Jan 12, 2011 |
January 12th, 2011
Stampin’ Up goes way beyond our expectations each year organizing a special event for demonstrators who are Managers and above. There is usually tons of speculation (although no hints given) about where they are taking us.
Of course we are thinking Country music capital here in Nashville so we are all assuming it is a show of some sort! Tonight we got on a big bus that took us to the Wild Horse Saloon for a SU Manager’s Night.
Spouses can attend for a fee so Matt, Darrell, Kevin and Tom were able to join Jan, Deb, Patsy and me this year!
Shelli Gardner, in her cute duds, addressing the crowd
This is a big place with a live band and huge dance floor!
Can you see Jan and Deb kicking up their heels line dancing? I'd say look for the little gal in the hat but we got hats before the event!
While the girls were either dancing or chatting about stamps (big surprise) the cowboys found some games to pass the time
Deb Valder, Patsy & Tom Waggoner, Kevin Valder, Matt, a horse with no name, Jan and Darrell Burnett and me
At the end of the evening, SU gave us each a wrapped up stamp set with this memento flyer on the front. The stamp set is from the new catalog in July so we can't show it yet but you will like it!
Off to bed and tomorrow will be a FULL day! We have a bagel meet and greet from 8-9 and then our classes begin.
At 12:30, the General Session starts and we are all excited to hear what is new and maybe see some stamping on stage, too!
Then more classes, dinner and at 7 pm, MEMENTO MALL! (That’s a stamper’s paradise where we are tempted to buy all SU logo goodies). So far, no one has been able to see what awaits us in there so we’ll have to wait til tomorrow night. There will also be Demo Booths and Product Showcase things to see and learn!
It’s really wonderful seeing everyone here. We lost one of our own as Emily wasn’t able to fly out of Atlanta because of the weather and couldn’t get another flight. We are hearing of many stampers stranded who couldn’t get here so I am grateful to have made it. We will miss you, Emily!
JANUARY 13TH, 2011
2011 Leadership Convention Bag
Wednesday night, 10 om
We just got off the bus coming back from the Wild Horse Saloon where we had our Manager’s reception event. Stampin’ Up surprised us with our convention bag early! (check in isn’t really until tomorrow morning.) They really WOW’d all of us this year:
It is Espresso and white! Recognize the pattern?
Leadership Convention: Jan 13th Thursday am
This is our first big day! Patsy and I are heading over to the bagel meet and greet (sounds like we are meeting bagels). The card swapping is going on everywhere! Here is my first one from my friend Rhea Hughes:
Memento Mall won’t be open until 7:30 this evening so we have to wait somewhat patiently for the doors to open.
Linda
Thurs after lunch…
Our General Session is just underway! Shelli is addressing all of us and talking about exciting changes with SU for demonstrators. (she also said she is not retiring any time soon)
She showed us some great projects she created but it was tough to get pics without the heads and cameras in front of me. We don’t have risers this year and the screens were low. I’ll get better photos once we can see them on display.
I have classes scheduled for the rest of the day but hope to come out to air out my brain.
Here are a few swaps I got today!
Remember they are from my phone and taken on the seat next to me so quality isn’t exactly perfect but I know you want to see some stampin’ and not just me talkin’!
Dinner tonight and Memento Mall, product demos and displays tonight at 7 pm! I’d better get some coffee….
Linda
Angie Juda
Elaine Paget
Jan Burnett
Megan Wheeler
Sandy Hancock
Christie Harsch
Susan Nygaard (sewing card-isn’t that adorable!?)
Diane Going
Deb Valder (white and crumb cake)
Memento Mall Thurs Night 7pm
Leadership Friday, January 14th
- This is a box that Shelli showed onstage. It holds a cupcake!
- More of Shelli’s projects
- By Shelli Gardner
Really ‘sweet’ invite Shelli created for her workshops
Here are a few pics from yesterday’s meeting. Have to run to classes this morning! Linda
Roadies on my Team of demonstrators – Login to the Roadies page to see a slideshow of 200 pics and info!
MAKE AND TAKES! FRIDAY NIGHT
simply adorned insert AND they gave us the charm and chain, too!
The Fabulous Millie, showing off her pin
The rest I have to make once I get home! i’m stamped out!
Dec 24, 2010 |
Hi everyone! Matt and I are leaving (somewhat) warm Florida today for New Hampshire to see his family. We love to visit snow, just not shovel it so it’s a great vacation! Before we left, I wanted to share some recent stamping projects with you!
We had our annual demonstrator Gift Exchange last Sunday. I read a terribly long left/right poem about Lefty the elf and everyone stands in a BIG circle and pass the gifts left and right. All the stamped gifts are not wrapped, so it is fun to see them go left and right and right and left until they finally end up with their new owner!
Here is a slide-show of most of the gifts as well as stamped projects on display on our SHARE table:
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Sending warm wishes and happy thoughts out to all of you!
Linda
Dec 5, 2010 |
I’m catching up today on posting some stamping inspiration! This slide show features swaps and cards received in my mailbox from my stampin’ friends over the last few months. Below the slideshow, I’ve highlighted a few of my favorites.
(ps – remember you can click on the square button to stop, right click on picture and save to your computer if you want to save the ideas)
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All supplies Stampin’ Up!
Stamped by Karen Wagner
I received this in my mailbox (first holiday card of the year!) last week. I love the colors: Real Red, Old Olive and Night of Navy with the pop of Whisper White. (Stampin’ Up colors are awesome, aren’t they?) Karen stamped the main image from “Gifts Of Christmas” (page 43, Stampin’ Up main catalog) in Real Red twice, cutting out the dove and adhering with a dimensional to pop it up.
Kay Watts - Swap Winner
So elegant in all black and white! Kay was our swap contest winner with this number last month She started with a Basic Black 5×5 card, embossed the left black card stock later with the Finial Press Embossing Folder. The sentiment,. tree and snowflake are from a set called Snow Swirled (one of my favs – page 40, main SU catalog). It looks like she stamped with versamark and then heat embossed with black powder, although you could stamp in black craft pigment ink and then clear embossing powder. Love our wide black striped ribbon that sets it all off!
Deborah LaRue - Swap Winner for November
Our swap contest winner in November for our team get together! Deb started out with a Real Red card, added a lightly sponged vanilla card stock layer, then some DSP, scallop edge in vanilla, more DSP. The skinny black taffeta, red button and little bit of clear tinsel trim makes it extra special.
Matt and I have been staining fences, painting the office and moving furniture around this past week. I need some stamping time so I’m heading to the stamp room!
Linda
Sep 17, 2010 |
I’m playing catch up this week after our big Stampcation event here in FL. I tried to video most of the demos that were on stage that day. It’s a LIVE video with little edits and with 100 demonstrators having fun, it is a loud video! Shantaie, my Stampcation partner, demonstrated this great magnetic board and a little organization trick:
The Specialty Designer paper she used is in the Holiday Mini catalog and is called Autumn Spice – love it!
Linda
Aug 5, 2010 |
I had my monthly demonstrator get together this past Sunday and a few of the girls made some card swaps to share with each other. Here is a slide show to showcase their talent!
(If you like to save ideas you see here on your computer to remember later, you can still do that with the slide show. Just hit the stop button, right click and save)
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Linda
p.s. Have you been waiting for the new Stampin’ Pastels to become available? They are finally here!
Stampin’ Pastels (item 120962) and the Stampin’ Pastels New Color Kit (item 120963) to complete your old set of pastels with our new colors.
Earn an EXTRA $25 in Hostess benefits this month with a $350 workshop or order. Ends August 31st. Host a stampin’ Up party at your place or mine. It’s free and it’s fun!
Linda
Jul 31, 2010 |
Carrie Cudney from Stampin’ Up showed us her creative, Reading Scrapbook at convention last week.
Carrie started with Stampin' Up's Simply Scrappin' Kit, called Love Birds
and this really great alphabet set, shown here in Clear Mount, called Sweet Shoppe Alphabet
Here's how she made the album by folding our SU file folders. Open and fold bottom up
Once it is accordion folded, it looks like this before embellishing
bookmarks and tags
Pull out cards for Books to Read andn Reading Log
A great check list, too!
Fun project!
Stampin’ Up! Supplies:
-Sweete Shoppe Alphabet 120648 clear lower case (or upper case avail) 23.95
– Play Date File Folders page 180 10.95 for 12 folders
-Simply Scrappin’ kit page 178 Love Birds 19.95
To place an online order for these or other SU items, visit my demonstrator website here or call me toll free at 1-866-460-4902
Thanks for stopping by!
Linda
Jul 24, 2010 |
Today we had another General Session in the morning with some really neat demonstrations! I’ll need some time to edit photos and post those later BUT I will share a fun slideshow of our new FABRIC!
Stampin’ Up has a big show & tell area showcasing our new fabric coming out in the upcoming Holiday mini catalog! Bigger than a fat quarter and some of them coordinate with our designer papers, too. Here are some photos of the projects made with our fabrics, Sizzix die cuts and a Big Shot:
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Off to dinner! Thanks for stopping by! Linda
May 25, 2010 |
Miss me? Just making a funny – I’m not that much of an egomaniac to think you’ve been checking every day to see what’s new but I did get one email asking if I was still alive! Thankfully, yes although Matt and I have had a roller coaster of a month. After being back from the Stampin’ Up cruise only a week, I got the call that my Aunt Julie died in Michigan (my dad’s older sister) and we got back on a plane to take care of things. Julie never married, no children and had worked for the State Department her whole life. She lived overseas in exotic places until she retired to a house on Lake Michigan. She despised the cold weather so I still got to see her in FL every year! We spent the week reflecting, clearing out her home, donating things, a little service with neighbors and settling affairs . She taught me how to play Scrabble and in the last years, I finally was able to win some games (much to her chagrin, having been in a Scrabble group where they played in 3 languages!) She was fabulous, frustrating, generous, stubborn and a real lady all in one. I’ll miss her.
So! On to happier stamping notes…
I had a request to do a video on the new Presto Patterns Specialty paper in the Summer Mini Catalog for Stamping School. While I normally don’t post those videos here, I decided to do an extra video this week (so the members still got their usual 2 exclusive projects) and share this one with you. It’s really neat paper to alter and in this video, I ‘colorize’ it 6 ways.
(If viewing this post from your email, you may need to click here to see the video at the blog)
The Retiring Stamp List comes out June 1st! If you haven’t ordered your favorite ink refills for your retiring color ink pads you have, better call or email me before the end of this month!
Linda
Apr 12, 2010 |
I did a lot of stamping this week. I mean, I always stamp but this week I stamped with a bunch of people! What a a blast! I had a technique class here at home in my new stamp room and the ladies were so much fun. I showed them how to do Faux Metal and it was hysterical to see the embossing powder fly! I even had some in my ears the next day and I’m sure they did, too! At the end of the week, I stamped with 64 Red Hat Queens! (they were all queens from their local chapters) You haven’t stamped until you stamped with the Red Hat ladies. I teamed up with Carolyn, one of the demonstrators on my team. We needed at least 2 more of us to help but what a hoot and they sure did they entertain us!
So I’m behind a week in filling you in on a big announcement. If you haven’t heard already, Stampin’ Up is rocking our stamp world a little with a Color Renovation!
Out with the Old, In with the New! Here are some of the new colors coming in:
Crumb Cake, Early Espresso, Cajun Craze, Cherry Cobbler, Marina Mist and Daffodil Delight!
How about in with retired In Colors? You heard it right! Stampin’ Up has listened to all of us when we said we wanted some of our favorite In Colors to stay!
Wild Wasabi, Pacific Point, Pink Pirouette, Tangerine Tango, River Rock and Riding Hood Red! (I never saw this one coming!)
AND there will be 6 new In colors, too! Those will stay for 2 years instead of one.
Here is a chart for what will be our new color collection beginning July 1st (not including the 5 new In Colors)
Click HERE to download and print
Exciting? You bet! Sad to be losing some of my favorites? You bet. Happy that they are bringing back some of my favorite, retired In Colors? Yep! You know I always keep it real with you. I’m all over the place with this big change. One minute I’m so excited about getting some new colors and getting rid of the ones that I know are outdated. The next minute I feel bad for my customers and demonstrators who were working towards completing their full collection over the years and now it’s all going to change. I guess I can’t expect to walk into my favorite clothing store and see the same colors or style each year. I sometimes force myself to use some of the colors I don’t like. Isn’t that crazy? I gradually bought all the colors simply because they were there. (I’m so goal oriented – check, check, check..) Then all the papers, then all the markers. I didn’t like all the colors but I bought them anyway. So going into this new color change, I’m buying what I like. (and by the way, I do like a lot of the new colors!) See what I mean? All over the place.
Overall, it’s going to bring more fun into my projects. I can’t wait to play with some of the new colors! Crumb Cake? Sounds yummy.
Stampin’ Up is a healthy, debt free, thriving business. They make good business decisions with us in mind, our customers, demonstrators like me and of course for themselves and their employees. They have researched and surveyed people for 2 years, coming to the conclusion that it was time to freshen & revive up the color palette.
It’s radical. There isn’t any easing into it. 30 colors are retiring June 30th. It’s like my friend Toni said, it’s better to just rip off the band aid quickly! Here are the colors leaving and there is a link below the picture to print the PDF:
Click here to download the Farewell color PDF: 2010 Retiring Colors Chart
We all have 2-1/2 months to stock up on any favorites that will be retiring so take stock, make a list of any re-inkers you need or paper to go with those inks you want to keep using.
Stampin’ Up will be having some fill-in kits when the new colors come out. I think I heard them say that the kits will be available to customers and demonstrators for a year. There will be kits for markers, watercolor crayons and pastels to complete your current sets.
Matt and I will be heading to the Southern Caribbean (thanks to Stampin’ Up) next week and I hope I get to see some of the new colors in person! It’s a little nuts to think that I’m more excited to see some ink pads rather than Barbados, right?
I’d love to hear your opinion on the new colors and retiring colors, good or not-s0-good, so leave me a comment!
Linda
