2013 Stampin Up Catalog and Stampin Wheels

The new 2013 Stampin Up catalog is out. In case you have not yet seen it, it is packed full of new stamps, inks, punches, papers, and ideas. The new 2013 colors are awesome, by the way, but I wanted to talk to you about our old friend the Stampin wheel. Remember them? This year they are front and center and better than ever. They are featured on page 6 of the 2013 catalog and throughout there are many new Stampin wheels in the standard, jumbo and builder size. You can use them with an ink cartridge. Stampin Up has pre-inked black cartridges in both the standard and jumbo size. You can purchase an uninked cartridge and fill it with any ink you choose. Have you checked out the new stamp pads? They are new this year. They have a spongy stamp pad surface that really gives you maximum ink coverage on everything you need a stamp pad for. They work great! Some of my favorite new wheels are the Take a Ticket Jumbo wheel and the pennant and awning builder wheels. Don’t forget to get your Stampin around builder wheel spindle and spacer. You can use this to build up to 3 builder wheels together. The spindle fits the jumbo sized Stampin Wheel handle.

Scrapping with Beth hosts scrapbook overnighter

Recently Scrappin with Beth hosted an overnighter for avid scrapbookers.  We gathered at the Dolley Madison house in beautiful Brewster, Ohio.  The Dolley Madison House is a Bed and Breakfast that offers the ambiance of a southern-style great room with contemporary colonial influences.  We dined surrounded by a white picket fence in the Trellis Dining Room.  We slept in 9 suites decorated in historic colors with folk art inspired furnishings.  However, there was not much time for eating or sleeping.  We were greeted by tables decorated with brightly colored favors and gifts provided by Scrappin with Beth.  There was a whole room devoted to make and takes that were also generously provided by Scrappin with  Beth.  In addition, there was a whole table filled with every size and shape of Stampin Up punches and Stamps that we could use for making our scrapbook pages.  All night we munched on hot horderves and a whole table full of candy, cookies, and snacks of all kinds.  We left the following evening with many completed scrapbook pages and a great sense of accomplishment!