Soooo - what happens in VEGAS does not stay in VEGAS!

We bring it all back - to share with you!

Recently I had the privilege of attending OnStage Stampin' Up! in LasVegas with eight of my Amazing Team Members.  What a great event.  I always come back super energized - so am going to share a bit with you today.  Those of us who attended got our Annual catalogs - these won't be available to the other demonstrators and our customers till sometime in May - and we can't order from it till June (but watch for a sneak peek special in May.)  Anyway - it is AMAZING - we can't share much now - but you will LOVE it!  So if you want your very own copy and do not have a U.S. demonstrator - or are already my customer - please let me know and you will get yours in May.  If you have another demonstrator - please contact them to receive your copy.

Friday afternoon we arrived and I had this wonderful room - 

With an awesome view - 

All SU demonstrators who achieved the level of Silver Elite or above got star treatment at CentreStage on Friday night - great food, training and prizes - here's my haul from that night - not bad!

And of course I have to share food pictures - it was all sooo yummy!

Salad

Dinner

Dessert

The best part was seeing my TEAM members that were able to come from all over (several states) to be there - 

Kelea, Paula, Toni, Sarah, Kathy, Rina, Jean, Me, and Vicki!

Our TEAM did a group swap - just look at these great cards - they did an amazing job!

Jean B

Kathy B

Maureen R

Paula B

Toni H

Vicki D

  And, even though it was a card swap - one of my Team members, Kelea, made these awesome mugs for each of us.  I am a coffee lover - so any mug gets me excited - but our Team Name is the Crazy Stamping Ladies - so how cool is that!!!  You will see me with this mug - often!  See you soon ~Maureen

New Catalog Swap Part II

So here are there rest of the wonderful swaps I received - enjoy them.  I can see me CASEing a couple!

Created by Gianna Melone-Sardella

Created by Camille Waggoner

Created by Laura Miller

Created by Karen Monger

Created by Connie Bjork

Thanks for checking them out!  Stay tuned for more creations from me using my new sets that arrived this week - can't wait to play some more!  ~Maureen

Convention Swap

Another fun part of the Stampin' Up! convention is swapping.  This year, with the move, I had not planned on doing any swapping - but other year's I usually join at least one organized swap and then do some general swapping.  Then, the day before I was leaving I decided to make up some cards with only the scraps I had sitting on my desk - and this is what I camp up with - there was enough to make 10 - so that's what I had - 10 swaps :)

 Below are the 10 swaps (plus one bonus) that I received back - so now I have 11 new ideas to show my customers - cute, cute, cute!

Also wanted to share this amazing journal, pen and convention pin that SU! gave us at convention.  Since I had taken a notebook with me I did not use this there - but is is full of blank pages to use for journaling, notes, etc. and so I am using it as my new stamping event planner.  It also has calendar pages for the rest of this year -so it is perfect!  I really love it - between that and the amazing convention bag (see below) we got this year - I was happy, happy, happy!!

The bag this year is a messenger style, made out of heavy woolen/felt type fabric.  Has the Stampin' Up! name on the front and on the buttons.  Really stylish - it has become my bible study bag as it carries my bible, journal, notebook, pens, etc. perfectly!

See you all soon!  Time to plan some events to fill this baby up!  ~Maureen
Below are the products I used for my swap cards -

Very Vanilla 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock

$8.50

Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock

$8.50

Bohemian 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock Assortment Pack

$7.00

Bohemian Designer Series Paper

$11.00

Rhinestone Basic Jewels

$5.00

Petite Petals Punch

$13.00

Itty Bitty Accents Punch Pack

$17.00

Glue Dots

$5.25

Snail Permanent Adhesive

$7.00

More Convention Swaps

I still had some swaps to share from Convention - so here are the rest of them -

Brenda and Tim Georgi

Cheryl Lee

Dawn Wilson

Jill Olson

Kathy Hamrick

Angie Kennedy Juda

Sunita Simon

Unknown designer

Unknown designer

Swapping is just one more way to get the most out of Convention - I'm glad I swapped a few - I put them all in little binders for my customers to look at and get ideas.  Hope you enjoyed!  ~Maureen

Convention Swaps - So Many Ideas

Each year at Convention there is a lot of swapping going on.  Demonstrators swap card fronts to share ideas with others.  I only swapped about 10 cards - and I think I forgot to take a picture of what I swapped :(  But if I find a picture I will post later.  For now, here are five of the swaps I received back!

Designer: Cheryl Parker

Designer: Chris Price

Designer: Cindy Russell

Designer: Diane Belcher

Designer: Susan Wagner

Great ideas!  Can't wait to CASE some of them.  Stop back soon - for some more great ideas.  ~Maureen

Convention Swaps - a little late

So last weekend at my down line meeting we finally finished a couple convention swaps.  I know - crazy huh!?!  The first one is Heidi's card swap - they were not put together at convention - so finally got done.

The next is my convention gift/swap for my downline - a cute little photo album for all their convention photos.  For this one, then night before convention I realized that half of the cover layouts I did, did not fit in the photo albums I had purchased - so I had to go out and buy new ones when I got back - and finally got them put together.

I also ordered copies of photos I had taken from convention and put them in their albums.  I gave them to those who were present at the meeting, and the rest will get out in the mail soon.  Better late than never, right?!

See you soon!!! ~Maureen