Riverton Regional

In April, Stampin' Up! hosted an awesome regional event in Riverton at the home office and I was one of the lucky people able to attend.  I have previously shared my card swap and downline gift I took to this event.  Check them out if you missed them.  I am now going to share some of my favorite parts of the day!

 

This event was super exciting because they gave us all the new catalog early!  Don't we all love it?  They also had a bunch of projects that are featured in the catalog out for us see. 

 

 

One thing I loved was that we were in the warehouse!  I loved being in the room with so many stamping supplies!  You can see a bit of the warehouse in the picture below... this card was made by  my friend Jane, she was one of the presenters! 

 

Michelle won prize patrol!

 

No event is complete without a make and take!  The cute box below was one of the projects we made.

 

 

It was fun to see Chelsey up on stage with Shannon! 

 

 

Shelli's Beautiful card

 

 

Shopping!!!!  I loved shopping with my friends in the warehouse!  Brand spanking new products, no shipping, and friends.  Sounds like the perfect shopping trip to me!

 

 

We couldn't leave without taking pictures by the famous Stampin' Up! rock...

 

Friends... (I love our stamping group)

 

Me and my downline...

 

All about me Poster

My Daughter had an assignment last spring in preschool to bring a poster to school that shows all about her.  My friend Stacie shared this idea with me.  Instead of decorating the poster, decorate some smaller pages and put them on the poster.  That way when the poster comes home, you can take those smaller pages off and put them in a scrapbook!  So I made these pages 6x6 and stuck them on the poster with dimensionals!

 

 

 

As you can see she LOVED the poster and she still loves to look at the pages in the book I made!

Here are a few more pictures of the pages...

 (first cake)

Don't you love that banner?  I stamped it with the photopolymer stamp on the back and cut it out!

(elephant watching)

 (she loves Classic Skating)

(sparklers)

 

Now you might be thinking to yourself... now wait Stampin' up! doesn't sell 6x6 albums anymore.  You are right, they aren't in the catalog but I found this one on the Clearance rack! 

 

 

and guess what?  It suprisingly is still there!  So go get it while you can!  Click HERE to go to the clearance rack.  These deals are only good while supplies last.  Make sure to mark that I am your demonstrator when you order online, that way we both get rewards :)

 

Stampin' Up! Convention 2013

Convention this year was AMAZING.  I am soooo glad I went and want to share some of my favorite moments with you today. 

 

 

We must have had purple on the brain cause Chelsey, Sherri and I arrived matching!  We are anxiously awaiting the opening of the doors for the first mainstage. 

 Fireworks, famous people singing and Shelli's whole family.  It was an awesome opening session.  You can watch the whole thing HERE!  The closing session was also on youtube, you can watch it HERE.

 

 This year is Stampin' Up!'s 25th anniversary, so they threw a party to celebrate.  My favorite parts were the treats (of course), the free product (washi tape!!!) and the green screen photo ops.  (I wonder when they will be on flickr... anyone know?)

 I was so excited 3 girls in my downline came to convention!  It was Cindy and Michelle's first time! 

My upline Brandi taught a class and did a great job!  It was so fun to see her on stage.  She is a natural. 

 I loved the decorations this year, Stampin' Up went all out with the banners, displays, party atmosphere, photo ops, etc.  I loved it!

 

 Display boards!  These boards show samples using some of the free stamp sets we received.  (click on the picture to see it better)

 

 

This was the first convention that I stayed in a hotel, usually I am driving home every night.  This year we decided to stay in the hotel and I am so glad I did.  My roommates (Chelsey, Sherri, and Michelle) were awesome! 

 Denise and I were leadership roomies, it was fun to see her again!

 No Stampin' Up! party is complete without some stamping! I loved how they decorated the tables for make and takes. 

 

 Isn't this mason jar so cute!  I loved how they stored the supplies in it! 

 

If you think convention sounds fun, you should join the party next year!  This is when it will be:

Photopolymer Stampin' Up! stamps

Have you seen the new Photopolymer stamps?  I have definitely been having a lot of fun with them this month and I have 3 fun projects to show you using the Designer Typeset stamp set. These stamps are so fun, they are completely clear and moldable.  One thing I love about Stampin' Up! is that they ALWAYS sell quality products, so it isn't a suprise at how well these stamps work. 

 

 

I just loved this picture of my oldest and youngest and wanted to scrapbook it!  Yea for adding pictures to pages, I definitely need to work on this :)  Some of my favorite elements on this page are the arrows, banners, and the Natural Trim Ribbon (which I call the burlap ribbon).  The strip of Calypso Coral arrows were super easy to line up with this stamp set and I got it on my first try!  Yea for photopolymer stamps! 

 

 

One thing to note is when we get the stamps, the banner is a straight banner with no curve (a picture is shown at the end of this post) but we can mold these stamps to create any curve we like!  Don't worry the stamps hold their shape really well and as soon as you take the stamp off the clear block it straightens out again!  Don't you just love that banner? Definitely a must have stamp! 

 

You may be wondering where I got the other stamps for this card... they come in the very first Paper Pumpkin kit!  I love that splatter stamp!  To learn more about Paper Pumpkin and to sign up... click here.  (let me know if you sign up through me so I can welcome you to my Paper Pumpkin group)

 

 

Here is another card I made with the alphabet letters.

 

 

And a close up. Can you see the burlap inspired ribbon hiding behind the Flower Trim?  I LOVE both of those ribbons so much!  The Coral ribbon is actually a strip of the Tea for Two designer fabric, I wanted it to be a little more muted so I flipped it around so on this card we see the back of the fabric!

 

 

 

Here is a picture of all 57 stamps that come in the stamp set.  The best part?  They are only $13.95 for the set!  Definitely an awesome deal!  To order this just click on my shop now button here on my blog and on my website, we don't know how long this set will be available so get it while you can!

 

Are you excited to see what the stamp set will be next month!  I know I am.

Summer Smooches Scrapbook Layout

 

Up, Up & Away

Don't mind the rip on the bottom of the card... My 2 year old LOVES scissors!

Fruit & Flowers Pages

We made these pages last year at stamp club, sorry it took me so long to show them to you!  I will also share the card we made soon. 

We used the Fruit and Flowers stamp set and focused on the Stampin Write Markers and used the ruffled Calypso Coral ribbon.  We used the markers to color the fruit images (so they have more than one color) and used the markers with the spritzer to splatter the white polka dotted background.

We just hand wrote out the silly with the Stampin Write Markers... I love when the pages have hand written journaling.  It just seems to make it more personal.

These pages make me so excited for warm weather again!