Hi all! I just got back from a week in brisk NC and tomorrow will be heading down to the Orlando convention center for the Stampin’ Up Leadership conference!  I’ll be posting pics and fun things that I see from there. It’s the last Leadership conference for demonstrators since they will be adding different kinds of events and training next year.
We sure have had a lot of fun over the years! The husbands sometimes tag along to attend the Manager’s reception as we traveled to different states each year. This was one of my favorites from 2011 in Nashville with the Valders, Burnetts and Waggoners.
If you have time and like to see some throwback posts from leadership conferences past, here are a few:
I just bought this new die in the Occasions catalog called the Bouquet Bigz Die. It makes really amazing flowers! It’s a pricey one but I can see the potential.
Here is a video from the SU Corporate office showing how she made these flowers
Looks like this week is all about embossing! Let me know if you’d like any of these deals. Of course I already have all of these but I love them all! The little embossing machine is a great deal – just remember it only embosses, no cutting dies or framelits with it.
Some of you have your wish lists scribbled on post-its all over your catalog already. Some of you are afraid to look after all you’ve bought from the retiring lists last month 🙂 Don’t worry, you have a whole year ahead to peruse and get some new things as we roll through the new Stampin’ year!
The Accessories index is back in the catalog as well as a greeting index – well done, SU!
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For Florida locals: I’m selling my retired stamps, accessories, papers, etc this weekend at a hotel in Maitland! SERIOUS Rock Bottom prices, all ready to find a new crafty home. I’m making room for Matt’s new drum room so everything must go!  Email me for details if you are local.
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Now, the new Blendabilities (alcohol markers on page 212) will not be available to customers until late July or so. No date yet BUT they are allowing demonstrators to preorder them. IF your heart is set on them and you want them now, you can order them with our starter kit, Hobby or Business, and get them early. Right now SU has a special to join or RE-join for only $50 til June 30th.
When you join Stampin’ Up! during this limited-time offer, you’ll receive:Â
$55 US/$65 CANÂ worth of products
A 30 percent discount on your first order*
A 20 percent discount on all your orders
Free Paper Pumpkin Kit
Free entrance to our annual Convention* (must be registered by the 20th of June)
Contact me to chat it out to see if it’s right for you and what I offer as an upline.
And we still have til June 4th to finish up the Retiring Stamps/Accessories List. You can see what is still available HERE.
Rainy and windy today here in Houston but no snow so everyone was liking the weather. In fact, there is a rooftop hotel pool and hot tub that was full of demonstrators tonight!
Today was full of classes here at the SU Leadership conference. We had a special Keynote speaker, Pat Pearson, who delivered an inspiring talk. A really nice sit-down lunch and then some picture taking of displays, dinner and then back at 7 pm for our Make and Take stamping night.  SU had a few fun projects and well as lots of demonstrations.
Here are the tags we made with the wooden accents, the new scallop tag punch and Kaleidoscope paper .
 Here’s our group with a new friend, Lucia, on the far right.
SU gave us these cute totes with our stamps and project kits.
I liked this watercolor card:
This was my swap this year. I forgot to take them down with me the first day so I still have 75 more to unload tomorrow!
Saturday we have big class in the morning, lunch and then the last general session where hopefully we will see some fun new stamping techniques and ideas!
(I started this post yesterday but it was so busy, I didn’t have a chance to finish. So I’m actually sitting at the airport now and catching up, ready to go home! )
Oh my aching feet but the rest of me is on top of the world here in Utah. It’s our last day of convention I just got kicked out of the Display area since they need to tear down. This is the first time I didn’t get to everything!
Last night was awards night and what a great time!
Jan Burnett, Patsy Waggoner and I caught up in the recognition room afterwards to celebrate.
For the first time in my Stampin’ Up career, I placed in the Top 10 twice! #9 for Recruiting, which is determined by the number if Sr. Associate promotions in your direct first levels. Then I was flabbergasted to earned 2nd Place for Leadership, which is determined by promotions to Supervisor or above in your first level directs. I’m still in shock and truly the best part was hearing my team scream and cheer for me! I’m sorry to those ears sitting near them LOL
I did earned Founders (the Top 100 in the US) again this year and received this beautiful purse!
Susan Kirk made this pretty card. Love the color combo!
Susan Scarpelli Put together this card and I love how she used two rows of the new InColor stretchy ribbon.
This is the card given to me by Stampin’ Up! on awards night. So pretty with all the glimmer paper and inside was a gift certificate, which I used right away!
Sarah Rigby Loves her scallops and this card has Several rows of scallops to set it apart!
Serena Marsh Made this cute card and the hearts are all popped up.
Nancy Walko Created this beautiful card using the Expressions Thinlits dies. The Bird wing was created by the loop in the letter Y. Wasn’t that creative?
Simone Bartum gave me this adorable notepad holder and pen. She was so clever and use the word window punch to create a notch so it doesn’t fall off!
Julie Ross What’s the smarty and used the woodgrain embossing folder and ink to create an ocean design. Signing off, Getting ready to board the plane and head home. Thanks for tuning in! Linda
I’m back in the convention center and Finally getting a chance to look at some of the displays. As I see something really cool that I like I’ll share with you! Just know that there’s nothing like being here because it’s always amazing and pictures can’t even express a fraction of excitement.
The product displays have all of our sweets and products from the catalogs and holiday catalogs on display so we can touch them and feel them. They always look so much better in person!
There’s a cool display called the 25 year gallery and the picture below is the picture of Shelly and the very first catalog 25 years ago. So fun to see how they have grown through the years!
Remember This one ?
Or this one?
Here Are a few from our artisan team and display stampers:
No names posted on these 3-D displays so if you know, drop me a comment
I could look at Alanna Wharf’s art all day!
We received three or four stamps at this year for our convention and here are some ideas using those sets
We have these cute little muslin bags in the holiday catalog and they decorated them up cute. I love the tie-dye!
Artist unknown
I haven’t done my make intakes yet but here is a little bag that a demonstrator already completed. Isn’t it cute?
Gotta run! Go stamp something 🙂
Linda
Hi all! I’m still here in hot but pretty Salt Lake City Utah at the SU convention. I’ve received some emails asking where are all my posts for convention since I normally post a lot! I’ll tell you why I’m doing one a day and if you are on FB, you can get hourly posts on my Stamping School page at www.facebook.com/stampingschool With so many people on smart phones and lots without unlimited data, every blog post that comes in has LOADS of data. So if I post 3x, that could eat up someone’s data for a month with all the photos, etc. So this year I made a quick decision to do one a day and summarize my favorite swaps and highlights knowing most of you are on FB
. If you want me to go back to blogging 3x a day during convention, let me know – love to hear what works better 🙂
So, on to the fun from today and a little from last night!
This year SU has a Recognition Room for those that have earned awards like milestones, sales, promotions, or trips. It was set up with ropes and a ‘bouncer’ who took your demo ID number to see if you were on the list to get in!
I’m so thrilled that one of my directs,Debbi Muche, earned the San Diego trip! Debbi and I enjoyed the calm in the room and it was wonderful. Tonight is awards night so we have to get gussied up and head over around 7:00 to see who earned the Top 100 Founders trip, who is in the top for sales and for promotions. Exciting!
This morning Shelli Gardner started us off in the General Session with 25 projects! Remember I’m shooting from a screen so these aren’t perfect until I can get to take real pics. With almost 6000 stampers, it’s been challenging to get pics!
Sometimes you just need to go outside and get a breather! Here are a few of us getting some air…
VERY exciting new products coming! 4 new ones that we all just squealed over! I’m not supposed to show product pics until they are available to order but I can show projects…
One is for the crafty people that would like to carve their own stamps! It’s a kit called “Undefined” and it comes with the rubber, 2 carving tools, a few templates, blocks and foam to mount. Your imagination is your limitation to what kind of stamp you can make! Shannon West drew bacon strips with a pencil, rubbed it onto the rubber to leave an image then carved it out! She stamped the image on the wood block with StazOn, then put the foam on, trim the stamp and you are ready to go!
This is her bacon, eggs and diet coke she drew and carved out to make these stamps – blurry, sorry ! Will get better ones later. She made that bacon stamp in like 5 min!
Can you see this one? It’s a FRAMELIT set that makes swing/flip cards! And it comes with words, too!
AND another one that makes circle swing cards!
Yes, the chevron comes in the set!
Then there is a really cool envelope maker. I know you think you won’t need it because of the diag score board but you might! It punches the notches AND scores the lines to make tons of sizes. Its cool….
Ok, the wifi in the hotel stinks! I’m going back over and finish up with my phone….terribly slow!
It’s HOT here in Utah but not as hot as 6000 stampers all over the convention center. It’s so crazy and full of energy!
I’ve been posting over on the Stamping School Facebook page all throughout the day but I’ll recap here once a day since I know some aren’t on FB.
“Be the difference” Is the theme for this year’s convention. Here is a cute pic of Cindy Brumbaugh holding this year’s convention Tee!
It’s the 25th anniversary so there are double the people here than usual.
Thousands of demonstrators got on buses to take them over to Riverton to the Stampin’ Up! distribution center for a tour. Here is a picture of the Stampin’ Up! corporate office foyer taken by Amanda Hartley. So pretty!
Gen. session does not open until 5 PM this evening. That’s when we will get our convention bag and have our first big meeting with everybody together.
Here are a few of my favorite swaps today for inspiration:
I didn’t really like this stamp set from the holiday catalog but now that I’ve seen what Mary Polcin did with it, I love it! Love the designer paper love the layout and the pretty brad in the corner.
Mary Ellen Byler made me have to buy this set with this card!
This card is so, so clever! Michelle Humphrey Used painters tape pressed in ink to create the three stripes on this card. Totally have to try this!
Okay, have to run an change for this evening. They are asking everyone who bought one of the convention T-shirts to wear it tonight so I got to see if mine fits. I hear they run super small so I’m crossing my fingers!
My brain is full of business ideas and my heart is full of warm fuzzier from seeing all my stamping friends.
Pam Morgan is on stage showing a few fun projects:
Look closely at the birthday stamp…some of you old timers with Stampin’ Up might remember this one! Stampin’ Up is going to have a 25th anniversary single stamp promo coming up soon. They are bringing back some of their favorites from the past for a limited time! Details coming next Monday so stay tuned.
Stepped up a little bit more with gold smooch spritz
And another color change and more layers.
I’m not sure if there will be more stamping so I’ll sign off here. Thank you for being with me over the last few days!
Linda Heller-Ind. Stampin' Up
Demo in North Carolina
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