Holiday Mini and Sale-A-Bration Begin Today

August 3, 2021August 3, 2021 | Rhonda Kleiman

Hello! The July-December 2021 Mini Catalog, also known as the Holiday Mini Catalog, is live today! As always, there are so many fabulous new products to choose from for you to begin your fall, Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas crafting projects.

Click Here to View the Holiday Catalog

Please note that these items are not available yet because of continued supply chain delays due to Covid.

156326 – Gingerbread & Peppermint Memories & More Card Pack
156327 – Gingerbread & Peppermint Memories & More Cards & Envelopes
156275 – Gingerbread & Peppermint Suite Collection
156458 – Blackberry Beauty Specialty Designer Series Paper
156278 – Blackberry Beauty Suite Collection

lt is also Sale-A-Bration time! This is the first time ever that Stampin’ Up! is running a second SAB in the same year! Earn FREE products at the $50 or $100 level. There are no limits on how many items you can earn with every $50 you spend on products from the Annual Catalog or Holiday Mini Catalog. Among the products are some fun holiday Designer Series Papers for you to choose from.

Click Here to View the Sale-A-Bration Brochure

Starter Kit Promotion!

Join Stampin’ Up! now through September 30th. You get to select $125 worth of products for only $99 and will also get a FREE bundle from the Holiday Catalog! The kit ships for free. I’d love to have you join my team. Become a happy discount shopper or build a business – the choice is yours! Click here for the benefits of joining Stampin’ Up!

Here is a list of bundles you can select from.

Need a catalog? If you would like a copy of the catalog and don’t currently have a demonstrator, please email me at rhondastamps@verizon.net and I’d be happy to mail it out to you.

Thanks for stopping by today!

The August Paper Pumpkin, Hope Box, was designed by Shelli Gardner, cofounder of Stampin’ Up. The kit includes supplies to make nine cards with coordinating envelopes. The box is specially designed to turn into a Hope Box—a keepsake box full of cherished items to add hope to your life or in the lives of others. Coordinating colors are bright and cheery: Bermuda Bay, Blackberry Bliss, Bumblebee, Melon Mambo, Petal Pink, Pool Party, Poppy Parade. Subscribe now through August 10th. The kit will arrive in your mailbox around the 20th of August. For further information and to subscribe, click here to visit my Paper Pumpkin website.

Place an online order between $50 and $149 and use this host code for July. You will receive a free gift from me the following month. If your order is $150 or more DO NOT use the host code. You will qualify for Stampin’ Rewards.

Artistically Inked Best Wishes

July 29, 2021July 29, 2021 | Rhonda Kleiman

Hello! It’s been over two weeks since my last post. Some of my readers know that I run an information consulting business and I never know when work will come my way, which is what happened shortly after that post! I was also preparing to do a business presentation last week, so had to put my blogging on a short hiatus. With that said, I’ve been busy all month since starting up in-person classes again. It has been great to see my customers once again and to meet a few new customers from 2020 in-person for the first time! I have a bunch of projects that I will be sharing in more upcoming blot posts. Today’s project is another card I made with the beautiful Artistically Inked Suite.

Here is how I made the card.

Card base – cut piece of Polished Pink cardstock at 5 1/2″ x 8 1/2″, score at 4 1/4″, fold and crease with a bone folder.
Cut piece of Pear Pizzazz cardstock at 4″ square. Cut piece of Expressions in Ink Designer Series Paper at 3 7/8″ square and adhere to Pear Pizzazz square.
Cut another piece of Pear Pizzazz cardstock at 3 1/4″ x 4″. Cut piece of Basic White cardstock at 3 1/8″ x 3 7/8″. Stamp the “best wishes” greeting from the Artistically Inked stamp set with Evening Evergreen ink in bottom right corner. Adhere to Pear Pizzazz cardstock.
Stamp all of the floral pieces on Basic White cardstock. Stamp the large flower with Polished Pink ink, stamping off once before stamping onto the cardstock. I found that the color was too intense for my liking without stamping off to tone it down a bit. Use the small stamp with the dots for the center of the flower. Stamp with Pale Papaya ink. Stamp the smaller flower with Pale Papaya ink. Stamp two double leaves and one single leaf with Evening Evergreen ink. Die cut all of the images with the Artistic Dies.

Make the flower collage by first adhering the leaves under the Polished Pink flower with Mini Glue Dots. Adhere the Pale Papaya flower to the Polished Pink flower with liquid glue. Adhere the collage to the greeting piece with Stampin’ Dimensionals.
Cut a 20″ piece of Polished Pink Open Weave ribbon and tie in a bow around the DSP piece. Adhere to card front. Adhere the floral piece over the DSP piece. Embellish with a few Pale Papaya Genial Gems.

Cut piece of Basic White cardstock at 4″ x 5 1/4″. Stamp the small flower grouping in lower left corner with Polished Pink ink, stamping off once before stamping onto cardstock. Stamp the birthday greeting from the Sunny Sentiments stamp set with Tuxedo Black Memento ink. I love the greetings in this stamp set, which can be found on page 38 in the 2021-2022 annual catalog. This has quickly become one of my new “go to” greeting sets! Adhere to inside of card.

Thanks for stopping by today!

The July-December 2021 Mini Catalog and August-September Sale-A-Bration promotion go live in just a few days on Tuesday, August 3rd! Customers that have shopped with me in the last year have already received their catalogs from me. If you do not have a demonstrator and would like copies of the catalogs please contact me and I would be happy to put them in the mail to you.

Product List

Artistically Inked Bundle (English) [155456] $53.00	Artistically Inked Cling Stamp Set [154542] $24.00	Sunny Sentiments Cling Stamp Set (English) [155034] $20.00
Artistic Dies [155371] $35.00	Expressions In Ink 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Specialty Designer Series Paper [155464] $15.00	Polished Pink 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock [155710] $8.75
Pear Pizzazz 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [131201] $8.75	Basic White 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock [159276] $9.75	Polished Pink Classic Stampin' Pad [155712] $7.50
Pale Papaya Classic Stampin' Pad [155670] $7.50	Evening Evergreen Classic Stampin' Pad [155576] $7.50	Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad [132708] $6.00
Polished Pink 3/8" (1 Cm) Open Weave Ribbon [155714] $7.00	Genial Gems [155500] $8.00	Mini Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine [150673] $60.00
Paper Trimmer [152392] $25.00	Bone Folder [102300] $7.00	Stampin' Seal [152813] $8.00
Multipurpose Liquid Glue [110755] $4.00	Stampin' Dimensionals [104430] $4.00	Mini Glue Dots [103683] $5.25

Hand-Penned Fun Fold-Kylie’s Training Blog Hop

July 12, 2021July 12, 2021 | Rhonda Kleiman

Hello! Welcome to Kylie Bertucci’s Demonstrator Training Blog Hop for July. I’m part of a group of Stampin’ Up! demonstrators from around the world that participate in Kylie’s program for building our businesses. The theme for this year is thank you cards that we make as a way to show appreciation to our customers and teams. Please be sure to click on the names in the list at the end of this post to hop around and view the beautiful projects created by so many talented stampers.

Today’s card is a fun fold that features the Hand-Penned Suite. It is one of four cards we will be making in one of my classes this week. The Hand-Penned Designer Series Paper is so soft and pretty and I love the color palette.

Here is how I made the card.

Card base – cut piece of Misty Moonlight cardstock at 4 1/4″ x 11″, score at 5 1/2″, fold and crease with a bone folder. Cut the card front 1″ from the fold line. Cut a 1″ x 4 1/4″ strip from the Misty Moonlight piece that was cut off.
Cut two strips of DSP at 3/4″ x 4″ and adhere to the 1″ Misty Moonlight strips. Cut a piece of Daffodil Delight cardstock at 4″ x 5 1/4″ and adhere to card base.
Cut a piece of Basic White cardstock with the largest die from the Stitched So Sweetly die set.
Stamp two of the floral images from the Hand-Penned Petals stamp set with Tuxedo Black Memento ink on piece of Basic White cardstock. Color the flowers with Stampin’ Blends. I used Mint Macaron dark and light blends for the leaves, Daffodil Delight dark and light blends for the small flower and for the large flower I used Petal Pink dark and light blends and Flirty Flamingo light blend. When finished coloring, cut both flowers out with the coordinating die from the Penned Flowers Dies.

Adhere flowers to the Basic White scalloped piece with liquid glue. Place one flower in one direction and the other flower in the opposite direction, making sure not to put glue on the parts of the flowers that will hang off the edges of the Basic White piece. Leave a space in between the flowers in order to add the greeting.
Stamp the greeting with Tuxedo Black ink on scrap piece of Basic White cardstock and punch out with the Oval Punch or other punch or die that will fit the space. Adhere with Stampin’ Dimensionals.
Adhere top of art piece to bottom edge of the 1″ folded card base. Adhere the other 1″ strip to the bottom of the piece.
Embellish card with three Pale Papaya Genial Gems.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Place an online order between $50 and $149 and use this host code for June. You will receive a free gift from me the following month. If your order is $150 or more DO NOT use the host code. You will qualify for Stampin’ Rewards.

Product List

Hand Penned Petals Bundle (English) [155492] $46.75	Hand Penned Petals Photopolymer Stamp Set [155070] $22.00	Penned Flowers Dies [155557] $30.00
Stitched So Sweetly Dies [151690] $32.00	Double Oval Punch [154242] $18.00	Hand Penned 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Designer Series Paper [155499] $11.50
Misty Moonlight 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [153081] $8.75	Daffodil Delight 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [119683] $8.75	Basic White 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock [159276] $9.75
Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad [132708] $6.00	Mint Macaron Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [154889] $9.00	Daffodil Delight Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [154883] $9.00
Petal Pink Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [154893] $9.00	Flirty Flamingo Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [154884] $9.00	Genial Gems [155500] $8.00
Mini Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine [150673] $60.00	Paper Trimmer [152392] $25.00	Bone Folder [102300] $7.00
Stampin' Seal [152813] $8.00	Multipurpose Liquid Glue [110755] $4.00	Stampin' Dimensionals [104430] $4.00

Fresh Freesia Flowers of Friendship

July 5, 2021July 5, 2021 | Rhonda Kleiman

Hello! I hope you had a wonderful July 4th! It was great to see people out and about and celebrating the holiday this year. I was finally able to hold my first in-person club last Saturday for the first time since February 2020 and it was so nice to see my customers and stamp together! This is one of the cards we made. I love all of the new InColors, however, Fresh Freesia is definitely my most favorite. I paired it with one of the black and white papers from the Pattern Party DSP, which you can earn for free with Stampin’ Rewards.

Here is how I made the card.

Card base – cut a piece of Fresh Freesia cardstock at 4 1/4″ x 11″, score at 5 1/2″, fold and crease with a bone folder.
Cut piece of DSP at 4″ x 5 1/4″. Die cut with the largest Stitched Rectangles dies and adhere to card front.
Cut piece of Basic White cardstock at 3 1/2″ x 4 3/4″ and die cut with the second largest frame die from the Scalloped Contours dies.
Stamp the large floral image from the Flowers of Friendship stamp set with Tuxedo Black Memento ink on the Basic White scalloped piece. Color the flowers with Fresh Freesia and Granny Apple Green Stampin’ Blends. Adhere to card front with Stampin’ Dimensionals.
Cut piece of Basic White cardstock at 3/4″ x 1 3/4″. Stamp greeting with Memento ink. Adhere to floral piece with Stampin’ Dimensionals.
Embellish the floral piece. Tie a bow with the Playful Pets black and white bakers twine and adhere with a glue dot. Adhere three Mint Macaron Genial Gems.

Thanks for stopping by today!

These Designer Series Papers are now on sale at 15% off. Stock up on your favorites!

Beauty of the Earth
Bloom Where You’re Planted
Hand-Penned
In Good Taste
In the Wild
Pansy Petals
Sweet Symmetry
Tidings of Christmas
You’re a Peach

Product List

Flowers Of Friendship Cling Stamp Set [155358] $21.00	Stitched Rectangle Dies [148551] $35.00	Scalloped Contours Dies [155560] $35.00
Fresh Freesia 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock [155613] $8.75	Basic White 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock [159276] $9.75	Pattern Party 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Host Designer Series Paper [155426] $18.00
Fresh Freesia Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [155518] $9.00	Granny Apple Green Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [154885] $9.00	Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad [132708] $6.00
Genial Gems [155500] $8.00	Playful Pets Trim Combo Pack [152466] $7.50	Mini Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine [150673] $60.00
Paper Trimmer [152392] $25.00	Paper Snips [103579] $10.00	Bone Folder [102300] $7.00
Stampin' Seal [152813] $8.00	Mini Glue Dots [103683] $5.25	Stampin' Dimensionals [104430] $4.00

Free Shipping This Thursday!

June 22, 2021June 22, 2021 | Rhonda Kleiman

Stampin’ Up! is offering FREE shipping on Thursday, June 24th for 24 hours on orders of $50 or more before tax. Month-to-month Paper Pumpkin subscriptions are NOT eligible for this offer. Now is a good time to stock up on crafting staples such as Basic White cardstock, color cardstock, inks and adhesives. In addition, time is running out on purchasing Last Chance items from the current January-June Mini Catalog, so if you’ve been holding off till the end, take advantage of this offer.

The following items are now sold out and have been discontinued.

Hearts & Kisses Stamp Set
Kangaroo & Company Stamp Set
Friendly Flamingo Stamp Set
Ice Cream Corner Designer Series Paper
Woodland Wonder Stamp Set
Snail Mail Designer Series Paper
Clever Clasps
Well Suited Designer Series Paper
Ride the Range Stamp Set

Thanks for stopping by today!

Artistically Inked-Kylie’s Training Blog Hop

June 14, 2021June 14, 2021 | Rhonda Kleiman

Hello! Welcome to Kylie Bertucci’s Demonstrator Training Blog Hop for June. I’m part of a group of Stampin’ Up! demonstrators from around the world that participate in Kylie’s program for building our businesses. The theme for this year is thank you cards that we make as a way to show appreciation to our customers and teams. Please be sure to click on the names in the list at the end of this post to hop around and view the beautiful projects created by so many talented stampers.

Today’s project features the stunning Expressions in Ink Suite. The Expressions in Ink Designer Series Paper is unlike anything we’ve ever had before and I couldn’t wait to work with it!

Here is how I made the card.

Card base – cut a piece of Polished Pink cardstock at 5 1/2″ x 8 1/2″, score at 4 1/4″, fold and crease with a bone folder.
Cut a piece of gold foil paper at 3 1/4″ x 4 3/4″. Cut a piece of Expressions in Ink DSP at 3″ x 4 1/2″. Adhere pieces together and adhere to card front.
Stamp the roses as follows: One rose at full strength and one rose stamped off once with Polished Pink ink; one rose at full strength with Magenta Madness ink.
Stamp three single leaf images with Just Jade ink, stamping off once for one of the leaves.
Die cut all stamped images with the coordinating Artistic Dies.
Make the rose collage by first adhering the roses together with liquid glue. Arrange the Just Jade leaves and adhere to flowers with Mini Glue Dots. Select one of the leaves from the Expressions in Ink Ephemera Pack and adhere with Mini Glue Dots.
Adhere entire piece to bottom right corner of the DSP background piece.

Stamp “thanks” greeting with Polished Pink ink on scrap piece of Basic White Cardstock and fussy cut.
Die cut a gold foil label from the Tasteful Labels dies. Adhere the greeting to the label and adhere to card front.
Adhere a few sequins from the Ephemera Pack to the DSP piece.

Cut a piece of Basic White cardstock at 4″ x 5 1/4″. Ink up the rose stamp with Polished Pink ink, stamp off once and stamp in bottom left corner. Ink up the leaf stamp, stamp off once and stamp on the rose. Repeat one more time. Adhere piece to inside of card.

Thanks for stopping by today!

The January-June 2021 Mini Catalog is retiring on June 30th. Many products will be available at reduced prices from 10%-50% off! If you still have items on your wish list, now is the time to shop because these products will only be available while supplies last. Click here to see the retiring list. As of today the following items are no longer available: Hearts & Kisses stamp set; Kangaroo & Company stamp set; Friendly Flamingo stamp set; Ice Cream Corner DSP; Well Suited DSP.

Product List

Expressions In Ink Suite Collection (English) [155459] $75.00	Artistically Inked Bundle (English) [155456] $53.00	Artistically Inked Cling Stamp Set [154542] $24.00
Artistic Dies [155371] $35.00	Tasteful Labels Dies [152886] $31.00	Expressions In Ink 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Specialty Designer Series Paper [155464] $15.00
Expressions In Ink Ephemera Pack [155465] $7.00	Polished Pink 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock [155710] $8.75	Basic White 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock [159276] $9.75
Gold Foil Sheets [132622] $5.00	Polished Pink Classic Stampin' Pad [155712] $7.50	Magenta Madness Classic Stampin' Pad [153117] $7.50
Just Jade Classic Stampin' Pad [153115] $7.50	Mini Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine [150673] $60.00	Paper Trimmer [152392] $25.00
Paper Snips [103579] $10.00	Bone Folder [102300] $7.00	Stampin' Seal [152813] $8.00
Mini Glue Dots [103683] $5.25	Multipurpose Liquid Glue [110755] $4.00

Sweet as a Peach Book Binding Fun Fold Card

June 11, 2021June 11, 2021 | Rhonda Kleiman

Hello! Today’s card features the new You’re A Peach Suite. I love peaches so when I saw this suite it was at the top of my list when I placed my first order from the 2021-2022 Annual Catalog. Some of you might remember the Fruit Stand stamp set and coordinating DSP from 2016, which had a peach as one of the images. I used the peach stamp heavily, but it doesn’t hold a candle to this new stamp set! Lately, I’ve been seeing a bunch of cards using the book binding fun fold so I decided to give it a try. It is very easy to do!

Here is how I made the card.

Card base – cut a piece of Pale Papaya cardstock at 4 1/4″ x 11″. Score at 4 1/4″ and 5 1/2″, fold in half and crease folds with a bone folder. Adhere the hinge on the left side of the card. When you open up the card the inside will now be 4 1/4″ square.
Cut one piece of the You’re A Peach DSP at 4″ square and a contrasting piece at 1″ x 4″ and adhere to card front.
Stamp the large peach image on scrap piece of Basic White cardstsock. To add depth to the color, I used a tip from Patty Bennett. First ink up the stamp with Pale Papaya ink and then sponge Calypso Coral ink onto the stamp with a sponge dauber. Stamp onto cardstock. Stamp leaf image with Pear Pizzazz ink on scrap piece of Basic White cardstock. Cut peach and leaves with coordinating dies from the Peach Dies. Adhere the leaf to the peach with a Mini Glue Dot.
Die cut a circle from Basic White cardstock with the 2 3/8″ Layering Circle Die. Adhere peach to circle with Stampin’ Dimensionals, leaving space for the greeting. Stamp “hello” with Calypso Coral ink. Stamp the small blossoms with Pale Papaya ink.
Die cut a scalloped circle from Calypso Coral cardstock with the 2 1/2″ scalloped Layering Circle Die. Adhere to stamped circle piece. Adhere to card front.

For the inside of the card, cut a piece of Basic White cardstock at 4″ square. Stamp greetings of your choice. I stamped “hope your day is as” with Pale Papaya ink and “as sweet as a peach” with Calypso Coral ink. Stamp small blossoms with Pale Papaya ink in bottom left. Adhere to card.
Cut a piece of Pale Papaya Open Weave Ribbon at 16″ and tie into a knot around the hinged piece.

Thanks for stopping by today!

The January-June 2021 Mini Catalog is retiring on June 30th. Starting tomorrow, June 1st, many products will be available at reduced prices from 10%-50% off! If you still have items on your wish list, now is the time to shop because these products will only be available while supplies last. Click here to see the retiring list.

Product List

Sweet As A Peach Bundle (English) [155823] $36.75	Sweet As A Peach Photopolymer Stamp Set [155050] $18.00	You're A Peach 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Designer Series Paper [155686] $11.50
Peach Dies [155829] $23.00	Layering Circles Dies [151770] $35.00	Pale Papaya 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock [155668] $8.75
Calypso Coral 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [122925] $8.75	Basic White 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock [159276] $9.75	Pale Papaya Classic Stampin' Pad [155670] $7.50
Calypso Coral Classic Stampin' Pad [147101] $7.50	Pear Pizzazz Classic Stampin' Pad [147104] $7.50	Pale Papaya 3/8" (1 Cm) Open Weave Ribbon [155672] $7.00
Mini Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine [150673] $60.00	Paper Trimmer [152392] $25.00	Paper Snips [103579] $10.00
Bone Folder [102300] $7.00	Stampin' Seal [152813] $8.00	Stampin' Dimensionals [104430] $4.00
Mini Glue Dots [103683] $5.25