My Sweet Stampin Spot

Stocking Punch and Clearance Rack

Stampin Up has announced the Stocking Punch will not be carried over to next year's catalog. It's currently featured in the Holiday Mini, so if you haven't purchased it yet you have until January 3 to get it. Don't think that it only makes stockings - think baby socks and stick horses. 

There's also a Clearance Rack Blitz going on! Punches, papers, accessories, so many things! The punch shapes are still current, just the retired body style. Did you love the Birthday Suite? Sew Suite? Valentine collection from last year? It's all there, and more, at a great discount. Also available until Januray 3. Check out the Clearance Rack items in my Online Store. You can also purchase your Stocking Punch or any other Stampin Up product. 

Still wrapping presents?

I know I am! We're spending this weekend with my husband's family and I haven't finished wrapping it all up yet. So a little inspiration for gift tags. 

This tag features Dasher. I {heart} Dasher. He's adorned with a Cheery Cobbler baker's twine bow and Jingle Bell. Dazzling Details adds some bling to his antlers and the snowflake.

The best part about this tag is using my new favorite adhesive - Sizzix Adhesive Sheets. You can make a sticker out of nearly anything. I cut a small amount of Adhesive sheet, adhered Cherry Cobbler cardstock, then punched with the Triple Blossom Punch. Just peel off the backing and stick! You can use this with the Big Shot or many of your punches.  

Supplies: Dasher stamp, Early Espresso in, Early Espresso, Confetti White and CHerry Cobbler cardstocks, Triple Blossom Punch, Scallop Edge Punch, Top Note Die, Big Shot, CropADile, Dazzling Details, Jingle Bells, Cherry Cobbler Baker's Twine, Mini Glue Dots, 

Ornament box

My Bunco groups does an ornament exchange at our December gathering. This year I ordered a very cute personalized glass ornament. It had all of our names engraved on it, plus BUNCO across the center in little ornaments. Everyone loved it. And of course I had to wrap it in an adorable little gift box

The gift box is our Kraft Box available in the Holiday Mini Catalog. It's decorated with some leftover bits of retired Christmas paper, Simply Scrapping die cuts, and ribbon. 

This year's Christmas cards

Christmas is only 10 days away. My daughter asks every morning when she wakes up :) My gifts are bought and wrapped. But my cards. Oh my cards. With the help of my daughter, we got a bunch of cards made over the weekend. She was rockin the Simply Scored! About half of my cards will finally go in the mail tomorrow. I've decided that most of our family members are getting hand delivered cards with the family photo since we'll see them in person before the mail would get there. Hopefully I can get the rest of them in the mail before Christmas is actually here. If not, well, I'm confident our friends will still enjoy the sentiment and photo. 

I really love the Designer Paper from last year, but can't quite remember the name of it. Gorgeous luscious colors though. Dasher is blinged up with a little Dazzling Details on his antlers. The penguin card is cased from another stamper, but I can't remember that either. My brain is muddled in the holiday craziness I suppose. I'm also preoccupied with kids activities and my own - I'm doing physical therapy 3x week for my shoulder. 

Starter Kit Special - 2 days Only

Stampin Up has created a very special promotion just for leadership attendees. That's me!! I'm so excited to be going again this year. I've never been to San Antonio, so I'm really looking forward to it. If you are considering signing up with Stampin' Up, you don't have to wait for Sale-A-Bration to begin to take advantage of the reduced price and extras. To join with this offer, simply go to my website tomorrow or Wednesday at www.kwilliams.stampinup.net and click Join Now.

Over a month before Sale-A-Bration begins, and for two days only, you can offer your new recruits the Sale-A-Bration joining benefit! Yes, you read that right! On December 13-14 only, your new recruits will be eligible for the exclusive Sale-A-Bration recruiting offer, including

• A $125 Starter Kit (standard or Digital+)—$50 off the regular price of $175!
• A FREE package of Designer Series Paper OR a FREE digital download every month in 2012 (excluding January)—a total value of up to $120!

 

It's beginning to look a lot Iike Christmas

A lot of behind the scenes stuff has been happening around here the past couple of weeks. We hosted my family for Thanksgiving - around 20 people. So I spent that entire week cooking and cleaning. It sure did beat traveling though! The next day was my anniversary. We had a lovely family day. The house was clean, we had plenty of leftovers, and gorgeous weather. A really great day. We celebrated with champagne and sparkling grape juice with supper. The kids loved it. 

This week I'm also going to be starting some physical therapy. I have tendonitis in my right shoulder from an injury a few years ago. Hopefully the PT will help me regain the motion and strength I've lost in the arm due to limited movement and pain. I have a few other personal things in the works that are taking up time, so sorry for my lack of attentiveness to my blog. 

So how about a Christmas card? There's only 19 days left you know ;) Have you started shopping? Finished? I like to shop year round, keeping my eye out for sales and shopping when I travel. What I have not done, however, is start my cards <blush> That is on the agenda for this week. We were late getting our family photos done thanks to uncooperative weather, so I didn't want to start the cards until I got those done. 

Supplies: Pennant Parade stamp set, Old Olive and Chocolate Chip ink, Crumb Cake, Whisper White, Cherry Cobbler and Chocolate Chip cardstocks, 2 1/2'' Scallop Circle Punch, Pennant Punch, Dotted Scallop Ribon Chocolate Chip, Stampin Dimensionals, Simple Rhinestones, Sizzix Big Shot, Perfect Polka Dots Embossing folder