My Happy Stamping Place

5th Annual Stamp and Scrap Sale!!!

It is time for our 5th Annual Stamp and Scrap Sale.  We will have TONS of Stampin' Up! stamps,other brands of stamps, papers, embellishments, cuttlebug dies and embossing folder, Sizzix dies, punches, TONS of ribbon, tools, Copic markers, hand-stamped cards, and much more.  12+people are bringing stuff for our sale.  Come and find some great deals on stamping and scrapping supplies!
 
When: Saturday, April 28
Time: 8 am to 1 pm
Address:  4648 W 149th St
                Savage, MN 55378
 
Feel free to pass this information on to your friends!

Contact Kathleen at kathleen@myhappystampingplace.com with questions.

Regionals Projects

I had the pleasure of going to the Stampin' Up! Regionals in Minneapolis with my friend, Terri.  It was a very fun day!  The time just flew by.  I came away with lots of good ideas and some great inspiration!  I was needing that.  I didn't get all of my make-n-takes finished but I'll share with you what I did.  this first card is with the new stamp set we all received, Nature Walk.  This isn't a set I would normally buy for myself but it's full of vintage goodness and now I really like it!

 

The next is a banner that I'm not quite done with.  It took most of my make-n-take time at the Regionals.

 
 
 
This has so many subtle little touches I woulnd't have come up with on my own.

And in the afternoon, Stampin' Up! spoiled us with a treat.

 

I was a happy girl!

Thanks for stopping by!

Kathleen

Sale-a-bration Open House

Sale-a-bration Open House!!!

Join me on Sunday, January 30 for my Sale-a-bration Open House.  Sale-a-bration is Stampin' Up!'s biggest promotion of the year. This year Sale-a-bration runs from January 25 through March 31. For every $50 in purchases at a time(before shipping and tax) you get a FREE Sale-a-bration product. There are four stamp sets, a designer paper and quick accents pack, Digital software CD, ribbon and button pack, and a décor element to choose from.  But there’s even  more!  You can pick ANY stamp set from the big catalog or Spanish catalog retailing at $14.95 or less for FREE! There are over 50 stamp sets to choose from! Hostesses can earn a FREE Sale-a-bration product for every $300 in party sales. New recruits get to pick ANY stamp set out of the catalog for FREE!  Demonstrators can earn FREE stamp sets based on their sales during Sale-a-bration.  That’s what I LOVE about Sale-a-bration.  Everybody wins!

 

You will get to make 2 FREE make-n-takes, see lots of samples, purchase retired stamp sets, hand-stamped cards, and have the opportunity to win some fabulous door prizes!!! You can earn door prize tickets in the following ways:

 

-Earn a ticket for coming

-Earn 3 tickets for bringing a guest who hasn't been to one of my events before.

-Earn 1 ticket for every $25 in purchases

-Earn 5 tickets for booking a party during Sale-a-bration

-Earn 10 tickets for signing up as a demonstrator

 

Date and Time:  Sunday, January 30 from 2:00-5:00

Stop in anytime between the stated time above.  

Place:  Kathleen's Stampin' Oasis

           Savage, MN

 

Please RSVP to Kathleen at 952-226-2190 or kathleen@myhappystampingplace.com to let me know if you are coming.

Here's a little sneak peek card with one of the FREE Sale-a-bration stamp sets, Punch Bunch.

 

Thanks for stopping by!

Kathleen

 

Demonstrator Party!

I had a party for my downline group last night.  I just love these ladies!  We shared a potluck dinner of chicken terriyaki, oriental salad, fresh fruit, bread, and chocolate pound cake with raspberries and ice cream.  Yummy!  Then we did lots of chatting, talking business, and stamping of course!  We did a shoebox swap and I also had a project for them.  Here we all are after enjoying the yummy dinner.

Back row: Kelly, me(Kathleen), Cathy

Front row: Nancy, Paula

I made a couple of goodies for them.  The first are some mugs I picked up at Ikea for only 59 cents each.  I used some home decor vinyl you can buy from Stampin' Up! in a variety of colors.  I die cut them with a flower from the Baskets and Blooms Sizzix die and Simple Letters alphabet die

Next I made them this Sweet Treat Stationary Holder. I bought the template from Jo Dumbelton here.

Then we started our card swap.  The first card is Nancy's swap.  A simple but pretty card made with the Just Believe stamp set.

This next card was created by Cathy with the Friends Never Fade stamp set. Lots of sponging and pretty details on her card.
This third card was made by Paula.  She case'd the idea from Gretchen Baron.  You can buy templates for all kinds of cute punch art bugs on her blog here.  
 

I was having an off stamp night.  I can see I messed up the highlighting in this ladybug's eyes and Kelly made 2 beautiful cards that I messed up big time so I think I may redo those before posting.  I will be back later with my card and hopefully a video tutorial on how I made it.

Thanks for stopping by!

Kathleen
 

Recipe card class

I have had a recipe club going for the past 9 months.  It's been great fun!  I decided to hold a one day recipe card class for anyone who wants a chance to make some wonderful cards and taste some of the yummy recipes.  In this class participants will make ten 6x6 recipe cards and taste 5 of the recipes.  Here's a peek at the recipe cards.

The recipes range from appetizers, side dishes, main dishes and desserts.  You can give a collection of these in a 6x6 book as a gift for graduation, wedding or shower, birthday, teacher gift, but you may want to keep this all to yourself! 

Class details

Date: Saturday, June 5

Time: 1:00-5:00

Price: $30

If you are local to the Twin Cities area of Minnesota and are interested in coming to this class you can contact me at krhopperstad@juno.com or 952-226-2190.  Space is limited so sign up early!

Thanks for stopping by!

Kathleen
 

3rd Annual Stamp and Scrap Sale!!!

It's time for our 3rd annual Stamp and Scrap Sale!  Dozens of stampers and scrappers are selling their new and gently used rubber stamps, papers, scrapbooks, embellishments, storage, tools, etc.  What's old to them is new to you!  We're getting the sale ready so I don't have pictures to show you yet but here's a few photos of last year's sale to give you an idea of the quantity we're talking about.

There will be tons of Stampin' Up! as well as many other companies as well.  It's a great place to pick up a bargain!  If you are local to the Twin Cities area of Minnesota or will be in the area next week here are the details:

Sale dates and times:

Friday, April 23 from 8 am to 6 pm

Saturday, April 24 from 9 am to 1 pm

We accept cash and credit cards.  It's quite a sale!  You wont want to miss it!
 
 

Huge Rubber Stamp and Scrapbooking Sale!!!

Well, I have been talking about it for awhile and it's almost here - my 2nd Annual Rubber Stamp and Scrapbooking Sale.  We are really heavy on the rubber stamps this year but we also have lots of designer papers, tools, die cutting machines, etc.  We have thousands of stamps including tons of Stampin' Up!, tons of single stamps and Hero Arts, and Close to My Heart(DOTS). There are 20 crafters who brought stuff for the sale.  We are very organized and are like a store.  We have shopping baskets and accept cash and credit cards.  If you are local to the Twin Cities area(or will be in the area this weekend) you are welcome to come and shop the sale.  Just e-mail me at krhopperstad@juno.com for directions.   The sale is Friday, April 17 from 8 to 6 pm and Saturday, April 18, 9 am to Noon.  Here are a few pictures of the stuff.  It doesn't really do it justice.  Anyone who walks into my 3 car garage is amazed at how much we have!

Have a wonderful day!

$50 off Starter kit!!!

Last Friday I attended the Stampin' Up! Minneapolis Regionals at the Minneapolis Convention Center.  At the Regionals they announced that us Minneapolis attendees only could offer you $50 off of the Stampin' Up! demonstrator Starter kit until April 20!  The regular price is $199 so that would only be $149 for the Stampin' Up! starter kit!  You get $335 worth of product and business supplies for only $149!!!  What a great deal!  To see what you get in the starter kit click here.  The paperwork must be filled out and at Stampin' Up! by April 20 so don't delay!  You can contact me at krhopperstad@juno.com with any questions or for more information.

Here is a group of gals I was at Regionals with.  We're missing Terri from the picture.  She was off somewhere.  Paris was about to leave so we took a quick photo. 

Paris is at the top.  I met Paris probably about 5 years ago when we organized the first Minnesota SCS get together in Apple Valley.  I have organized several since.  It's always fun to meet fellow enthusiasts!  The rest of the ladies in the picture are my downline.  From left to right:  Paula, Kristina, Kelly and I.  These ladies are great friends as well as downline.  We always laugh and have so much fun when we are together!  Regionals was no different.  After Regionals my downline and Terri and I walked to a nearby Mexican restaurant.  I LOVE Mexican food!  It's my favorite!  We met some other SCS ladies there and the good times continued.  The Margaritas helped that along too!  They were yummy!

I hope to try some of the things they showed us at Regionals before I forget!  We'll see how that goes since I have my big Stamp and Scrap Sale next weekend. 

Thanks for stopping by!

Big Shot VIP Event

Friday night was my Big Shot VIP event.  Any customer in mine or my downline's customer group could come to this event if they purchased the Big Shot starter kit or a cumulative $200 worth of big shot products from us.  Kristina and I planned this event.  The first picture is of us standing in front of the Love banner we made from our Sizzix pennant die.  We had so much fun picking out the fabrics.

Next are the cupcakes I made for the event.  I made cupcake picks with my sizzix hearts die and the new 3 heart punch that is part of the Love You Much bundle.

This table was set up for participants to take a snack break.  I didn't make the placemats.  I bought those from Kohls.  Aren't they so cute?!  What you can't see very well is that I made little decorative straws for their drinks with the sizzix birds and blooms and the sizzix buttons die.

This Valentine treat pouch was one of the projects they made.  This was a CASE from Barb of Barbstamps.  We used the smaller pennant from the pennant die and the stamps and designer paper from the Love You Much Bundle.

Next  up is a circle card using all Sizzix - no stamping!  This was a case from a card another demonstrator brought to my upline's house.  This uses the scallop die #1 and scallop die # 2, birds and blooms(flip the bird!) and the Join in the Cheer Decorative strip. 

The final project I didn't case!  Kristina and I came up with this one together.  We started with a jumbo clothespin.  You can get these at Oriental trading. We covered it with Sweet Always designer paper.  Love this paper!  We die cut with fun foam one of the hearts from the hearts die cut set.  Next we die cut two flowers from the designer paper with the Sparkle flower die cut and die cut a button in fun foam and designer paper with the buttons die.  This buttons die is so versatile!  Whenever I have leftover small scraps I like to die cut a bunch of buttons and small flowers up.  If you die cut fun foam and glue it underneath the button it gives it dimension and looks like a real button!  We finished it up with tieing pumpkin pie, pretty in  pink and white grosgrain ribbon around the clothespin.

This last project was a gift to the Big Shot VIP customers.  There were many versions of this calendar running around blogland.  I think the first person to introduce this was Nancy Morgan from PaperSmiles.  She has included a tutorial on it too so check it out here. 
Cambria tweaked Nancy's version and I tweaked Cambria's version.  This is the final result.

This was a fun event!  We'll be doing this once a quarter for all those who qualify for the rest of the year.  If you would like to be a part of this you can by purchasing the Big Shot Starter kit of by purchasing $200 cumulative in Big Shot sales with me or one of my downline.  Our next VIP event will be in April.

Thanks for stopping by today!  I hope you have a great weekend!

Holiday Open House

I am having a Holiday Open House tomorrow.  In addition to a couple of make-n-takes, lots of samples for show, light munchies, and retired stamps for sale I will have hand-stamped giftable items for sale.  Here is a peek at some of the things I have been working on.  It's been a lot of fun to make up the gift bags, tins, bottles, etc.  I'll have more including the make-n-takes in a day or two. 

Thanks for stopping by!