Crafting with Michele

New Fall Catty

2008-09-10T14:01:00.001-04:00

The new Idea Book & Catalog is HERE!!!

Have you heard the news? The new 2008 Fall/Winter Idea Book & Catalog is here and even though I say it every year, Stampin' Up has DONE IT ONCE AGAIN!!!

This new catalog is SO much more than a catalog! It's full of all new samples & full supply lists, fantastic new sets that come in a variety of styles (and many of them are DIE-CUT - making it SO easy to get started stamping right away!), technique spotlights, brand new In Colors, 5 new punches, all-new accessories.....the list goes on and on! I'm so excited about this catalog and can't wait for you to see it, too!

Do you have your own catalog yet? If not, and you live in the US, and don't already have a demonstrator, I'd love to put a FREE catalog in your hands and be your very own personal demonstrator

Michele Robie 802-433-1328 or email mrobieinvt@netzero.net

If you're local to me, I'd love to do a workshop with you and your friends! It's super easy.....all you need to do is invite your friends and I do the rest! It's a great time out with the girls, everyone gets to make 2 projects and YOU get to earn all new FREE Stampin' Up merchandise! Call or email me today to set a date for your workshop. My calendar is filling up fast!

Click here to download the Catalog Online....

new products

2008-04-16T13:52:00.006-04:00

The New Occasions Mini Catalog is here!

Have you heard the news? The new Occasions Mini Catalog is HERE!

It's full of fun and fresh spring colors, inspiring sets and wonderful samples!

This catalog is only available for a limited time, so make sure that you check it out, make your wish list and place your orders before these items are no longer available!

Click on the link below to view the mini catalog online. Use the magnify and zoom tools above the catalog to get a closer look at all the amazing items in this catalog!

Click here to view the Occasions Mini Catalog online....

Contact me today to place an order 802-839-0596

heres the current catalogs

2008-03-13T09:22:00.000-04:00

UPDATE

2008-03-13T08:47:00.004-04:00

THIS SALE ENDS MONDAY THE 17th.

Sale-a-Bration is in FULL Swing!
It's Sale-A-Bration time again at Stampin' Up! and free product is what it's all about!Every year Stampin' Up! gives customers, hostesses, and new demonstrators the opportunity to earn fantastic, FREE, limited-edition stamp sets they'll enjoy for years to come.
Here's how Sale-A-Bration works:Customers: When you spend $50 on Stampin' Up! merchandise, you'll receive a free Sale-A-Bration reward. There's no limit-for every $50 you spend, you can select another free Sale-A-Bration reward!

I will have my new catalogs at the church for people to look at this weekend. If anyone wants to stop by and make a purchase feel free. Also Stamping up is raising the price of shipping direct in April so now is the time to stock up on paper and other supplies. I can have the order shipped directly to you for $3.95 or 10% which ever is greater. To contact me for more information my number is 802-839-0596.

Feeling Winter Blues, so do a spring theme

2008-02-07T14:50:00.000-05:00

This card I did at a retreat last May, I really liked it. It was not my idea it was one of the shoebox swaps that us demonstrators did. If I knew which one of my buddies came up with it I would surely post their name. I am rather sick of winter and am yearning for green grass and Spring flowers. So I thought I would post a Spring card and I will work on making some of my own designs. It always helps me in the winter to Scrap Spring and Summer pictures and Cards. Its like living vicariously through stamping.

Classes being offfered

2008-01-28T10:19:00.000-05:00

Lets get some valentine projects done. I am offering a class at my house or I can come to you if you have 3 or more people interested. We will make a Mini fridge calendar, a goody bag with a gift tag, and two valentine cards. The cost is $12, below is a sample of a card we will make.
Offering class February 1 at 6:30pm and Thursday the 7th. Please email me if you would like to attend. mrobieinvt@netzero.net

Things I am most excited about with Stampin Up's new Catty

2008-01-04T14:55:00.000-05:00

There are some really nice hostess sets in this catalog, one of them I got as a free christmas gift from the company, see a couple posts down a card I made with it. There are some great RUB ONs, they come as a set of two black and white! All the rub ons I have seen you only get one color. WOOHOO Smart thinking SU!! You can view the catalog by clicking the link below. My Su Website. ENJOY!
Now here is the sets I like. Tell me some your favorite sets with a comment to this post.

The free and the Brave page 33

Crab & Company page 63

Happy Heart Day page 65

Prehistoric Pals page 71

Seriously Sassy page 76

Pretty Amazing page 83

Morning Soft page 99.. (I can not wait to get this set)

Classic Stars (jumbo wheel) page 112

Pretty petals page135

Art by design page 153

NEW GLITTER chunky and fine page 186

NEW Duo Beads, page 192
can't wait to use these with my slide ornaments, new color beads YEAH YEAH!!

Or as Junie B. would say "oh Boy Oh BOY"

Heres a favorite card of mine

2007-12-19T14:53:00.000-05:00

This card I have been making for a couple of years now with this set. I really like it, its simple but elegant. If you like it contact me, mrobieinvt@netzero.net or 433-1328. This set is now retired but I have one set used for sale. I need to get some new sets so will be selling some of the old.

A fun card made with a set sent to me for free!

2007-12-19T14:35:00.001-05:00

This set is going to be a hostess set in the new catalog coming out in January. Stampin up sent it to all their active consultants as a thank you. It is called time well spent. It has a quote in it saying "time spent with friends is time well spent" I can not wait to use it for my scrapbook page of my retreat this past november, its perfect for that.
I got this idea from splitcoast. Using my ever favorite glossy paper and the crayon resist technique with sponging. :0) Cardstock used is tempting turquoise and green galore the same ink color for the sponging also. It is springy kind of card. I like that even though winter is just beginning I can stamp a spring card if I feel like it.

oh here is one more of the 2 more of the ornaments I made to:

Some Christmas Projects I have been working on

2007-12-14T15:32:00.002-05:00

These are slide ornaments, they are pretty easy to make and a lot of fun. Never throw anything away without saying can I use it for a stamping project. I made 5 of the snowman ornaments in an hour and 1/2, start to finish. I didn't think that was too bad.
The snowman and the tree are from my brand new set. I bought it special for these ornaments because the set was cute and everything in it was nice and narrow. Its called Wishing you Cheer, its in the Fall Winter Stampin Up catalog on page 33 for $13.95. There is a nice saying in the set too that I put on the back of the ornaments.

Also I have made these cute little magnet calendars for your fridge. I need to make them more all occasion paper as the same background will be seen for the whole year. So I have to work on that but aren't these cute.

I actually took one of these from my wall hanging decorations that I made above. I am thinking of having a last minute gift making session at my house in case anyone wants to make some of these projects. Please feel free to leave comments. or email me: mrobieinvt@netzero.net

We have a new Catalog coming in January, these sets are retiring to make room for the new

2007-12-03T12:39:00.000-05:00

Say farewell to some fantastic sets!

Have you heard the news?

Stampin' Up just released their list of Retiring Stamp sets!

These sets will be gone as of January 2nd! Never to be available again!

Stampin' Up is making room for the new catalog coming out on January 2nd, so it's time to say goodbye to some of the current sets.

If you've been eyeing some of these sets for a while, NOW is the time to get them. Click here ---> Retiring Stamp Sets to view the list online. SU even has little handy dandy check boxes next to the sets to mark off the sets you want!

Contact me today at mrobieinvt@netzero.net to place your order for these sets before they're gone for good! Order soon to get them for christmas. I take Credit cards. :)

I have been selling a lot of my retired sets lately. I only have 20 left

2007-11-21T10:19:00.001-05:00

heres the list. Anyone wanting one email me directly and we can work out delivery, whether I can ship it to you if I have too. :)

Set Name		Sale
Animal Alphabet		25
Big Blossom		10
Borders Mini		9
Business Memos		15
Flowers of Grattitude		15
Fun Filled		10
Great Shapes		15
Letter Perfect Backgrounds		10
Little Layers Plus		15
mini messages		12
Phrase Starters		10
Phrase Starters II		10
Riveting		15
Smorgasborders		15
So Very		12
Swirl Frame Fun		20
Stippled Stencils		20
Symbols of Salvation		10
The Art of Life		12
Toucan of My Love		15

I also have pictures of them all on my computer if you want to see one of them I can email it to you. :) Thanks a bunch. Michele

2007-11-14T15:58:00.000-05:00

This was my set up for the big retreat. Unfortunately I didn't get to use my cricut machine at all Like I had hoped for but We had a lot of fun. I was sitting in front of this set up with all of the croppers facing each other in a big circle. This is a great space but we are on the hunt for a new location. Too many restrictions in a library. Maybe we will find a hotel that has affordable rates. I am ready to go to a retreat where I am not the hostess also. I never seem to get anything done when I am in charge. We sure did have fun though, there were door prizes, a 100% raffle, great food, fun and laughter through most of the weekend. :) I even got to do a few demos, people were curious about some of the cards I had made. They wanted to see how to put glitter on a page and I showed Pat how to make an ornament with a piece of paper and 2 microscope slides.

A Special for a Special Friend and Her Special Boy!

2007-11-09T09:47:00.000-05:00

Some of you have seen or heard about a scrapbooking video?? Well I found out about it through my upline Erika, she put it on her blog and really helped promote it. Now they want to help her promote a cause special to her. Her son Zach has autism and she has helped design a stamp set for a charity and all kinds of things like that. Well now there is this:

Starting NOW through January 1st, 2008, MockUTV is donating $1 from each copy of this awesome DVD sold towards a charity that is near and dear to my heart: Autism Support Daily

Did you know that one in every 150 children are diagnosed with some form of autism? That's ONE TOO MANY! And did you know that's only the number of children that are actually diagnosed? And did you know that many of these children "fall the through the cracks"? There ARE things that can be done about this and YOU can help!

And get this......you even get FREE shipping on the DVD! Talk about a win-win for everyone! This is the perfect gift for any papercrafter and scrapbooker on your Holiday wish list or even as a treat for yourself....and the best thing is, you're supporting a VERY worthwhile cause!

You can check out a bunch of great links on the MockUTV site:

Inside Scrapbooking's home site
Zach's Page - Zach's bio and lots of great links to sites on autism
Purchase a DVD and help support Autism Support Daily
Preview "Inside Scrapbooking"
Learn about MockUTV
More fun free videos
don't forget Molly's blog I have link to it down below. It cracks me up everytime I read it.

The other card using the Weathered background stamp

2007-11-05T10:35:00.000-05:00

This is one of my favorite cards of all time. I was pretty proud of myself because I came up with this idea all on my own. I used versa mark pad on the weathered background stamp then stamped it on glossy stampin up cardstock, then went over that with the blue frost spectrum pad applying with a rubber brayer. See how the ink resists on the versamarked design.

Then I stamped the image in
black stazon ink. I used a window sheet to stamp the lower image on and flipped it over and rubbed it onto the bottom part of the card. then layered in black and white cardstock.

The stamp set I used for the image is called Summer by the sea.

Paper pack Special

2007-11-02T13:20:00.000-04:00

Paper Party Promotion

November 1--while supplies last

Stock up for all your upcoming projects with Stampin' Up!'s exclusive double-sided Designer Series paper.

We've got so many pretty patterned papers to choose from; you're sure to find the perfect patterns to help you show off your unique crafting style.

Best of all, you'll get a FREE pack of double-sided Designer Series paper ($9.95 value) for every three packs you buy-no limits, no restrictions!

Visit pages 170-173 of the Fall--Winter to view our beautiful double-sided Designer Series paper.

Make sure to mention Paper Party promo code 111878 when you place your order!

Click here to view the color flyer, download new projects and to see paper swatches!

2007-10-29T14:36:00.000-04:00

This is a card I made for my workshop last Monday. It uses vanilla card stock and mellow moss. The background on the card uses the weathered background stamp set with creamy caramel ink. The leaves are embossed in gold glory embossing powder, then i stamped the Thank You on creamy caramel card stock with the same ink color and punched it out using the large word window punch. The set used is called Stem Silhouettes from the mini winter catalog. A link to the catalog is in a few posts back. If you scroll down you will see it. Then next card I show you will be using this same weathered stamp but will look completely different. The two eyelets at the top of the card I put in after as people at the demonstration wanted to see how to do eyelets. I need to get the gold cord now to tie a bow in the two holes, I think that will complete the card nicely.

Look at all you can make with a Simply Scrappin Kit

2007-10-18T10:07:00.000-04:00

No stampin involved just inventive ideas from my upline. I want to teach a class on this and use the Secret Garden Kit. Its really nice, it has a lot of greens and floral stuff. Totally girly which I really like to use when I can seeing how I have a husband and two boys. Don't get to do too many girly scrapbook pages or cards. Erika, my stampin mom, upline inspiration, said in her blog that this kit is her FAVORITE EVER Simply Scrappin' kit and I am tending to agree.

The little pink triangle has hershey kisses in it, well it did untill I decided I needed chocolate. All of the projects above were made with the Winter Bright Simply Scrappin' Kit.

Here is the Card I came up with for the new Snow bursts set

2007-10-12T09:03:00.000-04:00

The snowflakes were smaller than I thought they would be but that was ok, that just meant I could stamp more of them on my card front. I used night of navy for the base and thought people could print up a nice personal christmas greeting on their computer and attach it to the inside you can get 4 on a page and it will fit perfect. Then I used bashful blue for the card front with ballet blue ink for stamping the snowflakes. Then for the accessories, jazz it up a little with white gross grain ribbon, I thought it would be fun to stamp on it and see what that looked like. You can't really see the ballet blue on it but it looks cute in person. Then of course you can't do a snowflake card without dazzling diamond glitter. I used my 2-Way Glue Pen to go over certain parts of the snowflakes that I thought should sparkle and then sprinkled Dazzling Diamonds glitter over them. Remember to tap off the extra and put it back in your glitter containter. Ooh Lala, I love glitter. Then I used my night of navy ink pad to match the base cardstock for the greeting. Adhere it all together and this is what I got.

Special

2007-10-03T09:06:00.001-04:00

Happy October, heres the post about the special I told you that was coming up. Yes Believe it or not it is October and time to start thinking about those Christmas card projects.

Holiday Glitz Promotion!

October 1-while supplies last

Make your holiday cards glitzy this year with a little help from the Holiday Glitz card kit. With our precut card stock and Designer Series paper, festive zigzag ribbon, and Rhinestone brads, spreading handmade holiday cheer has never been this easy!

Each Holiday Glitz card kit makes 15 handmade cards and includes:

Precut card stock and Designer Series paper (15)

Whisper White Envelopes (15)

Rhinestone brads (15)

Real Red zigzag ribbon (15)

Full-color instruction sheet (1)

There are two ways to take advantage of this fantastic kit while supplies last:

Purchase one of holiday stamp sets (below) and get the Holiday Glitz card kit for the special price of $24.95, or

Purchase the Holiday Glitz card kit for $28.95 with no additional purchase required.

Qualifying stamp sets include:

Item	Stamp Set	Price
109234	Snowfall	$23.95
106786	The Snowflake Spot	$20.95
109266	Big on Christmas	$18.95
110359	Love & Joy*	$23.95

I do take Visa and Mastercard now!
Call me or email now with your order. Its only while supplies last!

2007-09-28T12:41:00.000-04:00

OK, here it is the page I promised. So I still didn't journal it yet, but the nitty gritty is last year I had two retreats in a row. This year we are just doing the one at the 2cnd page location. The Library in Northfield, VT. It has great chairs, lighting, tables and a full kitchen that we can use. The first page was at the comfort in and we out grew that spot. We did however rent the VIP room and enjoyed the hot tub. Pretty funny shot of me in my lilac celtics hat. The dates that we were there were November 10th and 11th 2006 and November 17th and 18th. We sure did have a great time, but I would never recommend doing events back to back like that. Thank you everyone who gave me permission to post your picture, Looking forward to this year its almost a month away now!

Fall Frenzy special ending, Free shipping ending tonight at 10 pm

2007-09-27T14:09:00.000-04:00

The Holiday Mini Collection is here!

The Holiday Mini Collection is here and it's FABULOUS!

The new sets and accessories are sure to excite you just like they excite me! And one of the BEST things about ALL of the sets in this Holiday Mini Catalog???

They're ALL die-cut! You don't have to trim a thing! Talk about making the holidays even EASIER!

a technique I would like to do a class on

2007-09-18T13:38:00.000-04:00

This is a fun thing to do with pearl ex. Its a little messy but fun. I have all the pearl ex packs that were retired out of the stampin up catalog this past July. I really need to get using them so I can justify buying them. You need elmers glue, pearl ex and a heat gun. The copper paper goes real nice with this too. I am going to try this technique with some blues and snowflakes for a Christmas card. I hope to post that in a few days. Also I am working on a scrapbook page of my retreat last year. Its almost done. Have journaling and title to do then it will done. Got most everyones permission to post it here. So keep checking back. Feel free to leave comments. :)

New Blog, hoping this one is more user friendly

2007-09-07T11:05:00.000-04:00

Ok, here is a page I completed I wanted to show all of you the wonderful new in color that just came out in July. Its call Wild Wasabi and its our new textured paper. I am going to attach a close up below so you can see how nice the textured looks. You can get a packet of 24, sheets 4 each of our new 6 In Colors. Thats only >50. cents a sheet. To look at all the colors and paper packs available go to my Stampin up website.

http://www.mrobiescrapbooker.stampinup.net/

If anyone needs any inspiration or help getting started scrapbooking or making a card one of my most favorite things of all time is making that first project with someone and watching them get excited. a quote I love to hear is "I can't belive I made that!"
also there is a special going on

Stampin' UP is caught up in a Fall Frenzy!

From Sept. 1 - Sept. 30th, when you spend $30 in regular-priced merchandise, you qualify to purchase ONE OF EACH from six stamps from our Fall/Winter Collection 2007 and the newly released Holiday 2007 Mini Collection at an AWESOME 30% OFF!

These sets were chosen with the coming holidays in mind and conjure up images of crisp falling leaves, warm autumn tones and hot apple cider in front of a fire.

So....what sets are included in this Frenzied Special?

# 105355 Bitty Boos $12.57 (discounted price)
# 109284 Haunting Halloween $13.27 (discounted price)
# 107383 Thoroughly Thankful $16.07 (discounted price)
# 109373 Autumn Fest $16.77 (discounted price)
# 109421 Elementary Essentials $19.57 (discounted price)
# 110366 Stem Silhouettes $22.37 (discounted price

Contact me today. mrobieinvt@netzero.net or my home phone is 802-433-1328

I will be showing more and more posts as I get knee deep into blogging.