Hostess Incentive Inspiration and Double Dipping with American Crafts
Aloha! It's Gia here for Creative Friday...happy dance-- the weekend is coming! Party time! Speaking of parties--have you had one yet this month? This time of year is such a fun time of year to get together with your scrapbooking and paper crafting friends to share the excitement of the new catalog and inspiration for the upcoming season! Who wouldn't want to make 'n take a card or a treat bag and maybe drink a little hot tea, cocoa, or my favorite-spiced cider- with good friends? If you haven't seen this month's fabulous make 'n take by Megan Peacock-Team Works on the Memory Works Studio make sure you check it out!
Today I thought I would demonstrate one way I have used the Amy Tangerine Yes Please Embroidery templates that are October's Hostess Incentive** for qualifying Memory Works party orders.
**Party orders of $150 (retail) minimum, WSL
As some of you may know, I am sewing impaired. I need all the help I can get when it comes to hand stitching or machine stitching on my cards and layouts. I love the look of stitching but I was afraid I would totally mess up my design if I tried to stitch directly on my card front. I used scraps to make my first attempts at embroidering some of Amy's fun designs and cut them out to use on my cards as embellishments. The speech bubble was a little easier for me than the feather (which I pretty much messed up royally!) But I was so tickled with how it looked on some Maggie Holmes gold doily vellum that I used it anyway!
And this is why I am loving American Crafts!
Many of their products including the
Crate Paper collections (Maggie Holmes and their Christmas lines) the
Amy Tangerine Lines,
Dear Lizzy lines, and probably others I am forgetting- have color pallettes, patterns, and embellishments that coordinate from one collection to the next released collection. What do I mean by this? Let's say you loved and already have
Amy Tangerine's Yes Please collection and are drooling over the new
Cut &Paste line. You can stretch your supplies by using leftovers together with new stuff! And it just so happens that many of these coordinating lines (from Winter and Summer CHA releases) are still available on the Memory Works website- with the older ones
on sale! But once the clearance items are gone- they are gone forever. So don't wait- it's the perfect time of year to have what I call a
double dipping party! You can buy awesome stuff on clearance that you can use in your projects together with some brand spanky new stuff!
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