Lakeshore Stamper

Stampin' Up! Specials & Promotions

Want to earn more FREE stuff?  Stampin' Up! is offering TWO promotions and ONE special offer!  Read on for more information!

FREE WHEELIN' PROMOTION

From March 18 through April 30, when you buy a preselected stamp set, you’ll receive the coordinating jumbo wheel absolutely FREE (an $8.50 value)!  Listed below are the stamp sets and jumbo wheels included in each bundle.  Contact me today at mtroy@fairpoint.net to take advantage of this free wheel promotion!  To view the official flyer for this promotion, click here.

Item Number	Description	Price
112848	Wonderful You bundle Includes Wonderful You stamp set and free Stems & Silhouettes jumbo wheel	$33.95
112851	Life's a Breeze bundle Includes Life's a Breeze stamp set and free Something Fishy jumbo wheel	$29.95
112850	Pun Fun bundle Includes Pun Fun stamp set and free Sweet Stars jumbo wheel	$30.95
112847	Year after Year bundle Includes Year after Year stamp set and free See You Around jumbo wheel	$30.95
112849	Stitched Exotics bundle Includes Stitched Exotics stamp set and free It's Beautiful jumbo wheel	$33.95
112853	Enjoy Every Moment bundle Includes Enjoy Every Moment stamp set and free Daisy Dash jumbo wheel	$29.95

HOSTESS PROMOTION

From March 18 through April 30, hostesses can earn an extra $25 in free merchandise when they host a workshop totaling $350 or more.  Contact me today at mtroy@fairpoint.net to take advantage of this hostess promotion and schedule your workshop or catalog party!  To view the official flyer for this promotion, click here.

WILD FOR WASABI SPECIAL PRODUCT OFFER

From March 1 through April 30, you can purchase a specially-priced Wild Wasabi card stock pack for only $3.95--that's 16 sheets of pre-cut (4-1/2" x 11-1/2") and pre-scored (at 1-1/8" and 5-5/8") Wild Wasabi textured card stock that can be used to make all kinds of fun and easy cards and projects!  For samples and instructions click here.

To take advantage of this special, limited-time offer, contact me at mtroy@fairpoint.net!

I've Been Tagged...

I have been tagged by Vickie at Stamping Ever After. Please check her blog out, she has some absolutely beautiful cards!  Thanks Vickie for your kind words about my blog and for tagging me! Here are the rules (they are simple):

1. Link to the person that tagged you.
2. Post the rules on your blog.
3. Share six non-important things/habits/quirks about yourself.
4. Tag six random people at the end of your post by linking to their blogs.
5. Let each person know they've been tagged by leaving a comment on their site.

Now, here are my 6 non-important things/habits/quirks!

1. I am the most unorganized person!  I'm a "piler" not a "filer".  Funny thing is my two best friends are so organized they are "anal" about it.  LOL!  I do aspire to be like them, but I just never can get to that point.
2. I use to work at a Help Desk and was known as "Queen of all Knowledge"!  I used to know WordPerfect like the back of my hand.
3. I am a perfectionist...I will admit.  Funny, how could I be a perfectionist and be so unorganized? 
4. I started dating/going steady with my husband when I was 15.  We were together for 8 years before we got married.  We have been happily married for 20 years!
5. I used to collect bunnies and used to get teased in college about some day I would have twins (because bunnies always have large litters).  Well, guess what?  I had twin girls 18 years ago!  The doctor told me it was a 1 in 80 chance of having twins in your first pregnancy.  The chance of having twins in your second pregnancy (after already having twins) is 1 in 20!  Well, guess you know we did not have any more children!  I figured if I could hit 1 in 80, I would most likely hit the 1 in 20, besides that my DH found out that his great grandmother had 3 sets of twins!  Yikes!
6. Here's a bit of the 6 degrees of Patrick Dempsey "Dr. McDreamy" - His sister married a 3rd or 4th cousin of mine and I remember seeing him dancing all by himself at the reception (he was probably around 10). They were divorced a few years later.  Then his sister bought my grandmother's house here in my home town, which I have been told he helped knocked down a wall.  She sold the house, and then that person recently sold the house to my niece.  So that's my fame to Dr. McDreamy.

Now it is my turn to tag six other great blogging ladies!!  Please check out their blogs.

1. Debbie Sayer, A Peek Into My Stamping Room
2. Dawn Griffith, Dawns Stamping Thoughts
3. Nicole Kowalk, Under the INKfluence
4. Jennifer Orbaker, StampingNurse
5. Michelle Fischer, The Stamp Workshop
6. Stacey, Creative Awakenings

Easter Eggs and Pail with Stampin' Up! Sale-a-bration Rub-ons

This week I've been playing around with my FREE Sale-a-bration Rub-ons.  What is better then FREE stuff!!!

I found this pail in my stash of craft items.  I believe I bought it at Target in the dollar spot a few months ago.  It was just a plain lime green tin pail, until I used my Crop-a-Dile to punch holes around the top, then I added some "retired" SU! flower eyelets (both large and small ones).  I've had those eyelets sitting around for a few years...I needed to use them up on something!  Cause when they were in the catalog I hoarded them, now that they are not in the catalog I need to use them up.

Next I added the "friend" piece of the Sale-a-bration rub-ons.  And then added the little butterfly above the word "friend". Want to see the other side of the pail?

For this side, I used the large flower rub-on.  This was so easy to do! I can't decide which side I like better.  Which side do you like better, the "friend" or the "flower"?  Leave me a comment and let me know.

As for the eggs...I bought them at the Christmas Tree Shop a month ago.  They are pretty marble eggs and very heavy.  I had to put several layers of tissue paper in the pail just to support them!  Below you will see close-up pictures of each egg.  You'll notice that I sometimes I layer the green rub-ons on top of the while rub-ons and vice versa.  I think it gave the flowers some depth and I really like the way they look.  The purple egg I went all the way around the center of the egg with flowers, but then ran out of the size flowers I was using (yeah...OK, I did not plan it out, I was just designing on a whim).  So I ended up using a larger while flower and then layered a green outlined flower on top.  I also used a piece of vine and leaf from the 12" long vine and flowers.