I'm a day behind getting this email out to you, but I have a good reason. My daughter leaves tonight for her school trip to Italy - lucky girl! We had to squeeze in packing between softball games, tests and her iPhone crashing (I stayed up until midnight and got it restored, phew. I want to see her beautiful Italian pictures). Now that I have her all packed, I need to get back to my to-do list which has
gotten pretty lengthy.
Birthday Class to Benefit Cystic Fibrosis - May 5
Each year, our town's high school softball team raises money to support research for Cystic Fibrosis. The JV coach's son Dommie was diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis when he was two weeks old. Thanks to Dommie's great team of doctors at Tufts Medical Center and Quincy
Pediatrics, Dommie is doing great! He plays basketball, runs track, and will be turning 12 in May.
The softball team participates in the annual Great Strides walk as part of "Dommie's Dream Team", which will be held on May 19th at Wompatuck State Park.
This Birthday Card class is my daughter's way of fundraising for this cause. $10 of every registration will go towards the walk, as well as any money raised from the raffle prizes and 25% of orders placed that day. She will assist me in preparing materials, helping during the class and (most importantly to some) baking some delicious refreshments (she is a very talented
baker).
If you are not able to come to class that day but would still like to participate, you can register and get a kit to go. You can pick it up, or have me mail it to you (for additional postage).
Class fee is $50. Everyone will receive:
Acrylic Block
Lovely Lipstick Ink Pad*
Multipurpose Glue
Supplies to make all the cards
& a door prize
Raffle tickets available for purchase to win great paper crafting prizes!!!
To register, you can email me and mail a check to Christine Josti, 3 School Street, Norwell MA 02061, or pay by PayPal. Firm RSVPs April 28. christine@mailsomethingpretty.com.
*if you already have a Lovely Lipstick ink pad, you can substitute any color. Just let me know you want to make a substitution.
Big News from Stampin' Up!
Stampin' Up! just announced some big news yesterday regarding two of their products and the upcoming 2019/20 Annual Catalog. Before you keep reading, take a breath. Everything is going to be ok - I promise. Every year at this point the Retirement List
comes out indicating which products from the current catalog will not be returning. Although some of the announced products make us a little sad, their retirement does make room for new products. And remember, even though a product retires doesn't mean YOU have to retire it. Keep using what you love for as long as you wish.
This year's Retirement List will be announced on Monday, April 15. I will send out that list to you once I have it. Stampin' Up! did let us know about two particular products that will be retiring that may come as a bit of a shock.
The Big Shot:
First let me say don't freak out! Any newly purchased Big Shots still have their 3 year warrantees. Any new dies released in the upcoming catalogs (and there will be some) will still work with your Big Shot. So most of you can proceed and craft normally. If you don't have a Big Shot and
were thinking of purchasing one, this may be a good time to get one. I do not know if/when a sale price will be attached, but keep your eye out. A new die cutting machine will be offered by Stampin' Up!, but not in this upcoming 2019/20 catalog. I do not know when the new machine will be available, but do know they are working very hard and responsibly to provide us with an exemplary machine.
Directly from Stampin' Up!: We will offer new dies and embossing folders in the 2019–2020 annual catalog. Since we’re using a new supplier, the dies and folders will be manufactured differently; this means the way you use the new style of dies and folders will be a little different than how you used the old style. Both the new-style and old-style dies and embossing folders can
work with any die-cutting & embossing machine (in some cases, adaptations like shims may be required because the gap between rollers on machines may vary slightly between manufacturers).
The Stampin' Trimmer:
The other product that is retiring is the Stampin' Trimmer. There is nothing wrong with this Trimmer, but Stampin' Up! decided to retire it because of challenges with the supplier. What does this mean to you? If you are currently using the Stampin' Trimmer, you may want to purchase
additional & back up cutting blades. A new trimmer will be made available, but not in the upcoming catalog. From what I hear, it will be a different styled cutter than this Trimmer.
Directly from Stampin' Up!:
While the replacement cutting blades will also retire with the trimmer and will not be featured in the annual catalog, we have ordered what would normally be six months of inventory based on recent historical patterns to help demonstrators and customers during this transition away from our current trimmer. But please know that this news could cause faster inventory depletion. When the retiring list goes
live on April 15, the order limit for the blades will increase from three to six (and the limit will remain at six until they’re no longer available). And from now until September, we will receive intermittent shipments from the supplier. Throughout these months, we anticipate times when the blades will not be orderable (and not offered as a backorder). During those downtimes, you and your customers will have the option to enter an email address to receive notification when the
blades are available again.
Lots of news to digest, but also new products to look forward to beginning in June.
Keep creating!
Christine
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