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Well, Punxatawney Phil saw his shadow this morning. That means six more weeks of winter.

For those of you who said he would see his shadow and have a tan coupon, you will receive 40% off one in-stock non-consignment item. Cool!

Those with the pink coupon who were ready for Spring, you don’t get the 40% off. How about 20% off one item, instead? In-stock, non-consignment item, of course.

If you don’t have a coupon for today? No worries. I’ve got it covered. 10% Tuesday is today, so all regular priced merchandise is 10% off.

See you soon! And be sure to tell your friends!
Lisa

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Yesterday we presented a pink & white Valentines Day card for our Make & Take. A little bit of border punching, Cuttlebug embossing and of course stamping. Check it out:

Pink Valentines Supplies:
Music of Love by Stampendous
White A2 Note Card & White Card Stock
Tutu Dot by Bo Bunny
Pink Fizz (Lemonade) by BasicGrey
Onyx Black VersaFine
Worn Lipstick Distress Ink, Ink Applictor and Non-Stick Craft Sheet
Border Punch
Pink & White Loop Edge Ribbon
Scissors, Foam Tape, Glue Stick and Brayer

How to:
Stamp Music of Love with VersaFine onto Pink Fizz card stock. Cut out. Round upper two corners of 4×5.25” Tutu Dot card stock. Edge with Worn Lipstick using Ink Applicator. Adhere to front of white note card. Punch bottom edge of 3.75×4” white cards stock with border punch. Emboss in Cuttlebug with Script embossing folder. Adhere ribbon around card stock. Adhere to card. Thread button and attach to ribbon with a glue dot. Stamp Happy Valentines Day with Onyx Black VersaFine. Designed by Shellye Hodges-French.

Shellye tells me that the next Make & Take Monday on Feb. 8 will have a more masculine feel. Just in time to give your Valentine! See you then!

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I just wanted to share with you a little bit of how wonderful my day was yesterday. Yesterday was my 40th birthday. Being my birthday, it’s the one day of the year I can wear my crown in public. Being my 40th, I gave a 40% discount on one item to any one who brought me a hand made birthday card. It was a great day filled with flowers, food, fun gifts and 57 cards!

So many wonderful things! Thank you to everyone who made my birthday wonderful!

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We had a blast yesterday giving folks a choice of celebrating the New Year with a cat, penguin or dog stamp by The Cat’s Pajamas. I heard several people say it was the mention of the colors in my reminding email that got them to come in too. Isn’t color powerful? Just gotta love it!

Now, on to the creations! First up is the sample I designed featuring the cat. Such a dapper dude in his top hat.

Happy New Year! Supplies:
Make Merry by The Cat’s Pajamas
Aqua Denim ColorMates Card Stock
Date Swirl Bazzill Card Stock
Medium Awesome Aqua and Black Card Stock
White A2 Note Card
Tuxedo Black Memento Ink
Curved Rectangles, Lg. Standard Circles and Sm. Pinking Circles Nestabilities & Cuttlebug
Copic Markers: B00, BG0000, BG34, C00, C3, C5, G07, R37, RV00, YR04, 0 Blender
Clear Spica Pen and White Pigment Pen
Clear Bling, 3mm and 5mm
Acrylic Block, Foam Tape, Glue Stick and Brayer

How To:
Edge Date Swirl Card Stock with Tuxedo Black Memento ink. Adhere Aqua Denim strip. Adhere Awesome Aqua Curved Rectangle with about 1/4” off the right edge. Trim off extra. Adhere black Pinked Circle then Date Swirl Circle. Stamp Stars with Tuxedo Black Memento. Accent stars with White Pigment Pen and Clear Spica Pen. Stamp animal image onto white card stock circle with Tuxedo Black Memento. Color with Copic Markers. Mount onto Date Swirl circle. Embellish with clear bling in lower left corner. Stamp greeting inside card.

Now, here’s what Kim Schipporeit did with her dog card:

Fabulous! A dapper dog drinking a cosmopolitan! Kim always makes small changes to the design we put together and it’s always great to see what she does. Thanks for the inspiration!

The penguin? He was camera shy.

Hopefully you can join us for our next Make & Take in 2010! Mon., Jan. 11 we will have a guest artist. Mac McLaughlin will be here working with some more of the new Hero Arts stamps. It’s gonna be good!

In case you can’t wait that long to come in and you need an excuse, today is 10% Tuesday. All regular priced in-stock merchandise is 10% off! You don’t even have to be born before 1955 to get this discount.

Howdy!

I’m sure you think I forgot ya’ll. Nope. Busy, busy, busy! This is a very good thing!
I have a couple of customer creations I want to share with you though.

This fabu Advent calendar was created by Kiki Finlayson of Salem, OR. She used a Karen Foster Design Countdown Calendar and papers by Graphics 45. She added all sorts of Spica glitter pen, but that doesn’t show up too well in the picture. We have two of these calendar blanks down here at the Studio. Perhaps you could get a head start on next year.

This wonderful card was made by Jann Neiers from Idaho. I just love how she embellished the stamped owl image with glitter and even more glitter flourishes. A beautiful card! Thank you Jann!

I wish you all a wonderful Christmas. Stampin’Cat will be closed Thursday and Friday as we spend time with our families and friends. We’ll be back on Saturday at 10am for the start of our Year End Coupon Sale. Don’t have your coupons yet? Get down here today before 6pm and we’ll get you set up!

See ya!

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I couldn’t stand it this time. I just had to have a bit of fun with the Make & Take we did on Monday. I don’t know if I’ll ever see a cat in a turkey get-up and a pilgrim penguin on a Thanksgiving card again, but I sure do like it! The customers liked it too thankfully! It’s a tag that is pulled out of a library card on the front of an A2 note card. Easy but there are more than just a couple of steps.

Give Thanks Supplies:
Gobble it Up stamps by The Cat’s Pajamas
Coffee Brown DoubleMates A2 Note Card
Ivory Card Stock
Autumn Blaze by Creative Imaginations
Library Pockets
Adirondack Dye Inks: Espresso, Rust, Ginger
Tuxedo Black Memento
Copic Markers: C3 Cool Gray 3, R59 Cardinal, Y21 Buttercup Yellow, Y38 Honey, YR04 Chrome Orange
Black and Gold Spica Gel Pens
Corner Rounder and Scallop Oval Punch
Paper Piercer & Pad, Mini Brads
Mustard Grosgrain Ribbon and Stipple Brushes
Ink Sweeper, Scissors, Acrylic Blocks, Glue Stick and Brayer

How To:
Dust Rust, Ginger and Espresso Adirondack ink across Library Pocket. Stamp acorns with Espresso randomly on pocket. Insert oval punch in pocket, center and punch out. Stamp penguin and hat with Black Memento on left side of ivory rectangle. Stamp Give Thanks with Rust Adirondack on right. Stamp swirl with Espresso Adirondack on edges to frame design. Edge with Ink Sweeper using Rust Adirondack. Adhere to front of pocket. Insert ivory tag in pocket and mark lightly with pencil the outer edges of oval. Remove tag and stamp the cat with his face within the pencil marks. Erase pencil. Sponge Rust on tag. Tear Autumn Blaze, edge with Rust and adhere to bottom of tag. Stamp Gobble twice with Rust and Acorns twice with Espresso. Color with Copics and accent with Spica. Attach ribbon with a brad. Designed by Lisa Taylor.

Hope to see you for our next Make & Take on Mon., Dec. 14!

I am so thankful for all my wonderful customers and friends. We’ve have a good time so far! Come down and get some cake and some really great deals!

Howdy!

This rainy Monday was a great day for a Make & Take that celebrates Apple Month.

Old Fashioned Apples Supplies:
Can It by Cornish Heritage Farms
Natural Card Stock by Bazzill
Waffles (Nook & Pantry) by BasicGrey
Red Lined Paper by AdornIt
Note Card & Overlay
Vintage Sepia VersaFine and Rich Cocoa Memento inks
Antique Linen Distress Ink and Ink Applicator
Alabaster Fluid Chalk & Color Duster
Copic Markers: E31 Brick Beige, E35 Chamois, R02 Flesh, R29 Lipstick Red, Y21 Buttercup Yellow, YG03 Yellow Green, YG67 Moss, 0 Blender
Black Eyelet, Hole Punch and Setting Tool
Clear Glaze Pen, Foam Tape, Scissors, Adhesive

How To:
Stamp tag on Waffles with Vintage Sepia and trim out. Edge with Vintage Sepia. Stamp Aurora Apples with Rich Cocoa on Natural. Color with Copic markers and cut out. Apply Clear Glaze Pen to words Aurora Apples and let dry. Dust Alabaster on black overlay with Color Duster. Tie red, black and green thin ribbon in square knot on right side of overlay. Use eyelet tool to attach tag to overlay. Adhere overlay to card front. Ink edges of Red Lined paper with Antique Linen and Ink Applicator. Adhere to inside of card. Mount Aurora Apples with foam tape. Stamp Apple Bushel on left inside of card with Vintage Sepia. Designed by Lisa Taylor.

Our next Make & Take is Mon., Nov. 23. I hope you can join us!

Yes, here it is! Eight pages full of inspiring reading! Feel free to print off your own copy and share with friends.

nov-dec09.PDF

see ya!

Here’s the latest…

Christy taught a class to 12 ladies at the Oregon Calligrapher’s Convention on Saturday. She designed the class around the Wild Vines stamp set by Technique Tuesday. They had a blast creating four different cards! Four of the ladies in class were new to stamping too. Yes, Christy enables just as much as I.

Here’s one of the cards from her class that we used for Make & Take Monday. Very bright and full of sunshine which was great because it was grey and raining on Monday!

Wild Vines & Butterfly Supplies:
Wild Vines by Technique Tuesday
Butterfly by Impression Obsession
Banana Bliss A2 Note Card by Bazzill
Sherwood Green Treasures Card Stock
White Card Stock
#2 Red, #4 Green, #5 Yellow, #8 Violet and #11 Lt. Green Marvy Matchable Ink Pad
StarDust Clear Glitter Pen
Glue Stick and Brayer

How To:
Stamp vine several times with #11 Lt. Green along bottom of 4×3” white card stock. Stamp vine with #4 Green to fill in. Stamp small flower with #2 Red and large flower with #2 Red. Stamp Butterfly with #8 Violet and accent with glitter pen. Mount on 4.5×3.5” Sherwood Green. Adhere to front of note card. Designed by Christy Wood.

Simple and pretty. Thanks Christy for the great design! Be sure to join us for our next Make & Take Monday on Nov. 9.