Clearance Rack Blitz Week 1 - December 14-20, 2012

Week 1:  December 14-20, 2012

Check out the bargains!  Over the next four weeks, Stampin' Up! will be opening up the storeroom where they keep all the retired products and clearing it all out.  Each week, a new crop of bargains will be loaded onto the website - only available for one week, and only while stocks last - at heavily discounted prices (up to 70% of original retail price!).

Click the picture above to head over to the Clearance Rack promotion page on the SU website.  Note that they have loaded all four weeks' lists at once, but products are only available for the week in which they are listed - sorry, you can't pick a few from each one and have them all shipped at once.

This week there's a bunch of Christmas bargains!

Here's a quick link to the PDF of this week's specials, summarised below.  You can see images of the products by following the "old" (2011-12) catalogue link on the sale page.

Page	Item	Description	Retail Price (AU)	Sale Price (AU)
11	124938	Tagtastic Stamp Set [w]	$26.00	$16.00
11	122747	Tagtastic Stamp Set [c]	$21.00	$16.00
15	121592	Dasher Stamp [w]	$14.95	$8.00
15	125050	Elebration Stamp [w]	$19.95	$9.95
15	125042	Something for Christmas Stamp [w]	$19.95	$7.50
19	115902	Winter Post Stamp Set [w]	$47.95	$24.00
21	121492	Christmas Greetings Stamp Set [w]	$19.95	$10.00
21	116893	Tree Trimmings Stamp Set [w]	$24.95	$12.50
22	121584	Welcome Christmas Stamp Set [w]	$49.95	$18.75
22	120597	Welcome Christmas Stamp Set [c]	$39.95	$18.75
23	125024	Tidings of Joy Stamp Set [w]	$36.95	$18.75
23	122687	Tidings of Joy Stamp Set [c]	$29.95	$18.75
25	121498	Contempo Christmas Stamp Set [w]	$26.95	$13.75
25	120594	Contempo Christmas Stamp Set [c]	$21.95	$13.75
25	113023	Season of Joy Stamp Set [w]	$51.95	$19.75
27	115918	Happy Christmas, Mate Stamp Set [w]	$37.95	$19.00
27	115820	Holiday Lineup Stamp Set [w]	$38.95	$19.50
108	115930	Many Merry Messages Stamp Set [w]	$64.95	$32.50
120	124338	In Color 2010-2012 12" x 12" Smooth Card Stock	$18.95	$9.50
120	121701	In Color 2010-2012 A4 Smooth Card Stock	$13.95	$7.00
120	124386	In Color 2011-2013 12" x 12" Textured Card Stock	$22.95	$15.00
121	102277	Old Olive Classic Stampin' Pad	$11.95	$4.50
121	103133	Real Red Classic Stampin' Pad	$11.95	$4.50
121	105211	Regal Rose Classic Stampin' Pad	$11.95	$4.50
121	124291	Regal Rose 12" x 12" Smooth Card Stock	$11.95	$4.50
121	105108	Regal Rose Stampin' Write Marker	$5.75	$2.95
122	101778	Rose Red Classic Stampin' Pad	$11.95	$4.50
122	124303	Wild Wasabi 12” x 12” Smooth Card Stock	$11.95	$4.50
123	119669	Cherry Cobbler Classic Stampin' Pad	$11.95	$4.50
123	105210	Elegant Eggplant Classic Stampin' Pad	$11.95	$4.50
123	111836	Riding Hood Red Classic Stampin' Pad	$11.95	$4.50
123	124278	Garden Green 12” x 12” Smooth Card Stock	$11.95	$6.00
123	124293	Riding Hood Red 12” x 12” Smooth Card Stock	$11.95	$6.00
123	105110	Elegant Eggplant Stampin' Write Marker	$5.75	$2.95
123	100080	Garden Green Stampin' Write Marker	$5.75	$2.95
123	120971	Riding Hood Red Stampin' Write Marker	$5.75	$2.95
124	120966	Basic Gray Stampin' Write Marker	$5.75	$2.95
129	122357	Beau Château Designer Series Paper	$18.95	$7.50
130	122349	Letters to Santa Designer Series Paper	$18.95	$7.50
131	122369	Letters to Santa Quick Accents	$18.95	$7.50
134	122468	Château Designer Printed 6" x 6" Ring Album	$19.95	$9.95
134	103687	6" x 6" (15.2 x 15.2 cm) Post Album Page Protectors	$10.95	$5.50
134	104521	6" x 6" (15.2 x 15.2 cm) Ring Album Page Protectors	$10.95	$5.50
139	125059	Wild Wasabi 1-1/4” (3.2 cm) Striped Grosgrain Ribbon	$19.95	$7.50
139	117288	Certainly Celery 5/8” (1.6 cm) Satin Ribbon	$16.95	$6.50
139	125056	Cherry Cobbler 1-1/4” (3.2 cm) Striped Grosgrain Ribbon	$19.95	$9.95
139	117286	Real Red 5/8” (1.6 cm) Satin Ribbon	$16.95	$8.50
139	111368	Old Olive 1/4” (6.4 mm) Grosgrain Ribbon	$10.95	$5.50
139	109034	Real Red 1/4” (6.4 mm) Grosgrain Ribbon	$10.95	$5.50
139	124322	Rose Red 1/4” (6.4 mm) Grosgrain Ribbon	$10.95	$5.50
139	109026	Very Vanilla 1/4” (6.4 mm) Grosgrain Ribbon	$10.95	$5.50
143	104337	3/16" Gold Brads	$12.95	$6.50
147	119921	Log Cabin Smooch Spritz	$7.95	$4.50
150	119876	Large Tag Punch	$30.95	$15.50
160	116821	Holiday Windows Movers & Shapers Dies	$54.95	$27.50
164	112968	Soft Holly Standard Stampin' Around Wheel	$11.95	$6.00

Remember that these special prices (and products!) are ONLY available until Thursday, December 20 or until sold out.  Check out the Clearance Rack Blitz page to see what's currently still available.

Contact me TODAY to ensure your order is placed before these products disappear again!

Note that, unfortunately, pre-Christmas delivery cannot be guaranteed due to the volume of mail  that goes out at this time of year.

Merry (Minis) Christmas!

Christmas is nearly upon us, so what better time to show you the card I whipped up the other night?  This is a little too fiddly for me to use as my family card (although had I come up with idea earlier I may well have done so) but it was fun to make :-)

The cute little baubles come from a stamp set in the Holiday Catalogue called Merry Minis - a nine piece set comprising three stars, three baubles and three Christmas trees.  You can also buy a Merry Minis Punch Pack, in other words three little punches which coordinate with the stamps.  I attached these with Dimensionals in an effort to make them look a little more like they were hanging from the embossed detail.

 
And just for a little visual interest, I used the Simply Scored Diagonal Plate and my Simply Scored Scoring Tool to create a cross-hatch effect along the bottom of the yellow layer.  Now I'm wondering if I should have just embossed the whole layer?  Perhaps I need to make another one to see... :-)

Images © 1990-2012 Stampin' Up!®

Supplies used:

Stamps: Merry Minis, Teeny Tiny Sentiments
Cardstock:  Raspberry Ripple, Daffodil Delight, Gumball Green, Whisper White
Ink: Raspberry Ripple, Gumball Green
Accessories:  Merry Minis Punch Pack, Scallop Border Punch, Simply Scored Scoring Tool, Simply Scored Diagonal Plate, 1-1/4" Scallop Circle Punch, Word Window Punch, Adorning Accents Edgelits, Adorning Accents Embossing Folders

A simple Christmas card

As promised the other day, here is the card I made to send out to the customers of my "day job" - it was a pretty simple design, relying on the Apothecary Accents framelits and the Holiday Frame embossing folder for the "wow" factor.  Not shown here is the Champagne Frost shimmer paint applied to the Crumb Cake layer (as I had to make this one up quickly after sealing up and mailing all the work ones, I forgot that step!), which, trust me, looked very effective :-)

This year I made 111 of these little beauties - I really need to talk to the sales guys, and ask them to tone down their efforts to find new business, or this is going to be the end of me!

Just a quick word - if you like this stamp, called "Heart of Christmas" and want it for your own, it's only available until the end of the Holiday Catgalogue period, January 31, 2013.  It is one of the "a la carte" range, meaning it is a single stamp, not part of a set, so is very affordable :-)


Images © 1990-2012 Stampin' Up!®

Supplies used:

Stamps: Heart of Christmas 
Cardstock:  Cherry Cobbler, Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla
Ink: Cherry Cobbler
Accessories:  Apothecary Accents Framelits, Holiday Frame Embossing Folder

Another birthday card

Just a little card I whipped up for my friend Liz's birthday a couple of weeks ago ... for a wonder, this card came out pretty much exactly as I had imagined it!  Usually the colours don't match like I wanted, or the layout is just a shade wrong in some indefinable way, but not this time!

As with this card made for my Dad's 80th birthday recently, the main layer is popped up on Dimensionals so that you get the full effect of the punched out circle and pierced detail.

Images © 1990-2012 Stampin' Up!®

Supplies used:

Stamps: Betsy's Blossoms, Teeny Tiny Sentiments
Cardstock:  Marina Mist, Whisper White
Ink: Rich Razzleberry, Daffodil Delight, Marina Mist
Accessories:  2-1/2" Circle Punch, Essentials Paper Piercing Pack, Bitty Banners Framelits, Delicate Designs Embossing Folder

Oops...!

I hadn't realised just how quickly November had been slipping away until I looked at my blog and saw that my last post was waaaaay back on the 9th!  Here it is, nearly a month later, and what do I have to show for it?  Well, a few things, as it happens :-)

I have been busy creating, although it was more along the lines of mass-production of the traditional 100 or so cards for my employers to send out to our customers.  This year I was so happy to see the back of the cards I actually completely forgot to photograph them before I bundled them up into envelopes and posted them this afternoon.  I had to quickly whip another one up just so I can take a picture of it and show you all ... but not today, mostly because I only finished it a few minutes ago and the light's not so great for photography.  I promise, it'll be up in a day or so.

In the meantime, enjoy this card, made for my good friend Pauline's birthday the other day :-)

The images were stamped with Stazon onto Pumpkin Pie cardstock, and then the flowers were "coloured" using an Aqua Painter filled with bleach (some were stamped separately and stuck on with Dimensionals).  It's fun to watch the bleach "take" to the cardstock - at first you're not sure it's going to do anything, then suddenly the magic happens.  You can blast it with a heat gun to speed the process if you like.

Of course, it may not have been as much fun had I been doing it in a well-ventilated area like I probably should have.  A little light-headedness is good for you, right?

Images © 1990-2012 Stampin' Up!®

Supplies used:

Stamps: Everything Eleanor, Fabulous Phrases
Cardstock:  Old Olive, Basic Black, Pumpkin Pie, Very Vanilla
Ink: Black Stazon
Accessories:  Apothecary Accents Framelits, 1-3/8 Circle Punch, Bitty Banners Framelits, Essentials Paper Piercing Pack, Aqua Painter