Inkredible Stamping with Julie

You're Invited: Christmas Card Stamp a Stack and Hot Chocolate Bar

It's the Most Wonderful Time Class of the Year It’s time for our annual Holiday Card Workshop. The key to Christmas card making is getting started early. And we’ll make sure your stamping time is the hap-happiest of holiday tasks! There’ll be paper for stamping Hot chocolate for drinking And decadent Christmas cookies You'll use a variety of stamps and accessories to create a stack of 15 cards with envelopes, three each of five different designs. We're making one small change this year; You're going to LOVE it. No more table hopping! Stay at one table while you create and... Read more →

A Mini Catalog Kickoff!!

Hi Stampers, Last night I was at the Great Escape Theater in Fenton enjoying Stampin' Up!'s Kick Off event for the Occasions Catalog and Sale-a-bration brochures on the Big Screen!! To all my STL area Blog readers who recognized me and said HI - Thanks so much!!!! I LOVE getting to meet blog readers in person!! And everyone who was over at Steak 'n Shake drooling over the new catalogs along with me - thanks for a FUN after party!!! :) This is the second Big Screen catalog reveal from Stampin' Up! (the First was for the Big Catalog last... Read more →

Seasonally Scattered Thanks

Hi Stampers, The other day I shared my name tag from Unite and Excite with you - today I've got our Make 'n Take card to share with you. We used the Seasonally Scattered stamp set on our make 'n take. I love this set - the images are so complex and beautiful that you can do little more than stamp straight onto paper and you have a WOW card. This card is a great example of this - It's very simpl - a few layers of card stock, the stamped image, and the addition of a few punched flowers... Read more →

Unite and Excite

Hi Stampers, Last weekend I attended a Stampin' Up! Unite and Excite event. This was a demonstrator only event that gave us all an opportunity to network with other demonstrators. It was such a fun afternoon of sharing business tips and ideas! For the event we were asked to create a name tag and show off our creativity a bit. Here's the name tag I created... We decided it would be fun for all of my Create, Ink! team members to create our name tags in the same colors. Our Color scheme was Blackberry Bliss Lost Lagoon Wisteria Wonder Mossy... Read more →

2014 Christmas Stamp a Stack and Hot Chocolate Bar

Hi Stampers, Remember this card from last year's Christmas Card Class?? This fun non-traditional colored card was one of my favorites. In Strawberry Slush and Basic Black it was funky and bright - but switch it up to traditional colors and you'll get an elegant look!! I know Christmas Card Stamp a Stack is everyone's favorite event all year long and by very popular demand we're bringing back the Hot Chocolate Bar for another year! - A whole night of stamping fun, christmas cookies, and build your own hot chocolate flavors!! And this year we're adding a few Gift Card... Read more →

Red Carpet Stamping

Hi Stampers, Yesterday for the very first time ever Stampin' Up! unveiled the new catalog to demonstrators in true Red Carpet Style on the Big Screen!! Before I tell you more - I have to give a big HI!!! out to all the local demonstrators who stopped me to say Hi and let me know they read my blog!! Hi back and THANKS for saying Hi to me - I LOVE meeting my blog readers!! Ok back to the event... We got to go to the Regal Mills theater and watch a live broadcast from Stampin' Up! They gave us... Read more →

The Hot Chocolate Bar 2013

Hi Stampers!! I've been having a bit of internet and computer problems - which are finally all fixed and I'm back online easily!! :) But that means I'm backed up with fun things I want to share with you - so I'm going to try to catch up.... Starting with pictured from this year's Hot Chocolate Bar at my annual Christmas Card Class... This year we were using the Winter Frost Designer Series Paper for our color inspiration so everything is decked out in pretty blues and grays!! I LOVE the way all the colors came together this year!! I... Read more →

How to Make Mixie Sticks

Hi Chocolate Lovers Yesterday I shared pictures from our Christmas Card Class Hot Chocolate Bar and I promised more info on the Mixie Sticks I made to flavor the Hot Chocolate I saw the idea for these Mixie Sticks on Tradewind Tiaras and I immediately added them to my must have on the Hot Chocolate Bar list! The Mixie sticks are made by filling Paper Straws with flavored powders that you can poor into the Hot Chocolate to customize the flavors. The choices are endless but I decided to go with White Chocolate Raspberry – we used Dove Chocolate Discoveries... Read more →

A Hot Chocolate Bar

Hi Stampers, Last weekend was my annual Christmas Card Class – always my favorite event every year – and this year was one of the best ever!!! We wanted to have fun with the refreshments served at the class this year so we decided to keep our tradition of serving Christmas Cookies but add a Hot Chocolate Bar into the mix and it was a BIG hit!! You may have seen some of the pictures if you follow me on Facebook… Here's a few peeks at the fun table set up and waiting for everyone to get there! We had... Read more →

Christmas Card Stamp a Stack!

Hi Stampers, Remember this card from last year's Christmas Card Class?? It was one of my favorites. Clean, Simple, Sparkley! I know Christmas Card Class is everyone's favorite event all year long but this year I wondered... Is there a way we can make it even better??? How about a Christmas Card Workshop with a buffet that includes not only Christmas Cookies but, a Hot Chocolate Bar? And what if we could send everyone home with not just 6 cards but a whole STACK of Christmas cards with envelopes ready for mailing! Well that's what you're getting this year!!!! Our... Read more →