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This is the card I designed for my team weekend swap card. The For You Flower is punched out with our new flower punch and I've used marker to ink up the heart and text before punching them out. There are 7 new punches in the new Idea Book & Catalogue. Can't wait for my order for myself to arrive to play with even more of them!

The Designer Series Paper is the Newsprint design but this card would look good in any colour combination. I think I'll try it with Greenhouse Gala paper tomorrow.

THERE’S NO BETTER TIME TO JOIN AS A STAMPIN’ UP! DEMONSTRATOR!

"Join Stampin’ Up! during the month of September and get a complete set of In Colors – that’s Classic Stampin’ Pads™, Stampin’ Write™ Markers, and an assortment of card stock – completely FREE along with your demonstrator Starter Kit. The Starter Kit has over $515 worth of stamping and business supplies and is always a great deal at only $289. Add the value of the free In Colors ($84.90), and there is no better time to become a Stampin’ Up! demonstrator!"

WOW! This is possibly the biggest recruiting special we've ever have had. Add to that the 30% discount you'll get on your first order over $300 (within 45 days of signing) and September is looking like an amazing month to sign up!

Signing up is easy and can be done online in under an hour. That means that an hour from reading this post you could be placing your own discounted order from the new Idea Book & Catalogue.

Alternatively I can mail you the paperwork or you can print it off from Stampin' Up!s website (at the moment they still have last year's forms there). If you want to do it online you need to head to my SU! business site (link on right hand side of blog) and click on the "Start Your Own Business" button. You'll need my recruiting password too which is "TheINKlings".

If you'd like further information about becoming a demonstrator or would just like to chat about what's involved just contact me today for further information - all obligation free.

Here it is! The 2010 - 2011 Idea Book & Catalogue is here! Click here or on the image above to view or download the catalogue online. It's a gorgeous catalogue with lots and lots of new products. There are 60 brand new stamp sets, 7 new punches, heaps of new ribbons, new colours, new accessories..... can you tell I'm excited!

If you'd like a real life copy of the catalogue just contact me today and for just $15 I'll mail one out to you. If you're local to me feel free to drop in and pick up your copy.

If you're free on Wednesday 15th September come and join in the fun of my Idea Book & Catalogue launch and have a play with some of the new products. There are a few spaces left.

With so many new accessories I will be holding customer shares of products over the next few months. Subscribe to my monthly newsletter to make sure you don't miss out on any of the shares. Newsletter subscribers also recieve other benefits in shares.

This month I've three shares. Designer Series Papers, Buttons and the Satin Ribbons. You can sign up for one, two or all three shares. Each share will be ordered once the group has filled. Postage charged will be actual postage costs to you.

Designer Series Paper share $30 (pages 124- 127) A 6"x6"piece of each of the designs in each pack of Designer Series Paper and Speciality Designer Series Paper. 78 pieces altogether.

Satin Ribbon Share $29.00 (page 137) An eighth share of each of the 13 satin ribbons. Approximately 1.7m of each colour.

Button Share $17.50 (page138) A 1/4 share of all 4 button packs (72 buttons, 24 colours)

Contact me today to book your spot in the share. Payment is by cash, cheque or direct deposit.

The Last Chance List is quickly coming to an end. Stampin' Up! have announced this morning that to make room for new product they are offering a final discount on some products. Here's their announcement:

"Before we welcome many exciting new stamps and accessories, we need to make room in our warehouse by clearing out some high-inventory last-chance items. For the first (and probably last) time ever, we’ve added a select number of additional discounted last-chance items for the final days of the promotion. The Last Chance promotion ends 31 August, 2010. All items are only available while supplies last, and with these discounts, they won’t last long! Get your orders in soon, before these products are gone forever!"

These items are only available whilst stocks last. Contact me today to place your order before it's too late.

As promised here are some photos from The INKlings 2010 team weekend.

I had a fantastic time and can't thank enough the wonderful team members I have that made the weekend a very special one. This year 27 of us headed off for a weekend of stamping, relaxation, laughter and a time to catch up with each other.

Whilst I love Convention there is something very special about the team weekend and that's the chance to sit with my team and chat. It was really great to get to know new team members who were attending on their first team weekend.

We have a very creative team and the standard of work for the swaps and entries in the challenges was incredible. I'm sure once September 1st arrives you'll start to see team members sharing the work they created on their own blogs.

So what happens on a team weekend? Everyone arrives on Friday evening, some as early as 5pm others a few hours later. Stamping starts straight away! During the weekend there are card in a box swaps, team quizzes, informal demonstrations and sketch and colour challenges - all completely optional.

Accommodation is in school camp style lodges but there is a choice of single, twin or quad share rooms. All meals are provided from supper on Friday to lunch on Sunday - add to that the yummy baked goods that team members bring along and we're very well catered for! Sadly the weekend finishes at 3pm on the Sunday.

This time there have been lots of requests for the weekend to happen twice a year! I think I might just have to do that!

Here's a shot of everyone who attended just before we had to pack up and leave.

Each year I like to make all the attendees a small gift. This year I made origami boxes from the new Designer Series Paper - Newsprint (available Sept 1st). Inside I stamped on a glass tealight holder using stazon and added some black ribbon and a candle.

If you've been thinking about signing up to become a demonstrator we'd love you to join The INKlings and come along to our next team weekend too.

Not sure why this post didn't appear yesterday as I'd set it to do so whilst I was away on my team weekend. Anyway here it is. For this card I used the embossed lines to ground the two trees from Trendy Trees. I added some Rich Razzleberry ribbon and it was finished.

Check back tomorrow to find out what we got up to on our team weekend. It was a fantastic time away with lots of amazing women.

I was really happy with the way this card turned out. I used the Blooms die cut flowers and Button Latte buttons to make a quick card. The embossed lines are made using the embossing blade on my trimmer.

The Blooms die cuts (page 144) are 50% off on the Last Chance List. Just $8.25 a packet.

In a few minutes I'm off for my team weekend. I've not yet photograped the team gifts so will try to remember to do so when I get there!

Check back tomorrow to see another card that uses embossed lines to great effect.

Are you like me? Do you look through the catalogue and find that you're drawn to particular stamp sets because of the sample cards. Do you see a set in a new catalogue and love it and are surprised to find that it was in the catalogue last year too but the samples didn't appeal to you as much!

The set I used in these cards, A Flower For All Seasons, was not a set I was initially drawn to but I received it at Convention 2009 as a reward set. I haven't used it a lot but decided that it was a nice small set I could take away with me on my craft weekend. Now I'm wishing I'd used it earlier! I made two sets like this and they'll be packaged up as gifts for the boys' school teachers.

At $24.95 for the whole set it's fantastic value. Contact me today if you'd like to place an order.

With two boys I always need boys' birthday cards! So I decided to make a few the same. Using the Just Cricket set and some patterned paper for grass I now have a few cards on hand.

Calling all fellow demonstrators!

Do you have a large pile of sample cards that you won't be able to use after the new catalogue comes out? They might have retiring cardstock, stamp sets or accessories.

I certainly do so I contacted Camp Quality to see if they could use them in any way.

As it happens, at the end of September they have a stall at a fair where they will be able to sell the cards and raise funds for the charity.

I'd love to be able to drop off a large box of cards for them to use.

Ideally I'd like to receive them with envelopes but that's not essential. I can add envelopes for you.

My mailing address is:

Jayne Mercer
29 Hazelmead Road
Asquith NSW 2077

Thanks to everyone in advance.

PS Thank you to everyone that has sent me punched butterflies and stars. I've got a lovely box full to take to the hospital on my next visit.