One of My Favorite Leadership Memories

We are all waiting in line for the Buses to come and pick us up for Manager's reception with our spiffy Cowgirl Hats on which by the way had about a yard of Striped 1 1/4 inch grosgrain ribbon and 6-8 vintage brads wrapped around it branding it with Stampin' Up!'s unique touch when I spyed one my Stampin' Up! hero's Kimberly Van Dipen (www.stampinbythesea.com) who is also the #1 demonstrator in the U.S. So as am acting like a teenager seeing a rock star my upline Lisa hollars "Kimberly you have a fan "
and then I was blessed to get a picture with her. I love her blog and creativity but most of all she inspires me to keep moving forward no matter what challenges her business encounters.
She has been a demo for 7 years and during that time moved 5 times as a military wife and had to restart her business and still remained in the top demo's in the company. That is my definition of perseverance and alot of recruiting!

She was very down to earth and sweet to take time to get a picture with a sister demo

She also did a WOW presentation on Friday night that was awesome. I had to come home and try it out. I love the way it turned out, I will post it in a later post.

I love this project she demonstrated so easy! But yet such a big WOW! She is the queen of vintage. Which is my favorites style these days.

This is the top of an adorable box she decorated.

Here is a view of the front

This was a scrapbook page on her display board I thought captured her personality and her creativity all wrapped into one.
If you have not had a chance to attend a Stampin' Up! event before, it is an amazing experience.
If you would like to experience the energy and the greatest group of passionate stampers and crafters in the nation consider becoming a Stampin' Up! demonstrator and you to can join the fun!

Filled with Love Bundle-off to Nashville

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I will be leaving Tuesday the 11th for Nashville Tn for the Stampin' Up! Leadership Convention!
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Below are beautiful samples of cards made with the "Filled with Love Bundle" by guest designer and Serenity Stamper-Leslie Sharpe

I love this Valentine set!! I really liked these samples Leslie shared with me!
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Technique Class Projects -cont'd

Sandra and Deb Forguson enjoyed our technique class
as we started out on NEW Occasions series!

I got this sketch from the Saturday 411 Operators using the Love Impressions DSP and the DSP from the Filled with Love Bundle.
Card: 5 1/2 x 51/2 base whisper white
CS: Ridinghood Red, White, Gray
Stamps: Word Play (IBC), Valentine Defined (OCM pg. 9 #121941 $26.95)
Ribbon: White Satin ribbon
Techniques:Stamped the heart with cherry cobbler craft ink and heat embossed with irr.ice cut out the heart and then punched out a gray Full Heart punch put it on a dimensional for a little 3D effect. Heat embossed the sentiment from Word Play in black craft ink and black EP

Now when you have a top heavy card you must really gussy up the inside of the card to even the weight or it will topple over...ask me how I know???LOL
so I used my Scallop envelope die cut and made an envelope used DSP on the lip trace it and trimmed it to fit. Then I cut out a glitter heart with my heart

I absolutely love this technique with scrunching the ribbon. You just apply sticky strip to the back of satin ribbon and fold it back and forth. then do the duck tail dance when you cut your ribbon and your good! (I taught my customers a lil dance to help them remember how to cut their ribbon this way, one actually admitted to doing it at home while stamping and I think her husband caught her, I bet she had fun explaining that technique! LOL We have so much fun!
Love this case from Mary Fish at www.stampinpretty.com
New Occasions:
Nature Walk stamp set, Botanical Gazette DSP, Cherry Cobbler, Espresso,Old Olive
and a pack of Vintage brads and you are good to go!
Sentiment is from Elements of Style.

January Technique Class-Project#1

I was so excited to come a cross the directions to this cute little drawer box on Julie Davidson's post on SC. I had so much fun making these and I think they are too cute! Many things you can do with this little ditty!
Stamps: "Be My Valentine( Occasions Mini Catalog a'la Carte Single Stamps on pg. 43)
Eat Chocolate (OCM) pg. #30-121931 $17.95
CS: Basic Gray, Ridinghood Red, Whisper White
DP: Love Impressions, Red Glimmer Paper (OCM pg.7 $3.95)
Heat Embossing: Iridescent ice EP, heat tool, embossing buddy
Ribbon: 1/4: white grosgrain, red corduroy buttons
Punches:Decorative Label (OCM) pg. 30#$120907
I LOVE the NEW Blossom Petals Punch
I use it for so many different sentiments

See the cute little drawer you pull it right out and it is filled with goodies!

The New Eat Chocolate set is perfect for all of little treats!
I used the glitter paper with the hearts embosslit and stamped the sentiment and popped it out with the Blossoms punch in Ridinghood Red ink

It fits two mini choc bars wrapped in DP!

"Sale-A-Brate Good Times-Come Stamping"

Click on this link to view the catalog, if you have not received yours in the mail please email me and I will be glad to send you one.

http://204.228.150.61/20102011catalogs/SAB11_US.pdf

Stampin’ Up’s biggest promotion of the year begins! I love Sale-A-Bration since I’m the first one in line when there is a free gift with purchase. For every $50 you spend, YOU choose one of the free items in the catalog! AND there is a bonus page of stamp sets from our big catalog to choose from also!

Occasions Mini Catalog goes LIVE today!

It is time for a fresh start & new look!
Start the New Year with some amazing new products!
Take your creativity to a new level with some of these goodies!

Stampin' Up! Occasions Mini catalog is filled with 43 pages of the new trends in Occasional
paper crafting and stamping delights. Check it out by clicking the link below. If you have not received your catalog in the mail email me and I will be glad to mail you one.

http://204.228.150.61/20102011catalogs/Occasions11_US.pdf

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Baby Girl is Growing UP!- Last Christmas Story

This is the baby, Ansleigh who is 9. Isn't she looking dapper in her Florida winter wear.
We have broken major winter tempature records here this year .
I think she just looks too cute in this picture.

Okay long story short NO I would never buy a cell phone for a 9 yr old. I had to buy a new fancy 3G phone and this is my old phone which we had an extra aircard line turned phone line on our plan so I activated the phone for her. In hopes of trying to teach her how to actually speak on the phone, it's weird you hand her a phone and she freezes up.

This is her very first IPOD , the little shuffle one started out slow seems like with Chesne they always got lost or stolen in middle school.
Ansleigh's passion for life is in the Sim's World! this kid has every expansion pack for it now and I am telling you she is going to be an architech one day it AMAZES me!!
I always tell her to wear her good Christmas pajamas and here we go, her girl scout shirt and sweats. Gotta love it.