The weekly deals are leaving in a week! They will be replaced by a less frequent, but better promotion named Special Offers. But for this last week, we have SEVENTEEN products at a reduced rate and there are some really good ones in this group.

Here are some of my cards showcasing my favourites of these products. If there’s anything here that you want, just press that Shop Now button, go to the Weekly Deals and go to town. Don’t forget that until the 24th, you can get a package of It’s My Party enamel dots free from me for a $50 order and it puts you well on your way to earning even more freebies – see my customer loyalty program tab.

The acorn punch didn’t draw me originally, I thought it was limited, but I have had loads of fun so far playing with this. Click on the photos to take you to the original card posts.

These caught my eye immediately and I’ve had  a lot of fun with them too.

 This is a really versatile set – here are some of the bags and cards I’ve made

I’m surprised to see this on the Weekly Deals – I’d have thought that everyone would have bought it already. It was on my “must have as soon as possible” list. Not only are the flowers beautiful, the label is a wonderful shape.

 I haven’t had the thick baker’s twine long, but I’ve already used it earlier this month 

So that’s a highlight of 6 of the items on the weekly deals. Don’t forget that these only last until the 18th and get them at a reduced rate whilst you can.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

I mentioned recently that the new catalogue is going to be available soon for demonstrators to take a sneak peek – in fact it’s in just over a week. Then in May we can do a preorder and you can be sure that I’ll be sharing some of the upcoming products with you here. If you want to see them early, it’s easy – just go to the Become a Stampin’ Up! demonstrator tab on the left and sign up. Then you can see everything early too. And get a discount on quality product.

Here are some important dates that you need to be aware of.

To celebrate the third birthday of Paper Pumpkin, next month’s kit will contain an extra stamp set which, since it’s valued at $17 (and the kit with shipping is $19.95) makes it a no brainer to sign up. Tomorrow, the 10th, is the deadline to receive this extra special kit. Just sign up now (when you’ve finished reading this post) whilst you’re thinking about it! If you just want to try a single month and then put your subscription on hold, that’s fine. There’s no obligation.

On the 18th April, the list containing the retiring stamps from the Occasions and 2015-2016 catalogue will be published. At that point, some things will sell out FAST! The most likely items are the 2015-2016 in colors – the card stock and inks will vanish so why not add those into your cart at the same time as the Paper Pumpkin subscription?

The 18th of April is notable for another change too. That is when the weekly deals will stop. Weekly deals were a small number of items put on sale at 20% off to help with excess inventory. Inventory management has improved and this isn’t as necessary now so the weekly deals will be replaced by other offers every few months. BUT what this means to you now is that until the 18th, we have two weeks of deals and there are MORE items on sale than usual. Just click on the Shop Now button over on the left, or the Learn More below to check them out.

So. What do we all need to do today?

1. Click on the Shop Now  button on the left and check out the offerings in the weekly deals
2. Order any of the retiring 2015-2016 in colors items that you need (don’t forget there are some in the clearance rack)
3. Sign up for Paper Pumpkin so that you get next month’s kit (you can also order a prepaid item in the store rather than sign up for a subscription)
4. Use the current Stampin’ Rewards code (RJ6V9VRQ) if your order is under $150. If it’s over, don’t use my code, spend the Stampin’ Rewards yourself. If your order is over $50 (before tax and shipping – Paper Pumpkin counts although only $14.95 of the subscription cost counts since the rest is shipping), I’ll send you It’s My Party enamel dots for free. I can only do this if you don’t mark no contact or I can’t see who you are! This is a special offer from me to my customers.
5. Don’t forget to keep a tally of your order date, order number and product total as you work towards the total of $400 and therefore $40 of free product from me.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Just a reminder that there are three Sale-a-bration products that won’t be available after Monday. There will be three new products (which I’m ordering on Monday!) but the stamp sets Hello, and Sky is the limit and the gorgeous perfectly artistic DSP won’t be available. Here are some of the cards that I’ve made with the retiring products. Click on the pictures to get to the details

So what are you waiting for? Check out the catalogues to the left and $150 will get you the three Sale-a-bration products.

I’m jumping on the bandwagon – I’ve read a number of blogs enumerating their favourite things in the new Occasions catalogue which was released yesterday. I thought I’d try to narrow it down to my top half dozen. I like a challenge – although I’m not going crazy. They aren’t ranked, they are just in the order that they appear in the catalogue.

#1 Birthday Bouquet DSP – $11 for 12 sheets of this paper. I love the watercoloured look and it’s so easy to whip up a quick card when you need one.

#2 Balloon Celebration bundle – $37.25. What can I say? Lots of fun and really versatile.

#3 Rose wonder bundle – $49.25. I think this is going to be the top seller in the catalogue, it creates beautiful cards – especially if you have the big shot die brush ($11) to help get all the pieces out. And if you get it and add the die brush, you can select a free item from the Sale-a-bration catalogue which helps with the price point on this one!

#4 Helping Me Grow – $26 I’ve already watercoloured both of the main images and expect to use this set a lot.

#5 Botanical Gardens Bundles – $51.75 Yes, this is expensive but it’s THREE products bundled together – the dies, stamp set and a pack of coordinating DSP. You could buy these individually but why would you when you can save on a bundle.

#6 Going Places DSP. $8 for 48 sheets of 6″ by 6″ paper. And the designs are beautiful – I especially love the ones that look like they would be at home as the end papers of a hardback book. Also a great buy if you need just a small something to push your total to where you get another Sale-a-bration freebie.

So there you have it – the things that I absolutely had to have from the Occasions catalogue.

Come back tomorrow for my very first card for a design team.

Liz