Diva/Dude Day

Hidy Ho Stampers,

Well Saturday was my quarterly Diva/Dude Day.  We had to modify the name as we had TWO male teammates earn the title this time.  It was so much fun and everyone was so excited for both of them.  Diva/Dude Day was a concept that my friend Patsy Waggoner shared with me a few years ago and she shared at leadership this year. She was an amazing presenter!

My top 10 in sales and anyone that recruits for the quarter is invited to a very special stamping day.  I do all the preparation and they come and enjoy and stamp and eat!   Oh how we laughed!  So this is how it played out…

 My daughter Kate got up in the morning and started prepping the food.

 mmmmmmmm we had mini pies filled with cherries and some filled with apples.

 found this on Pinterest – the dip is in the bottom and the veges are all in individual cups (so much easier).

 Here is one of three tables filled with food.

The tables were set and ready for them to come. 

 Everyone had our new Twitterpated Fabric and Twitterpated Designer Series Paper and Blushing Bride Pleated Ribbon and Twitterpated Buttons and Maze Game pieces and more.

 Here's Dude Chris along with Val and MaryMargaret.

 They were all sewing and NO ONE was whining about it!  Believe it or not, they were all having FUN!

 More sewers.

more fun

more food! 

 Here is one of the cards I created for them to complete.

Supplies used:

Stamps: Fresh Vintage Stamp Set #125115 Wood Mount or 125117 Clear Mount FREE WITH A $50 order (click here to place an online order)

CS:  Basic Gret Cardstock; Twitterpated Designer Series Paper, Blushing Bride Cardstock; Whisper White Cardstock, Vellum Paper

Ink:  Basic Grey

Accessories:  Labels Framelits (from the Occasions Mini Catalog); Twitterpated Buttons; Basic Grey Satin Ribbon for the Fork Bow; Basic Pearls, Dimensionals

 Here is a side view. 

Hope you enjoyed what I shared.  Have a great day. oh oh oh…I almost forgot…

YEAH NEW YORK GIANTS!!!!

Okay so what was YOUR favorite Super Bowl commercial?  Mine was the M & M commercial when the one M & M took off his shell does that mean he was naked?!  :0)  He was so cute.

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Calendar pages…

Hidy Ho Stampers,

I worked most of the day cutting for my Calendar Class Saturday and for my pre-ordered kits.  I'm so pleased with the my new calendar.  Here are a few pics…

I did the calendar in My Digital Studio and printed it off on my computer.  It really came out so nice.  You can purchase the My Digital Studio for $79.95 from my On-line Store.  It's an amazing program, I use it all the time.  It's a great gift to ask SANTA for!

I worked with a lot of techniques in this class also.  Here is one of them…

November had a new twist on the Babywipe Technique.  I used a babywipe and put three colors of reinker on it.

ewwww, it looks yucky.  I PICKED IT UP and started to "dab" my cardstock with it.  Just dab, do not rub.

Dab, Dab, Dab

Then take your stamp and stamp over the background and cut out your images.

and here is what it looks like.

Here's another technique I used on May.  I used our white handmade, crocheted flowers and dyed them with our aqua pen and reinkers.  They came out beautiful.  They do lighten up a lot after the dry. 

Well that's it for tonight.  I hope you liked my post.  If you'd like to order a calendar kit, email me and I'll get one right out to you.  You DO need to own the stamp set because I cannot pre-stamp images for kits.  The set that I used is called Every Little Bit #120558 Clear Mount).  It's an adorable set that I love to use. 

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Get your FREE Digital Download here…

Hidy Ho Stampers,

Here is one of my Christmas creations…

I used Hand-Penned Holidays stamp set, Stitched Stockings stamp set, Stocking Builder Punch and Mini Jingle Bells all from the Mini Catalog.  That's it.  It was simple but so cute. 

 REMINDERS….

Don't forget we are extending the $100 in free product (you get to pick it out) with the purchase of our Stampin' Up Starter Kit…

and….

and….NEW…

Do you own My Digital Studio?  Here is a free download for you if you do.  Just click on the picture to learn how to get the download for free.  If you DON'T own My Digital Studio, why don't you go to my on-line store and purchase the beginning disc…it's ONLY $39.95 item #124483.  Then download the free bundle.  It's a great way to begin using My Digital Studio…GO AHEAD and try it…$39.95 is a reasonable way to begin and free downloads are awesome.

Getting ready for my Diva Day today.  Hope you enjoyed my post.  Stay tuned for Diva pictures.

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Just For Women Event

Hidy Ho Stampers,

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.

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What’s a party without a hat?

Hidy Ho Stampers,

I showed you the Birthday Volcano the other day and today we are adding the hat!

Isn't this the cutest thing?!  Again using the Petal Cone die that is being held over from our Occasions Mini – yes, the Petal Cone die is still available!

Thank you for stopping by!

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My Digital Studio Special Sale

Hidy Ho Stampers,

Recently a friend of mine came over and we made her son's graduation announcements.  Normally when I do this with people, I sit down with paper, ink and stamps but not this time.  We fired up our laptops and we made the most beautiful graduation announcements, thank you notes and party invitations.  They all coordinated with the same picture theme.  We were both so pleased.  Here is what they looked like. 

This is the front of the inivitation.  The idea was to present a card worthy of framing when they received it in the mail.

Thise was the inside cover.  Markus as an adorable baby and Markis now.  He loves his music.  They recently won a competition in North Carolina.

Here is the inside of the card.  I'm not sure if you can see it clearly or not but we got a picture of a Tartan (he's a Scottish guy), it's their mascot.  We made it a watermark and put it behind the information.  It came out great. 

Here is the front of his Thank You Cards. 

Here is the party invitations.  All the information is listed on the inside of the card.

Click on the picture to see the flyer and all the specials going on this month.  This just may be the perfect time for you to sign up!  Let me know!

Thank you for stopping by.

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Holiday Album

Hello Stampers,

On Thursday night we had eleven ladies here complete with their laptops and my new TV screen set up so they could watch me while we created together a complete Digital Scrapbook using the program MY DIGITAL STUDIO from Stampin' Up!   It was amazing.  We had a few computers that were a little slower than others but everyone was able to put their books together ready to go home, put a few final touches on them and have them printed out.  Here are some of the pages we did (this is only half of the book):

This was my book, with my pictures.  They completed the layout with their pictures.  Each page we did had tips and techniques that we learned from putting in shadows and shading to resizing and a whole lot more.

Here they learned how to change a picture from its normal color to Sepia.

I will be holding consistent classes for My Digital Studio.  Contact me at stampladee@aol if you'd like to take the classes.  I'm so excited about 2011, I have so many new and exciting events coming up.

Hope you enjoyed my post. 

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Vacation is over…

Hi there,

Hope everyone had a fantastic holiday, I took a little time off to hold my Holiday Downline Get Together, finish up my clubs and do a few classes, then concentrated on getting Christmas stuff done.  My whole family was here for the holiday!  YEAH!!!  Josh made it in before the storm in Minneapolis and out of New York before the blizzard.  If you recall, last year he never made it for Christmas because he got snowed into Rapid City and couldn't get home until New Years Eve.  But he made it this year!  We had so much fun, I never stopped laughing. 

Here are a few pictures of my amazing downline meeting, we had 60 people attend.  The swaps and gift exchange projects were unbelievable.

 Overview

Getting ready for the gift exchange.

Here we are doing our demonstrator swap.  This month's theme was "anything BUT a card".  They have to make 24 of them and they will get back 23, the 24th one goes to the Ronald McDonald House.

Swapping…

Isn't this the cutest little thing.  I think this was my favorite swap!  I love snowmen!!

I just love my downline meetings.  We always collect and donate cards with envelopes to the Ronald McDonald House so they can use them.  I also ask my downline to contribute the the local food pantry.  Look at what we collected this month -

and this was only part of it…what a great feeling knowing we helped in a small way!  Didn't I tell you I have the BEST downline!!

I also just had my "2011 Year In Review Scrapbook Class".  All I can say is WOW!!!  It came out fantastic.  Everyone was so excited when they finished.  They did 13 two-page spreads (that's 26 pages) in 3 hours.  We were smokin'!!!!  So that was amazing. 

 This is a sample of the book!  Yep, they finished 26 pages in 3 hours.  WOW!

On Thursday, I'm holding my very first ever "My Digital Studio" class.  The gals will be bringing their laptops and we will complete an entire book ready to print.  While creating the book together, they will be learning how to use the program.  I'm excited and nervous.  I've never done this before.  I hope we don't blow a fuse with all the laptops plugged in.  I'll let you know on Friday how it went. 

I also have a "Calendar Kit" for sale.  I did this as a class earlier in the month.  Several of the girls wanted to make more so I told them I would offer it as a kit.  It's a calendar that you put together.  The kit has everything you need except the ink pads and stamps. I used the the most adorable stamp set found on page 65 of the big catalog called "Every Little Bit" (#117096 wood mount or #120558 clear mount) for each page except June and December.  If you'd like to add the stamp sets to the order, email me to let me know.

I'm so glad to be back…I hope you enjoyed my post!  See you tomorrow.

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1/2 OFF SALE!

Hi Stampers,

I know you are not going to believe this but starting TODAY, November 15th and ending in two short weeks, November 30th, our Stampin' Up! demonstrator kit is on sale for HALF PRICE.  Instead of $175 for either our standard customizable kit or our digital scrapbooking kit, they are both on sale now for only $87.50.  OH MY GOSH!  You get over $310 worth of Stampin' Up! product for only $87.50. 

Don't you think you deserve to buy yourself a Christmas present?!  Do you want to start your own business and be able to pay your car payment or for those tap dancing lessonsfor your kids.  Sit and ask yourself why you would want to become a demonstrator.  Is there a bill you need to pay, do you need a little extra cash for the holiday, or do you just want to brighten the days and lives of people with your passion for stamping?  WHY would you like to do this?? 

Because it's so stinken fun, that's why!!!!  Well now is the time to sign up.  The kit is only $87.50.  Why not ask your husband to buy the kit for you for Christmas (but they must do it within the next two weeks)!!  Contact me and we will get you all hooked up.  Don't sit and think about it, just do it!!!  You won't regret a single minute of it.  For more details on the special, click on the picture below.

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My Digital Studio

Oh my gosh,

Remember I told you last week was my 32nd anniversary?  This is what Kevin built for me.  I was so taken with this gift.  He put his heart and sole into it.  Oh my gosh….so here it is….

While I was at convention, he made this book for me.  He loaded a copy of the program "My Digital Studio" on his computer, found all the pictures, scanned them and made me this beautiful book of our lives together.  He hit the nail on the head with this one (he's a contractor)…every picture has such meaning starting with this one!  That was us 33 years ago!

He started with my college picture, we met at college and then were married.  We lived in a 14 room farm house on a 99 acre farm when we were first married until we built our first house in Penn Yan New York.

 We moved to Ballston Spa in 1991 and bought 22 acres of land and built the house we live in now.  We have three beautiful kids.  His captions were adorable…on the boys page he wrote "Our New Family" then on Katie's page, he wrote "And the Princess Makes Three". 

 Then he put in all the colleges our kids attended…Hartwick, LeMoyne and South Dakota School of Mines.  We are so proud…by this page, I was a total wreck. 

 He even incorporated my stamping business…it's been a part of our life for almost 11 years.  The Cruise Achiever picture is really a magnet that is on my filing cabinet.  It was originally on the door of our cabin on one of our cruises.  He put my business card in there and my favorite picture of Shelly and I.  The #3 picture is one of the pictures he took OFF THE WALL to scan.  It's the picture of the very FIRST time I ever got to go to Founders Circle and there is he and I at the Needle in Seattle Washington the night before we went on the Alaskan Cruise with Stampin Up!

And this is how he ended it…There were many more pages and many more memories he added.  But I can't show you any more…I'm balling again! 

 Thank you Sue Hyer for helping him get it published!  He was so excited to give it to me.  It will be something I will cherish FOREVER!!!!  Thank you Kev!

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