Craft Store at the Daytona Flea Market

In May my husband came home and said those words a mother never wants to hear with a teenager going into their Jr. year and a sweet boyfriend.

Realizing I was going to have to leave a wonderful group of friends,

customers, sideline and downline.

"I am being transferred to Daytona Beach and we have 2 weeks to get there!"

As we started getting acclimated to the area I found there were not too many Stampin' Up demonstrators in the area, (like at home) and only one scrap shop everyone else had gone out of business! I thought WOW this is an incredible opportunity!

So one day we were exploring the city and visited the flea market and I noticed there was no one there that did what I do. Make paper crafts and travel around to craft shows.I am tired of traveling I wanted a stationary craft booth.

So I considered two things I can sell my crafts and what a great way to get connected with other paper crafters, those who are familiar with Stampin' UP! and those who aren't.

I was concerned that since we are not able to keep product on hand and that may be a problem

but once people see the quality of my crafts handmade from Stampin' Up! products they are willing to wait for an order to come in. I found impulsive buyers are usually the ones who end up with that stack of stuff in the closet and don't know what to do with it. Having someone to teach them techniques and to be able to attend a class is very appealing to locals.

Daytona's Flea Market is rated 5th in the Nation and I can't believe all the Stampin' Up! club members from groups with other demonstrators I meet and those that aren't familiar with SU I send home to look up a demo in there area. It is such a cool thing!

They love the concept of Stampin' UP!

In home workshops, classes, stamp camps but most of what I hear is

"I have so much of that stuff and I have no idea how to use it!!"

MY response" Stampin' UP! offers a creative coach for you to introduce you to every product you order! What other company does that? Plus I will help you figure out what to do with what you do have!!

Honestly like anything it is the perseverance that my upline Lisa instilled in

me from the day one that has helped me to hang in there.

Now I am getting repeat customers, meeting out of state customers who are ordering online and buying crafts. But still the best thing about being a Stampin' UP! demonstrator is the wonderful people that I meet along the way.

I love my job and sharing it with others!

Come visit MY FREE OPEN HOUSE on OCTOBER 17TH FROM 3PM-7PM

AT INTEGRA SHORES APARTMENT HOMES CLUBHOUSE

100 Integra Shores Drive, Daytona Beach, Fl 321117

( corner of Clyde Morris and Strickland Range right off the LPGA exit #265 off I-95)

I am 5 minutes from the flea market.

Go to http://www.whitneyrichardson.stampinup.net/ for info about SU.

You can click on the front cover of the catty up on the left hand side of this blog page and definitely sign up for my feedblitz emails which will put an email in your in box each time I post a new project or special promotion!!

So I hope to see you again soon!

Breast Cancer Crop Fundraiser in Daytona

Dana Allen was our host for the Breast Cancer Crop Fundraiser. I have to say I am so grateful to have met her. I was signing up for Girl Scouts for my 8 year old daughter Ansleigh, and she can smell a paper crafter a mile a way its that 6th sense we all have. She so graciously invited me to join them at the event. I was thrilled!! Dana is an amazing lady she has been a girl scout leader for 27 years and is very involved in Breast Cancer Awareness! She together with the gang at the crop raised over $1000.00 for Breast Cancer Awareness that day!

her dedication and commitment to our children, to us as parents helping to preserve those their childhood memories and she has the greatest personality, what a pleasure. This was a true success and I hope I am invited back next year!

Thanks, Dana for all your hard work!!

Mary Ann from our local " A Page in Time" Scrap book Shop on Beach Street taught a box with

Rolodex cards with calendars on them, they were too cute!! Sorry I don't have apicture of a final project!

Lora Shehi enjoying a Stampin' UP! make and take

This is her final project isn't it beautiful. The make and take was designed to show how using cards from card class can inspire focal points to your scrap book pages. I will post examples of mine next, that inspired me to design this at a make and take at a crop.
Lora is very creative and a natural. She has well balanced flow and design!
Thanks Lora for joining the Stampin' Up! make and takes group that day and your order!

Hostess Wanted!!

Have you been thinking about hosting a Stampin' Up! Workshop or just getting a group of friends together to create scrapbook pages, cards for the Holidays, and cute little personal handmade gifts for your loved ones for the Holidays?

Let's take that one step further....

Are you a committee chair and have to provide little party favors for a big event

or maybe your hosting a Holiday Extravaganza of your own.

As a Stampin' UP! Creative coach I can help you do all these things either through hosting a workshop and receiving all these Sweet Reward benefits!!

( click on the picture on the side bar and it will take you right to the flyer with all the details!)
or through attending my classes or choose a one on one class option.

Have you all these products you have accumulated and don't know what to do with them?

Let me help you in time for the Holidays get crafty and turn those items in your corner or closet into treasured memories for someone you love!

**YOU DO NOT HAVE TO CONSIDER YOURSELF CRAFTY FOR THIS JOB!!

I learned everything by watching my friends in my stamping group and now I have a job that I love to share with others!

Book a workshop today and receive a FREE catalog plus all these amazing extra hostess benefits offered by Stampin' UP! And of course a nice lil gift from me!

Hope to hear from you soon!!

NEW! White & Black Flip Scrapbook Album

This DSP is the NEW Black& White specialty paper from the Holiday Mini Catalog!

Page # 11 $11.95 this elegant a paper cmes with 2 each of 5 designs and two printed window sheets with blacks polka dots on it! Awesome, and so fun to experiment with.

The front is adorned with a black top note and the sentiment is embossed with silver using Encore metallic ink which gives it such a deeper pop than versamark.

(This is my favorite design in this array of designer paper.)

This flip album is perfect for 4x6 pictures.

This project takes 2 12x12 sheets of colored cs and 3 DP

along with about 12-14 inches of ribbon .


There are 9 flaps that are matted with designer paper measuring 5 3/4 x 5 3/4 .
Plenty of room for some nice size pictures.
Black and White pictures look awesome with this paper.

Then the two inserts that are in the middle have flaps(2 1/4 x 5 3/4 ) on each side which are great for journaling and they are so fun to embellish I really tried to get outside the box on this one cutting top notes in half and making them look like doors. Using the matchbox labels and the new BigZ two tag die and sticking the smaller tag into the top of the matchbox label using dimensionals to raise it up and corner rounding the bottom of the tag so it would fit. The NEW tag die #115954 $21.95 pg. 198 is another MUST have I have found fro me anyway.

The second tag has a score line and will fold and tuck! So cool.

I love the black top notes cut in half on the front with the Filigree brads very elegant #112577 page 179, they add that subtle bling I love.

Top notes make great photo mats! Lots of black and white buttons for embellishments here I lucked up and found a huge bag for pennies at a local store.

I love every design in this pack of paper and there was no hoarding it when it came I ripped right into it! Never done that before!! LOL!

These are the last two panels headed to the back of the album.

Look for this as one of our stamp camps projects soon!

Why not host a workshop and make this! Surely the orders will be enough to get you that $250.00 super hostess gift. You can choose anything out of the Holiday Mini (except my digital studio) for ONLY $10.00 anything not just stamps!!! What a great promotion, that's one of the reason I love Stampin' UP they let you have Christmas all year round!!

Build-A-Bear Workshop®

Build-A-Bear Workshop®
Stampin' Up! is beary excited to introduce its exclusive line of Build-A-Bear Workshop dies, stamps, and paper—now available in the Holiday Mini Catalog and my Online Store!
If you are interested in having a birthday party or Holiday party for your kids I would love to meet with you and help you take care of all the details and you can relax and enjoy the Party!

To check out these cool NEW products and promotions in the Holiday Mini go to
http://www.stampinup.net/esuite/home/whitneyrichardson/promotions

If you would like to order any of the products go to my online store and it will be delivered right to your door. If you are local please email me with your order.

New Holiday Mini Stamps are here!!

This layout you may recognize from my guest designer a few weeks back Linda C. with a few changes. I love to take a layout and show you how to use several different stamps with it.

Supplies:

CS: Choc chip, real red, old olive, white

Ink: old olive, real red

Stamp Sets: Yuletide Christmas(mini pg.22)

Serene Snowflakes(mini pg.26)
Dasher (IBC pg.208)

Winter Post(IBC pg.35)

Filigree Background( this will make any cs look like DP pg.135,

Short & Sweet (IBC Pg. 141)
Accessories: Movers and shakers die cut with the modern die in red for a border, then used the modern punch in white and stamped Happy Holidays from Winter Post on it. Eyelet Border punch on the red cs wrapped with,Alpine ribbon ( now its all gone!!) I used the Serene Snowflake in this card and put a rhinestone in the middle for a little bling! The choc chip cs was stamped with the filigree bg stamp before I started.

I used the Yuletide set in this one and a couple of rhinestones for bling!
Addes a little 1/4" real red ribbon above the focal point to add some color.
I used Dasher and Sweet and sassy for the sentiment,rhinestones for bling! Gotta have Christmas bling!! I ran out of alpine here and started using read red grosgrain 5/8"

Yuletide Christmas again, red rhinestones

This is one of my favorite stamp sets Winter Post, a Holiday must. Here I took Dasher antlers and stamped them around the edges to give it something extra , was too plain. Next time on this card I think I will glitter the whole focal image. Short and sassy has this sentiment as well.


Holiday card classes coming up soon! Please sign up asap for October scheduled events classes fill up fast!!
Look forward to seeing you!!

OOOH The Things I Love....

Things I Love....

This is one of the very first stamp sets I really wanted for myself in the new catty!

( page 54 #115229 ONLY -$15.95)

This is totally me!

Supplies:

Cardstock: Rich Razzleberry, Whisper White, Melon Mambo, Crushed Curry,Thouroughly Modern DP

Ink: Curry, Razzleberry, Bermuda Bay,Melon Mambo, Chocolate Suede

Stamps:Things I Love, On the Earth (level 1) Hostess set

Accessories: 1" circle punch, 1 1/4" circle punch, dimensionals, bermuda bay polka dotted ribbon

I stamped of the swirly stamp in " On the Earth in Curry and stamped it over the front image used the stamp off technique to give it some depth, you know I don't like BLANK SPACE!

On the 10 I did for the my craft store I used the Filigree Background stamp on the Base Razzleberry and looks beautiful that stamp will make anything look like Designer paper!!

Check it out on page 133 #113742- $17.95

**If you would like to order any of the items used here you can go directly to my online ordering center and place your order or contact me!
Thouroughly Modern Designer Series Paper
$9.95 page 163 #115673
Happy Crafting!!

Holiday Scrap Tins Make Great Presents

"Simply Scrappin Kits are awesome!! This one is christmas Jungle for ONLY$19.95 PG. 164-167

They include 6 sheets of designer double sided paper (3) of each and 8 (2) each textured cardstock. This is my favorite part you receive 6 sheets (2) each of die cut adhesives (stickers).

The die cut adhesives alone would total over $20 bucks in a local craft store!

I used a chipboard holiday ball on the front with designer paper to cover it with a die cut adhesive with the Reindeer in the middle. I have some of that rope twine left from last years Holiday Mini and I love it!!

This scrappin kit has two completely different looks you can go with. that is what I love about Stampin' Up! they never fail to surprise me when I really look at the paper and how it all inter twines with the embellishments, cardstock, stamps, ribbon and you find it all in one place .

www.whitneyrichardson.stampinup.net

This scrap tin has the NEW DASHER stamp versamarked on they front two pages, I love DASHER! He is fun to do the fading technique!

He really should have been called Prancer he's very prancy!! LOL

I think this scrap tin is very rich, deep and classy.

What do you think? Leave your comments below!!

This one has the 3D Snow flake on the front as the focal point with designer paper and chipboard ran through the BIG SHOT at the same time so it fits perfectly just adhere it together and I used designer paper and die cut adhesives on the middle.


This one has old olive and real red throughout vs the deep garden green,
and the funny part is it just on the other side of the paper in the kit!
Boy, this is alot of work. I sold 8 this week at the market so I have to restock and prepare for my upcoming crop shows this month!

**Remember all Simply Scrappin Kits can be custom ordered for you or you can purchase the tutorial for $24.95 it includes directions to prep the kit and assembly directions as well as the link to the wholesaler to order the DVD tins that fit this pattern! So you can make your own Holiday gifts!
Just drop me an email at www.whitneyrichardson1969@gmail.com

Hope you have a Happy Week Crafting!

Check out the NEW Holiday Mini Catalog

The Holiday Mini Catalog is NOW available for orders!

Check out the link to the catalog on the right hand side of my blog and click on the catalog and you can view ALL the new goodies!

Some of these items will be available to touch and feel at my upcoming crop engagements and

my OPEN HOUSE on October 17th, Saturday 3pm-7pm! We will have make and takes using the items. Along with tons of doorprizes and additional

gifts for anyone who signs up to HOST A WORKSHOP!

**IF YOU HAVE A GROUP OF FRIENDS THAT ARE INTERESTED IN PAPER CRAFTING AND YOU HOST A WORKSHOP, THE REWARdS ARE GREEAAT!! IN ADDITION TO THE NORMAL HOSTESS BENEFITS........

During September through November SU is offering an extra item from the Holiday Mini catalog for just $10 if your party totals over $250. You can choose from almost anything in the mini - including Sizzix dies over $40, stamp sets of any price & even the new Build a Bear items! Plus two new hostess set choices are in the mini - a level 1 & a level 2. Just wait until you see them! Visit me at the market this weekend and receive your copy of the Holiday Mini Catalog.