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.
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
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
Matt and I got back home late Sunday night, finally unpacked yesterday and today am catching up on emails! The SU cruise was so much fun and it’s hard to get back to reality. (of course we taped Survivor, Project Runway and the Apprentice, so that’s a lot of REALITY to enjoy!)
Stampin’ Up!’s staff, Shannon West and Carrie Cudney, created a video to showcase some of the new products now available in the 2010 Summer Mini Catalog! If you haven’t received your copy from me, drop me an email. (they do get lost in the mail or husbands throw them away…:)
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Linda Heller-Ind. Stampin' Up Demo in North Carolina
