Jul 19, 2011 |
I had a great time presenting at the Stampin’ Up convention last Wednesday night at the kick off party! It was such a nice compliment to be asked and I was in great company with my other booth buddies LeeAnn Greff (punches), Lyssa Zwolenek (Flirtatious Suite), Jan Tink (backgrounds) , Susan Campfield (ribbons), Brandi Wiggins (Big Top Suite), Lisa Freeman (Distressing) and Fran Sabad (Beau Chateau).
It was cool to see my name on the big sign! They said I could take it home with me but I didn’t think I’d have room in my already-over-the-limit-heavy suitcase and then what would I do with it once I got it home?
Baking Buttons: Organization
Button Organization on a cookie sheet - Linda Heller
Stampin’ Up asked me to feature a cute stamp set called Button Buddies, which in our new Idea Book & Catalog. They also said to come up with storage ideas. I thought a cookie sheet (cheap one from Old Time Pottery 1.99) would be an inexpensive and easy way to organize all of our buttons. I used my Crop-A-Dile to punch holes for the ribbon. The cookie sheet is about 11 x 17″ inside and fits all 4 color groups which have 6 colors in each. 24 containers fit perfectly!
I’m uploading my Baking Buttons template (Thanks to my wonderful husband, Matt, who made up the template for me!) It’s a PDF and you can print, cut into strips and punch with a 1-3/4″ circle puch if you want to make one, too! Click HERE for template.
Close up - punch with 1-3/4" circle punch. Linda Heller
Use SU stack & Store containers and Circles #2 die with SU magnet sheets. Punch cs circle with 1-3/4" circle punch.
That Circle #2 was just made to cut our magnet sheets to put on the bottom of our Stack & Store containers or if you have the button/brad containers already.
I did a little “Stampbuster” experiment with our magnet sheets! I bought some from a craft store and tried them out to see which were stronger. HANDS DOWN, Stampin’ Up’s were way stronger! You should have seen the other brand slide down the cookie sheet once the buttons were in there!
Skinnhy Button Storage using our clear mount stamp cases - Linda Heller
If space is limited, you can put your buttons in our clear mount empty stamp cases. I used a 1/2″ circle punch for the color cs dots with some glue to see what colors are inside. I like being able to see and grab the color quickly. 4 cases have the 4 color groups seperated, Brights-Regals-Subtles-Neutrals. I do keep a rubber band around the bottom if standing upright just in case they fall off my shelf!
I have lots of projects using the Button Buddies that I came up with for my presentation. I made some videos of some of those and will post throughout the week so c’mon back for more buttons!
Linda
Jul 4, 2011 |
Calling all Stampin’ Up Demonstrators! Are you ready for a fun, relaxing and inspiring weekend of paper crafting and rubber stamping? Are you ready for a little time to get away from all the “to do” lists? Did you miss out on the SU convention this year and wanna get away?
Well then, it’s time for our 2nd Annual Stampcation!
Exciting news! We have a new location! Featuring a spacious, bright crafting room that allows more of us this year. Stampcation will be even bigger and better!
When: September 24th & 25th (2 full days this year! All Day Saturday and Sunday!)
Where: Holiday Inn Maingate East in Kissimmee, FL
REGISTER HERE! At this time, we are limiting to demonstrators until August 1st when we will allow registered attendees to invite guests of their choice if space allows,. Last year we had room for 100 and it booked up fast. This year we have space for 150 so hurry up and get registered! We have a special room block if you want to stay at this hotel with us for only $55 a night! Details are on our blog at www.stampcation.com
If you had a fabulous time with us last year (or missed it and kicked yourself) make plans to join us!
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Jun 1, 2011 |
It’s June 1st and I can officially share some sneak peeks from the upcoming NEW catalog!
Here are 3 of the Make & Takes from the SU Alaska Cruise last week! The New In Colors are”
Pool Party, Calypso Coral, Lucky Limade, Wisteria Wonder (yay! A purple!) and Island Indigo!
"Just For Fun" Mini Album with Belly Band 2011 Alaska Make & Takes Linda Heller
This is a mini album folded from a 12×12 piece of cs and is about 3″ x 4″ when closed (I’ll be doing this for Stamping School, it was a neat lil project!) It has a belly band around the album to hold it together. It’s a cute stamp set and I’ll post a few more samples with that set later.
- Mini Album Open 2011 Alaska Make & Takes Linda Heller
- “Amazing Fold Card” 2011 Alaska Make & Takes Linda Heller
Look close to see the little bag with candy
- “Amazing Fold Card” Open 2011 Alaska Make & Takes Linda Heller
- “Pinwheel Card” 2011 Alaska Make & Takes Linda Heller
Did you see some new colors? There will be 5 new IN COLORS coming out in the new catalog July 1st! The other 5 stay in another year – woo hoo!
If you have ordered from me this past year, I’ll send you the NEW catalog free! Just email me with your mailing address to be sure I have the correct one on file.
Linda Heller
Ind. Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator, Executive
May 21, 2011 |
While we were eating a wonderful dinner, the Stampin’ Up elves left a lil’ somethin’ in our room. It’s an adorable charcoal grey hipster purse.
So far, the sea has been a little rougher than we thought. Many people who have cruised to Alaska told us it would be the smoothest cruise yet, however the ship has been really rocking during the first part of our trip. It’s hit me pretty hard, and I’ve spent a good portion of the day eating rolls, mashed potatoes and trying not to let it get the best of me.
Although feeling very green, I was delighted to see some sneak peeks at General Session of some new things coming out soon in the new catalong. I know you will love them, too! I can show you some stamped samples beginning June 1, so check back here then.
I have a few current ideas to share from our Summer Mini Catalog! Shelli Gardner shared these on stage this am:
Tomorrow this ship will stop in Ketchikan! Looking forward to land!
Linda
May 20, 2011 |
There’s nothing stamping related today to share. For those that want to read on about our day here in Seattle, sit a spell! Tomorrow we board the cruise ship to Alaska and there might be some stamping things after our meet and greet in the evening.
I have to say, Seattle is a hummin’ place! There seems to be more people walking around than driving. It’s about 6:00 pm here and with Matt taking a snooze behind me and the windows open, I hear lots of commotion outside our hotel. The breeze is fabulous here!
This morning: Matt, Jan, Darrell and I woke up early to head down to Pike’s Market for a good bagel breakfast. Great Tully’s coffee! Strolled thru the market, smelling flowers and fish!
Speaking of fish, the FISH throwing guys were a blast and if you haven’t seen their motivational video of how they got famous, you can watch a clip here. Just a bunch of guys who wanted to bring more fun into work so they started throwing fish to eachother and interacting with customers in a whole new way!
Pike Place Market’s unofficial mascot, Rachel, a bronze cast piggy bank that weighs 550 pounds, has been located since 1986. Rachel was designed by local artist Georgia Gerber and modeled after a pig (also named Rachel) that lived on Whidbey Island and was the 1977 Island County prize-winner. Rachel receives roughly US$6,000–$9,000 annually in just about every type of world currency. (and I did my part!)
Jan and I saying hello to Rachel the Pig
After we left the market, we took the local transit to a Japanese Garden located within the Washington Park Arboretum. A 3 1/2 acre formal garden designed and constructed under the supervision of world-renowned Japanese garden designer Juki Iida in 1960. Koi fish, bridges and tons of plants and trees I cannot pronounce the names of – breathtaking!
- Jan ‘almost’ walking on water!
Yeah, pretty much just want to live here. I took way too many pictures so I’ll just stop here.
So then we took another ride to the
Space Needle to ride up to the top and have lunch. Really amazing views as I had an incredible salmon lunch:
605 feet in the air and while we were rotating during our lunch, this was one shot from the table.
The 360 observation deck was amazing and the weather was perfect!
Then after that, full and happy, we walked over to
EMP museum. Matt being a drummer and lover of all music, this place seemed like it would be fun so we took a shot. Lots of interactive booths with different instruments to play, Nirvana exhibit, Hendrix, and some other displays.
For history about Pike’s Market and more than you would ever really need to know, go HERE.
Linda
Apr 30, 2011 |
I’m a little behind in posting these from our Demonstrator Get Together a few weeks ago but here they are! I love seeing what our group of talented demos brings to share and inspire each other. Remember you can pause the slide show, right click and save the pics if you want to.
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P.s. To my SU Customers: You should have received your Summer Mini Catalog from me by now. If you didn’t get yours, please email me!
Linda
Apr 19, 2011 |
I love meeting stampers, especially when they are here visiting from far away places! This past weekend I met Teneale Williams from Sydney, Australia. She and her lovely family were here on a birthday holiday celebration and we met up for a little bit. She is just delightful and you just have to bookmark her BLOG for some amazing creations and say hello!
Teneale surprised me with a hand stamped gift box and card. When she handed the card to me in the envelope, I couldn’t believe the weight of it! I wish you could feel it.
Gift for me created by Teneale Williams
With my jaw dropping, I said “It’s amazing! And so heavy!” She said “I like to make ’em chunky!” We laughed and she said her customers think it’s to sell them more card stock and I said “I’m sold!” I actually never thought of double layers of each color but it really makes a statement.
See how many layers? Each card stock layer is double!
The envelope and inside of the card was as lovely as the front. (see the white baker’s twine on the inside? Nice touch!)
Teneale Williams - Inside of card and envelope
The SNEAK PEEK is the L2 Hostess Set from the upcoming Summer Mini called Love & Care
Created by Teneale Williams
And the box? All stamped and sparkly was a gift by itself but then she filled it with a beautiful bookmark with our Window pane embellishment. It was nestled in the box on top of paper shreds and little butterfly embosslits.
Teneale, you inspired me! I’m going chunky…
Linda
Mar 29, 2011 |
Stampin’ Up was in Orlando this past weekend for a little mini convention! Demonstrators like me came from all over Florida and some even from close states to stamp and learn for the day. Stampin’ Up has several each year in different states, so they haven’t been here in FL for over 2 years. They have one more left so I won’t post the pictures of their projects so I don’t spoil it for the last stop on their trip!
I will show you what I presented, though! I was one of the lucky ones chosen to present what they call a Workshop Wow, which is a project that is easy to do but still shows a little something new. I decided to play around with our CORK sheets that are on page 205 of the big Idea Book & Catalog:
You get 6 sheets, 6″ x 13″ per package for only 9.95! I cracked up when someone said “We sell cork? I didn’t even know we sold that!”
Here are the projects I demonstrated using different mediums. I’ll be doing videos for Stamping School for all these projects but just showing the pics here. (and for those of you on SSchool, these videos won’t count towards your weekly exclusive videos – just extras)
AND by the way, the Designer Series paper you see on these is a sneak peek from our upcoming Summer Mini Catalog!
This first one I showed is just putting it behind our pendant note. I didn’t get a good pic of it before I gave it to SU after my demo so it’s cut off a bit!
created by Linda Heller
This next one has circles cut with our Sizzix Circle #2 die and I attached our white Fleurettes on with brads:
created by Linda Heller
Embossing on cork is my fav thing to do! It gets a nice, glossy shine to the image with Craft Black ink and clear powder…
created by Linda Heller
This is another way to alter and emboss the cork using craft, pigment ink and powder:
created by Linda Heller
Just stamping on it with black StazOn and coloring with markers (and another sneak peek of a new stamp set…)
Created by Linda Heller
This was my favorite – a little monogram note set and crystal effects on cork:
created by Linda Heller
I hope that inspired you to get some cork!
Linda
Mar 2, 2011 |
Demonstrator Day is my favorite day each month. It’s the day that my local team of demonstrators get together to stamp projects and share ideas with eachother. Here are a few of the Show & Share stamped projects that were on display:
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Tomorrow I’ll show you the swaps from our get together!
Only 28 days left of Sale-A-Bration! See my post here for details in case you missed it!
Linda
