This offer is once in a lifetime.  From October 7 until October 21 you can
Join Stampin' Up! for only $25. 

What you will get:

$26.95 worth of Stampin' Up! product

Business pack which includes

• A box of annual catalogues
• A package of the current seasonal catalogue
• Getting Started DVD
• Starter Kit Business Brick
• Customer postcards

The benefits of joining:

1) You get good quality products at a discount.  Our card stock is excellent quality for all paper crafting. Our stamps have great details and are easy to use.  You get a 20% discount.
2) Wonderful social interactions.  You become involved in team meetings with demonstrators who help inspire you.
3) Sharing is top priority.  We share all our card ideas with others. 
4) Our products all coordinate. 
5) Many uses for all the products.
6) Build new friendships through clients and team members.
7) Special trips with promotions.  Last year one of the trips was to Fiji!
8) Demonstrators get the first look at all the specials and are allowed to buy them before anyone else.  We also get the workshop benefits and many other special offers, only for us.
9) Stampin' Up! supports you all the way. An e-mail or phone call to demonstrator support can answer any question you have.
10) Special magazine called Stampin' Success that gives you project and business ideas.  Demonstrators receive this every second month. 
11) Stampin' Connection is an online chat site only for Demonstrators. This site is great for card ideas, techniques, doing card swaps, and having discussions with other demonstrators.
12) No penalties for deciding you don't want to be a demonstrator anymore.

Get in contact with me and I can set up a time for us to meet and discuss all the details and benefits of joining.
Hope to hear from you soon,

Melissa Omoniyi Bellefontaine
Independent Stampin' Up! Demonstrator

Undefined: The Stamping Tribute to My Brother

 In April my brother Parry past away due to complications from Crohn's Disease. 

My brother was wonderfully creative, and was a great help when something was not working right on a card.  He would give me one suggestion that always would complete the project. 

Parry was always looking through my Stampin' Up! Catalogues to find "manly" stamps.  I remember him asking "is there any paw print stamps?" 

I was very excited when Stampin' Up! came up with the Undefined Carving Kit, a kit that allows you to carve any image you want. I immediately put in an order and when I received my order started carving paw prints in dedication to my brother.  I decided to do a Wolf, Puma and Tiger paw as these are the animals my brother had drawn in the past.


The Undefined Kit includes two carving tools, rubber, foam, 4 wood blocks, one island indigo marker, 3 postcards, instruction sheet and a stamp image template.  

The steps to making the stamps are fairly simple. First you draw an image with a 2B pencil (something greater then HB). Turn the image over and rub it on the rubber with your finger, you will then get a reverse image.   The rubber is then ready to carve. Use the large tool to take out large spaces and the small tool to go around the edges of the image.  Be very careful not to over do it especially with small areas of your image, once you make the cut there is no reversing it.  Cut around the finished image with scissors.  Stamp the carved image with Staz-on ink and apply it to the block where you will be placing the image.  Then take the foam and cut around your carved image and stick the carved image to the block.  You are Done!  

I took the post cards and stamped all over them and sent them to a few family members. I can't wait until they see them, I bet they will never know that I created the stamps myself. 

Another project I have been working on is a CD Compilation for my Mom.  Parry was a huge music lover and had over 700 songs on his I-Pod.  This project was difficult for me to do as many songs remind me of funny times Parry and I had together.  But it also was very fun.     

I ended up making three CD's for my Mom to listen to.  For the CD covers I used my Undefined: Paw Print Stamps and the Morning Post Alphabet Stamps, which made a very manly front cover.    

For the back of the CD I printed out the song lists on very vanilla card stock and finished it off with a few paw prints

It is so wonderful that Stampin' Up! has given me a great creative outlet to deal with the passing of my brother.  I know Parry would have been very proud of what I have created.   

MDS: Overview

Christmas Stamp-A-Stack Card Class

Your card list is made, you have numerous people to send to but not enough time to make them all....What do you do? Come to my Christmas Stamp-A Stack Card class!

I am super excited to welcome all of you to my Christmas Stamp-A-Stack Card Class that will take place on Monday October 21st and Saturday October 26th.


We will create 12 cards in total; four cards each in the three different designs I have posted.  The cost for the class is $35 and includes the 12 cards, 12 envelopes, all supplies, pretzels to snack on and water, coffee and tea to drink.  

The class will take place in my studio at 45 Adelaide Street.  Please park in the front of the building and buzz 204. There will be two times for each class 8 am to noon and 1 pm to 5 pm. Please let me know the date and time you can join us.

The class will highlight the new stamps and paper in the Holiday 2013 Catalogue.  The stamp sets are Special Season, Wishing You, and Wonderful Wreath, the pattern papers are Seasons of Style and Winter Frost.

Hope you will join us to get a jump on your Christmas card making.

Gently falling Card Class

I like to celebrate all things Fall, the beautiful colours, joining with family at Thanksgiving and seeing all the children on Halloween.  The Gently falling card class celebrates all these things by making three projects.

The card class will feature the Thankful Tablescape Simply Created Kit, a great project kit from the 2013 Holiday Catalogue.    It will also feature the NEW Thinlit Card Die, which is a very easy way to make a pop-up type card. 

The class will cost $10 and will include all the supplies to make a candle, a card and a note pad.  We will have pretzels to snack on and coffee, tea and water to drink.  




The class will take place in two sessions at my studio. The first session is Monday September 9th from 1 pm to 5 pm, the second is Thursday September 12th from 7 pm to 10 pm.  The class will take place in my studio at 45 Adelaide Street, please park in the front of the building and buzz 204.  

Blow Out The Candles Card Class

 The classes for August are called Blow Out the Candles, as August is huge for my family and Birthdays.  The class will take place on August 12th from 1pm to 4 pm and Thursday August 15th from 7 pm to 10 pm.

 The most exciting part about this class is I will teach how to make flowers and buttons to add to paper crafting projects. This technique is especially great for when you can't find a colour of button that matches a project.

 The cost for the class is $10 and includes the new August 1st Seasonal Catalogue, a snack which will be vanilla cake, drinks including coffee, tea or water, envelopes and all the supplies to make two cards.   OR The class is free for those who make a $40 order (before taxes and shipping). 

 There are also many new items and great sales this month.  Please RSVP by Friday August the 9th. 

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