Founders Circle Dinner and Pillow Gift

Just had to share how Stampin’ Up went all out for us tonight.  The tables and chairs were dressed in a celery satin:

The chargers are terracotta planter bottoms (my brain is not pulling up the correct name for those)  There was a stamped card and napkin ring:

And our pillow gift tonight!   A new stamp set [...]

Founders Circle Trip Day 1

I’m here!   
I woke up at 5 am, Matt drove me to the airport at 6, and plane left at 8 am.  I had to work on my swaps while I had 4.5 hours of uninterupted stamping time and I was hoping I had someone next to me that could deal with the little gear noises [...]

Off to St. George!

It’s 2:30 a.m. and I know I should be in bed BUT I feel like I just had a Mountain Dew and chocolate! I just finished packing, made a few videos for Stamping School and cut all the paper for my swaps. (yup, doing them on the plane but it’s 4 1/2 hours [...]

August Swaps Part 3

Part 3 of my favorite swaps from my long distance swap group!

Stamped by Rhea Hughes (our fab swap organizer)  Love  the DSP, Cast A Spell! The stamp set is called Pumpkin Patch, which will be available Sept 1 in the Stampin’ Up Holiday Mini Catalog.

More tomorrow! C’mon back or sign up for automatic udates here!
Orders [...]

August Swaps Part 2

More of my August Swaps from my  long distance swap group!

Stamped by Carol Gilmore.  Beautiful colors including Old Olive, Ruby Red, Crushed Curry and Chocolate Chip.  A perfect card for fall and Thanksgiving using the stamp set Autumn Days.

Another Autumn Days card stamped by Susan Gudmunson.  The main card is Always Artichoke, then some designer [...]

Spanish Samples from Convention

1At our annual convention a few weeks ago in Utah, Stampin’ Up had a display of artwork from our Spanish catalog.   It is a beautiful catalog with 47 pages of ideas and projects!   I thought you might enjoy seeing the samples and I wish I knew who created them to give them credit.  I’m not [...]

Big Shot Hero Commercial

Matt here…
We’re very excited to finally be able to share this!  It was our entry into the SU Make your own commercial contest!
After some very anxious waiting here in Florida, Linda just sent me a text saying we won!!!  I wish I was there to see the reaction!
Special thanks to our demonstrator/actors:  Toni Ballesteros, Janet [...]

General Session Day 3 AM

I have so many pictures to post but with all the activities of the day here, I have to wait a day!  We had our make and takes & classes all day today and I snuck out early so I could photo the displays.  After classes, I came back to the hotel and put on [...]

General Session Day 2 am

2pm thurs:  Thanks so much for all the comments you left me on the blog, giving me cyber hoorays for Founders.    I appreciate  it so much and how fun it is for me to share all the fun things from here.   I know there are so many who couldn’t attend convention this year and I [...]

Stampin’ Up Convention, Day One

Well,  I made to Salt Lake City, Utah for our annual convention.   Some demonstrators arrived yesterday but I chose to come in today.  My suitcase was loaded up with swaps (and too many clothes that I won’t get around to wearing) so I’m finally in my room and exhausted already!’
The line to the Memento Mall [...]

Wood Sheets Basket Video

Hi Stampers!   If you caught the Catty Cruise Blog Tour here last weekend, I showed some projects with Stampin’ Up’s Wood Sheets.   One was a basket and I promised a video tutorial.   Scroll down to the next post see the Wood Sheets projects and basket if you missed it.
I warn ya – it’s a 10 [...]

Avast! Catty Blog Cruise is Underway!

C’mon aboard the  Catty Cruise Line!   Our blog hop starts on July 25th at midnight! (central Standard Time)    We have a manifest of  12 talented stampers sure to muster up your stamping creativity.  You voyage  to the next port by clicking on the port hole at the end of this post. But, if [...]

More Swaps

Here are more swaps from my Demonstrator Get together!  Did you know you can try out being a demonstrator for only $85 right now?  As a hobby demonstrator, you can save 20% or more on what you buy for yourself.  As a business demonstrator, you can make extra money.  Read more about it here.
ROUND [...]

Demonstrator Swaps

Here are a few of the wonderful  swaps from our last Demonstrator Get Together here in Orlando!

Love the Orchid and new Razzleberry together!

Cindy is a great scrapbooker and I think the circles are fun!

How about this one?!  This is the new Crushed Curry and Soft Suede Combo.  I wasn’t sure I liked this set until [...]

“Bearly” Made It!

What can a hand stamped card really do?   At the end of April this year I realized I still had $10,000 to go to earn the Stampin’ Up incentive trip.   I rationalized, justified and talked myself out of trying to earn it.  I told myself that times are tough,  most people won’t get a vacation [...]

A few June Swaps

I received these lovely swaps from Montana yesterday.   Rhea Hughes  somehow works it into her busy schedule to organize a monthly for 10 of us and I am one of the lucky stampers in her group!

This is so pretty!  So Saffron card, then some Almost Amethyst run through the Texturz plate and Tea Party [...]

Inspire Me: Wednesday

This beautiful card was created by Shelli Gardner, Founder of Stampin’ Up!  She has a blog www.soshelli.com.  What I love, love, love about this card is that she rolled the  wheel, Friendly Words, directly on the pretties flower.  Then after rolling it on her card, she attached the flower with a rhinestone brad right where [...]

More Retired Stamps up…

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Hi Stampers! I have just uploaded more of my used stamps sets that need a good home! You can see them all here on this [...]

Stamping Vid Bits: Colorized Corduroy

Byte size stamping video tid bits….
(you may have to come to the blog to see video below)
(as promised, I’ll describe for my dial up – no video readers)
I really wanted red corduroy buttons.  Stampin’ Up sells them in around 9 colors, but not red.  SO I experimented with reinkers and got a formula that works [...]

Mini Occasions Catalog Samples

**I have replaced the fuzzy screen shots with better pics!
General Session Part 3:
Here are the pics of some samples we are allowed to show from our upcoming Occasions Mini Catalog.
This is using our new Printed Window Sheets, which are clear acetate sheets with printed designs.   The butterfly is from Great Friend, a new stamp set [...]

General session part 2

Update from Pam Morgan from Stampin’ Up!
We can NOT post pictures, DESCRIPTIONS or NAMES of the new In Colors, Stamp Sets or Products!
I understand that they want it to be a surprise to all demonstrators and customers when they debut officially June 1st. (demos can pre-order then)
We all cheered and raved when we saw the [...]

Hawaii General Session

We had an incredible breakfast outside this morning! Guava juice along with other sugary donut things I can’t pronounce or spell were fabulous!
Mary Polcin was the first person to earn our upcoming trip! Shelli gave her an envelope with something wonderful
Pam Morgan is showing us some things from our new occasions [...]

21 Hours later…

Matt and I are finally here in Hawaii! My Florida clock says 5:18 am but it is 11 pm here.
Matt’s wonderful Mom and Dad are in town from NH and volunteered to drive us to the Orlando airport at 5 am.   They brought us bagels and coffee, we had a nice breakfast and relaxing [...]

Arty’s Pick of the Web

Arty, our friendly little spider, crawls around the web looking for his favorite stamped ideas to share!
January 6th:  Arty found a rarely seen corner on the SU website.  Go to www.stampinup.com and click on About Us.  (you won’t need to be a demonstrator to see it)  Then click on Media Room, then click on On News Stands [...]

For the love of stamps…

We wait for the new catalog to arrive and the minute it is in our hands, we ooh and ahh with every page we turn. We write out our wish list, and try to whittle down our wants to something manageable and then commit to eating out less so we can buy more stamps. Sometimes [...]