It's been a while but I've been soooooo busy with all fun stuff.  I attended a Leadership Conference in San Antonio last week.  What fun we had.  Have I ever told you how much I love my job?!  Well here is why….

Leadership was held in San Antonio, Texas this year.  What a beautiful city.  I just loved every minute of it (it was in the high 70's there, it was MINUS one degree in New York!  So I was VERY glad to be in Texas!)  Tuesday was a traveling day but on Wednesday I started right away.  I was asked to do a demonstration so I had to go early to set up.

Yep, that's me setting up!

One of the staff members helping me.  Everyone was so nice.

Everyone came over to see what I was demonstrating.

I'm all set and ready for our rehearsal.

Oh yes there was a rehearsal, complete with microphones (just like Madonna)!

The photographer, Tom, was giving us last minute instructions.

After rehearsal on Wednesday, I went and got my bag from good friend Selma!  Isn't she just the cutest little person in the world!

Then it was off to do our make and takes.  Here is my good friend Linda displaying a beautiful smile and her first project.

Believe it or not, this entire bag was filled with our make and take supplies and all kinds of free stuff.

When we got to our make and take station, there was another two gifts waiting for us.

The little porfolio matches our new bags (hint hint…that material will be in the new catalog)!  I just love it!  And you can see the little box that was filled with chocolate.  All sitting at our table for us when we got there.

Too stinken cute!

Me with my stash!

And here are two of my team mates.  I'm so proud of them!  This is their first leadership!

Later in the evening was our Manager's Reception.  You can attend this if you have a team of demonstrators that you have signed up.

How exciting this was.  We aren't told what the theme is so it's fun trying to guess.

Before the program, we were treated to all sorts of refreshments.

Here's my friend patsy digging in.

And here is one of the waiters with fancy Shirly Temples with cute little umbrellas in it.

The decorations were gorgeous.

And here are two of my team mates.  I'm so excited that they earned the title so they could be here.  Lynn was on fire this year.  Congratulations girls.

Then Shelli came out and gonged the gong to start the show!

It was such a fun day.  Thank you for stopping by!  I hope you enjoyed my post.  More tomorrow.

It's been a long long two days so the post is going to be short!  Wanted to share a few things with you…

first…there is a super sale going on right now…our CLEARANCE RACK has up to 80% off on certain items (lots of punches are on sale) as well as scrapbooking stuff,  Big Shot Dies, punches and so much more.  Make sure you go to my website and check it all out – click here for a direct link or click on the picture below to see what is available.  When you get to page 10 keep clicking, there are nearly 200 new items on the Clearance Rack and they don't stop at page 10.

Good from December 15, 2011-January 5, 2012

Details:
Nearly 200 new Clearance Rack items are being added to the Online Store at discounts up to 80 percent off retail–while supplies last!

Things to Remember

• You can only order these on my website (click the picture above to get you to the correct spot) 
• The Clearance Rack Blitz includes old-body style punches.
• There is no minimum purchase required you can order as much or as little as you want.
• Qualifying Clearance Rack orders are eligible for hostess benefits which are also called Stampin' Rewards.
• Clearance Rack Blitz items are only available while supplies last. There are no refunds or exchanges on Clearance Rack items.
• You may view Clearance Rack Blitz items in my On-Line Store.

One of the items in the store is the Tulipe Big Shot Die.  Do you remember this project I did for the Ronald McDonald House?  Well her wings are done with that die and THAT die is on the clearance rack.

front view

Back view – see the Tulipe Die, I cut part of it off but it's PERFECT for her wings.  So make sure you check out the Clearance Rack, there are lots of good things on there.

Here are a few more of my favorites.  I ordered a lot off the clearance rack myself.

1.  The old fashioned (the easier one) 3/16 corner rounder #109047 – $4.19

2.  Scallop Edge Punch #112091 – $9.59 (see sample below)

3.  Spiral Punch #109973 – $4.99

4.  Tulipe Big Shot Die #113457 – #113457

Do you remember this card?  We HAD to use the old fashioned Scallop Edge Punch because the new model cuts it off…so make sure you get this one (# 112091) if you want to do this style card.

see how it does not cut off the edges!  Beautiful!  So make sure you check  it out.

I had my Demonstrator Team Get Together on Sunday.  It was so much fun.  I will share more pictures and project ideas with you later on but for now here are just a few…

Great Food

and yes this is our snowflake die

Deanna used it as a stencil for her snowflake cake – it was just beautiful…

Super Great Friends…

and FABTABULOUS projects! 

More sharing for another day, for now, I'm off to bed!   Thank you for stopping by.

What a busy time of the year.  I love what I do and I love being busy.  Today was oooober busy.  I started off with a Team Training in the morning at our local library.  We had so many demonstrators that signed up during this last special, I thought I would open up a team training for anyone that wanted to come.  We had a great turnout with a great range of demonstrators …

 - here we are waiting for the rest to come…

They each received one of these little booklets…

I took cards and put the information inside…

This is everything they need to get started in a nutshell (or a cardshell) and it will be used as a reference tool for them. 

I got home from my team training just in time to eat a little lunch and start my 40 card class.  Oh what fun that is…we worked for 2 1/2 hours but finshed 40 cards and envelopes.  These cards were all made from one of our Simply Scrappin Kits(they only used half of the Simply Scrappin Kit, 1/2 package of Whisper White Cardstock, one roll of our Whisper White Satin Ribbon and one package of envelopes. I love doing this class before Thanksgiving so they can take the weekend and address them, send them out and cross that off their "list"!  YIPPEEE we all love to cross things off our list.  Here is the information for the Simply Scrappin Kit.  Go to my website to order… http://stampladee.stampinup.net  and click on SHOP NOW.

Christmas Lane Simply Scrappin' Kit 124007 Price: $21.95

Preserve and embellish your holiday photos in a snap with this festive kit. Great for making holiday cards as well! Enjoy easy coordination with other Stampin’ Up! products, such as the Cherry Trim Designer 6" x 6" Album.

Thank you for stopping by! 

As promised yesterday, I'm posting more pictures of my Founder's Circle Trip…

So I told you that we always came back to our room at night with a gift on our beds.  This one held a SUPER surprise…it was a tease for what we were going to do the next evening.

So it was filled with a handstamped card and a brochure  and candy (of course) to see the play "Little Mermaid".  Wait until you see where it was and what it looked like.  It was outstanding…those pics tomorrow night.

So the next morning, this was Friday Morning, we got up, ate breakfast – mmmmmm – then boarded the buses to head off to Knab where the Stampin' Up! manufacturing plant is.  Hi girls.  Did you notice everyone EVERYONE is smiling…this is such a special trip.

And to make the time go faster, we play BINGO with prizes and had raffle tickets and the "snack basket".  FUN FUN…the time just flew by.

When we arrived at the office, we were greated with workers that held signs..it made me cry (good tears)!

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And then of course what would a Stampin' Up trip be without your picture at the Rock!

This is what the manufacturing plant looks like in Knab.  This is where they MAKE all our stamps.  Isn't it beautiful?!

And Shelli and I are in the apartment they built right in the manufacturing plant.  Now she and her family have a place to stay when they come to Knab to work and to see their family.  She still has lots and lots of family that still live here.

After we visit the plant, we always stop by the playground that was donated by Stampin' Up!  It's just beautiful here.  This is where we stop and eat lunch.

Every year our lunches are packed in a unique container, this year it was in an adorable basket.

And look at the adorable linen napkin/towel.  I just love it.

Oh and here is my friend Jan…what the heck does she have in her mouth?

After we leave the playground, we always stop by a little WigWam Store.  Instead of going in this time, I walked down the street and met a new friend at the restaurant…I decided to stop in…

And look who wanted to seat me!  So cute (well sort of)…

Well that was the first part of our day and here are all the little goodies I got from tha trip…that is DSP, a stamp set and new ribbon.  OH WOW!

So tomorrow I will finish this day out.  It was so much fun…

Thank you for stopping by, I'll share more tomorrow.

I just wanted to share some pictures with you in the next few days of an amazing trip I had.  First I was honored to be part of a group that are in the top 100 demonstrators in Stampin' Up.  We went to Founders Circle in St. George Utah.  It was five days of fun and surprises.  So here we go…

So here is the door going into the hotel.  Did I tell you that the we occupied the whole hotel?  Look at the doors, those are Decor Elements on steroids!  It was beautiful.

And here are three of us that earned the trip and look behind us on the window…MORE decor elements on steroids!  They were beautiful.

 This was the sign on my door, it's now in my stamp room.  I just love it.

Every day we got to play a game called Plinko.  We won a prize every day.  It was always Stampin' Up product.  HOW FUN – oh dear - the suitcase needs more room! 

 How beautiful is this…there is always a "first night dinner", this is the way the room was set up.  It was GORGEOUS and that is putting it lightly.

The theme this year was Tea Time.  We each received our own tea cup that was filled with roses and our name.  Do you recognize the tag?  It's in our catalog.  Leave a comment on my blog and tell me where it is in the catalog and what the name is and I will enter your name in a drawing for a free set of those…so what is it?

 Oh and another surprise is when we get back to our rooms at night, there is ALWAYS a bed gift.  This was the first gift…it's one of our boxes…yes these are in the catalog also.  They can be used for anything but are used best with our Big Shot dies.  This one was decorated and inside…..

look at all the cool stuff!!!  The first night it was filled with all our make and take supplies. 

This is the first morning.  It has become tradition to eat our breakfast outside.  It was so much fun and at home (in New York) they had the heat on!  YIKES.  It is so gorgeous here in southern Utah and the sun and temperature make it even more awesome. 

 Okay so we eat a lot.  Here we are at lunch.

and here we are doing our make and takes with Shelli.  There is Patsy Waggoner, Jan Burnett, Mary Fish, Shelli, me and Linda Heller.  Man do they stamp fast. 

One of my most favorite things of the whole week is when we have our Pajama Party/Business Share night.  These are the jammies that my good friend Nancy McKenney made for me.  Do you remember the ones she made last year?  She is soooooooo talented.  She asked me what the theme was and then went to work on them.  This was her creation and boy did she outdo herself!

And here is the back. 

Here are a few of us on the couch eating again and still in our jammies!

 Linda Heller and Susan Nygaard – two very very good friends…I just love them to pieces.

 Here are six of the eight new Advisory Board members.  This was our first unofficial picture in our jammies.

 And here is Jan having fun swapping.  Remember we had to make 125 swaps this year.

Yikes…caught!

Thank you for stopping by…come back tomorrow for more pictures and samples.

I really miss my old UPS driver…he was so on time…every day I would be in my stamp room and just like clockwork at 10:20 (not 10:19, not 10:21) right at 10:20 the little brown truck would drive in the driveway and deliver my Stampin' Up! boxes.  But nooooooo, I have a new driver and he comes anywhere from 11:30 to 5:00….argh!!!  Today he flew in here at 4:30.  So it was a little better when I saw what he delivered…not only did he deliver one of my orders but he delivered THIS….

Okay okay so it is a little beat up…my other driver would have handed it to me.  I think it ended up this way because the driver came in the driveway so fast!!!!…do you think he thought the "Express" meant he had to drive FAST?  hmmmmmm

Anyway…it was FUN mail…I was so excited because it came from Morris Meetings which is Stampin' Up's Travel Agency…Look at what was inside!!!!!

 Is this the most stinken cute thing you've ever seen?!!!!!  Look it matches the purses we got at Convention!

Oh my gosh…..how awesome is that….and inside….

were my travel documents for Founder's Circle and for the Advisory Board Retreat coming up in September.  I'm so stinken excited!!!!  I've already started my swaps (I know I know…who would have thought I would have started them already but I had a vision in the middle of the night and got up and put it on paper!!!!)eeeeeeek I 'm so excited I just can't wait!

Anyway…now for today's card pick…this is a card that I'm doing tomorrow at my VIP stamping day.  Some very special ladies are coming over to stamp and this is one of the cards I created for them.  I hope they like doing it.  It's done with my new favorite stamp called Field Flowers.  LOVE LOVE LOVE the set.  How about you?

Don't forget to stock up on our Designer Series Paper, time is running out to get that great special – buy three get one free.  Contact me if you have any questioons but HURRY!!!!  it's almost over.  Also if you'd like one of our Ribbon Samplers, let me know and I will add your name to the list!  Take care.

Okay thank you for stopping by…I'm working on a video so make sure you check back…I hope to have it up on my blog soon. 

Chow baby! :0)

What a busy time this has been.  Kevin and I were on the Stampin' Up! cruise to Alaska!  We had a great time with friends that we've met from different Stampin' Up! events.  I'll share pictures soon.  For now, I want to share what I did when I came back.  For everyone that ordered from me while I was on cruise, I gave them a FREE Melon Mambo party.  Here are a few pictures…

I started out that morning brewing up a Melon Mambo Recipe Drink.  Mixed together Melon Mambo (akaRaspberry Sherbet), Very Vanilla ice cream andLucky Limeade (aka Lemon Lime soda).  When I added the soda, it foamed all up, really cool (literally).

I poured that into Melon Mambo glasses (aka Martini Glasses) added a strawberry and put them in the freezer until they were frozen.  Just before the guests arrived, I put out the food….

put on some good music (Cheeseburger in Paradise and Margaritaville)…

got the make and takes all ready…and then……

they started to arrive!!!!  Oh how fun!!!!

We stamped and ate and sang (yes we sang along with Jimmy)!  We had a morning class and evening class to fit everyone in.  They stamped 6 cards using the Fabulous Florets Stamp Set found in the Summer Mini on page 22  #123025 wood mount or #123027 clear mount.  They LOVED the cards..

and I guess they loved my Melon Mambo drinks!  What a great day.  Thank you for stopping by.  I'll post more tomorrow.

Yes you heard it right.  I'm leaving Stampin' Up!  It's a sad time but an exciting time for me.

So did I get your attention yet?  No silly, I'm not leaving yet, but it's June 1st and that is the time of the year that Stampin' Up! announces their retired lists.    We are getting rid of some of the old things so we can make room for the new! 

I have the new Idea Book and Catalog (yipppeeeeee) and you will LOVE it when you get yours!  I'm ordering the catalogs for my customers today and they will be available July 1st for you.  You will just LOVE it!  So make sure you click on the links below to print out the retired lists and get all you want before they are gone forever!!! 

click here  to go to my online store

and to see which items are retiring AND at a discount

Click here for the Discontinued Stamp List

Click here for the Discontinued Accessories List

Click here for the Discontinued Definitely Decorative List

INCLUDING a Discontinued DISCOUNT List

You need to hurry.  These discontinued items are only for sale while supplies last.  So click on the link above, set up an account on my ONLINE STORE if you don't have one, order today and have it shipped directly to your home!  EASY PEASY!!!!!

Let me know if you have any questions.

I'm back so I will be posting lots of pictures!!! 

Just wanted to show you really quick one of the cards we will be making at my Melon Mambo Party…

Isn't this pretty, it's a bookmark! 

Gotta run!  Have a great day.

It's been a busy week and there is still more to come.  I just LOVE it!!!   Busy Busy Busy….well tonight was the Just For Women's Event that is put on by Saratoga Hospital.  Here are a few pictures.

 Here is my table after we got all set up.  It was held at the Saratoga City Center.  What a beautiful new building.

 Close up of my display – Scrapbook and My Digital Studio Display, in the back are some recent cards we've been doing in classes, clubs and workshops. 

On the other side, we have the pins that I make with our Big Shot.

 I was so excited that my daughter Kate got to help me this year.  She helped me prep all day and then we both had a blast meeting people at the event.  She's so good with the people.

 We eat from the time we get there until we leave.  Here are the appetizers -mmmmmm!

 And here is our guest speaker – Christine Holton Cashen – she was soooooooo funny!  We all loved her. 

and then we finished off the evening with door prizes and DESSERTS – DOUBLE MMMMMMMMMM!

The whole evening was absolutely fun.  We shared some quality time with JUST WOMEN!

Thank you for stopping by.