SU's completely customizable Starter Kit -- A Steal of a Deal!

Just to give you an idea of how much stuff you can get in your $99, completely customizable starter kit, here's what I saw when I opened up my starter kit package:

There's 4 ink pads (Pumpkin Pie, Pretty in Pink, Cherry Cobbler, & Perfect Plum), 2 clear stamp sets (Kindness Matters & Make a Cake, 1 individual wood stamp (Quint-essential Flower), the Labels Collection Framelits die set, 2 sets of buttons, Designer Series Paper (Patio Party), a My Digital Studio digital content disc (part of the Make a Cake promo bundle for when I signed up), and training & business materials. Whew, that's a long list!! I'm pretty sure there was also a Snail adhesive in there, too, somewhere, and maybe some regular Whisper White cardstock. What I DO know is that all of this came to a total value of $124 (plus all the promotional free stuff, which was worth at least $50, for a total of $174), but I only paid $99 for my Starter Kit. Talk about a great deal!

Kindness Matters - and so do good friends

A few weeks ago, my old roommate came over and we spent a couple hours stamping together. This was probably my favorite card that came out of that stamp session, made with what is quickly becoming my current favorite stamp set. It  came together pretty quickly -- so quickly, in fact, that I'm using this as my swap card for a demonstrator meeting this week & making about 20 of them!

Stamps: Kindness Matters
Paper; Old Olive, Very Vanilla, Chocolate Chip
Ink: Pumpkin Pie, Real Red
Embellishments & tools: Pearl Basic Jewels, Square Lattice BigShot texture folder, Labels Collection Framelits die

Welcome!

Welcome! I'm so excited to get (back) into the world of stamping, and I hope that this blog will be a great place for me to share my projects with you and for you to (hopefully) find some inspiration and ideas for your own card-making.

But first, a bit about me:
I started stamping with Stampin' Up! when I was about 13 years old. My mom took me to a workshop hosted by a lady from church, and I LOVED it! I'd been doing some scrapbooking for a few years before that, but these handmade cards were the perfect size for my attention span -- and you get to give them to people and watch their reactions! I was hooked. My parents lovingly supported my habit, and I'd often spend my babysitting pay on stamps, paper, ink, and other fun products.

When I moved away for college, I took a small box of stamps and ink with me to my little dorm, but mostly I left the stamping behind me. I moved out of the dorms and into an apartment; now that I had more space and more time, I wanted my stamps back! I found the Stampin' Up! website and decided right then that I wanted to sign up as a demonstrator -- mostly for the discount.  ;)

So here I am, a Stampin' Up! demonstrator, completely addicted to the products and techniques I've encountered along my journey. This blog will serve as a place for me to share the projects I'm working on and all the great deals SU! has to offer.

Thanks for stopping by. I hope to see you around often!

Made with the (retired) Send Me Soaring set
for my mom.