Song of My Heart Stampers

Celebrate two SOMH milestones with me!

Don't laugh--I was looking for an early photo of myself as a demonstrator to put with this post, and I didn't find any, but I did have a good laugh looking at some of my earliest cards from when I finally got smart and started taking photos of them rather than trying to keep them all.

Well, my peeps, I can hardly credit it, but as of today, over $200,000 worth of stamps, ink and paper have passed through my little house and found happy new homes with stampers all over the area, since became a demonstrator and founded the Song of My Heart Stampers team eight years ago last month. That's a pretty astounding amount of rubbah, if you think about it!

Just for fun I broke it down. $200,000 would equal:

• 13,378 stamp sets @$14.95 each
• 28,776 cardstock packs
• 33,614 ink pads
• 44,445 SNAIL refills
• 50,632 packages of Dimensionals
• 76,796 ink refills

Good grief! Is that crazy or what?? So you can see why I feel like CELEBRATING both my anniversary of becoming a Stampin' Up demonstrator, and my sales milestone, with a little blog candy! I thought and thought about what to give away, and I finally decided that it was gonna have to be something BIG.

So how does a FREE Paper Pumpkin showing up in your mailbox this month sound to you? Pretty good, right? A blissful creative escape that requires nothing from you but a pair of scissors? Awesome possum!

*****************  B l o g    C a n d y   A l e r t !!! ***************

Here's how you enter:

• No purchase is necessary to win. However, you can up your chances of winning by ordering online at www.lyssa.stampinup.net and get your name in the drawing 1 additional time for every $25 ordered. 
• your name will go in the drawing once just for leaving a comment below. The comments are capped out at 100, so don't wait to do it.
• The winner will be selected after midnight on Sunday, May 19th, and published here and on Facebook Monday, May 20th. If you win, you must contact me by the end of May with your mailing address.
• You will not be added to my contact list unless you want to be : ) 

May the best stamper win!

Thank you for being excited for me

and for helping me celebrate!

I LOVE what I do, and you totally could, too! No, don't shake your head, don't start up the excuse record playing--if I could do it, anyone could. Contact me today for details on how you could turn me into your number one cheerleader as I help you start your stampin' adventure today. zwolaneks@att.net

Clamshell-Style Stamp Cases on sale now!

Stampin' Up is changing over their wood-mount stamp cases to be more like the clear-mount ones, with spine thumbnails and a picture on the fronts--love it! You'll go crazy for how easy it is to find the stamp you are looking for with the new system. All new stamp sets from May 31st on will be in the new style case. However, many of you LOVED the clamshell cases for storage of all kinds of items, like the way I have my scraps stored in the photo above. They were also SUPER FAB for cute projects like purses and card kits to give as gifts (I'll go hunt in my archives for some links to photos of those). So--You'll want to grab some of these specially-priced packs of ten to have on hand for organization and DIY gift-giving!

Click here to go browse the latest arrivals in my shopping website and if you'd like to order the cases, use the item codes below to add them to your shopping cart. You can also email me your order at zwolaneks@att.net!

 

Item	Description	Price
134676	Stamp & Supply Boxes (10 Pack) 3-3/8" x 2"	$2.95
134677	Stamp & Supply Boxes (10 Pack) 4-1/4" x 3"	$3.95
134678	Stamp & Supply Boxes (10 Pack) 5-1/4 x 4-1/4"	$4.95
134679	Stamp & Supply Boxes (10 Pack) 6-1/4" x 4-1/2"	$6.95
134680	Stamp & Supply Boxes (10 Pack) 8" x 5-1/4"	$7.95
134681	Stamp & Supply Boxes (10 Pack) 8" x 5-1/4" with tray	$7.95
134682	Stamp & Supply Boxes (10 Pack) 10-1/4" x 5"	$8.95

Out with the old, in with the NEW!

You are cordially invited to attend an open-house style weekend-long event Thursday-Saturday, May 16-18^th, 2013

where we’ll be celebrating both the retirement of the 2012-13 Idea Book and the 2013 Spring Occasions Catalog, and the exciting advent of the brand new 2013-14 Idea Book & Catalog!

I know we’re all busy like bees this time of year, so I’m combining both these events into one convenient weekend, for you to come and go as you please!

 During the weekend-long event you’ll be able to:

• Pick up your FREE new incoming catalog AND your Customer Care Coupon Sheet*
• Order retiring stamp sets and accessories at a one-time special sale price
• Make two FREE quick cards from Lyssa’s favorite retiring stamp sets
• Enter to win a gift certificate for the new catalog!
• Book your annual private stamping or scrapbooking class
• Receive a free sampler pack of the new 2013-15 In Color Collection

It’s going to be a FABULOUS party that you don’t want to miss! Not local to me? Email me at zwolaneks@att.net and I'll hook you up with a new catalog and a special event code that will enable you to participate in the retirement deals! Hope to see you during one of the following days:

• Thursday, May 16^th—3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
• Friday, May 17^th 3:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
• Saturday, May 18^th—10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

*Customer Care Coupon Sheet only available for the first 50 customers to pick up their catalogs. So don’t dally : )

Want an extra $30 free?

Many of my hostesses have been enjoying a huge bonus to their benefits this month! Stampin' Up is bundling on an extra $30 in hostess free merchandise with any party that hits $350 or more. Book parties count, too--and they're so easy now with our hostess code. Your friends from anywhere in the country can order and have it delivered straight to them, yet count for your show!

Plus, the $99 Starter Kit price is actually good for $155 bucks worth of ANY merchandise you choose right now, until May 30th. It's a really great deal ANY time of the year, but especially during May! PLUS, you can actually choose demonstrator-sneak-peek products like the new In Colors, new Color Refresh products, and much more for your Starter Kit, getting them ahead of everyone else.

I'd be so honored to have you on my team--please contact me with ANY questions you have and I'll get right back to you. I love Stampin' Up all to pieces, and I am so glad I went for it. It has been a fabulous source of stress relief, personal enjoyment, and creative fullfillment for the last eight years.  Let's chat about how Stampin' Up could fit with your life!

If you've heard enough and you're ready to pick out your $155 worth for just $99 plus tax (no shipping!), then click here to go to my Stampin' Up website and click on Join Now!

25% off digital crafting special!

It's National Scrapbooking Month, and Stampin' Up is celebrating wih a big sale on digital papercrafting products for the scrapbooking lover! From now through midnight on June 15th, get 25% off on hundreds of downloads and professional print projects. It's the perfect time to finish up those albums, order those custom invites, and stock your My Digital Studio or other digital crafting software program with tons of cute new downloads and templates!

• Digital content on sale includes: ALL ensemble, calendar, photobook, and swatchbook digital content. Click here to view them in my online store.
• Print products on sale include: ALL photobooks, swatchbooks, cards, tags, individual pages, and calendars. Click here to view a PDF of the sale prices. 
• Click here to learn about our free, no-strings-attached 30-Day trial offer of the full My Digital Studio software, easily downloadable and simple to learn. 
• Interested in the possibilities? Visit mydigitalstudio.net to view customer galleries, check out the MDS designer blog, ask questions and become part of the digi-crafting community.

Bloomin' Bouquet Special Kit Offer

There’s no watering, no weeding—just enjoying! This easy-to-assemble kit comes complete with the petals, stems, and buttons to create the flowers, as well as four different tags to make this the perfect gift for any occasion. All you need is some ribbon or a vase to add the finishing touch to the bouquet. Alternatively, you can use the flowers for cards, scrapbook pages, corsages, party decor and more!
 
As if that weren’t enough, the kit actually contains a baker’s dozen, so you can create and give (or keep) a dozen flowers, and have a bonus flower left over to pass along to someone new! Give it to someone you wouldn’t normally think of: a teller at the bank, a grocery store clerk, or the librarian at your local library. Anyone you encounter on your way that you’d like to give a little “thank you” to!
 
Bloomin' Bouquet Kit, item #134542, $12.95 US contains:

• 2 sheets of preprinted and precut flowers on 12" x 12" cardstock; makes 13 flowers using Pool Party, Gumball Green, Calypso Coral, Daffodil Delight, and Rich Razzleberry
• 13 Vintage Faceted Buttons
• 13 green floral wire stems

Scissors and adhesive not included. A hot glue gun is recommended. Check out our Silicone Craft Sheet for the best accessory ever invented for hot glue gun users! I don't know how I ever got along without one!

Watch this quick video below to see how easly the flowers will come together.

Fly Away With Me Special Offer

I want to show my appreciation for the fabulous trip Mike and I are on this week, by extending a very special offer to our Song of My Heart Stampers community! I can't take you all with me to Fiji, but you can "fly away with me" to a blissful stampin' destination in your craft room with the new In Colors!!

Shop with me between now and midnight on May 5th, using the special event code: QSXPYW7S, and if your order is at least $40 or more, you will recieve a package in the mail from me with a special Fiji-Appreciation Sampler of the new 2013-15 In Color Collection!

In addition to some special sneak-peek embellishments, which are so top-secret I can't even show them to you yet, you will receive four pre-cut and folded cards of each color, together with envelopes, for a total of ten cards, in the following new In Colors:

• Crisp Cataloupe
• Pistachio Pudding
• Coastal Cabana
• Strawberry Slush
• Baked Brown Sugar

You'll be getting these cards and embellishments well before they are available for everyone to purchase! How cool is that? So place your order at www.lyssa.stampnup.net by May 5th, making SURE you enter the special event code  QSXPYW7S, and then watch for your package in the mail with your first glimpse of the new In Color Collection for 2013-15!

PS--The event code goes in a box just to the left BEFORE you head to check out, so make sure you don't miss it accidentally!