At the Stampin’ Up! convention there is always a Memento Mall where we can shop and purchase various Stampin’ Up! logo items. I like to pick up little gifts for my downline and stamp club members, some things for me and some things for gifts and prizes throughout the year. This year the Memento mall was set up with seasonal displays and I thought I would share them with you.
I am Summer
Each season had a tote bag and a stamp set with little incentive stamps to use for prizes. For summer there was also a water bottle and some business tools – a planner, pens and wish list pads.
I am Fall
Fall included some SU logo clothing and a card tree. Here is another look at some of the clothes.
SU clothes – you’ll see me wearing the white t-shirt!
I am Winter
The winter collection included chapstick, mittens and ornaments plus some fun little post-it note packets.
I am Spring
For spring there were some fun floral decorated tools – a multi use mini hammer with screwdrivers inside and a tape measure. Also mini magnetic dry eraser boards. They also had tissues – maybe those should have been included in the winter display.
Later they added some cute garden flags – you’ll get to see those when you visit my house on class days! and some SU cookie stamps – now I need to make more cookies. Also a bundle of new My Digital Studio print product samples just in time to show off the new My Digital Studio 2 that’s coming in August. I can’t wait to get my hands on that. Some demonstrators got a trial version of it at convention when they attended the I am Digital class (I opted to take a different class – silly me – what was I thinking!). Now I have to wait until August – good thing it isn’t far away.
Have a good rest of your day! My Scrapbook class this morning was tons of fun. And now I need to finish preparing for tomorrows PAWS team meeting. That’s going to be fun too with 14 of my demonstrator friends joining me for an evening of stamping and sharing.
We are all back from convention – and it’s time for a new challenge at Create with Connie & Mary. This weeks challenge CCMC211 is a sketch challenge. I was prepping for a class on Monday and decided to use this sketch for that and get two things done with one card. And then I added to my Card Maker’s club last night and it was very popular there too – now I’m almost out of So Saffron card stock – I better put that on my next order. Here is the card for you –
Here is the sketch so you can see what I started with to get to that –
As you can see I turned the sketch on its side. And really love how my card turned out. I used the Lacy & Lovely stamp set which I got at convention in my I am Creative bonus class on Wednesday night. It’s funny that I never really noticed this set in the catalog but I really like it and the fonts on the words are just lovely – I guess that is why they called it that.
All the supplies are listed below – come play along with us this week and try your hand at this sketch. I can’t wait to see what you create. Visit Create with Connie & Mary and submit your creation for this weeks challenge – each week 3 top creations are selected. Each challenge is open for a week. And then a new challenge will be issued.
Here are a few more details about my card.
Stampin’ Up! Supplies:
Card stock: So Saffron, Soft Suede, Very Vanilla
Ink: Soft Suede
Stamp sets: Lacy & Lovely
Accessories: Scallop Edge Border Punch, 1-3/4″ Circle Punch, Big Shot Die-Cut Machine, Delicate Designs Embossing Folders, Perfect Pennants Bigz L die, Soft Suede 3/8″ Taffeta ribbon, Linen Thread, Naturals Designer Buttons, Mini Glue Dots, Stampin’ Dimensionals.
To order Stampin’ Up! Supplies to make this project click here.
These are some of the swaps I created for the Stampin’ Up! Convention this year. I used the Moving Forward stamp set. Which was one of our Prize Patrols on the last day of Convention! Since I didn’t make 3000 of these I know not everyone got one of my swaps but everyone at convention needs an idea for this set because now we all have it. So here you go!
This set is the Ronald McDonald House Charity stamp set for this year. And this year Stampin’ Up! will be donating $3 from the sale of each set. How exciting is that! I miss volunteering at the house. Our schedules have been a bit messed up or there weren’t enough families at the house (that is actually a good thing!) for us to come. Once the fall gets here I hope that we get back on a regular schedule with the house so that we can go stamp with the kids and the families each month.
These may look a little familiar since I based my swap on my Color Challenge card for Create with Connie & Mary from the week before convention. I still had the stamp set out and all the colors and thought I should just make cards with all the images. Look how cute they turned out. You can read more about that card HERE – these swaps are a little bit simpler just because I made so many and needed to eliminate a couple of steps. Come back tomorrow for this weeks new challenge.
So used to on my blog if someone left a comment I got an email and then I could reply back to the person. I try to do that. But now I don’t seem to be getting those emails anymore! So if I didn’t reply to you that was why. I’m going to try to go back through the comments from the past few weeks and reply back to you guys. Thanks for the comments – I do read them and love getting them.
I made it home from Salt Lake City on Sunday – it was my wedding anniversary. We did not do anything special though – I was tired and so was Greg from working in the yard while I was away. The bushes and trampoline in the backyard are gone!
So enough about my uneventful anniversary and instead I wanted to share about the last day of Stampin Up! convention 2012. Saturday morning began with classes – and another M&T session, then lunch and we ended with our final General Session of convention. Before the day got started some of us met at the “chalk board” to get a few pictures.
our Chalkboard Photo Op
Stephanie and Monika
My first class of the day was called “I am earning an incentive trip” taught by Karen Hauley. And she had three demonstrators that shared their experiences – Cynthia Millan, Meg Holland, and Jill Hilliard. They all said the best part of every trip are the Pillow Gifts. Those are the special surprises that Stampin’ Up! leaves on your pillow every day of your trip. I’m so very excited that I earned the Getaway Trip this year and in September I’ll get to experience the pillow gifts! They said this year 183 demonstrators earned the Getaway Trip. This is actually the first year Stampin’ Up! has offered this trip. And they announced next years trip which will be to San Diego, CA. The Grand Vacation was earned by 263 demonstrators this year (that’s the Fiji trip). And the next Grand Vacation announcement was made in our last general session.
Our make&take class featured the new Affection Collection stamp set from the Holiday Catalog that starts August 1st. I’ll share M&T posts later on. Right now I have unpacked everything and it is on my kitchen table waiting to be organized. I can’t believe how much I came home with.
My last class was Open for Business with Carrie Cudney – #convention2012 – one of the things she talked about (which Shelli also mentioned earlier in the week) is a new customer awareness campaign with magazine advertising (BH&G, Family Fun, Parents, and crafting magazines) and online website advertising (Rachel Ray, Martha, Cafemom, Family Circle).
For the closing general session the first portion was shown via live streaming to demonstrators all over the world. If you missed you can see it on the demonstrator website. Look under the convention tab or under the Grand Vacation 2014 current update. The big announcement came via our Richtar.
Richtar helps reveal the 2014 Grand Vacation
Announcements include that the 2014 Grand Vacation is going to be the first Global Stampin’ Up! vacation – demonstrators all over the world will be on this one trip together. Then they announced that the trip is a cruise to the Western Caribbean. A whole city on water how fun! Then we had stamping presentations and prize patrols with two all attendee Giveaways!
RMHC Moving Forward stamp set – all attendee giveaway
The Statement of the Heart award was given to my friend Lee Conrey – congratulations to her!
Some of the fall regionals were announced – and there is one in Chattanooga, TN which is the closest one to me. I hope to take my team and go have a fun day with them.
Convention next year will be July 18-20 in Salt Lake City. I’ll see you all there next year!
We had one final give away – everyone received the Mixed Medley hostess stamp set from the Holiday catalog. Diane and I had fun being silly and we made a little “exercise” video during the Prize Patrol giveaway. I tried last night to make a little movie – now to see if I can add it here.
Be nice – it’s my first attempt at making a movie/video – I’m practicing so I can actually start making some stamping videos to share. That is my goal for this year. We’ll see how it goes as I learn more about doing this.
I’m at the airport ready to leave Salt Lake City and head back home. You should have seen our little group stuffed into a taxi van going to the airport. I think the driver was surprised by how much luggage 5 Stampin’ Up! demonstrators could have. We had to put 3 big suitcases up in the seating area with us after the back was completely full. It was a picture worthy moment but unfortunately we didn’t get the chance – the driver said “no picture”.
See you next year Stampin’ Up! and Salt Lake City.
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