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With the beginning of November I have a couple of important pieces of Stampin' Up news for you:
- Stampin' Up! is having a Start with Savings promotion. Instead of the standard $99 USD Starter Kit—which is already a steal of a deal—you can create a completely customized Starter Kit for only $75 USD. What an absolutely unbeatable bargain for a box with a value of $125 USD! This offer starts tomorrow, November 4 and goes through November 30. You can choose items with a maximum value of $125 for your starter kit, including the new products I introduce later in this post. On top of that you will be able to view the new January - June mini catalogs with the rest of the demonstrators later this month AND participate in the preorder beginning December 1. You even earn free Sale-A-Bration items with those preorders. This is traditionally a big time of year for my team, The he'Artstringstampers. There are always surprises. It would be great to have you join us!
2. Our November promotion, the Eden's Garden Collection is now live! This is a preview of one of the bundles which will appear in the next mini catalog PLUS a selection of limited time coordinating products, available through the end of this year or as long as supplies last. First let's look at the limited supply products:
Aren't they beautiful? Though as I've played with them I've found they work with so many of my current sets, they also have their own coordinating bundle, Eden's Garden. Gorgeous foliage dies with pretty Distinctive stamps.
Download Eden's Garden Collection PDF
Of course I didn't ask you to read through all of this without some cards:
I used Joyful Life with the greeting set, Through it Together on this card, with a little help from Giving Gifts Dies (the little leaves) and Stitched Greenery (the hill). I started off thinking that I would use a sweater knit type print in the Ever Eden DSP but then I found this greeting and I thought the herringbone type stripe kind of looked like pine trees ...One side of each sheet of the DSP has gold foil in the design and the other is relatively simple, but oh so versatile.
I used the large "thanks" from Artistically Inked on this pretty little border card. It was stamped of once on scratch paper to get a lighter green. I used 4 Basic White Leaflets and 1 cut from Soft Succulent. It really shows off the foliage border die too. I used up some retired gold dots but I think the mint Genial Gems or elegant faceted gems would work beautifully too.
Here was my trial spin with the dies. "Hello There" is from the Eden's Garden Stamp set. On vellum and Soft Sea Foam cardstock.
Do you remember this post from about a month ago? I die cut the large Artistic Die from one of the prints in Ever Eden DSP. This DSP will lend a new dimension to so many stamp sets!
Here is another print with Time of Giving. Don't you think it is great for Christmas? The die for this beautiful snowflake cut out is in the same set of dies that I used for the little leaves in my first Joyful Life Card.
These and more have their own gallery page here.
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