Archive for September, 2009

More from Founder’s Circle…..

Here are some more pics from Founder’s Circle.

This first one is one of the projects my good friend Cindy Peterson made. I was hoping she would leave it laying around so I could stick it in my bag….LOL! Only kidding! It was way cute though.

This is our wonderful hostess Susan Adams. We spent the day at her house (Suzy’s stamping cottage). It was so cool. You just never want to leave there. Also in the picture are Cindy Peterson and me!

This is my good friend Leasa Williams…..

Here are Leasa, Cheryl Flynn and me hanging out at the Pajama party.

This was our pajama party swap…..what a blast. That is my great friend Kimberly Van Diepen in front. I am standing next to her on the right side.  I am already missing my friends and can’t wait to go to Leadership to see everyone again. That is the best part of this business….the friendships. I have so many awesome friends all over the country.  It is so much fun when we all get together.

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Founder’s Circle

I just returned from Founder’s Circle and it was sooooo much fun! I love seeing all of my friends from all over the US and Canada. We had a nice relaxing week. I spent a lot of time stamping at my friend Susan Adam’s house (she lives in St. George) so I thought I would share some of those pictures first. Susan has this awesome stamping cottage next to her house. We were all drooling over how nice it would be to have one ourselves. I did take pictures of our gifts and things but many of them are top secret and cannot be shared until the Occasions mini comes out so I will share some other things now.

Here are my friends Cindy Peterson, Kimberly Van Diepen and Jackie Bolhuis. We were all making some really cool projects which I will be sharing in the next several days.

Here are Cindy, Cheryl Flynn, and Leasa Williams

This is Christie Daugherty and April Roycroft. April’s sweet little baby slept the whole day! She has a different little headband to go with every outfit. They were so cute.

This is my friend Georgia Giguere holding some of the flower pins we made at Susan’s house using the Big Shot. I learned so many cool things to do with fabric and the Big Shot, it was amazing.

Here is a close-up of the flower pins. They are just gorgeous.

This is one of the quilts that Susan made using the Big Shot. You can punch out so many cool shapes and then just sew them on.

Here is another quilt that is just gorgeous. This one used the scalloped oval die to frame all of her pictures and the Decorative Accents and Decorative Accent #2 for the swirls. How cool is that??? I think I might have to take up quilting now!

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A Taste of the Orient….

This card seems to have an oriental flair to it. My friend Sandy Alexander made this one for our shoebox swap. SHe used the Lattice Big Shot die and the Petals a Plenty embossing folder to create this card. The main stamps on the front are from the Charming set in the Holiday mini. That is definitely going to be one of my favorite new sets. It is GORGEOUS!

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Anyone ready for Halloween?

I couldn’t believe all of the Halloween candy was out when I went to Target on Monday. I love Halloween candy! There are just some things you can’t find all year long except at Halloween. I have no willpower either. I think Halloween was invented just to make people gain weight! LOL! Anyway, this is a cute Halloween treat made by my friend Norma Jones at our shoebox swap. The top picture is the front view and then you open it up to get the candy inside. THe whole vampire is made with all Stampin Up punches too.  Very cute!

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More Delightful Decorations

Here is another cute card with the Delightful Decorations set from the Holiday mini. This was one my friend Gina Dygert did at our recent shoebox swap.  Just stamp all of the ornaments on scrap white cardstock, punch with the new ornament punch and attach the elastic cord. THe background strip is done with the Sparkle and SHine wheel also from the Holiday mini. Super easy but I love it.

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I’m heading to Utah…..

Hey stampers,

I am heading to St. George, Utah in the morning for the Stampin UP Founder’s Circle retreat. It is a special trip for the top 100 demos in the company. It is sooooo much fun and I can’t wait to see all of my friends from all over the country. We get pampered all week by Stampin Up and get to do whatever we want pretty much….just a vacation with the girls. I will share pictures when I get back. I am going to set up my blog to post a couple of times while I’m gone but I won’t have a computer there so if you don’t hear from me, don’t worry. I will be back Monday. Have a great week everyone!

Serene Snowflakes

Here is a card my downline Niccole Marshall did for my downline group swap. She used the Serene Snowflakes set in Rich Razzleberry and accented with the pearls from the Pretties kit. I have so many talented downline in my group. Scroll down to see more samples from the Holiday mini swaps I hosted.

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Sweet Centers Hot Air Balloon

I made this card for my downline meeting the other day and they all loved it. I used the Sweet Centers stamp set on pg 6-7 in the Stampin UP holiday mini catalog and the wide oval punch to create the hot air balloon.  The sentiment is from Teeny Tiny Wishes. Super easy card but great way to show this set if you don’t want to use the sweet treat cups.The paper is the melon mambo cardstock and the bermuda bay designer series paper.

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Another Delightful Decorations card

This gorgeous card was made by my friend Jenny Peterson.  I love hosting swaps so I can get all of these packages in the mail. It is like Christmas when I open them and see a stack of beautiful cards like this one. Jenny used the Petals a Plenty Big Shot embossing folder for the background. THis can be found in the holiday mini.  The stamp set is Delightful Decorations also found in the holiday mini.

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Delightful Decorations

Here is another Christmas card for you. I used the Delightful Decorations set plus the matching ornament punch and Christmas Cocoa designer paper to create this card. All of these can be found in the holiday mini. I also used the textured plate and the Big shot to create the background piece.

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