Oct 20, 2011 |
Hi stampin’ friends!
It’s been a busy month after Stampcation, which was AMAZING! The presentations were awesome with demonstrators up on a stage showing their WOWS and I loved the sound of 100 stampers cheering throughout the weekend!
Our theme was Releasing Your Inner Artist so the displays were themed around art and color vignettes throughout the room. I’ll share a few photos with you…
Shantaie Fowler is my friend and Stampcation partner. She is really the creative force behind the amazing, over the top displays. We have learned that we excel creatively when bouncing ideas off of each other so it’s a perfect match. Here she is hanging the paper lemons on the tree for the yellow display area.
Of course we couldn’t pull it off without help! Matt, Toni, Penny, Dave, Megan, and Nate were on the scene to haul in displays (from our rented trucks LOL) and help pull it all together.
My amazing, glass half full guy, Matt! At the control panels controlling audio, microphones, projectors, visual slides, video….quite the job well done!
Shantaie’s creation using the SU fabric, Beau Chateau on her apron for the pink vignette area. Isn’t she fabulous?! Shantaie is quite the seamstress as well as papercrafter.
We had this great area for a photo opportunity with stamped mustaches and a big frame! It seemed to be a big hit and saw people there all weekend!
The 8 presenters were amazing! Nance Lempinen-Leedy did a great demo on the insides of cards. I loved this card she did for fall…
Lots of swapping! 4 Line swaps for card fronts, 1 3D line swap and then a big shoe box swap! Here are a few of those:
She used the stocking hanger loop in the stamp set to make hoof prints!! We were all roaring at her creativity!
This one is stamped by Connie Hobbs – I loved it and using the Marina Mist patterned paper with the Frostwood Lodge paper looked so fresh and bright!
The scrapbookers were out in force, too! I took this pic because of the table….where did they find room to scrap? LOL
Really a great time!
By the way, the month is ticking away for the FREE BIG SHOT promotion! If you want to sign up as a business or hobby demonstrator, get in touch with me before the end of October!!
Linda
Nov 24, 2010 |
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I still have a few videos left to share with you from our Stampcation event. Here is another LIVE (which means stampers commenting and applauding throughout the video) project created by the very talented Shantaie F0wler:
Shantaie folder embossed our Stampin’ Up fabric, Candy Cane Christmas! (which is on SALE right now, 1/2 off for 4.95 instead of 9,95!) She used the Big Shot Adhesive roll to add some stiffness to the fabric so it can be embossed and stay embossed. Clever!
| Candy Cane Christmas Designer Fabric #121715 |
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| SALE Price: $4.98 |
| REG Catalog Price: $9.95
Expand your crafting options with our new Designer Series fabric for a whole new look and range of project possibilities! Coordinating patterns in our playfully striped and polka-dotted Candy Cane Christmas bundle make it easy to create colorful, eye-pleasing projects. Combine with our Candy Cane Big Designer buttons for even more easy coordination. And of course, this fabric is a perfect medium for creating all kinds of beautiful Christmas projects using the Big Shot machine and our large collection of dies.
■ Combines exclusive designs and colors with high quality fabric
■ Coordinates with other Stampin’ Up! products
■ Extra wide fat quarters
■ 100% cotton
■ Includes instruction booklet highlighting five projects you can create using fabric
■ Coordinates with Garden Green, Baja Breeze, Blushing Bride, Real Red
■ Coordinates with Candy Cane Christmas Suite
■ 28 x 18”
■ 3 coordinated designs
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Big Shot Adhesive Roll 14.95 #120805
12 sheets , 12 x 12 in size. Lots of ’em!
Scroll down here on the blog if you missed the big sale announcement and the 1/2 off starter kit promotion going on now!
Online orders can be placed here or you can always call or email me anytime! Maybe you’ll catch me out buying a pie.
Gobble, Gobble…
Linda
Nov 9, 2010 |
Hi stampers! Here is another Stampcation “LIVE” video (which means lots of chatter and applause) from our big event here in FL a while back. Life’s been busy for us here over the last few months, so the videos are still being edited in our ‘spare’ time!
Kim Moorehouse is a very talented demonstrator here in Florida. Some of the stampers at our event said “Linda, you have got to see what Kim has created” and when I did, I asked her to hop up on stage and show everyone.
She graciously got up there with no prep time and wowed the crowd!
The video below shows how she used glossy photos and a little StazOn ink with rubber stamps to create some really beautiful cards.
I wish she had a blog I could send you to to view more of her things but we are still trying to talk her into it…
Linda
Sep 24, 2010 |
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Stampin’ Up doesn’t carry those great Spectrum/Kaleidacolor rainbow pads any more and I sure miss ’em!
I’m sure you can find them somewhere in the stores but since I’m a demo and we don’t carry them, I tend to use what we sell so I’m forced to get a little crafty….
In the holiday mini catalog, we now sell uninked craft pads, mostly since we don’t carry the big craft pads but only the spots. (Craft pads are the foam pads with pigment ink, which is more wet for heat/powder embossing and is permanent once air or heat dried)
So I did some experimenting about a month ago and decided to try to recreate the old rainbow pad days. I used a few colors of Classic (dye based) ink refills on the foam, uninked pad. I scored it with my scissor blade in the different sections to help keep the colors contained, although I’m not sure it really made a difference to do that. I used the ink refill tip to draw and keep the colors apart anyway:
It’s a little messy since I’ve used it a bunch since I made it.
I tried to use a rubber brayer to ink up the colors and roll on glossy card stock – what a mess! Didn’t have the effect I was hoping for but then I used the rubber brayer inked up to roll across our new, BIG stamp in the holiday mini called Christmas Collage:
Here is the video (it is another ‘live’ video from Stampcation so pardon the extra applause and chatter!)
My custom ink pad order of inks: Pacific Blue, Old Olive, Tempting Turquoise, Rich Razzleberry and then Old Olive again. All classic ink refills. SU’s Glossy card stock (which can’t be beat) and Pacific Point card stock card. Old Olive Satin Ribbon, Silver Tinsel from Holiday Mini and a Rich Razzleberry button from the Brights button collection.
Happy Stampin’ !
Linda
Sep 21, 2010 |
Here is another live video from our Stampcation event a few weeks ago. Shantaie Fowler (my event partner) shared a demonstration for her paper fortune cookies, which would be so fun for any anniversary or valentine’s love notes!
(remember this is a live video, so lots of chatter from the audience!)
Shantaie is sharing the template she used in the video! You can visit her blog at http://www.inkingpink.com or
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click the link to download printable template:
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Linda
Sep 11, 2010 |
it’s been a whirlwind here today! Matt took a few pics earlier and now I’ll show what everyone made!
The Christmas trees were created by Catherine Harwood, who is here with us! she used Versamark on vanilla card stock and resisted with sponging. (so clever!)
the chocolate holder was something I saw on the display boards at convention but they had used the tree. thank you to the creative person who inspired the idea!
how sweet is the little 3×3 valentine?!
Sep 10, 2010 |
100 stampers, chocolate, cupcakes and stamping…what a fun night!
Shelly and Catherine are getting more chatting than stamping done but that's what it's all about!
Shantaie and Toni, posing in front of Shantaie's Halloween mantle display
Deb, Janet, Susie and Emily hard at work!
Tomorrow morning is our make and take session using Paisley Prints and then the afternoon is all free stamp time and demonstrations. I’ll try to post a few more pics tomorrow! Linda
Stampcation Stage!
Shantaie and Catherine do fun demos!
Sep 10, 2010 |
I’m posting from my phone as guests are starting to arrive for our demonstrator event that we named Stampcation! (our stamping vacation)
Tonight 75 of us will be doing a shoebox swap in groups of 25. Check out some of these fun displays created by my creative partner in crime, Shantaie Fowler:
Shantaie Fowler is my friend and Stampcation partner. She is really the creative force behind the amazing, over the top displays. We have learned that we excel creatively when bouncing ideas off of each other so it’s a perfect match. Here she is hanging the paper lemons on the tree for the yellow display area.
