IT'S A MAGICAL PAPER ESCAPE EVERY MONTH!

I'm Paper Pumpkin . . .

I come to your door each month (a fully decked-out creativity carriage). I'll help you to escape your life with some paper fun.

I come in a sweet box, but you'll really love what you find on the inside:

All the stamps, ink, paper, and accessories to create pinable projects. Create stuff like cards, journals, décor, and more!

Paper Pumpkin by Stampin' Up! is a new monthly kit program that anyone (even you) can enjoy!

Get Started

It's so easy to get started. Simply sign up for the program by visiting mypaperpumpkin.com and click Get it. Every month a new, surprise project kit arrives at your doorstep. Just think of the anticipation of creating a fun project to pin, showoff, and share with your friends and family#every month!

Of course, you'll want to know more. So here's the nitty gritty:

• Each month we 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 and your customer 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 10, we'll send your kit around May 15. If you sign up on May 11, we'll send your first kit around the June 15.)
• A Paper Pumpkin membership is $19.95 per month (and shipping is included!) The commissionable amount is $14.95 for each Paper Pumpkin.  There's no commitment, you can cancel your monthly Paper Pumpkin at anytime. You can also skip a month if you want.
• Starting in early March, we'll offer a Try-It kit if you'd like to try Paper Pumpkin for one month.

For a more detailed FAQ, click here.

Learn more details about using Paper Pumpkin in your business-click here.

Holiday Tag it Bundles

Click here to see the flyer!

Our two Tag It bundles include the tags, the ribbon, and the boxes to make your own prettypackages.

Item	Description	Price	Includes
135811	Holiday Tag It Decorative BoxBundle	$19.95	Stamp a Tag Kit Cherry Cobbler 1" Stitched Edge Grosgrain Ribbon (10 yards) Decorative Window Gift Boxes (6 boxes)
135812	Holiday Tag It Extra-Large Box Bundle	$18.95	Stamp a Tag Kit Cherry Cobbler 1" Stitched Edge Grosgrain Ribbon (10 yards) Extra-Large Gift Boxes (3 boxes)

The two Holiday Tag It Bundles are only available October 29-November 19, 2013.

Get Ready for Digital Scrapbooking Days!

The official Digital Scrapbooking Day is Saturday, November 2. But one day just isn't enough, so we're celebrating for eight!

Here's what we have lined up: 

1. Guest bloggers: A talented group of demonstrators, customers, and designers from around the industry will share project inspiration on the blog. 
2. FREE download: Be sure to check in on Saturday, November 2 to get your freebie.
3. Videos: We'll share some more ideas with training videos to help you get started. 
4. Daily deals: Every day, we'll feature a new download for 50% off! 
5. Challenges: Use the daily deal download to create a project for your chance to win free downloads. (Upload your samples to the gallery with the matching tag to enter.)

Here's the list of daily deal downloads: 

• 11/1 Amped Up Ampersands Kit
• 11/2 Hello There Kit + FREE Moments Ago Stamp Brush Set
• 11/3 All Time Fave Photobook Template
• 11/4 Modern Medley Overlays Kit
• 11/5 Be Brave Pocket Cards
• 11/6 Nobody's Business Photobook Template
• 11/7 Autumn Traditions Kit
• 11/8 Afternoon Daydream Kit

It's all happening at MyDigitalStudio.net! Join us every day for all the fun!!

Spooky Banner

Crafting can be dangerous lol. While putting together this Halloween Banner I had a little accident with hot glue. Yep pulled some skin off my finger, but my project came out looking fabulous! ;)

As you might have noticed in a previous entry, I made a Christmas banner at the Stampalooza event earlier this month. I had so much fun making it I decided to try some left over paaper from last Halloween for this banner.

Here is a closer look. The rossette circles can be made using our rossette die, but I just made mine by hand. Yes it took just a minute. lol I followed the color scheme from the designer paper but thought it needed just a little some thing to make it pop. So I used green glitter chipboard letters and the spider that caused my burn incident lol. 

I used regular twine to link the letters together and finished it off with a little ribbon. This project is even easier to complete with our new Build a Banner kit in the Holiday Mini!

Thanks for stopping by...

Erika

Christmas Stamp-a-Stack

Here are photos of the cards we made this Saturday @ the Stamp a Stack. Enjoy!

Stamps: Evergreen

Paper: Whisper White, Brushed Gold, Glossy White,  Champagne Glimmer Paper

Ink: Pink Pirouette Basic Black Marker, Versamark

Accessories: 1 3/4 Scallop Circle Punch, Gold Embossing Powder, 1/2 in circle punch, heat gun

Stamps: Christmas Messages

Paper: Cherry Cobbler, Whisper White, Season of Style DSP, Old Olive 

Ink: Cherry Cobbler

Accessories: Season of Style Washi Tape, Chevron Border Punch, Baked Brown Sugar Ruffle Stretch Trim

Stamps: Christmas Messages

Paper: Cherry Cobbler, Crumb Cake, Season of Style Designer Series Paper Stack, Whisper White

Ink: Old Olive

Accessories: 1 3/4 Scallop Circle punch, 1 1/4 Circle punch, dimemsionals, Basic Jewels

Stamps: Lovely as a Tree (on of my favs ;) ), Greeting of the Season

Paper: Crumb Cake, Always Artichoike, Whisper Whie, Season of Style DSP

Ink: Always Artichoke, Cherry Cobbler

Accessories: Cherry Cobbler Twine, dimensionals

I loved doing these cards because at first glance they look a little difficult but I thought they were super easy!!! Thank you to all of the wonderful ladies that attended!

Thanks for stopping by...

Erika

Only 2 days left...

For two weeks only—October 7-21—join the Stampin’ Up! family for just $25! It’s an amazing opportunity to do what you already love doing anyway—and make a little money doing it (that never hurts!).

When you join Stampin’ Up! during this limited-time offer, you’ll get

• $25 worth of products, plus business supplies!
• A 30 percent discount on your first order!*
• A 20 percent demonstrator discount everyday!

Plus, the friendships you’ll make with other demonstrators, customers, and hostesses, will be lifelong. Enjoy the benefits of fun, friends, and creativity!

In our 25th year, celebrate with us with the $25 starter kit. Visit www.erikaacker.stampinup.net to get started today!

Stampalooza Photos

I attended Stampalooza on Saturday and thought you all might like to see what we made...

Don't forget about our awesome sign-up special!!! Become a Stampin'Up! demonstrator for only $25!!!!

This is a really fun and cute album that took about ten minutes to make. This would make a great brag book for gift giving. I am going to make some baby shower books to give as gifts! I think I'll make one for Xmas too!

 

 

A couple of Chrismas cards

This is a small gift card holder with a card to match.

Another Christmas card

For this card, we used a small baggie filled with hair gel to give this card an aquatic look.

These two projects were done with a lot of embossing. A nice card and gift.

A smiple but cute card.

Here is a birthday card using our Thinlits circle die.

Simple and easy gift tags.

A very cute and easy to make gift package.

Thanks for looking.....

Holiday "Joy" Banner

  

This has to be my absolute favorite project that we made at Stampalooza!!! This banner can be created for an occasion. The Build a Banner Simply Created kit comes with 18 canvas pennants, six each of 3 designs, 9' of jute twine, and alphavet and image stencils...a great buy for only $19.95!

Keep watching my blog for more holiday and occasions banners!

Bring on the parties and FREE products!

Get $25 extra hostess dollars when you have a qualifying* party. That’s $65 in free 
products for you (instead of the $40 standard amount)! It’s Stampin’ Up!’s 25th anniversary so let’s bring on the parties and free products! party more. get more.

*$250 in party sales before tax and shipping. October 1-31

Stampin' Up! is making it affordable for everyone to join my team!!!

Ever wanted to become a demonstrator but didn't think you could afford it????? Well now you can!! For only $25 you too can be a Stampin'Up demonstrator!!It's so easy and it's a lot of super fun!!!! But don't wait too long..this fabulous offer is only good for two weeks (October 7-21)

The $25 Starter Kit includes

• $26.95 worth of Stampin' Up! product (it must be more than $25, but not more than $26.95 before tax)

• Business pack which includes

• A box of annual catalogs

• A package of the current seasonal catalog

• Getting Started DVD

• Customer Order Forms

• Customer postcards

Plus there are a lot more benefits... just email or call me for details!! I would love to have you on my team!!! 

PS. You don't have to be "creative" or "a crafty person" to be on my team. And best of all... you get a discount EVERYTIME you spend. I don't know about you but I LOVE geting a discount!!!

Thinlits card dies!!!

Item	Description	Price
133479	Label Card Thinlits Die	$32.95
133480 The main shape in the cards (circle and label) can work with a lot of our stamp images so you can create tons of different kinds of cards using many different stamp sets. Here are just a few suggestions to get you started: Label Card Thinlits Die (item 133479): Happy Day Stamp Set (item 130294 W item 130297 C) Circle Card Thinlits Die (item 133480): Worth the Wait Stamp (item 131094 W) Five-Way Flower Stamp (item 131088 W) Both card dies pair well with: Oh, Hello Stamp Set (item 131931 W item 130733 C) Yippee-Skippee! Stamp Set (item 131341 W item 131344 C) Really Good Greetings Stamp Set (item 130330 W item 130333 C) Regarding Dahlias Stamp Set (item 130324 W item 130327 C) These dies also work well with our new magnetic platform (item 130658) so you can place the dies exactly where you want them! 3480	Circle Card Thinlits Die	$32.95