Thank You!
In no particular order, here are just some of my favorite photos and memories of our Stampin' Up! convention last week.. what a great week of special memories!
Stay tuned.. I have lots more of my 1100 convention photos to share with you!
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Stampin' Up! does an amazing job making their demonstrators feel loved and appreciated!! There are awards, prizes, marches on stage, flowers, gifts, ... you name it.. they sure know how to spoil us! At Convention 2010 last week, I was recognized for ...
Being in the top 100 "Demonstrator of the Year" category in Stampin' Up!, means I am in the Founder's Circle and get to go on a four day, all expenses paid trip to beautiful St. George, Utah with the top 100 demonstrators in the entire country! I have been on this trip twice before and it is so much fun to hang out with my Stamping buddies and relax, eat, talk, swap, share tips and ideas, stamp, eat, relax, visit the Stampin' Up! manufacturing facility in Kanab, relax, eat, oh .. ya.. I mentioned that part :)
Demonstrator of the Year status is determined by a combination of factors from the previous year: personal sales, personal recruiting, personal promotions, and promotions and sales of the demonstrators in the first level of your group. I was beyond AMAZED and honored to have ranked 5th in the company.. that was a total surprise and was made even better by having my husband and son in attendance at the Awards Night ceremony!!! Bless them for driving all the way from the San Francisco area to be with me!!!
As they called up the top 100 in groups of 10, starting from #100, I fully expected to be called WAY before #10 .. but when they got to #11 and I knew I was in the top 10, this was my reaction.. I could NOT believe it! Look at Stella's face (next to me).. she is so shocked too.... I still get butterflies thinking of that moment!
Here is the top 10... THANK YOU to Nikki Rueth for sending me this photo!!
This was my face as I exited the stage and was greeted by my fabulous SAM (service account manager) Terri... i was soooooooooooooooo stunned in case you cannot tell! :)
Here I am with my friends Susie and Michelle as we walk the stage celebrating over $60,000 in personal sales last year!
My friend Glad and I as we are about to walk on stage for our 15 year recognition march.
Thank you Stampin' Up! for making us feel so appreciated!!!
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At each Stampin' Up! event, it seems we are showered with lovely gifts, presents, prizes, etc., .. last week at Convention it was no different... here are the amazing FREE GIFTS I received!
Our Convention bag, complete with free stamps sets and a wheel for our Make & Takes, a pen, a pin, a tag, free catalog and mini catalog.
Free stamp sets and wheel for Make & Takes and other free sets for awards I received for sales and recruiting.
Free Play Date "Quick Accents", and some of my swaps.
This was the gorgeous free bag I received for achivieving Founder's Circle (top 100 in the company):
Items I received on Awards Night:
opening the big box....
It's a Cole Haan purse, in recognition for being in the top 10 category for most promotions to Sr. Associate in my 1st level downline!
and inside the small box was this gorgeous necklace in recognition for being in the Top 10 of the entire company!! whoohooo! :)
Nancy won a You Crew prize.... are you kidding me? this is WAY more than just a prize.. WAY to go Nancy!
And on the last day we were all given an amazing free product bundle.. check this out!
Thank You Stampin' Up! for EVERYTHING !
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Wow.. I'm home from the Stampin' Up! Convention.. what a week! I feel like I could take a reallllly long nap.. like for a week!! :) BUT.. there is too much stamping to be done... so enough thought of that...
I hope you will enjoy these ideas using new Stampin' Up! products from the new catalog ... these are a few of the swaps I took to Convention last week:
do you just LOVE these new Vintage Brads!? OH my gosh.. I love them!
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The night before our Stampin' Up! Convention officially started, we had a FLOWER POWER party... it was fun to see demonstrators, staff, and even Shelli and her husband Sterling all dressed up! Enjoy these fun photos from our GROOVY event!
I have soooooooo many more photos and amazing experiences to share with you from Convention! Please stay tuned each day!
Patty
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I had fun with Steph, Cindee, Kim and Melissa from my downline as we made several projects on Day 1 of the Stampin' Up! convention.. the projects were really cute and focused a lot on using markers.. our Stampin' Up! markers are amazing and produce beautiful results, making your projects look gorgeous!
This was my fave project, using our wonderful markers, done on watercolor paper (#105019, pg 170) and one of my favorite new stamp sets THAT WE GOT FOR FREE!!! called Just Believe, (#116948, pg109).
This was a cute little 4x4 card stamped with the same set - the circle is sponged, using a circle mask cut from the Big Shot circle die... how clever! Colors: Daffodil Delight, Peach Parfait and Early Esspresso.
This adorable 3x3 project uses the versatile and affordable little"So Many Thanks" single stamp, item 120173, pg 18.
It is a 3x6 envelope folded in 1/2 to hold the 3x3 cards and envelopes.. how clever!!!
This fun new paisley stamp set and wheel will be in our Holiday Mini catalog - which BY THE WAY... IS FANTASTIC - the entire mini catalog is to die for !!!!
another card with the paisley set:
Here is Cindee and one of her projects and Steph and one of hers:
I didn't quite finish my last project... this is what part of it looked like.. it's pretty cute..
I have soooooooo many more photos and amazing experiences to share with you from Convention! Please stay tuned each day!
Patty
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CONVENTION SPECIAL WHILE I'M GONE>>> Receive one of my project tutorials FREE when you place a $50 order online with me! Email me after you place your order with your choice of tutorial and I will email it to you next week when I return home. There are 7 different tutorials available. One for EACH $50 in orders. VIEW ALL AVAILABLE TUTORIALS HERE.
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Greetings from Utah! I am at our annual Stampin' Up! convention and wanted to report in about my visit to the Awards booth with my friend Ruth.... we went to the Awards booth together on the first day to receive our free stamping sets as rewards for our recruiting and sales efforts, and we were both awarded with a Founders Circle bag, which means we placed somewhere in the top 100 of the company!!!
It was so exciting to receive a bag and know that we would be going on the Founder's Circle trip together this fall! Here is a close-up of the lovely bag...
So, as I am typing this... we are awaiting the Awards Night ceremony tonight.. I'll come back and finish up this post with a report on how it went... can you believe my dear hubby and son are driving up here from CA just to be with me on Awards Night!? Oh my gosh.. amazing!
OH MY GOODNESS>>> I am AMAZED and still in shock.. just got back fromthe Awards Night as I am typing this on Thursday night... I placed #8 in the company in the number of 1st level demonstrator Sr. Associate Promotions, aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand the HUGE SHOCK was that I placed #5 in the ENTIRE COMPANY for Demonstrator of the year !!!!!
Here are the TOP 10 DEMONSTRATORS OF THE YEAR, and I am right in the middle at #5 !!!
Can you believe my DEAR sweet husband and son DROVE ALL THE WAY UP FROM San Francisco to be here tonight!!!??? It was such a thrill to share this evening with them!!! Thank you guys LOVE YOU! :)
And here I am with roommate and dear friend Stella, and LONG time DEAR sweet friend Jan Wakeland.. they both have big news too, but I'll let them share that on their blogs.. love you sweet friends!
I have soooooooo many photos and amazing experiences to share with you and it was only Day 1 of Convention today! Please stay tuned each day!
Patty
VACATION NOTICE... please note.. I am away at the Stampin' Up! Convention from 7/20 to 7/26.. and may not be available to return emails quickly, but I will do my best!
CONVENTION SPECIAL WHILE I'M GONE>>> Receive one of my project tutorials FREE when you place a $50 order online with me! Email me after you place your order with your choice of tutorial and I will email it to you next week when I return home. There are 7 different tutorials available. One for EACH $50 in orders. VIEW ALL AVAILABLE TUTORIALS HERE.
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Wow.... what a FULL day !! Yesterday was check in day at the annual Stampin' Up! convention here in Salt Lake City, UT, and we had so much fun for over 12 hours !!!!
First on my agenda was to go into Memento Mall early - it was a nice perk for the demonstrators who had recruited someone so far this month, so, I got to go in at 8am! whoohoo! Thank you Stampin' Up! for letting us do that!
These were my 2 favorite items, the Greenhouse Gala print tote and HELLO>> the AWESOME computer bag!!!! whohoooooo!
Darling keychains... aren't they adorable?
Fabulous Christmas Ornaments..
Here I am in line (to pay) .. watching over my stuff and Stella's stuff...
It was non stop action with activites, photos, lots of friends, etc., so stay tuned for TONS more photos during the week!!!
VACATION NOTICE... please note.. I am away at the Stampin' Up! Convention from 7/20 to 7/26.. and may not be available to return emails quickly, but I will do my best!
CONVENTION SPECIAL WHILE I'M GONE>>> Receive one of my project tutorials FREE when you place a $50 order online with me! Email me after you place your order with your choice of tutorial and I will email it to you next week when I return home. There are 7 different tutorials available. One for EACH $50 in orders. VIEW ALL AVAILABLE TUTORIALS HERE.
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VACATION NOTICE... please note.. I am away at the Stampin' Up! Convention from 7/20 to 7/26.. and may not be available to return emails quickly, but I will do my best!
CONVENTION SPECIAL WHILE I'M GONE>>> Receive one of my project tutorials FREE when you place a $50 order online with me! Email me after you place your order with your choice of tutorial and I will email it to you next week when I return home. There are 7 different tutorials available. One for EACH $50 in orders. VIEW ALL AVAILABLE TUTORIALS HERE.
I hope to report in tonight with fun photos from Check-In Day at Convention, but in case I don't get a chance, I did want to post more of my Swap Cards for you here... enjoy!
I did this all in My Digital Studio !!! Do you like it!? I hope convention goers will swap for MDS cards... I'll let you know how it goes.
At first I made the card like this one below... but then I just had to add the hat, bow tie and buttons... WAY too fun!! I made the bow tie with 2 heart punches and an oval punch in the middle, and made the hat with 2 oval punches with a rectangle in between.. then a partial oval for the blue band... I was really tickled with this fun card! I will try to do a tutorial on this when I return from convention! :)
The "Owl Punch" is an ADDITIONAL download available for My Digital Studio.. you can see ALL available downloads ON MY BLOG. SHOP NOW for your adorable owl punch download (click DIGITAL CRAFTING and then NEWEST DOWNLOADS)
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VACATION NOTICE... please note.. I am away at the Stampin' Up! Convention from 7/20 to 7/26.. and may not be available to return emails quickly, but I will do my best!
CONVENTION SPECIAL WHILE I'M GONE>>> Receive one of my project tutorials FREE when you place a $50 order online with me! Email me after you place your order with your choice of tutorial and I will email it to you next week when I return home. There are 7 different tutorials available. One for EACH $50 in orders. VIEW ALL AVAILABLE TUTORIALS HERE.
Well, today is the BIG DAY .. I'm off on the airplane with some of my wonderful demonstrators and we are flying to Salt Lake City, UT for the 2010 Stampin' Up! Convention !!!
I hope to be reporting to you each night from Convention, so if you want to see all the news, catch all the fun and get great stamping tips, tune in each day this week!!!
This is one of the gifts I am bringing for each of my downline members... a Simply Adorned Chain and Charm, customized for our group ! :) Too fun!! (All Simply Adorned Jewelry can be found on page 189 in the Stampin' Up! Catalog).
I packaged them up with some other goodies in our very own DARLING Play Date Gusseted Envelopes, found on pg 180, item #120434.. aren't they toooo cute!?
Yes, of course I made custom labels for the envelopes, too :) You know I love MDS for stuff like this! :)
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