Online Extravaganza

Stampin' Up! has done it again!  They're offering some fabulous deals for the upcoming holidays.  Shop November 23-30 in order to save a bundle on paper, stamp sets, and accessories.  Go to my website at: mistykulik.stampinup.net and click on the Shop button link at the top.

Here's a list of all the items that will be available (and the dates):
http://su-media.s3.amazonaws.com/media/Promotions/NA/2015/11_November/Online%20Extravaganza/Online_Extravaganza_Products_US.pdf

There are 2 Flash sales that only last 24 hours each.  One on 11/23/15, and one on 11/30/15.  You won't want to miss those deals!

Happy Stamping!  & Happy Thanksgiving!
Misty

Holiday Mini Preview Class

Christmas is almost here!  Oh, wait, maybe not....  But sometimes it sure feels that way!  I love when the new Holiday Mini catalog from Stampin' Up! comes out, because then I can get started on my fall and winter crafting.  Just looking through the pages of the catalog gives me inspiration and boosts my mood for the coming months.



This year, the catalog runs from September 1, 2015-January 4, 2016.  If you haven't seen a copy yet, head online to: stampinup.net.  Scroll down to the menu at the bottom, and select "catalogs".  Instant gratification.  If you want a copy of your own to hold in your hot little hands, send me an email or give me a call, and I'll get one to you.

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On to the subject of this blog posting: today's class!

Want to see some of the stamp sets, framelits, embossing folders, and more from the new Holiday Mini Catalog before you purchase?  Well, here's your chance!  Tonight, I'm hosting a Holiday Mini Class, where we will make 3 unique projects using products from the new Holiday Mini.  In fact, we'll make these three cards:

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It might be a little hard to tell, but the "spooky" stamp is actually embossed with our Iridescent Ice Embossing powder, and it's just glitterly and lovely.  :)  I got the idea for the Halloween card from Michelle Pollard.  The snowman card was inspired by one made by Kristin Kortonick.  Talented ladies, both!  The last is one of my own design.

Here's a little more information on tonight's class:September 10, 2015 (Thursday) 6-8 PM – Holiday Mini Card Class (Date 1 of 2)
Description: Make 3 unique cards using brand new stamp sets from the 2015 Holiday Mini Catalog.  (Items available to purchase September 1, 2015-January 4, 2016.)  Try before you buy!  You will be taught everything you need to know for this event, so no prior knowledge of card creation is necessary.
Fee: $25 minimum catalog order to make 3 special projects
Bring:

• REQUIRED: Your preferred adhesive (Tombo Liquid Glue is best and may be purchased at catalog price at class.)
• RECOMMENDED:
  • Clear-mount blocks
  • Personal cutter and bone folder
  • Paper snips/scissors
  • A friend new to me and to stamping!

• For every one of the above items you bring to class, you'll get 1 ticket in a raffle drawing to be held during class for a free gift. If you bring a friend new to me and my classes, you get 10 tickets in the pot! Sign up for a workshop equaling at least $150 in sales from August-October 2015, and you'll get another 10 tickets in another drawing to be held at the end of October for a free stamp set!

If you can't make tonight's class, I'll be having another (with the same three cards).  Here's the info on it:
September 15, 2015 (Tuesday) 6-8 PM – Holiday Mini Card Class (Date 2 of 2)
Description: Make 3 unique cards using brand new stamp sets from the 2015 Holiday Mini Catalog.  (Items available to purchase September 1, 2015-January 4, 2016.)  Try before you buy!  You will be taught everything you need to know for this event, so no prior knowledge of card creation is necessary.
Fee: $25 minimum catalog order to make 3 special projects
Bring:

• REQUIRED: Your preferred adhesive (Tombo Liquid Glue is best and may be purchased at catalog price at class.)
• RECOMMENDED:
  • Clear-mount blocks
  • Personal cutter and bone folder
  • Paper snips/scissors
  • A friend new to me and to stamping!

• For every one of the above items you bring to class, you'll get 1 ticket in a raffle drawing to be held during class for a free gift. If you bring a friend new to me and my classes, you get 10 tickets in the pot! Sign up for a workshop equaling at least $150 in sales from August-October 2015, and you'll get another 10 tickets in another drawing to be held at the end of October for a free stamp set!

I just love the new Holiday Mini Catalog, and can't stop playing with the products from it.  Here is what I've managed to make so far, just playing around:


Except for the intricate card in the bottom right corner (inspired by a card Sylvette Harvey made), these are my own creations.  I plan on keeping up the craftiness in the next few days, and hope to have more to share with you.  You'll probably see more of these cards in the some of the blogs of the near future, with some more explanation on products used and how to achieve the same look.  If you can't wait that long, contact me to get a closer picture, and instructions on how to create.

Happy Stamping!
Misty

Paper Pumpkin Special - Through Tomorrow Only!

I've blogged about My Paper Pumpkin before, but there's a great special going on now.  Paper Pumpkin is brought to you by Stampin' Up!, and is a monthly kit program that comes straight to your door with everything you need to make a variety of projects.  The contents are unique; you receive a surprise kit with project that includes cards, journals, decor, and more!  Everything is color-coordinated, measured, and pre cut for you. 

• Each kit includes stamps, ink, paper, and accessories-everything but adhesive.
• Each kit gives you a 30-minute creativity escape.
• We will ship your Paper Pumpkin on or around the 15th of the month. 
• You need to sign up for a kit by the 10th of the month to get that month's kit. If you sign up on the 11th of the month, your first kit will come the next month. (Let's say you sign up on May 10, we'll send your kit around May 15. If you sign up on May 11, we'll send your first kit around June 15.)
• A Paper Pumpkin membership is regularly priced at $19.95 per month (and shipping is included!)  There's no commitment, you can cancel your monthly Paper Pumpkin at anytime. You can also skip a month if you want.

Have you tried Paper Pumpkin in the past, and maybe been a little disappointed?  Stampin' Up! has taken customer suggestions into consideration, and seriously stepped up their game.  Stamp sets are larger, more detailed, and more appealing.  Projects are bigger, better, and more fun to create.  Project kits include easy step-by-step instructions to make that month's design, and there is always more bling and pieces leftover for your own creations.  

Another great feature of subscribing to Paper Pumpkin, is to pre-pay your subscription.  You can do this for yourself, or to actually give as a gift.  Who wouldn't like 1, 3, 6, or even 12 months of creativity in a box arriving at their doorstep?  The gift recipient will be the envy of all of their crafting friends, and you'll go down as being known for your great gift-giving!  

Ok, but I still haven't even touched on what the Paper Pumpkin special ending Thursday, 9/10/15 is.  

Offer Details: Use the code HALFOFF to join Paper Pumpkin before September 10, 2015, and get 50% off the first two months! After that, keep the creativity coming for only $19.95 + tax per month (shipping included). 

What a fabulous deal!  Get creativity in a box for just $10/month for 2 months!  Try it, at no obligation to keep your subsciption active.  What's the worst that can happen?  You get 2 awesome projects, with 2 awesome new stamp sets and ink spots to keep?  I think we'll get you hooked on Paper Pumpkin if you do try it out.  :)  

So, review:

Go to Mypaperpumpkin.com
Click "sign up"
Enter Promo Code of "HALFOFF" where prompted
Enter your shipping information
Don't forget to select me, Misty Kulik, as your demonstrator.  (We can even get together and create our monthly Paper Pumpkin projects together - just let me know you'd like to come over.)
Have fun crafting a neat project

Happy Stamping!
Misty

New Clearance Rack Additions

Stampin' Up! let us know today that they have some new additions to their Clearance Rack.  Clearance Rack items are a great way to stock up on cheap DSP (designer series paper), ribbons, and even retired stamp sets and Big Shot products from your favorite company that you missed when they were available.  I'm always in the market for a good deal, and Stampin' Up!'s Clearance Rack gives me bunches to choose from.  Here are some examples that you can find on the rack, (at least at noon today - 9/8/15!)  



Those are the Birthday Bash Specialty DSP ($5.19 each), the Retro Fresh This & That Journal ($4.39), and the Simply Created Banner Kit ($3.99).  I'm especially excited about the Simply Created Banner Kit.  I'm planning on making lots of banners for each season and holiday to hang around my house.  I might even throw a class to let others join in on the fun with me, if I stock up now.  

There's over 60 items available right now, so everyone is sure to find something on the rack that tickles their fancy.  

Buy from the Clearance Rack by going to my website at mistykulik.stampinup.net.  Click the "shop now" button at the top of the screen to be taken to Stampin' Up!'s store, and then the Clearance Rack off to the left side of the screen.

Happy Bargain Shopping and Stamping!
​Misty

September-October 2015 Classes

I've been more than a little remiss lately on classes and website updates, due to some health concerns I've had for the last year.  I've been feeling some better, and am looking forward to all these crafty classes in the next couple of months.  Hope everyone is doing well, and I get a chance to see and play with some new and old friends alike.  

Contact me for more information, a new Holiday mini catalog (or the 2015-2016 Annual Catalog), to set up a workshop, attend a class, or just for advice and friendship.  Hope everyone is doing well!

Hope you enjoy these cards made from product from the 2015 Holiday Mini Catalog.  I'll be posting more on how to make them in upcoming posts.  



Here is a summary of my classes August-October 2015.  Please feel free to check out my website for more details on each class: mistykulik.stampinup.net
 
 
August 2015:
8/29/15 – Saturday – Multipurpose Card Buffet – 1-4pm - $25 cash or check only
8/30/15 – Sunday – Butterfly Heat Embossing Class –2-4pm - $25 catalog order
 
September 2015:
9/7/15 – Monday (Labor Day) – Wildflower Meadow Class – 1-3pm - $25 catalog order
9/10/15 – Thursday – Holiday Mini Preview Class – 6-8pm - $25 catalog order
9/12/15 – Saturday – Punch Art Class – 2-4pm - $25 catalog order
9/15/15 – Tuesday – Holiday Mini Preview Class – 6-8pm - $25 catalog order
9/18/15 – Friday – Multipurpose Card Buffet – 6-9pm - $25 cash or check only
9/19/15 – Saturday – Christmas Card Buffet – 1-4pm - $25 cash or check only
9/20/15 – Sunday – Play Day/Open House – 1-4pm – FREE!!
9/22/15 – Tuesday – Heat Embossing Class – 6-8pm - $25 catalog order
9/27/15 – Sunday – Christmas Card Buffet – 1-4pm - $25 cash or check only
9/30/15 – Wednesday – Brayer Card Class – 6-8pm - $25 catalog order
 
October 2015:
10/1/15 – Thursday – Punch Art Class – 6-8pm - $25 catalog order
10/6/15 – Tuesday – Butterfly Heat Embossing Class – 6-8pm - $25 catalog order
10/9/15 – Friday – Brayer Card Class – 6-8pm - $25 catalog order
10/10/15 – Saturday – Play Day/Open House – 1-4pm – FREE!!
10/15/15 – Thursday – Halloween 3-D Treat Class – 6-8pm - $25 catalog order
10/16/15 – Friday – Christmas Card Buffet – 6-9pm - $25 cash or check only
10/17/15 – Saturday – Multipurpose Card Buffet – 9AM-12PM - $25 cash or check only
10/18/15 – Sunday – Multipurpose Card Buffet – 1-4pm - $25 cash or check only
10/19/15 – Monday – Halloween 3-D Treat Class – 6-8pm - $25 catalog order
10/21/15 – Wednesday – Wildflower Meadow Class – 6-8pm - $25 catalog order
10/24/15 – Saturday – Christmas Card Buffet – 1-4pm - $25 cash or check only
10/27/15 – Tuesday – Heat Embossing Class – 6-8pm - $25 catalog order
 
I reserve the right to cancel any class with little notice – but I promise to try my best not to do this if you have already RSVP’d.  Please RSVP if you can, via my website (mistykulik.stampinup.net), an email (mistystamping@yahoo.com), a phone call (361.572.3731), or even tell me in person.  Thank you!
 
 
 

 
 

Think you’d like to host a workshop, but don’t want to ready your house for company?  Please consider hosting the party at my home.  You provide light refreshments, and I’ll provide my home, demonstrator duties, and plenty of parking!  This will give me a chance to show your guests more ideas, items, and examples during your party than I would be able to do while traveling.  I live 5 minutes from the intersection of Loop 463 & Main Street, out in Nursery.  Talk to me today about becoming a hostess!

Multipurpose Buffet Card Classes

Ever wondered what one of my Multipurpose Card Buffet Classes might be like?  The picture above shows 4 of the 15 designs that were available for my July card buffet.

At my buffets, I have all the card designs (10-15 different designs at each buffet) lined up on the counter and labeled with a number.  That number coordinates to a plastic shoe box container stacked on my entry table.  You decide how many of each card design you'd like, and YOU make the card(s) yourself.

In each shoebox, you'll find all the pieces you need to make the card you have chosen.  (Don't need any birthday cards, but want 3 sympathy cards? - go ahead - you make 8 cards total in any combination of YOUR choosing.)  I'm on hand during the buffet to help walk you through completing 8 cards in 3 hours.  Don't have enough time to complete all 8 cards?  That's ok.  I have a large selection of cards ready-made in other designs that you can take home to complete your card count at 8.  If you have the opposite problem, and would like to make more cards than the 8 you've paid for, go ahead at a price of $2.50 per additional card.

Card designs remain in my card buffet classes for 1-2 months.  Want to make sure you don't miss out on making a card design you like?  RSVP and come to one of the earlier classes.  Once a box runs out of pre-cut pieces, I won't be making it again.

Payments on card buffets are $25.00, and I currently only accept cash or checks for classes.





The instructions, prices, and options are the same for my Christmas Card Buffets as well.
 
Have any more questions?  Please contact me and we'll talk it through.

Happy Stamping!
Misty

My Paper Pumpkin Offer

You haven't tried My Paper Pumpkin yet?  Well, you're in for a treat!  Sign up at MyPaperPumpkin.com today to get the 1st two kits for half off!

If you haven't tried Paper Pumpkin, now is a great time to sign up--get 50% off your first two months. With a deal like this, you'll want to invite everyone you know to give it a try too!
Offer Dates: July 16, 2014--September 10, 2014
Offer Details: Use the code HALFOFF2 to join Paper Pumpkin before September 10, 2014, and get 50% off the first two months! After that, keep the creativity coming for only $19.95 + tax per month (shipping included).
The Fine Print:

• For new subscribers only.
• Available for month-to-month subscriptions, not prepaid subscriptions.
• Discount applied to one kit per month for the first two months of a new subscription. After the first two months, the price for each month's kit will go to the regular price: $19.95.
• You need to visit MyPaperPumpkin.com to join.
• Enter the Promo Code, "HALFOFF2" when you sign up. 
• New subscribers must join by Wednesday, September 10, 2014; 11:50 PM (MT).

Visit MyPaperPumpkin to learn more about it.  Who can resist a kit mailed directly to your door, once a month, with all the supplies (except for scissors and regular adhesive) included for one low price?  Not me!

Happy Stamping!
Misty