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The new standard Starter Kit is here! Now, every new Stampin' Up! demonstrator can create a customized Starter Kit for just $99. This is just one of the ways Stampin' Up! is demonstrating the My Way philosophy of doing business-by making the Starter Kit completely customizable.
With the new, flexible Starter Kit, you can customize your creativity- your way. Each kit contains a business supplies pack (valued at $65)-things that every demonstrator needs to start their business. After that, the choice is yours to put together a kit with any of our high-quality products. You can choose $125 worth of any traditional or digital supplies to create a kit valued at over $190 that still ships for free!
We're excited to announce that Creating Keepsakes magazine has named Stampin' Up!'s wood- and clear-mount rubber stamps as one of its Top 10 Tools for 2011!
While Stampin' Up! has long been recognized in the stamping and crafting industry for producing high-quality rubber stamps and exclusive images in a variety of artistic styles, being recognized by Creating Keepsakes is just another validation that when you choose Stampin' Up! products, you are choosing the best!
Yesterday we had to take Katie to the Kansas City airport- yep an almost 4 hour drive one way and it was about 63 degrees and windy/overcast/rainy up there all day. We left home at 1 am as her flight left at 6:40 and they want you there about 2 hours early- ugh! After dropping her off, Kay and I went to Waffle House for breakfast (that in my opinion, wasn't all that great) and then we went to the Independence Visitor's Center for the LDS Church and parked in the parking lot and took a long nap! lol
We then visited with the Missionaries in the center, got directions to Richmond and headed on our trip home. We got as far as Historic Downtown Independence and saw a Covered Wagon with mules pulling it and decided to take the 45 minute History trip. WOW! Am I glad we did! That Mule skinner was fabulous with his tales of Missouri History and it began to to be more clearmo- a lot of the Church History we have from Missouri but that still doesn't make it "right" the way those pioneers were treated here in this state. We also stopped at every Antique store we saw on the way home until it was after 5 and they were closed. The weather was VERY crisp and damp with some bits of rain yesterday. It got as high as 63 degrees. We decided after taking the wagon tour that it was to cold to head to Richmond and we would save it for another day.
I would recommend this Missouri History trip to EVERYONE and we will be taking the longer trip next time! We heard about Harry Truman, Andrew Jackson, Quantrell's Raiders and more! This guy is a fabulous Story teller and really brings history to life. His Business is called Pioneer Trails Adventures
Here is a Fall Card we made for Class that I had forgotten to post- I love our Wednesday Card classes! I teach all kinds of techniques and we have show and tell! It's from 10:30 am to 11:30 or 12 depending on how long we chat! The class is only $5.00 per person and you can usually purchase an extra kit for $3.00 and make a 2nd card to give away. I know how you all like to keep the card you made in class! lol
I used:
#123804 Gently Falling Clear Mount Stamp set
#124066 Spice Cake Designer Fabrics
#102283 Versamark Ink for the Emboss Resist Technique
# #119670 Early Espresso Ink for the Stamped Off Technique
#119783 Peach Parfait Ink for the Sponging Highlights
# 102892 Sponge Daubers
# 109521 En Francais' Background stamp
# 100730 Whisper White Cardstock
# 119686 Early Espresso Cardstock
#122924 Pool Party In Color Cardstock
#113439 Big Shot
#123129 Fancy Fan Letter Press Plate
#114615 Silicone Rubber Pad
#114614 Standard Texturx Impressions Pad
A very fun and quick easy card! These would make fabulous Invitations for a wedding shower, wedding, birthday, thank you, Fall party, Thanksgiving dinner or just a plain Thanksgiving card to say hello to friends and family!
A freind of mine sent me a bunch of photos of the flattened Stake Center of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Joplin Missouri, I will share a few photos and put the rest in an album on the right side just heartbreaking
Here is a link from our local TV Station with more photos of the area/buildings etc
Today only ruins remain of Capernaum, that city by the lakeshore, heart of the Savior’s Galilean ministry. Here He preached in the synagogue, taught by the seaside, and healed in the homes.
At the beginning of His ministry, Jesus took a text from Isaiah: “The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound” (Isaiah 61:1; see also Luke 4:18)—a clear pronouncement of a divine plan to rescue the sons and daughters of God.
But Jesus’s preaching in Galilee had been merely prelude. The Son of Man had always had a dread rendezvous to keep on a hill called Golgotha.
Arrested in the Garden of Gethsemane after the Last Supper, deserted by His disciples, spat upon, tried, and humiliated, Jesus staggered under His great cross toward Calvary. He progressed from triumph to betrayal, torture, and death on the cross.
For us our Heavenly Father gave His Son. For us our Elder Brother gave His life.
At the last moment the Master could have turned back. But He did not. He passed beneath all things that He might save all things: the human race, the earth, and all the life that ever inhabited it.
No words in Christendom mean more to me than those spoken by the angel to the weeping Mary Magdalene and the other Mary as they approached the tomb to care for the body of their Lord: “Why seek ye the living among the dead? He is not here, but is risen” (Luke 24:5–6).
With this pronouncement, those who have lived and died, those who now live and one day will die, and those yet to be born and yet to die had just been rescued.
As the result of Christ’s victory over the grave, we shall all be resurrected. This is the redemption of the soul. Paul wrote:
“There are … celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another.
“There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another star in glory.
It is the celestial glory that we seek. It is in the presence of God that we desire to dwell. It is a forever family in which we want membership.
Of Him who delivered each of us from endless death, I testify He is a teacher of truth—but He is more than a teacher. He is the exemplar of the perfect life—but He is more than an exemplar. He is the great physician—but He is more than a physician. He is the literal Savior of the world, the Son of God, the Prince of Peace, the Holy One of Israel, even the risen Lord, who declared, “I am the first and the last; I am he who liveth, I am he who was slain; I am your advocate with the Father” (D&C 110:4).
“Oh, sweet the joy this sentence gives: ‘I know that my Redeemer lives!’”
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