NEW VALENTINE'S SPECIAL

Stampin' Up! is offering this NEW Valentine’s Bundle Special starting TUESDAY, Dec. 23, which is also the last day to qualify for FREE SHIPPING!! If your order totals at least $70, you qualify for free shipping on your entire order! Also the 10% discount on the retiring stamp sets ends on Dec. 23rd!
So you can take advantage of all three offers that day!



This special Valentine Bundle is 20% OFF and previews all new 2009 items: Valentine set, Heart punch, and Designer Paper! When the new catalog comes out in January, these items will be full price.


Don't miss ordering this fabulous Valentine's Day Bundle offer before
~ FREE SHIPPING offer ($70 min. order)
~10% discount on the Retiring stamp sets
EXPIRES on Dec. 23rd!!!

So don’t miss out on this one time opportunity of a TRIPLE OFFER COMBO on Dec. 23rd, Tuesday until 11pm.

TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THESE GREAT OFFERS, just click on my website,
www.dawnnaritoku.stampinup.net . Then click on the "shop now" link in the upper right corner of the website. Shop anytime, day or nite.

**To qualify for the the NO TAX Rebate thru me, just place your order thru my on-line website. Then email your tax total on your Stampin' Up! order to ME at dknstamps@sbcglobal.net. Once your order is delivered to you, I'll send you out a rebate check. Offer good only thru December 23rd, 2008.

CLICK HERE to view the Retiring Set List with the 10% off prices.

Please contact me if you have any questions:

:) Dawn

10% OFF Retired List!!! FREE Shipping on orders over $70

WOW!!! You can't miss this fantastic deal!

10% OFF all sets on Retiring List until 12/23
AND
FREE SHIPPING on ANY ORDER over $70
between now and Dec. 23!!
AND
Exclusive thru Me: NO TAX rebate on any order of $150!**
Then you'll also qualify to receiver all the SU hostess freebies and goodies!

Free Shipping applies to ALL orders over $70, NOT just retiring sets!! But HURRY! Offer lasts only until Dec. 23rd before 11pm MT. You definitely don't want to wait and get caught in the internet log jam and miss out on this opportunity.

To take advantage of these great offers, just click on my website, www.dawnnaritoku.stampinup.net . Then click on the "shop now" link in the upper right corner of the website. Shop anytime, day or nite.

**To qualify for the the NO TAX Rebate thru me, just place your order thru my on-line website. Then email your tax total on your Stampin' Up! order to ME at dknstamps@sbcglobal.net. Once your order is delivered to you, I'll send you out a rebate check. Offer good only thru December 23rd, 2008.

CLICK HERE to view the Retiring Set List with the 10% off prices.

Please contact me if you have any questions:

:) Dawn

Saturday's Class Cancelled

I'm so very, very sorry to have to cancel this saturday's class. My dd's robotics team has made it to the So. Calif. Regionals for this sunday. She will have to pull an unsheduled practice on saturday morning, then rush to finish her school assignments, and finally then go perform in an evening band parade performance. Sunday we will be leaving at 6am for Carlsbad. The closing ceremony will be at 4pm. So I don't anticipate that we will be getting home sooner than 8pm. Please pray for us that I don't fall asleep on the road, as it will be just me and dd in the car.

Again, my apologies for having to cancel class.

Stampin' Up! 20th Birthday!!!

Stampin' Up! is celebrating its 20th year and you get the gifts! Wow!
They are going to have several great specials throughout the year to help celebrate their 20 wonderful years providing the best in stampin' products and service.
From October 1 - 31, spend $20 in regular catalog merchandise and you can purchase any of the following birthday/celebration sets at 20% off. There is no limit to the number of sets you can purchase!

Item #	Page	Description	Retail Price	20% Off Price
109439	62	Big Bold Birthday	$27.95	$22.36
112895	62	Cumpleaños genial y divertido (Spanish Big Bold Birthday)*	$27.95	$22.36
111532	63	Party Hearty*	$26.95	$21.56
110994	64	Bitty Birthday	$12.95	$10.36
111618	64	Crazy for Cupcakes*	$23.95	$19.16
111546	65	Simple Birthday Thanks*	$17.95	$14.36
111702	65	Time to Party*	$16.95	$13.56
108559	68	Crab & Company	$27.95	$22.36

*Stamp sets are die cut.

You can order directly through my Stampin' Up Website by clicking on this link www.DawnNaritoku.stampinup.net Once you're at my website, you'll need to click on the "Shop Now" link at the right upper corner. Then you're on your way. If you have any questions, please email me :)

Bitty Book

Another blast from the past :)

I made this Bitty Book and album sleeve by Stampin' Up a while ago for a class I was giving. I covered the sleeve and album in the now retired Cutie Pie designer paper. sniff, sniff... that's me stifling a tear. This was my favorite dp! But the good news is that the new dp is just as fun. tee hee :)

For decorative accents, I dabbed the chipboard "a" and the heart into my old olive ink pad. Then covered them with Crystal Effects. The square chipboard with heart accent is covered with dp. Toss in a few die cut Blooms, grograin ribbon, brad and we're done :)


The album measures aprox. 5-3/8" x 4". I chose to leave the front of the album plain as it's a snug fit and didn't want the decorative accents to get mangled with use. There's several ways to cover the chipboard pieces. The method I used, is to cover all edges. This is slightly more difficult but it gives a very finished look. The other method is nice also but gives a more "earthy" or rustic look. This album is for my dd to put pix of her school friends at the end of the school yr. This is a great size for a quick album... not too big to be intimidating but big enough for a small themed event or yr.

FANTASTIC NEWS !!!!

STAMPIN" UP! ON-LINE ORDERING is now available!!!!

You can order anytime of the day. It can be midnight and you all comfy in your jammies ☺ You can search by project, by category, by keyword, etc. WoW! Now, isn’t that just way cool!!!

So do you want to see how terrific it is?

CLICK HERE to try it out yourself!!! This will direct you to my Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator Website. Right under my name in the top right corner is a link that says SHOP NOW. Click that and you can browse the on-line ordering whenever you want. All you have to do is set up your account and you can shop online! Isn't that FANTASTIC!

AND in celebration of the unveiling of ON-LINE ORDERING, if you place a $50 order with me on-line through the end of October, I'm offering you a gift of 4 lovely hand stamped cards including envelopes, packaged in a custom coordinating holder. To take advantage of this offer, you must email me at dknstamps@sbcglobal.net after you complete your order on-line. Once your order is logged in, you can arrange a time to pick up your card package. First ones to pick them up, get first choice of the selection ☺

~Remember you must shop through my website for it to work! and don't forget to email me for your gift! ☺

a little thank you

These were quick little thank you gifts to those wonderful gals who RSVP'd to my Mega Super 3 Day Sale. I created these gifties with our NEW BIG SHOT dies, exclusive to Stampin' Up! I had soooooo much fun playing with all my new die cuts. It's so awesome to cut a whole stack of pieces at one time! The folded cello "topper" is the Stampin' Up! Exclusive Die, "Top Note Bigz die" folded in 1/2. This fits over our medium cello bag or our transparent envelopes (side-opening). Inside are a few pieces of cardstock and designer paper punched out with our new scallop square punch, the scallop circle punch, and the top note bigz die. I also included some dark chocolate squares (... isn't everything better with a little chocolate? tee hee) and a coupon for NO TAX on their next order :)

Gift Certificate Holder

I'm loving this stamp set, Inspired by Nature. It's a set that we received free at our Stampin' Up! convention this past August. I didn't think much of it until I stamped with it. Wow! It's so easy and versitile to make beautiful cards, 3D and scrapbook pages because it's a larger stamp. At the same time, it's easy to ink up only parts of the stamp for smaller projects. The above project is a gift certificate holder for my customers.

The background is stamped with versamark for a tone-on-tone background. The finger hold is punched with our terrific circle punch. The sentiment is punched with our corresponding oval punches and finished with Pretty in Pink mini brads. The stamp is inked with Certainly Celery, Pretty in Pink, and Rose Red. The cones are glittered with Dazzling Diamonds. Mellow Moss taffetta ribbon is threaded through a slot punch.

I offer my customers the option of a hand-stamped gift certificate holders when they purchase a Stampin' Up! gift certificate from me. You can pick it up from me or I can mail the smaller size gift certificate directly to your gifting friend :) Contact me for details.

Very Lucky Doorprize Winner!

I finished my 3 day Mega Super Sale of retired Stampin’ Up! sets and accessories. Phweee! That was a lot a work cataloging everything! Just ask my dd who helped me ☺ I gave out lots of doorprize opportunities and now is the time to announce the winner… SHANNON!


This fabulous doorprize is especially a lucky one because when I tallied up the value of the Stampin’ Up! merchandise (not including the basket cost), it totaled to $88.80! Now if you’re Asian, you’ll know that this is a very lucky number ☺ So, a big congratulations again to Shannon ! Please email me to arrange a time for you to pick up your basket.

Basket

A Tisket, a Tasket, a Bashful Blue and Certainly Celery Basket

Thought I'd try posting a picture... let's see if it's really as easy as blogger says it is! lol

This is an easy basket that I showed during my Sellabration workshops, early this year. It's a standard box pattern that has many variations. Hopefully I'll show you the different options over the course of my blogging attempt :)
(Edit: ok. it's not as easy as all that! lol Sorry for the blurry picture. Obviously this is going to be harder than I thought. Any and all suggestions are gratefully accepted. Thanks :)

Expressively Ink

Welcome to Expressively Ink! by Dawn Naritoku

ok... I'm jumping into the blogging world after much trepidation. I have no html knowledge. I'm camera-challenged (if it's not a point and shot, I just hand the camera to my dh). I literally have no extra time. So why am I starting a blog? I guess it's because so many of you, my stampin' friends have asked me to... So it'll be a little bumpy while I jump into this learning curve of blogging 101. LOL! I hope you have fun viewing my creations and seeing a little slice of my life.