself and one for my mother-in-law and one for my oldest daughter,

Each cross has a personality of its own and no two are alike.  I just love the way they all turned out.   If you want the template, hop on over to papercrafterssampler.com and download it to your computer.  Thank you Melanie for sharing your design with others.  This is truly one project that I will repeat.  Also, it was hard to decide which crosses to upload so I uploaded several.

Let me know what you think by leaving me a comment.

When I finish the four for Ms. Catalina, I will share those with you too.

To order supplies to make this project, please go to my Stampin' UP! website to place your order or email me.  Just click on the Bird label above that says "Shop Now" to access my website.

Happy Stampin'
Loretta (ladyl.crafter)

Sharing Family

I spent some time on Sunday with two of my grandchildren for our Palm Sunday Festivities at our church while the third one was away at her first official overnight Girl Scout Camp.  These are the apples of my eyes and keep me going and make life worth living for.

I thought I'd share a few pictures with you.  My granddaughters love to do crafts with me and always make a beeline for my stamping table to see what I happen to be working on.  They love to make cards for their mom and dad and always make a little something extra for me and their other grandma.  Now my grandson, I'm sure his dad would say no way when he gets older because "he's a man's son and will enjoy fishing and hunting."  Watch out Papa...he will be right in there with the girls.  He He.

   

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 Alexis - Charge of the Light Brigade

Brianna - How many eggs did you say?

Dylan 4 mos. naw'n away on the lad

Butterfly Welcome

All week long my brain has been shuffling ideas like a deck of cards to create a card for a shoe box swap that I was preparing for on March 31 with 12 other stampers.  I had so many images and ideas swimming around in my head that they started blending together and by the time Friday came around, I just couldn’t decide what I wanted to do.  When I got home from work, Mr. Brown had delivered my customer orders from my workshop earlier in the week and in that same box, was my order for cardstock that I was running low on.

 Instead of putting the box aside and preparing the evening meal for my hubby and me, I immediately opened up the box and started sorting my customer orders.  Down at the bottom was my packages of cardstock for Old Olive, Tangerine Tango, Rich Razzleberry, Pretty in Pink and Cherry Cobbler.  As I was removing the Old Olive and Tangerine Tango, bingo!  I had just the colors I needed to create my sample card.  I also knew that I wanted to use the scallop oval Bigz die cut and the new Summer Smooches DSP on my card.  Here’s what I came up with:

I feel that the colors blend beautifully, and love how the two stamp sets went together to create this card.

The base card is Old Olive and layered with Tangerine Tango which I embossed using the Stars embossing folder.  The limb is colored with Old Olive marker, the flower petals are outlined in Basic Black and the birdhouse is colored in Early Espresso, then I used Daffodil Delight, Blushing Bride and calypso Coral to color the blossoms.  Inkpads used on the butterflies are:  Calypso coral, Island Indigo and Daffodil Delight.  Welcome is colored with Island Indigo.

 

Stamp Sets:  Butterfly Prints and Up in the Air a hostess set from the Occasions Mini catalog

Cardstock:  Old Olive, Tangerine Tango and Whisper White; DSP:  Summer Smooches DSP
Markers:  Basic Black, Island Indigo Calypso Coral, Early Espresso, Old Olive, Daffodil Delight and Blushing Bride.
Inkpads:  Island Indigo, Calypso Coral and Daffodil Delight
 Bigz Die Cut:  Scallop Oval; Embossing Folder:  Stars
Accessories:  Rhinestones and dimensionals

To order the supplies to creae this card or order 24/7, go www.laclem.stampinup.net.