Follow Your Art Suite Day 7 OnStage Sneak Peek Week

Hello and welcome to my blog; today I am going to share a really fun card that we made last weekend at OnStage Charlotte using the Follow Your Art Suite in the upcoming 2019 Stampin' Up! Annual Catalog.  This catalog will release to customers in June.  I just wanted to share with you a little sneak peek at the make & takes that we made during the week. 
This suite of products where designed with crafters in mind.  You have such fun images both in the stamp set and the designer series paper.  We used both on this make and take.  We will take a little closer look at some of the products a little further down in this post. 

In the stamp set you have this wonderful stack of ribbon that has this wonderful ribbon heart coming off one spool.  This is such a great image to show how much you love crafting.   The images also have a lot of different craft tools in it that you create customized cards for any crafter.  The image below will give you a little look at what's in the suite.  There are some fun products inside.  

You can see how using these products can lead to creating a wonderful card.  Or if you wanted to create a bunch of cards you could use the embellishment kit along with a set of note cards and stamp the sentiment and use the embellishments alone on the cards.  Place them back in the box and you have a great gift to give.  But that's a post for another time; I guess we need to be talking about the make & take I did right.  

You all know if you follow me that I do love stamping the background of the card base sometimes and when we did this at OnStage it just made my heart sing.  I can't wait to play with this suite a little more.  Remember that these products I've been showing you this week are not available yet.  As a customer you want be able to get them until June; but if you join my Kinsmon Crafter Family you can preorder select products in May from the 2019 Stampin' Up! Annual Catalog.  If you are interested in doing so you can contact me and I will be happy to answer any questions or you can simply click here on the FAQ page on my website.  

Thanks for dropping by today, I hope that you have a Happy Easter Holiday and I hope that you have enjoyed my little sneak peek of the make & takes we made at OnStage over the last weekend.  

Happy Stampin' 

Rick Adkins 

Come Sail Away OnStage Make & Take Sneak Peek Week Day 6

Hello and welcome to my blog;  If you haven't been watching I've been sharing all week the make & takes and sneak peeks from the new 2019 Stampin Up! Annual catalog that I made at OnStage over the past weekend from Onstage Charlotte.  Today, I am going to share the make and take for the Come Sail Away Suite in the new catalog, but before I do let me just say that these items will not be available till June. 
This fun little note card maybe small in size but delivers big impact.  The background is a mix of both designer series paper, watercolor panel, and stamped images. 

The multiple layers on this little note card are what gives a huge impact!  You have watercoloring, designer series paper, fuzzy cutting, embellishments, stamped images all on this little card that can be mailed.  Here's a look at the suite.

There are pretty much everything in this suite of products, I mean you have wonderful designer series paper, pretty embellishments, baker's twine, Stamp set, and matching dies as well as a new embossing folder.  This was one of the suites that was a must have for me because of the stamp set and the designer series paper.  You can take it masculine to feminine just by what you decide to use. 

Just remember that these products are not available until June 2, to customers, but demonstrators can get things earlier like a month before it goes live.  So if you want to have these products before hand you can totally get them by joining my stamping family.  Being able to order new products before anyone else is a great perk to being a demonstrator plus you get a 20% discount on future orders and the possibility of taking that to 25%.  So if you are interested you can read more about being a demonstrator by clicking here.   The big thing to know about being a demonstrator is to think of it like a Costco or Sam's Club membership with one except.  The exception is instead of only getting a god awful little photo ID worse than your driver licence photo can be; but you get products at a discount which is way better than just the photo id. 

Thanks for dropping by today, for another OnStage Sneak Peak, I have one more for you tomorrow, but I will have a simple stamping post for you later today. 

Happy Stampin' 

Rick Adkins

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Perennial Essence Suite OnStage Sneak Peek Week Day 5

Hello and welcome to my blog for day five of my OnStage Sneak Peek week.  This week I have been sharing with you little sneak peeks of products and samples that we got to see and make last weekend while I was attending the Local OnStage in Charlotte North Carolina.  So today I am going to share with you probably one of my favorite suites in the new catalog.  I am going to share with you the card we made using the products from the Perennial Essence Suite.  Here's a look at the card we did as a Make & Take. 

There are some great products in this suite!  You have new colored vellum, beautiful designer series paper inspired by the Impressionist painters of the 19th century, cute little embellishments, and a wonderful stamp set.   The Floral Essence Stamp Set features lovely sentiments and wonderful floral images great for anyone's style of crafting.

The Floral Essence stamp set also has a matching punch as you can see on the card we made.  When the new catalog comes out in June You will be able to get both the stamp set and punch in a cost saving bundle. 

Buy the way if you want to receive a free 2019 Stampin' Up! Annual Catalog I send them Free to my customers that have ordered from me in the last six months.  If you would like a free copy all you have to do is place a order in my online store and you will be on the list.   Or I can send you an invoice for $6 and I will be glad to pop one in the mail to you.  Catalogs will not start shipping until mid May.  We can not even order them until the first of May. 

If you think you are seeing fuzzy centers on the vellum flowers you would be correct.  This is one of the embellishments that will be coming out soon!  And, they are perfect for the flower centers, I will let you know if they fit the Daisy Stamp Sets.  Can you see that fabulous designer series paper on this card.  OMG! It's so pretty in person. I think I feel in love with this pack of paper due to my love of Monet's waterlily paintings.  This pack of wonderful yumminess features impressionistic details and the images used to create it was hand painted by one of the designers at Stampin' Up!. 

In the image above you can see a little sneak peek of not only this floral infused pack of designer series paper but a little look at the new 12 x 12 colored vellum as well. 

In closing let me remind you that you want be able to get these products until the catalog goes live in June.  I think it's June 2nd but I will have to double check my dates to be sure.  If you are looking at these products and thinking I need them before that; well you can do it by joining my team.  If you join now you will be able to preorder new products in May a full month before it goes live to everyone.  That's just one of the  perks to being a demonstrator not to mention you will get to save 20% on that and all future orders.  So for $99 you can pick $125 worth of product in your starter kit and then in May preorder select items in the new 2019 Annual catalog.  IF you would like to learn more you can click on the tabs under the join button at the top of my blog.  There you will find a lot of information that will help answer all your questions, if you still have questions or need help contact me and we can talk about it.  By the way I forgot to mention that your starter kit ships free.  If you already know you would like to take advantage of this great deal click the image below to start the process of signing up and picking out the items in your starter kit.  You can also add items on the last chance list to your kit and save more. 

Happy Stampin' 

Rick Adkins 

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Bird Ballad Suite 2019 Annual Catalog Sneak Peek Day 3

Hello and welcome to my blog; today I am going to share with you one of the Make & Takes we made at OnStage Local in Charlotte over the past weekend.  If you don't know what OnStage is well it's a Stampin' Up! Event for demonstrators where we get to see new products from the new catalog plus learn a few new things along the way.  These are great events and so much fun!  One because you get to see the new things but two because you get to see friends you've made along the way and meet new ones as well.
Today, I am going to share the card we made featuring the Bird Ballad Suite in the new catalog.  The new 2019-2020 Annual Catalog will not be live until June, but as a demonstrator you can order a full month before that, unless you attended OnStage event either Live or Local then you get to order two months before.  Which is a big perk to be able to get things and play with them before hand.  Here's a look at the card we made using products from this new suite.

The Bird Ballad Suite of products features a beautiful Free As A Bird Stamp Set, gorgeous designer series paper, and much much more.   On the make & take we used the new Stamp Set, Designer Series paper and the new Lace Ribbon.  I loved how easily the lace tied and made wonderful bows, I can see these products used for a wide range of cards from Weddings, to birthdays and so much more.  Here's a look at the stamp set.

The Free As a Bird stamp set is a cling mount set which features our classic red rubber, and have wonderful spring time images that are great for your favorite coloring media.  The line art is perfect and just begging to be colored.  The Bird Ballad designer Series paper in this suite was created by one of the artist at Stampin' Up!.  Who hand colored each image with our Stampin' Blends and then photographed each image.  Then the graphic Department designer used Photoshop and made into the fabulous designer series paper you see here.  This is a cool process and they have shared with us in the past a video how the designer series papers have been made.

The Bird Ballad Suite also features embellishments, a wonderful card tin with laser cut note cards, and the new stitched label dies.  I will share more on each product as the release of the new catalog gets closer.  If you are loving what you are seeing in this suite and can not wait to get it before June, you can join my Stampin' Family and add these products in your preorder in May as a new demonstrator and Kinsmon Crafter family member.

As you can tell this is a bright fun suite that will make your heart sing with excitement.  I can not wait to share more with you about this suite in the near future.  Again you will not be able to get these products until June unless you sign up and join my team of crafters.  You can see all the benefits of joining my team here. 
If you already know you have to have it all and your wish list is growing every day I encourage you to sign up and join just for the discount.  You don't have to blog, run a business, or even host events its all up to you.  All you have to do is join and enjoy the 20% discount on new and returning products.  Becoming a demonstrator was the best move I have ever made.  I have so many new crafty friends and never feel alone.  Not to mention I get to share what I love and Love what I do as I help others enjoy worthwhile accomplishments.  For this has truly made a difference in my life as well as others. 
In closing I hope that you have enjoyed this little walk through of the Bird Ballad Suite of products and that you will take the time and consider joining my little crafty family.  Think of joining Stampin' Up! as a Costco or Sam's Club membership except you don't get the god awful picture id card but a discount on the wonderful products you must likely already love and use. 

Happy Stamping 

Rick Adkins 

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