My Paper Pumpkin Welcome Kit!

HI!

Have you signed up to get the My Pumpkin Welcome Kit yet?

If not- you aren't too late.

No matter when you sign up you'll get the first kit & it includes a Clear Block D along with the order so you'll have it for all of your kits that follow in the coming months.

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I finally had time to play with my kit & this is the card that I created with the it, plus I used a few other products-
paper Doily, basic pearl, 1 3/4" Circle punch, 
2 3/8" Scallop Circle punch & 2 1/2" Circle punch

I think it is really cute!

This is my 'Susie' card.....

For those of you that know me..... I don't copy or follow directions well.....so this is my version.

But there are step by step instructions that you can follow & totally COPY a photo that is included in your kit, along with all of the supplies used in their example.  

So no worries on your part.....it is SO EASY! 

 

Do you want to subscribe to My Paper Pumpkin Kits?

Sweep away the mundane - your creativity carriage awaits!
My Paper Pumpkin by Stampin' Up! is a new monthly project kit program that anyone can enjoy!
I'm a Paper Pumpkin . . .

•  I come to your door each month (a fully decked-out creativity carriage).
• I'll help you escape your life with some paper fun.
• I come in a sweet box
• All the stamps, ink, paper, and accessories to create the projects.
• Stuff like cards, journals, decor, and more!

We're your paper fairy godmother. We're your creativity problem-solvers. We design, color, measure, cut it all for you.

A FREE GIFT IN YOUR VERY FIRST KIT 
The Welcome Kit is the very first Paper Pumpkin you will receive in your first month of membership. The Welcome Kit includes a free gift-a clear acrylic "D" block!

 

IT'S EASY TO GET STARTED
Ready to join...sign up for the program by visiting www.mypaperpumpkin.com

Click "Get It" or "Join Here" 

• Complete the online form
• Select quantity for the monthly program
• Create your ID & password
• Enter your shipping information
• Provide your payment information
• select me as your demonstrator (Susan Wood, zip code 52591)

Thank you for choosing me as your demonstrator! 
Of course, you'll want to know more. So here's the nitty gritty:

• Program starts shipping the 15th of each month.
• Each month we'll send you a unique, surprise kit with a project-cards, journals, décor, and more! (We've even color-coordinated, measured, and cut everything for you!)
• Each kit includes stamps, ink, paper, and accessories-everything but adhesive.
• Each kit gives you a 30-minute creativity escape.
• We will ship your Paper Pumpkin on or around the 15th of the month.  
• You need to sign up for a kit by the 10th of the month to get that month's kit. If you sign up on the 11th of the month, your first kit will come the next month. (Let's say you sign up on May 10th, we'll send your kit around May 15th. If you sign up on May 11th, we'll send your first kit around June 15th.)
• A Paper Pumpkin membership is $19.95 per month (and shipping is included!)

NOTE SURE YOU WANT TO COMMIT?  JUST TRY IT!

• Right now Stampin' Up! has a Try-It kit offer if you'd like to try My Paper Pumpkin for one month. See the Try It Kit below.  Learn more.
   

#132600= $16.95

The Try It kit can be ordered on line, on a customer order or on a workshop order!

QUESTIONS?  Check out these FAQ's or you may contact me.

 Visit: www.mypaperpumpkin.com to sign up today

Don't forget:  If you are my customer, please be sure to choose me,

(Susan Wood- zip code 52591) as your demonstrator during the ordering process

(It's the last step, after entering your payment information).

Busy day today......Deke & I have shots to get for our upcoming SU! trip.

And I have to get my drivers license renewed too.

Plus go to the recycling center, deliver some stamp orders, etc....

Hope the twins are good troopers today as we have lots of errands to run.

I hope you have a great Wednesday!
Happy Stamping!
SUSIE

A Happy Birthday Banner card.....

HI!
Happy Tuesday to you!

Here is another card that we did at my 'All Occasions' class. 
Notice the 'Basic Label' outline stamp?
This is a single stamp that is still available to purchase- NOW until 07/31/13!  YIPEE!

 

'Basic Label' & 'You're Amazing'

cs:  Island Indigo & Crumb Cake

Sycamore Street DP (SAB- no longer available)

ink:  Island Indigo

supplies:  Big Shot, Honeycomb Embossing folder, Apothecary Accents Framelits, Itty Bitty Shapes Punch Pack (circle), Mini Silver Brads, Paper Piercing Tool & Mat, Paper Snips, dimensionals, glue dots

WOW- I am finally just home today with my boys- looking forward to that!

Hope to get some stamping stuff done while they nap.

Tonight we sell hogs, so I'll be a farmer.

Hope you have a terrific Tuesday!

Happy Stamping!
HUGS
SUSIE 

Best of Butterflies!!!

It's a new month so the 'Best of' stamp set for April is out - Butterflies! 

Every month during 2013, Stampin' Up! is combining some of our all-time-favorite stamps with a new, never-before-seen stamp to create a monthly “Best of” stamp set.  All of the "Best of" sets are available until next year -3/3/1/14!

Item # 133345 for $14.95 (Clear mount only)

I am so excited about this one - butterflies are one of my favorite elements to add to a project.  I love the brand new butterfly on the top right.  It coordinates with our Butterfly Punch! 

Happy BEE day!

Good morning!
Happy April Fool's day! 
Gosh.....I can't believe that it is April already!

Here is a cute card that my demonstrator friend Missy Shipman originally created & sent to me.  I added another layer, but left it as her's was & cased this as one of my 'All Occasions' class cards.
This card was a huge hit with everyone!  I agree- it is adorable!

'Spring Sampler' & 'Curly & Cute'
cs:  Basic Black, Whisper White, Daffodil Delight
ink:  Black Stazon
supplies:  Big Shot, Honeycomb Embossing folder, 1" circle punch, 3/4" circle punch, dimensionals, white gel pen

We enjoyed a busy day yesterday with my side of the family!
We are blessed that we all live so close by & can get together often.

Our schools are on Spring Break today, so Manda will be home with the boys.
BUT- they have their 18 month check-up- so I'm headed to town soon to help her take them to that dr appointment this morning.  Then I have to get things put away yet from my 'All Occasions' class so that I can start working on all of my workshops & my Spring Stamp 'Til You Cramp projects that I need to get done!  I have tons of stamping that needs done!

I hope you enjoy the start to your week!
Happy Stamping!
HUGS!
SUSIE

Happy 29th Anniversary to us!

 Love you Deke!

Easter Blessings from our home to yours!

Jesus has risen for all of us.

Let us rejoice on this special day!

Here is a bunny that the boys & I made...

We sure had fun crafting!

supplies:

liquid glue, foam paper plate, cottons balls, 3/4" circle punch, 1" circle punch, large oval punch

AND then Brayden & I colored eggs.

 It was alot of fun.  The tie-dye ones were are favorites!

We also made Scotcheroos & put them into large eggs & added the chocolate on top.

Yummy!

We are off to church this morning & then to my sister Beckie's for supper with my family tonight.

I hope you enjoy your day with family & friends!

Happy Easter!

Many Blessings-

SUSIE

Here is a picture of Nathan's wrecked car!

My words to Deke when he text me last night that Nathan got wrecked...."CRAP"!  

Thank God he wasn't hurt!

The new car looks pretty bad though.

Guess the guys will be spending alot of time in the shop putting it back together.

And it was SO PRETTY before.

Oh, Whale

Good morning!

Here is one of the cards that everyone did at my 'All Occasions' card class.

I just love this little whale!

 (I will update this post in the next day or two with a supply list.)

I enjoyed supper & visiting with my friends Donna & Phyllis last night!

It has been along time since we've had the chance to get together.

The guys all went racing.

Nathan got 2nd in his heat & got wrecked in the main, so they'll be spending alot of time in the shop this week putting his car back together.
THANKFULLY Nathan wasn't hurt.

This is a quick post, as I am off to get my hair cut & then deliver stamps along the way!
Then tonight I have a date with my honey!

Nathan & April got us a gift certificate for Christmas, so we are going out to eat supper tonight to celebrate our anniversary!

Yep- tomorrow (03/31) I'll have been married to my best friend for 29 years!

It was a beautiful spring day on our wedding day too.

I don't know where the time goes.....doesn't seem like it has been that many years.

HOPING & PRAYING we have many more anniversaries to celebrate together.

I'm lucky to have such a great husband!

Heck how many husbands help their wife get ready for stamp classes?

Deke is a Big Shot pro!

Oh how I am blessed in so many ways!

I hope you have a great day!

Happy Stamping!
Hugs!
SUSIE

A NOTE FROM STAMPIN UP!

Single Stamps Extension

March 29, 2013 We originally intended to discontinue our single stamps on March 31, but they have been so popular we have decided to extend the current offering until July 31, 2013.

YIPEE!!  I'm EXCITED!! 
Aren't you?
SUSIE

Making a Difference........

Good morning!

This stamp set is called- 'Moving Forward'.

It is this fiscal years Ronald McDonald stamp set.

Stampin' UP! donates $3 from each 'Moving Forward' stamp sets that are sold to the Ronald McDonald Charities!

Stampin' UP! has donated over $1,000,000 to RMHC over the years- making a difference!

This card was one that everyone did at my 'All Occasions' class.

 'Moving Forward'

cs:  Pacific Point, Real Red, Whisper White

Brights Designer Series Paper Stack

ink:  Real Red & Pacific Point

marker:  Pacific Point

supplies:  Big Shot, 3 1/2" Circle die, 3" Circle die, 2 1/2" Circle punch, Word Window Punch, 1/4" Stitched Grosgrain Real Red ribbon, Perfect Polka Dots embossing folder, dimensionals, glue dot

BUSY WEEKEND here.....starting today.....

Yesterday was a fun & busy day with the twins & new baby piggies!

Last night Deke & I went to the hospital to visit my step-dad.  He was in good spirits, but in alot of pain.  He has a long road ahead of him with healing from his hip surgery.  He has a huge screw, several little screws & a big plate in him now to hold everything together on his hip.  I felt so sorry for him.  He is definitely in my prayers, as he begins his healing journey.

My mom was diagnosed with bladder cancer late last fall.  She did several weeks of treatment & her last tests 6 weeks ago show that she is cancer free!!  She does have to follow up with treatment every couple months for several years & starts that process today......so will be saying extra prayers for her too.

 

For today's schedule....

Manda has the day off today, so she'll get to enjoy the day home with the twins.

With my coffee in hand, I am off to my Stamp Studio to cut wedding invites for Shanoah, as she will be home this weekend & they want to get them all made.

Then I have several orders that arrived the past couple of days too that I need to get sorted, cut & bagged to get delivered.

Nathan races in Donnellson tonight so all of the guys will be going there.

I am going to visit my friend Donna, whom I haven't seen since right before Christmas.

(She was diagnosed with breast cancer last summer & has been finished with her treatments for a month.  She is doing great!!!)

Ok- gotta run....

I hope you have a fabulous Friday!

Many Blessings!

SUSIE

WOW! A GREAT DEAL RIGHT NOW! (until 3/31)

The starter kit is an AWESOME deal and it's available to EVERYONE! 

• Want to get your products at a discount??
• Want to be part of my Iowa Inkers Group??
• Want to attend Stampin' UP! Convention with me in July?
• Even if you were signed up before and dropped, you can join again!!

If you buy this kit by March 31 (this Sunday), you'll get to select 25% MORE= $156.50 (normally $125) worth of products OF YOUR CHOICE for only $99 and NO SHIPPING- you just pay the tax! 
And it will be shipped directly to your home by UPS.

It really is that simple and that easy!!  
Go to my website at www.susiewood.stampinup.net & CLICK on JOIN NOW to buy your kit. 
You select $156.50 in product of your choice for only $99 (plus tax)! 
What a HUGE value!! 
Woo Hoo!!

If you have any questions you can always contact me!
Happy Stamping!
SUSIE

A thinking of you..... 'By the Tide' card

Good morning!
Here is another cool card created with the 'By the Tide' stamp set.
This was one of my "All Occasions" class cards.
This set makes a great card for guys.

 

'By the Tide' & 'Sweet Essentials'

cs:  Crumb Cake, Chocolate Chip, Naturals Ivory

ink:  Early Espresso, Crumb Cake, Not Quite Navy

supplies:  Big Shot, Oval Accents Bigz Clear die, Paper Snips, Naturals Designer Buttons, Linen Thread, Natural 7/16" Trim Ribbon, sponge, dimensionals, glue dots

What a fun day G'ma had with all 3 of her boys yesterday......

• We made cute bunnies out of cotton balls & paper plates.
• We colored Easter Eggs.
• We made Scotcheroos & put them into large plastic eggs.
• We went out to see the baby piggies.
• We watched a movie.
• We played with toys.
• We read lots of books.  

Today we get more new baby piggies, so the twins & I will spend the morning outside on the farm.

After work (when the boys leave) I plan to run to Osky to visit my step-dad, whom had surgery on Tuesday from falling on the ice & breaking his hip.

I hope you have a nice day!

Happy Stamping!

HUGS!
SUSIE

So Sorry......another pretty card.

Good morning.
Here is a quick post......as the boys come early this morning due to Manda having an early meeting.

Love this card!!  Love this color!  Love this stamp set!  What a great sympathy card it is.

This is another one of the cards we did at my 'All Occasions' card class.  It was a big hit!

 'So Sorry'
cs:  Pool Party, Whisper White
Sycamore Street Designer Paper (SAB)
ink:  Pool Party
supplies:  Lace Paper Doiles, Paper Snips, Scyamore Street button (SAB), Large Pearl, Big Shot, Oval Framelits, dimesionals, glue dots

My step-dad (Dick) fell on the ice yesterday & was taken to the hospital in the ambulance.

He broke his hip & had surgery late yesterday afternoon.

They put a plate & a pin in it.

Please keep him in your prayers.

The twins LOVED the baby piggies yesterday.

It is so cute to see them in the farm chores & outside with us.

I took a few pictures but they didn't turn out too good.

We get more babies in tomorrow, so I'll try to get some better pictures to share.

Gotta run.....

I hope you have a great day!!

Happy Stamping!
Hugs!
SUSIE

"THIS & THAT"- Sneek Peek!

Get a sneak peek into the Stampin' Up! 2013-2014 annual catalog with the "Epic Day This and That" product line that lets you capture it all on-the-go.

WAYS TO USE THIS & THAT

This and That is great when you use all the products together, but each product is great on its own too! The Designer Series Paper is great for scrapbooking and crafters alike - and everyone will love the awesome rotary stamp. Plus, the other embellishments are so much fun. 

CLICK HERE FOR THE THIS & THAT FLYER

Item	Description	Price
131268	Epic Day This and That Journal	$10.95
130814	Epic Day This and That Designer Series Paper	$10.95
130133	Remember This and That Rotary Stamp	$5.95
131271	Epic Day This and That Designer Stickers	$4.95
131269	Epic Day This and That Designer Washi Tape	$4.95
133350	Epic Day This and That Bundle Includes the five This and That products listed above. Only available in a bundle until April 30.	$32.08 15% Off Retail Value!

Fine Print

• Stampin' Up! is introducing the line with these five products, but will be adding more This and That stuff as time goes on.
• 15% OFF Bundle Dates: March 23-April 30 (remember the items that come in the bundle will be available in the new catalog, but the discounted bundle is only available through April 30).

Good morning!

Here is another version of the card that I posted yesterday- but in a different color & I colored the stamp a little differently.

I like this one too!

This is the 'Woo Hoo' stamp that is a single stamp & will be GONE after 03/31!
'Woo Hoo'
cs:  Early Espresso, Crumb Cake, Whisper White
Brights Designer Series Paper Stack
ink:  Early Espresso
marker:  Regal Rose, Daffodil Delight
supplies:  Stitched Early Espresso ribbon, Decorative Label punch, Paper Snips, dimensionals

Yesterday my brother-in-law Dan Wood did a great job with the sermon at Aunt Pat's funeral.
We've enjoyed spending the past few days with Deke's family.
So sad that it takes someone passing to get all of the family together.

We get baby piggies in this morning so the boys & I will be out farming with Deke.
They are excited & so are we!
We love these little babies!
Then we sell hogs tonight.....so it is gonna be a long day!
Hope it isn't too cold out!
I am so ready for spring so we can go outside & play!!

Hope you have a great day!
Happy Stamping!
HUGS!
SUSIE