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Favorite Stampin’ Up! Convention Photos

Let me see if I can possibly find and pick out some favorite things from Convention that I haven't shown yet!

Diaper Cake Baby Projects Demo 

Stampin' Up! Buttons as Candy!
Papercrafted Baby Carriages
Stampin' Up! Box Clock
Stampin' Up! Button Trees
Build-a-Bear House
      Elements of Style Baby Vintage Scrapbook Page
Use the Jewelry Tag Punch to make people!
Fox & Friends Baby Scrapbook Page
Builder Wheel Lollipops
Paper Wedding Cake
Paper Wedding Cake Flowers
Pillow with Die Cuts and Ribbon
Stampin' Up! Convention Display Area

Whew!  That's not nearly all there is to show but I guess that is enough for now!  You should be able to click on any photo to enlarge.  Isn't it amazing the things you can make with Stampin' Up! products??!  And the creative talent of Stampin' Up! artists and demonstrators??!  The display area you see above is just one small part of what they had for us….and this was late afternoon when it was easy to get close to the display boards to get good photos…usually demonstrators were clustered around in crowds trying to get their shots at busy times, like lunch!  I've always said it is the ideas that I love the most, even if I never got to stamp!  

Want to be a part of all this??!  You wouldn't be disappointed!  Look into joining Stampin' Up! as a demonstrator!  I'd be happy to talk to you about it! It's a fantastic way to start your own business and have fun at the same time!

More Stampin’ Up! Convention!

There's so much to tell and show about the Stampin' Up! Convention!  The only way you can really grasp it all is to attend yourself!  And that means become a Demonstrator!

Share What You Love! 

This was the slogan for Convention.

Shelli Gardner on stage
 
Shelli coming out on stage after the theme song.  Loved the tag in the background and the giant rubber stamp!

General Session
This was the fun and festivity before General Session everyday!  The music was playing, people were dancing in the aisles, both demos and SU employees, there were hula hoops, and of course swapping!!!  If walking in this room didn't get your energy flowing, nothing would! 
 

Jill Kocherhans and Bonnie Thurber
After Jill and Bonnie did their stamping demonstrations, they performed for us!  That's one of the many things I love about the Stampin' Up! people….they are SO talented!

Brent Steele and his banjo
And Brent Steele played his banjo before he made a bunch of fantastic Halloween projects for us!

Pam Morgan on the big screen!
Here's Pam Morgan, but I wanted you to see the cute brackets and embellishments on the sides of the big screens!

Charley Jenkins's Bus
Charley Jenkins, Stampin' Up! Entertainment 
 Charley Jenkins, Stampin' Up! Guitar

Entertainment after Awards was Charley Jenkins, who drove his bus onstage!  Does the guitar look like anything stamping related??  He had a song about Stampin' Up! products and then gave the guitar away to a lucky demo in the audience!

  Stampin' Up! Game Show
Stampin' Up! Game Show
Stampin' Up! Game Show
Stampin' Up! Game Show
This was the annual game show, much better than last year, I thought!  It was a take- off of a game show on TV.  

Stampin' Up! employees
This isn't the best picture, but wanted to show you how the Stampin' Up! employees line up where we walk in and cheer the demonstrators!  Really a nice touch!  What other companies are like this??! 
  

Shelli Gardner
Here's Shelli walking in down the aisle on MY side, which I missed until I heard the shrieking because I was sending a text on my phone! 

Free Gift from Shelli!
And here's paper ribbon confetti shot off 
 at the end of Convention after Shelli's announcement that we would be receiving a free gift…we all received a pack of new Designer Series Paper coming in the Holiday Mini, an ink pad, glitter, and a Hostess stamp set!  All you have to do is offer stampers free stamping product and the roof just about blows off!!  So exciting and fun!


Wouldn't you like to join us next year at the Stampin' Up! Convention??!

    


Color Confections Product Display! Oh My!!

In my opinion, this display was worth the price of admission of Convention! Stampin' Up! really outdid themselves on this!  Way back in the corner of the Gathering Place where all the display boards of card, scrapbook pages, and projects were and all the other wonderful booths and displays Stampin' Up! set up to help us in our businesses, was this fantastic place!  The Color Confections Product Showcase!  I wish you all could have seen it in person!  You wouldn't believe it!  Just look at it!

Color Confections Product Showcase 

And everything that looked like candy and confections and treats…..were paper products!  Little candies made out of paper, spools of ribbon covered and decorated with card stock, buttons packaged up like little candies, cupcakes and brownies made from paper, brads packaged like candy, stamps decorated with embellishments…..well, just check out some of my photos! And I can't even show you everything because lots of new products will be in the new Holiday Mini!

Decorated Cookie Jars

Simply Adorned Chocolates 

Paper Confections
Spotwater Taffy
Color Confections
Color Confections Product Display
Newsprint Paper Cake
    
 

If you're thinking that you wish you could have been there, you should be contacting me so we can get you signed up as a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator so you will be ready to go next year…..or maybe an earlier event!  Read more about being a demonstrator here.


 

Back from the Stampin’ Up! 2010 Convention!

Oh my gosh, where should I start???!!!  My internet wasn't working this morning which allowed for a couple hours of napping on the sofa!  You just get so tired at Convention from all the excitement all of the time, (and maybe the travel and time change and altitude has something to do with it, too!) but you force yourself to keep going every minute so you don't miss anything and because you know it will end in a few days.  I'm not sure my brain is fully back to real life yet because I just ate lunch staring at a little yellow toy car taxi on my kitchen table and not even wondering why we have a toy taxi on the kitchen table!  The boys are in their twenties now so we don't have toy cars around the house anymore!  I guess my husband got it at the run he did on Saturday.  My mind was spinning while I was eating lunch trying to decide what to tell you first!  When I downloaded my photos last night I had over 2000!!

So here they are, one by one!  (just kidding!)

The Bags, Oh the Bags!

Stampin' Up! Convention Bags

Once I arrived on Wednesday, the first thing to do was check-in over at the Salt Palace and get my bag and loot!  The bright orange bag is the one Stampin' Up! gave everyone which held out convention booklet, pin, pen, meal tickets, stamp sets for make & takes, etc. etc.  Easy way to identify another Stampin' Up! demonstrator all around town!

Next was straight to shopping at Memento Mall where we had already had a Sneak Peek beforehand of the Craft Tote, the bag you see already filled with stuff from traveling (it came empty!).  Lo and behold if they weren't also selling a matching laptop bag…..not that I have a laptop!….but you got $7 off if you bought both and who wouldn't want a matching set?!!  Maybe I can put paper or catalogs in that!  And then there were the cute brown bags, like the ones they had last year made of recycled material or something.  At first I only bought the one with the flowers….until the next day when I saw ladies carrying the one that matches the Play Date Designer Series Paper that looked so cute in use!  Aren't the owl tags on the bags the cutest things?!!

And, of course, at Memento Mall there were other things to buy!  Had to get a new charm, new pens, STAMPIN' UP! RULERS!, Stampin' Up! pop-up trash cans, tee shirt, salt water taffy with Stampin' Up! wrappers, Stampin' Up! Christmas ornament, a pack of sample pages of all the designer paper, probably more things, too!

Flower Power Party

Later that evening was the Flower Power Party!  Most everyone dressed up at least just a little bit in the 60's Flower Child style!  Some really went all out!

FlowerPowerPartyMarkJ2
 

Here is my friend Nona and I with Mark Jessen, Stampin' Up! Senior Curriculum Developer.  Mark has really dressed the part!  You can't see my original mood ring I found in my drawer!  Stampin' Up! also passed out some beads to wear!

Here are some random pictures of the party!

FlowerPowerParty 

In the Gathering Place

Flower Power Party  

A crazy costume!

Shelli Gardner at the Stampin' Up! Flower Power Party 

Shelli Gardner with a group of demonstrators!

Shelli at the FlowerPowerParty 

Another photo of Shelli Gardner at the Flower Power Party!
 
 
Flower Power Party 

Demonstrators having fun at the Flower Power Party!
Flower Power Party  

The Gathering Place

FlowerPowerParty5 


Flower Power Party  

I don't know who this demonstrator is, but we loved her costume!

Flower Power Party 

Don't know who these demos are either, but wow, did they have great outfits!  I'm sure I had  a dress like the black and white one, plus white boots!!  Such a fun night!

Besides the tryouts for the Stampin' Up! game show, the face painting, the hula-hooping, the prizes, etc. going on, there were also several demonstrators giving fabulous demonstrations of projects from birthday party to wedding to baby to easy workshop projects to vintage…..all wonderful!

Birthday Bash Suite Demo
Elegant Occasions Suite Demo 

Family Organization Display 

Family Organization Suite Demo
I think my computer is tired from uploading photos so I will stop here!  More tomorrow!
 
 


 

 
   
 


Going to the Stampin’ Up! Convention!!

 

Today is traveling day to the Stampin' Up! Convention!!  When we arrive in Salt Lake City we will drive to Riverton, Utah, the headquarters of Stampin' Up!  We will get to tour the Atrium, the Legacy Museum, the Distribution Center, the Ideas Room, and Demonstrator Support.  The Atrium area is two-stories and serves as the main entrance and reception area.  The Legacy Museum shows the history of Stampin' Up! from its beginning in Shelli's home!  The Distribution Center is where the stamps are brought from the Kanab, UT manufacturing plant and from where everything is shipped as the orders come in.  Demonstrator Support are the wonderful people who answer the phones….they're so nice and helpful it's always a pleasure to "have to" call Stampin' Up!  The Ideas Room is where the creative juices flow.  I can't wait to see for myself!

We also get to check-in at the Convention Center and receive our bag filled with goodies and stamp sets for our Make & Takes from Stampin' Up! and begin swapping and visiting with all the other demonstrators who are there!