Chesne's Sweet Sixteen Scrapbook page

This page is dedicated to all scrapbookers who think Stampin' Up! is just stamping!

The most common thing I hear at the flea market is Oh' I can't stamp. I guess because it's called Stampin' Up! we are perceived as just a company who sells stamps.

For the folks who are new to the concept of Stampin' Up! in my classes I teach all the basic techniques in a card class that you will need and use to be a great scrapbooker. And for ppl that have been scrapbooking forever come and see NEW trends and help the others in the group! Give back, someone had to have shown you aaay?

Here is the long and short of it!!

Stampin' Up! like any other company has evolved through out the years into the top company in the sales of paper crafting!

which includes, scrapbooking(now with a digital scrap book program available), cards, and an array I love to to delve into and personally my favorite to teach 3 dimensional projects(boxes, candy holders, anything alterable it teaches out of the box thinking )

We sell the highest quality paper, stamp pads, punches,SCRAPBOOK KITS, etc. and the best thing is you have a creative coach to show you how to use every product you purchase from Stampin' UP! what other comapny offers that in such a wide variety.

We are a 20 years old, debt free company, in over 9 different countries and our CEO and co-founder Shelli Gardner is a lady you would absolutely love and never guess she's worth millions. Her and her sister started out in the garage and 20 years later by the grace of God they are #1 in the world and living their dream! Do you have a dream? Have you forgotten it?

What a great topic for a scrapbook page one on you and your dreams!

This is another sample of one of the color palettes they
had to choose from at the crop for make and take
Razzleberry lemonade is the Designer paper along with the in colors card stock.
See how that Filigree stamp can turn any cardstock into designer paper in a flash!

Here is how the A2 opens and so many options of how to use this!

I chose journaling for my 3x3 card on top!!

I put on of my top mats on dimensionals so I could use the tag die again and use them to journal and pull them out from behind.

Stamping can be the heart of a great Scrapbook page!

This is the my black and white Designer speciality paper scrapbook page that inspired me to use

a 6x6 mat, an A2 card and a 3x3 for my make and take at the crop. I had made both cards seperately and I liked the ensemble layered and used it as my focal point on my page.

this is my Daughter Ansleigh with my brother Jimmy when we got our new puppy at christmas a couple years back.

The white card with the Filigree black ink is an A2 card(4 1/2 x 11 scored at 5 1/2) so it opens sideways so you can put more pictures or journal insdie. I adorned mine with two black top notes as mats on the inside. Then my 3x3 card with dp inside, which can also be used for pics or jounaling. You can see I used the new two tag Exclusive Sizzix die from SU as well to pull out from behind my mat for decoration as well as journaling. I got the trombone paper clips on clearance at a office supply store starts with S ends with s. The match our paper so great!!

This an overview of it! I love love love this paper.

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.