Stampin Up Founder’s Circle Trip 2013 – Kanab, UT

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One of the biggest highlights of my year is visiting the Stampin' Up! manufacturing facility in Kanab, UT on our annual Founder's Circle trip!

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You'll probably remember photos from my previous trips here, and here, but this year they allowed us to take photos inside the manufacturing facility, as long as we didn't show any top secrets (?) or new, unreleased products… so… I thought you might enjoy just a few photos from our day!

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Can you imagine any warmer of a welcome that all the employees out front greeting us?

This was the group of employees greeting our bus.. there were additional groups as well.

These stacks of Stampin' Up! carstock just made our hearts FLUTTER!

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The employee cutting the cardstock changed up his Be The Difference shirt a bit! 🙂

Below… cooling rubber.. ready to be cut and put into the stamp set boxes!

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I know this looks like a cooking lesson.. but she's pouring CHERRY COBBLER INK into the bowl with "blank" ink pads… yummy!! 🙂

Founders-circle-kanab-lunchWe were treated to a fantastic BBQ lunch and we got to eat with the Kanab employees.. what a huge treat!!

I'm just sayin'.. for what it's worth,

I could TOTALLY eat lunch like this EVERY DAY! 🙂

 
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We also got to stamp a couple quick Make & Take cards… that was new this year.. too fun!

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This is my friend Cindy Baughman and I showing off our cards.

Below.. these are the free goodies we received on our tour… since I already have this stamp set, I'd love to share it with someone… leave me a comment below if you'd like to win the stamp set!  I'll draw a winner on Thursday, Sept. 26

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Good-bye until next time… Thank you Stampin' Up! and all the hard working employees!

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123 thoughts on “Stampin Up Founder’s Circle Trip 2013 – Kanab, UT”

  1. I loved seeing all your pictures and reading your stories behind them. Thanks for a such a great insight of everything. They know how to treat their demos!
    I have wanted this stamp set, so to win this would rock! 😀

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  2. Thanks Patty for allowing us to benefit from your tour. You are such a good “guide”. Oh & blog candy, that would be a nice way to end my tour of Kanab with you!

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  3. It looks like you had a great time at Founder’s Circle, as usual! Oh my goodness…those stacks of paper…YUM!!! Thanks for sharing your adventures with us!

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  4. What fun you must have had. Nice to see some peeks from behind the scenes!
    The cards you showed are so cute and look so easy. What a great stamp give away. Thak you for the chance to win!

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  5. Wish I could have been on the tour. I am just nerdy enough to really enjoy how everything we use is made. Way too much fun. Thanks for sharing your pictures. P. S. I’ll just take dessert!!!!!

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  6. Glad you are snjoying yourself. It is also great that you share your experience with all of us. Thanks for the chance to win the new stamp set.

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  7. just looking at the stacks of cardstock made me drool! Seems I am a paper collector who dabbles in making cards!!! Seriously, appreciate the behind the scenes tour…it is fun to “meet” some of those who make it possible for us to create.
    blessings
    patti moffett

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  8. Enjoyed tagging along, through your blog posts to see how our stamp products are made! Also enjoy all the great ideas you share on your blog. I read it daily. The non stamp pics are always fun to see really like the flowers and wildlife ones. Thanks for a chance to win a set of stamps.

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  9. It was great tagging along on your awesome journey. I wish I could of been there to see all what stampin up does. Treasure that and thanks so much for sharing a part of what you do for all of us .

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  10. Hey Patty, thanks for the tour. It is awesome to see Stampin’ Up behind the scene and our products in the making process. Makes me appreciate them all the more. Thanks for giving us a chance to win that adorable stamp set. ~Patsy

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  11. I’ve enjoyed your daily updates from Founder’s Circle, it looks like so much fun! Yes, I’m drooling just looking at all of the Coastal Cabana card stock, it’s so yummy!

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  12. I’m happy you had such a wonderful time and glad you shared your experience !! How fun that must have been to go through the manufacturing process. Thank you so much for sharing your photos.

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  13. Thanks for sharing . . . I have always wondered what went on in Kanab. Congratulations on winning the Founders trip again! You definately deserve it.

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  14. Love you make’n takes Patty!! We are so blessed that you and other Founder’s Circle attendees have taken time during your trip to share pictures. I especially like the food pictures — LOL (just being honest).

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  15. Thanks so much for sharing the pictures. Boy, what I could do with all that beautiful paper. Thank you for the chance to wind the stamp set. Glad you had a wonderful time. Take Care, gloria

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  16. Patty,
    I just want to thank you for always sharing and taking time out of yoru busy day. Looks like you had a great time. I need to work harder to get to go next year.
    happy stamping Julie

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  17. You always take the most amazing photos. I feel like I was there right along with you. Thanks for sharing your talents, your heart and goodies with all your readers. Congrats again on your achievements.

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  18. Followed everyone as you started your trip to Utah . Looks like so much fun! Would love to win this stamp set. I haven’t bought it yet. Thanks for the chance.

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  19. iTS A GOOD FEELING TO KNOW THAT THE PRODUCTS WE BUY FROM STAMPIN-UP AND THEN SEE HOW MUCH THEY APPRECIATE YOU ALL MAKES IT WORTH WHAT WE DO FOR THEM BY BUYING STAMPIN-UP PRODUCTS. YOU ARE SUCH A ASSET TO THIS COMPANY AND THEY SHOULD TREAT YOU WELL. lOVE ALL YOU DO FOR US AND SO LOVINGLY. BLESSING
    DELORIS

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  20. Love seeing all the pictures! Glad you had so much fun! I was just going to order this bundle but I’ll try my luck here first! Would love to win it!

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  21. I decided to go back to your first posting with your swap card and come back to today’s pictures….what a fun trip and way to sort of live vicariously through them. You all so deserve all of the pampering, goodies, fab looking food and fun that you have. Thank you for sharing so much of your fun days!

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  22. Patty – Such a fun trip for you and all those other hard-working demonstrators. Thanks for the inside pics of the Kanab facility. Wish I were there! Janice Eastes

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  23. Hi Patty,
    Thanks for sharing all of the great pictures of your trip. It makes me feel like I’m are right there with you!
    So glad you had a wonderful time on your trip and I look forward to seeing all of the new ideas you share with us!
    Thanks,
    Janie

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  24. Enjoying your report. I especially like seeing how different everyone’s make N take cards are, using the same basic materials. Thank you for posting!

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  25. Enjoyed the photos…..looks like they really know how to take care of the best of the best….thanx for the opportunity to win…

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  26. Thanks for sharing your pics with us… looks like you had an awesome time! Nice of you to share the fun stamp set with one of us! Fingers crossed… it’s a great set!

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  27. Oh swoon – all that pretty coastal cabana cardstock!! How fun that you were allowed to take pictures and share this trip 🙂 I have that stamp set on my wishlist – I’m just waiting to finish relocating and then I am going to order everything on my wishlist (it’s roughly half a mile long right now … :))

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  28. Thanks for the great pictures! I agree with you – the food looks pretty good! The employees look like they really enjoy their job! I would love this stamp set – thanks for the opportunity to win it!

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  29. Thanks for sharing your photos of your trip. I do love the photos of the dardstock and ink being poured but—-who doesn’t love that delicious looking food!
    Marian Biegel

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  30. Thank you for all you do! I love your posts and I look forward to the emails I get with your posts. Congratulations on being a part of the founders circle, again!! Thank you for sharing your treats!

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  31. Wow!! You are so very generous!! I have loved all the updates from Founder’s Circle, but I don’t know which I would like best…being in the same room as all that rubber OR that yummy dessert!!! Both are absolutely DELISH!! Thank you for the opportunity to win a stamp set I am just DYING to get!!

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  32. That stamp set would go perfect with my SU quarterly workshop with the NC demos group! Looks like a lot of fun for all there! Can’t wait to see what you are up to next!

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  33. Patty, looks like so much fun you had…and what a wonderful tour of learning. Thanks for sharing …it was great to see all the photos and I learned from them.
    Cute stamp set…I would love to win it. Thanks Patty.

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  34. WOW…what a way to be ‘STAMPERED’ (pampered the SU way!)
    Would love to add this set to the SU goodies I send my sister.
    She lives in another state and her husband has been out of work for quite a while. (she doesn’t buy anything that isn’t necessary) So I share my SU goodies with her. I’ve been SUing for 8 years now and share my supplies with her. She is overjoyed when she receives the packages.

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  35. What a trip you won! How interesting to see how everything you sell is made. Reminds me of the program “Made In America”. How sweet of you to give us a chance to win the stamp set. I’m willing to take that chance! Thanks Patty!

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  36. The lunch looks yummy and all that paper is beautiful. I love paper. Think I have enough to last a couple of hundred years but I keep buying. Looks like you had a great time. Edna

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  37. Hi Patty,
    It looks like you had so much fun at Founder’s Circle. I have been following your posts regarding your trip. To be able to see “behind the scenes” through your camera lens is so cool, thanks for sharing this with us. Also, it is very sweet of you to share one of your gifts.

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  38. Hi Patty! Thanks so much for keeping us up to date on all of your Founder’s Circle fun! It’s so neat seeing how some of the products are made! I love these posts just as much as I love your fabulous card posts! Thanks for the chance to win!

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  39. It’s nice to see the happenings “behind the scenes”. My neighbor had 3 workshops at her house over the past couple of years, and Cindy was the demonstrator. She is so creative and talented…but then, that’s the description for ALL the SU demonstrators, isn’t it? Thanks for sharing!

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  40. Wow what an opportunity of a lifetime to be where you are as of this posting!!!! Congratulations on your achievement! !! Fun, fun, fun!!
    Thanks for an opportunity to win a stamp set that I do not own!!! Woo hoo!
    You are the best!!
    Gay Ferland

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  41. So nice of you to share your great experience with us! Can’t imagine seeing that much rubber and paper! I’d love to win this stamp set. Thanks!

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  42. Oh how I would love to win this set!! Thanks Patty for the chance to win. So grateful for the pictures of your trip, sharing the food pictures ….yes, I could eat like that every day, too but I would have to buy some new jeans! Interesting pics of behind the scenes! Again thanks for sharing and congratulations for making the grade.

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  43. Thanks Patty for sharing your trip and all you GREAT craft idea’s. That Stamp Set is one on my want list. I would love to be the winner of that. Then I could cross something off my list. Thanks!!!

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  44. I have a new phone and my message disappeared from my screen. Thank you for bringing us along on your trip-all of it. We got stranded over a weekend in Knab when our camper broke down. My children played on that playground but I had no idea about the SU/Knab connection. A bank employee who always went to St. George on Mondays couriered our part to the repair place. Very friendly town! Beautiful place!

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  45. Thanks for the chance to win. I think my favoriete part was the shirt, when you have handicapped child, you know what making a difference and being different means. We have met lots of people who have made a difference in our lives and also those whose look at us as different.

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  46. I’ve almost ordered this SS TWICE!! So, you know I would LOVE to have it! THA ks for always including us on your trip Patty. I feel like I’m rt there I your pocket (wish I were-I think they should let u take one guest to the plant a year!! Wouldn’t that b a treat?!!). Hope I win-fingers crossed!! Drum roll………………………..

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  47. Looks like a wonderful trip oh my the photos of the stampset rubber and all that cardstock !!! I would love to win the stampset. Thanks for the chance

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  48. Gee the trip sounds like it was fun. I could definitely make good use of the stamp set you got there. Thanks much for sharing. I would like to be a demonstrator however I would have to pay Stamping Up more money than they would be giving me.

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  49. I love seeing/reading all the posts from demos who’ve earned such a achievement from SU! I’m not sure what I’d love most about earning such a distinction: getting away for a weekend; the pillow gifts; the make n takes (which I’d love to have the washi tape!); the hospitality room (yes, all you can eat snacks!!!), the freebie products or WHAT!!!! Anyway, congratulations on your achievements, Patty. I’d love to play with that stamp set.

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  50. Wow, Patty! I have just finished looking at your’s, Becky Roberts, and Meg Loven’s posts. Looks like you all had a blast. I thought it was great to see you each featured different parts of your trip…you featured the park and theater, Meg showed the hike and tour, Becky the swap night…all great expriences, I am sure! Congrats and hope you continue your success!

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  51. The trip sounded like a lot of fun – especially all the free goodies you all receive. And it’s so nice of you to offer us some free goodies. Thanks for the opportunity to win that fun stamp set.

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  52. Loved seeing your pictures. Would have enjoyed being there to see some of the “top secret” new products.
    Thanks for a chance to win the stamp set.

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  53. It is such fun to see the inside of the Kanab facility! Thank you for sharing your pictures. It allows us to imagine being there. Thanks for sharing your stamp set too!

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  54. I love seeing all the photos you share with us about your events with Stampin’ Up. Another great year for Stampin’Up. Since this stamp set is on my wish list it would be great to win it instead of purchasing it.

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