Life is taking over right now!

Since returning from the Stampin' Up! Incentive trip to Thailand in the middle of July, life has been a whirlwind and sadly my blogging had to take a back seat for a while.  It has been hard to "let things go" but I had to tell myself that I physically can't do everything, even though I thought I could!

I've since moved house and now beginning to settle into our new home nicely and have to say that we are loving it here!  I've not moved far, just a 20 minute drive (without traffic) from our previous home but we are definitely more rural which has meant I've had to let go a couple of my longer distance classes.

I will continue with a couple of my classes that are local to Whitminster but my plan is to convert an office here into my new Craft Studio so that I can run events from home.  Watch this space for news of an upcoming opening event!

I have set up a temporary craft room in our new home so I've managed to run a couple of classes and still be creative amongst the boxes during the move, and in this time we have seen the launch of the new

AUTUMN/WINTER CATALOGUE

You can click HERE to view the online version

There are so many wonderful new products to get you started on the festive season, it's never to early to make a start!

Here's a recent card using a new set called "Merry Cafe", totally love how cute this set is and that it co-ordinates with the "Coffee Cafe" set and dies in the Annual Catalogue. This set is very versatile and has multiple greetings included.

If you don't already have a Demonstrator and would like to receive a copy of your own, please email me at stampinkerry@aol.com and I will arrange that for you.

Remember you can SHOP ONLINE with me, orders over £25 receive a gift in the post the following month to say Thank You for shopping with me

Hostess Code Customer Gifts

Happy Saturday everyone, I love the weekends, although I'm often working it's just nice to do things on the spur of the moment and do something different.  

Today I wanted to share with you last months Hostess Code customer gifts, these are gifts sent by myself to all those who place an online order with me over £25.  This is purely a thank you from me personally, for choosing to shop with me.

My cards used the Paisley and Posies set from the Autumn/Winter Catalogue on Page 47, I love how we have co-ordinating dies with this set and they are so pretty, and so many of them too!  Although the greeting may not be everyone's cup of tea, on this occasion it worked well for me, after all, without my customers I wouldn't be where I am today with my Stampin' Up! business and I honestly feel all of those three words in the greeting describe how I feel about what I do.

Here's a close up of the cards...

I am loving the Pretty Paisleys embossing folder, it is just so """pretty""" and so textured too.

I used a strip of the Petals & Paisley designer series paper which is gorgeous, this is a speciality pack and contains two sheets which are copped foiled, yuuummmmm!

For my gifts I enclosed them in a glassine bag layered with more dsp and tied with ribbon, simple enough not to get too damaged during postage, hopefully!

If you would like to place an online order with me and receive a free gift and handmade card in the post, just click on the link below and shop away!

Remember you MUST add the Hostess Code to your order so that I can send you a gift, if you are unsure how to do this please do get in touch.

This Month's Hostess Code

If your online order is over £25 but less than £150, please add this HOSTESS CODE

U2XHCGC9
and I will send you out a little gift from me

Product List

Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies [145372] £27.00	Petals & Paisleys Specialty Designer Series Paper [142017] £11.75	Paisleys & Posies Photopolymer Bundle [143515] £40.50	Layering Ovals Framelits Dies [141706] £32.00
Rich Razzlebberry Classic Stampin' Pad [126950] £6.00	Mint Macaron A4 Cardstock [138344] £7.25	Delightful Dijon A4 Cardstock [138345] £7.25	Copper Foil Sheets [142020] £3.75
Pretty Paisleys Textured Impressions Embossing Folder [141833] £7.00	Crushed Curry Baker's Twine [134586] £2.75

Totally Trees

Since the release of the new Autumn/Winter Catalogue I have been playing with lots of festive products but today I wanted to share a creation I made using another new stamp set called

Totally Trees

This is a 2-Step stamp set which means you use more than one stamp to layer up to create your image.  You can see for the tree I used a branch stamp in Rich Razzleberry ink then a second stamp for the Mint Macaron layer.

The set includes the grass stamps too.

Here's the complete set, great value at just £23.00

I had to include some more of my favourite products, the lovely "Flourish Thinlits Dies" and the Burlap trim.

The words are from the "Jar of Love" set.

See below another creation using this set created by a designer for Stampin' Up

Product List

Totally Trees Photopolymer Stamp Set [142198] £23.00	Flourish Thinlits Dies [141478] £26.00	Punch Corner Project Life [135346] £7.25	Mint Macaron Classic Stampin' Pad [138326] £6.00
Rich Razzlebberry Classic Stampin' Pad [126950] £6.00	Whisper White A4 Card Stock [106549] £8.25	Rich Razzleberry A4 Card Stock [119981] £7.25	5/8" (1.6 Cm) Burlap Ribbon [141487] £6.50
Jar Of Love Photopolymer Stamp Set [141587] £24.00

Get ready for this........

the Autumn/Winter catalogue is now LIVE

You can view the online version here

It's bursting with lots of lovely new products for the festive season, along with some lovely products that aren't just for Christmas too!

Here's a little peak at one of the first cards I made using my pre-order products.  As a Demonstrator I get to order products early before the catalogue goes live which is really exciting, if you would like to learn how you can be part of this amazing stamping community and being a part of my team of Inspirationals then just email me at stampinkerry@aol.com for an informal chat.

For my card I used the new

COOKIE CUTTER CHRISTMAS BUNDLE

This is going to be really popular, I mean who doesn't love this cute little Gingerbread Man??

So I'm not going to hold you up an longer, click the link above to view the catalogue online and if you don't already have a Demonstrator and would like a copy of the catalogue in the post then just get in touch and I will mail one to you.

If you are placing an order online, don't forget this month's Hostess Code

QCTKFUUQ

Product List

Cookie Cutter Christmas Photopolymer Bundle [143493] £31.50	Real Red Classic Stampin' Pad [126949] £6.00	Real Red A4 Card Stock [106578] £7.25	Crumb Cake Classic Stampin' Pad [126975] £6.00
Very Vanilla A4 Card Stock [106550] £8.25	Silver Glimmer Paper [135314] £4.50	Christmas Greetings Thinlits Dies [139659] £15.50	Silver Foil Sheets [132178] £3.75