Tour of the Riverton Home Office

Here are pictures of the Stampin' Up! office in Riverton. Not only it just breath taking because the office is nestled in the middle of the mountains. Shelli made it a point when building the new location to make it welcoming and wonderful place to work. The first you notice is the beautiful waterfall in the atrium. How peaceful and relaxing would that be to look at in the middle of the work day.

After we took in the atrium, we went into the Legacy Museum which has wonderful art work and home decor. Check out on the left the 1st catalog Stampin' Up! ever released 20 years ago and the newest catalog that will be out August 10th! We've come along way baby!

Here are some of the beautiful items made with our home decor line. Can you believe it putting the home decor on a trunk and the beautiful framed art.

Check out the curtains made with our Summer Picnic stamp set and the cherries stamped on the border. Who would have thought.

After we toured the legacy room, we checked out the distribution center where we got to see packages being picked and then off to shipping! I wonder whose orders are going out as I snap the photo.

After it was all done, we walked out to the front of the building and took photos in front of the Stampin' Up! rock. Here I am with the two best convention buddies ever, Debbie and Tracy.

My Favorite Main Stage Projects

Here are just a few of my favorite projects that were shown on the main stage of the Stampin' Up! convention. The first ones are made with the new home decor line that will be released in October. Who would have thought that you can use the vinyl art to make such beautiful projects as these.

The next two come from Shelli, our CEO and co-founder. They are made with the Sissex Big Shot!!! So many fabulous pennants, thank you's, treat holders, centerpieces for parties. The first one is a dresser for her newest addition to the family, her granddaughter that is due to be born soon. There is a pennant with her name. She dressed up diaper cake, invitations, thank yous and many other items. The second one is for a birthday party for her grandson. There are even masks. Don't use just love the new In colors, Pacific Point, Kiwi Kiss and Tangerine Tango!


The next projects are a smores container made with one our new stamp sets Under the Stars. The second project was homemade gift bags made with our Designer Series Paper. The first one the embellishments are made with our Simple Birthday Thanks stamp set. Don't you just love the new ribbon, our chocolate chip one inch double stitched grosgrain ribbon!

The next project, the scrapbook page uses our styles silver hodgepodge, our new chipboard letters and heat embossed leaves from our Best Wishes & More stamp set. The second picture shows our new Cheers to You stamp set. I am so loving this set!!! It is by my favorite from the new catalog. What you can't see is how she made the same swirls stars on the inside with the beer mugs inside. This is so easy to do. I can't wait to plan a workshop and show everyone how to make the pop up cards. The last project is made with our upsy daisy stamp set. I just love the simple elegance of this card.

Check back tomorrow when I post more convention stories.

12x12 scrapbook pages

Here is the last of my Stampin' Up projects I have made at recent events. The first one is the 12x12 page we made at Regionals. The stamp sets are So Much and the Big Deal alphabet. The card stock colors are Khaki, Wild Wasabi, Real Red, Bashful Blue and So Saffron. This is another great photo of my niece in her winter jacket and hat.












The finishing touches are the circles stamped in Versamark on the background of the Khaki paper, the So Saffron button with line thread and the dry embossed circles with the Crop-a-dile and the Mat pack as a guide. We cut the circle out with our Coluzzle cutting system. Here is a closeup of the dry embossing.


The next 12x 12 photo was done at Convention. The staff at Stampin' Up! had hired people to come in to take pictures of us at convention for free, how great was that. Then all we needed to do was just put the picture in the scrapbook page that we made at the make & take session. The picture was of me and my friend Debbie at convention. The card stock used on this page are Khaki, So Saffron Prints Designer Series Paper and Wild Wasabi. The alphabet stamp set we used was the Jumbo Outline Alphabet. We colored in the letters with our Versamark marker to add depth. We used the accents and elements from the Build-a-Flower kit. The finishing touches were the Wild Wasabi double stiched ribbon stapled to the bottom. We put Build a Brad in the middle of the flowers. The large flower we looped some Natural cord. The grass was made by cutting the card stock with our paper snips. We also used the photo corners punch on the right hand side of the photo. The stems were made by tracing the On Board Ginormous Pieces.

I hope you have enjoyed the projects that I have shown from my recent Stampin' Up! events. Stayed tuned tomorrow for some new projects that I have been working on. Thanks for looking and reliving my Stampin' Up event memories.

Philadelphia Regional Projects

Here are some of the cards that we made at regionals. I loved the unique ideas that are in each of these projects. The first one is my favorite. It uses the True Friend stamp set. The colors are basic gray, purely pomegrante and soft sky. What a stricking color combination. I love how we highlighted the word Friend by just stamping it on a piece of Soft Sky and cutting it out and adhering it to the saying. We used the Spring Bouquet Flower punch to punch a flower in the Purely Pomegrante and adhered it with a silver brad. We rounded the only one side with our corner rounder. Who would have thought that. I would have done all four sides not just 2. That is why I love coming to these events to get little tips like this. Then there is my favorite ribbon, the polka dots from the Sherbet Ribbon Originals which we stapled to the card.

The next card uses the So Much stamp set that we got for free. At first when I heard that we were getting this set at regionals, I have to admit I wasn't really happy. Although I have learned that throughout the years the stamp sets we have received a regionals end up being one of my favorite sets. For example, Natural Beauty, that just recently retired. I have come to enjoy this set and see the potential in my scrapbook pages and I have to say I love the dotted circle and the flower. So stay tuned, I am sure I will be coming up with some projects with this set in no time.

So enough about the stamp set, let's talk about the Thanks card. It uses the same color combo, except now the background is our Kraft paper. The circles were cut out with our Coluzzle cutting system. I have to say my favorite part of this card is the way we attached the ribbon to the card. We used a silver brad which of course was attached with our new crop-a-dile. We then threaded the soft sky double stitched ribbon and tied some linen thread around it. We made the scallop edge with our corner rounder and added a button to the middle of the card.

The last card, we used the Real Red, Kraft, So Saffron and Soft Sky card stock. We cut the flower out and put a pewter jumbo eyelet in the middle. We stamped the swirl in white ink and then we paper pierced some of the lines in the circle. My favorite part of the card was the fold. We ended up folding the card, so it made a pocket on the inside. What a great way to give a gift card or make it a little bigger and it can be a cd holder.

More Paper Crafts Projects from Regionals

My project postings from Regionals are slowly coming to an end. Here are 4 more projects that were created by the wonderful staff at Stampin' Up! staff. I just love the projects they come up with. I always enjoying seeing what they will come up with next.

The first sample uses the All in the family stamp set and Just so Saying stamp sets. The colors are Not quite navy and pumpkin pie. It uses the District Ribbon Originals and a Certainly Celery button.

The next card uses my favorite polka dot background and the Three for You punch box. There is some dry embossing happening on this card with the Punches Plus template along with paper piercing. Did you know you can use our Classy Brass Templates for paper piercing as well! The card is finished off with our beautiful Wide Grosgrain Chocolate Chip ribbon. The card stock is Purely Pomegranate, Wild Wasabi and Kraft.

The second is a scrapbook page made with Prints Designer Series Paper and the On Board Simon Lower stamp set.

The last project is by far the cutest. They are lollipop holders made with the Batty for you stamp set.

I hope you enjoyed these projects and hopefully it will get your creative juices started to make some projects for yourself.

Stampin' Up Regionals

Well it was a long day. We were on the road at 5:30 heading down to Philly for the Stampin' Up Regionals. We got there with just a little time to spare. So the swapping frenzy started. I raced around trying to get all my swaps out of my little hands and getting new ones in return. That madness continued during the breaks until all my swaps were done. Hopefully tomorrow, I'll get some photos together of my favorite swaps and post them. In the meantime, here are some of my favorite projects from Regionals that they demonstrated. On the right, here is a picture of me and my stamping buddies, Colleen and Tracy.

My first favorite was this wall hanging. It is made with the Autumn Harvest stamp set, Fall Flowers Designer Series Paper, Chocolate Chip Wide Grosgrain Ribbon and On Board Simmon Upper Chipboard Letters. I am thinking about having a class and making this project with some of you. Email me and let me know if you are interested in making this and we'll see if we can make this fall!

The next project was a corkboard memo board. It is made from the On Board Ginormous Pieces, Prints Designer Series Paper, Celery Wide Grosgrain Ribbon and Corkboard. How beautiful is that! I absolutely love it.

I was happy that one of the topics they covered yesterday was dry embossing. I did some dry embossing when I first started stamping, but I forgot some of the technique steps. So it was great getting a refresher and of course they gave us some great tips and ideas. Here is a Christmas card they did with the Priceless template on vellum. Isn't it gorgeous!

It was a long day, I didn't get home until 9. You have thought I would have just drifted off to sleep, we'll that was not happening with Starbucks still running through my veins and the 101 things that I learned and saw! :)

Everytime I go, I am just floored by the talent and all the wonderful things we can make with our products. Did I mention the beautiful make & take projects we made with our free stamp set, So Much. Well I'll share those another day with you. This is just one of many things I love about Stampin' Up. I love going to events and learning new things. Hopefully next time you can join me. Email me and let me know if you want to learn more about being a demonstrator and coming to great events like this.