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Stampin’ Up 2014 Holiday Catalog Sneak Peeks!

So, I’ve been hearing that a lot of folks are eager for sneak peeks from the holiday catalog and while I don’t have copies of the new catalog yet – I can get those on August 1st – I do have my photos from convention that I can share! So, I thought I would put them all in one place for you to have a chance to scroll and see lots of what is coming out soon at the end of August! So get ready for a lot of scrolling!

Some quick side notes:

We are not allowed to show pictures of the inside of the catalog, just the cover. So we are limited to the samples and displays from convention until I place my preorder and start creating and sharing more of what I have here at home.
Want a copy of the Holiday catalog? If you have a demonstrator, make sure they know you are waiting for yours – we get to order and start mailing ours in August! If you don’t have a demonstrator, let me know you want one! I’ll be automatically mailing out copies to all of you who have ordered from me in the last 6 months – so, don’t worry, you’ll get yours early! Then after August Stamp Club, I’ll start mailing out extra copies to folks who request them.
Want to get your hands on Holiday items early? Did you know that if you join my Fun n’ Crafty group of demonstrators, you could see the entire catalog online AND get your favorites first in August!? No selling required! Email me (jennifer@nwstamper.com) to chat about how you can get $125 in Holiday catalog items for only $99 with free shipping. THEN get 30% off your first order of $150 or more! You’ll also get in on the perks of being in my group such as joining our Holiday catalog card swap, participate and get inspired on our Facebook group, chat with us on our monthly team call, and more! I’d love to have you be a part of our stamping family.

Ok, so… now on to the good stuff! The pictures! I swear I had a few more but I’m still trying to figure out where they went… so hopefully you can enjoy these in the meantime!

Halloween Stuff

New stamp set and matching punch… also notice the rope/twine and that is a new sheer Cherry Cobbler ribbon

New halloween and thanksgiving paper

Simply Created Halloween wreath kit

The Halloween wreath includes instructions and supplies for a cool beaded spider

Thanksgiving Stuff

New feather framelits and those are gold metal buttons on the top left!

30 days of Gratitude banner Simply Created project kit

The 30 Days of Gratitude banner pieces fit great in Project Life pockets!

Or make a gratitude flip book

Stamp a Thanksgiving wreath in a picture frame and add my FAVORITE new wooden elements!

Christmas Stuff

I thought this wreath stamp set and framelits was interesting… then I tried it out. Now I LOVE it!

Patty Bennett and I with our stamped wreaths

Terrible picture but you can kind of see the stars confetti border punch and a new stamp too

Another use for the mustache framelit.

New tree stamp set and matching punch!

New snowflake flip card die

Gift card holder framelit die and tags

Fun nordic like button and a peak at the new designer paper stack in the upper corner

New paper (there is a stamp set and framelit that makes those houses!) and a new star stamp set that matches the stars framelit

Project Life

A new project life kit is coming too! #PLxSU

And of course it has it’s own accessory pack

More Tools and other cool Stuff

New Gift Box punch board

This is the smallest size box it makes

New printed kraft paper that is thicker and meant for using with the punch boards so it won’t rip.

New embossing folder with a stamp set that is a similar style

New mini stapler (LOVE THIS!!!) First thing I bought.
Note – this is a DIFFERENT size mini staple than the Tim Holtz mini stapler (this is slightly bigger)

Another new stamp set that we got free at convention

New stamp set called Seasonally Scattered! This is one we created a bunch of projects for the display boards (3 of the cards above were mine!) So you’ll be seeing a lot more samples with this from me very soon.

So, like I said, lots of cool and fun things coming. And there are still a TON more that I didn’t get a chance to photograph. So, stay tuned to check them all out and all the super cute projects you know everyone is going to be making with them.

And just a reminder to what I said above in case you can already tell your wishlist is growing:

Want a copy of the Holiday catalog? If you have a
demonstrator, make sure they know you are waiting for yours – we get to
order and start mailing ours in August! If you don’t have a demonstrator,
let me know you want one! I’ll be automatically mailing out copies to all
of you who have ordered from me in the last 6 months – so, don’t worry,
you’ll get yours early! Then after August Stamp Club, I’ll start mailing
out extra copies to folks who request them.
Want to get your hands on Holiday items early? Did
you know that if you join my Fun n’ Crafty group of demonstrators, you could see
the entire catalog online AND get your favorites first in August!? No
selling required! Email me (jennifer@nwstamper.com) to chat about
how you can get $125 in Holiday catalog items for only $99 with free
shipping. THEN get 30% off your first order of $150 or more! You’ll
also get in on the perks of being in my group such as joining our Holiday
catalog card swap, participate and get inspired on our Facebook group, chat with
us on our monthly team call, and more! I’d love to have you be a part of
our stamping family.

July Online Stamp Club Hostess Code – 7RDHVEKR
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July 26, 2014

Last Chance for Free Shipping & a Few More Stampin’ Up Convention 2014 Highlights

Hey everyone! I actually got a chance to sleep in after traveling late last night home from the Stampin’ Up! convention. It was an awesome trip and fun weekend away with family and friends. And when you add in stamping…. all the better!

While I’m finishing uploading pictures from the last day (many are up on my Facebook page already), I wanted to remind everyone that TODAY is the LAST DAY for my Free Shipping special.

NORTHWEST STAMPER CONVENTION SPECIAL

Free Shipping on All Orders using hostess code 7RDHVEKR

I wanted to do a little something-something while I was away playing at Convention, so I thought I would give you all free shipping this weekend! Place an order online using the hostess code 7RDHVEKR and when I get back from my trip I will send you a handmade thank you card and a refund of your shipping!

Good through 7/20/2014

Also, anyone who is ordering with me this month, will also be on my customer list for mailings of the new Holiday Catalog that come out at the end of August! And believe me, you are going to LOVE it!

Ok, I’m off to go out for a yummy breakfast with the family, so here are a few more highlight pictures from the last day – with more to come over the next week.

Why I love convention:

1. Awesome Swaps

2. Awesome Announcements and Sneak Peeks

3. Awesome Class Ideas (I’m running this one soon – who wants to do it with me?!)

4. Awesome Prizes

5. Most of all – Awesome Friends!

Up next is Leadership 2015, which anyone who is interested in learning about how you can grow your ability as a crafter and share it with others is invited to attend. If you would like to learn more about attending with me as part of my Fun n’ Crafty group, I would OVE to talk to you more about that. Just email me at jennifer@nwstamper.com and I’ll give you all the scoop! It is another awesome experience complete with stamping presentations, displays, prizes, laughter, and lots and lots of learning and fun!

Then, we can grow together and hopefully by the end of June 2015 have earned the Grand Vacation – a Mediterranean Cruise!

Have a wonderful day and don’t forget to check out my Facebook page and Instagram for lots more photos from Convention weekend and more.

July 20, 2014

It’s Almost Here! Keep Up on All the 2014 Stampin’ Up Convention News!

This weekend I am going to be frantically trying to finish my card swaps, packing, and making last minute display projects for the 2014 Stampin’ Up Convention – aka Inspire Create Share 2014!

I’m always so excited to go because I always see amazing talks, get super project ideas, see friends I haven’t seen in a long time, and this year I can’t wait because all the attendees will get to see the 2014 Holiday Catalog too! Whoop Whoop!

Now, the last few years, I’ve tried to post often from the convention floor to share the experience and then each night share a blog post with the highlights of the day. So I wanted to make sure you all knew the best ways to make sure you were catching all the news.

Follow me on Facebook

Over on my Northwest Stamper facebook page, I share projects and crafting chat each day throughout the year, but during Stampin’ Up events, I am often sitting in my seat sharing periodic updates throughout the day.

You can see highlights from the 2013 Stampin’ Up Convention there even still – Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3

And while you are there, make sure to LIKE my page so you’ll be able to keep up with the news each day as well.

Follow me on Facebook

Be watching the Blog

I try really hard to do my best to post recaps each night from my hotel room with an update of what I saw and did and can share with you. So you will want to tune in here as well all next week while I’m there!

Give Instagram a Try!

Now, I can’t promise as much here yet, but if you’ve been following me over on Instagram, I’ve started sharing sneak peek photos of projects I’ve been working on and my real life crafting adventures. I’ve only just started using this platform, but I’ve found it to be a fun place to post little insight peeks into my crafting world. I’ll be trying to post some extra photos there as well throughout the week. So if you are on Instagram, come check it out!

Follow me on Instagram

Get Insider Info on my Fun n’ Crafty Stampers Facebook Group when you Join my Team!

And since we know we’ll be getting sneak peeks, and getting to even purchase items from the Holiday Catalog (!), while we are at convention, I’ll be sharing some of the inside scoop and advance warning we get on upcoming promotions, incentives, and any hush hush products with my downline in our facebook group! So, if you’ve been considering joining or want to be able to get in for the August Holiday Catalog preorder, I’d love to have you join my group and add you to active group of Fun n’ Crafty Stampers on Facebook! We share project ideas, support, business tips, monthly swaps, and have a great time.

Learn more about becoming a demonstrator

Alright, back to getting prepped and ready to go! I’ll see some of you at my Birthday Cards class on Monday (RSVP here), some in Salt Lake City next week, and the rest of you online soon!

July Online Stamp Club Hostess Code – 7RDHVEKR
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July 12, 2014

Group Project Creations from our Team Iron Stamper Challenge!

*** Reminder – Tomorrow (June 1, 2014) is the LAST DAY to order from the Occasions Catalog! So make sure you’ve gotten your favorites before their gone by shopping online now. ***

I have been so excited to watch my Fun n’ Crafty team grow and so I’ve been wanting to start doing more to try to provide opportunities for everyone to get together, learn from each other, and have fun stamping together. So, I’ve started working on roughly quarterly group events I’m calling Stamp & Shares. This last time, I wanted to have some kind of game for everyone to play. So, I came up with the idea of an “Iron Stamper” challenge for us to do early in the afternoon. The idea was that everyone would be broken up into teams and we would have to work as a group to create projects using predefined supplies. No one knew what the supplies would be ahead of time, so it was fun for everyone to brainstorm and create together on the fly!

The supplies they all had to work from were:

Cardstock – The 2013-2015 In Colors, Cherry Cobbler, Whisper White
Designer Paper – Eastern Elegance Designer Paper and Gold Foil Vellum
Stamps – Perfect Pennants, Flower Shop, Petite Petals
Punches – Pansy Punch, Petite Petal, Scallop Edge
Washi Tape – three patterns each of washi
Ink – Early Espresso, Cherry Cobbler, Crushed Curry… and one or two additional colors

They couldn’t use any other supplies than what was provided in the box and the only had 40 minutes as a group to design and create 2 projects using what was in their box. I have to say, I was so impressed with the creativity that came out in that short amount of time!

Check out what they created:

Team 1 – Liz Mitchell, Kathy Thisted, and Rose Bryson

First they created a card. And I love how they came up with using one of the petals from the Pansy punch to make a heart! Way to work with what you have! Plus I thought it was such a great idea to add Washi tape to the bottom of a piece of cardstock and THEN punch with the scallop punch. Aren’t they clever?

At the last minute, they realized the instructions for the challenge was to create 2 projects, so they pulled together this box very quickly:

I loved how they stamped and punched the Flower Shop image and then punched out a piece of the Gold Foil vellum and used it as a punched overlay too.

Team 2 – Tanya Cabral, Annie Lee, Jennifer Blomquist

This group stuck more to cards but really got into the vellum paper. And Tanya came up with the fun idea of stamping directly on the vellum for a central layer:

For the second card, I thought it was cool how Annie came up with the layers of scallop edge punched designer paper on the left side… like a little layer of ruffles! Then the combination of stamping under the vellum and adhering stamped images over the vellum.

You can kind of see that the Petite Petals images and the Flower Shop punched flower are BELOW the vellum, and one of the punched out petite petal flowers is ON TOP of the Vellum.

It was a great afternoon and I’m working on our next group demo event! It is looking like I may hold it off until July so I can run it right after convention and share all the projects and details I learned at convention with everyone! If you would like to be on the email list for more details for when the event is announced and registration opens, let me know at jennifer@nwstamper.com and I’ll make sure you are kept in the know!

May Online Stamp Club Hostess Code – ZUBHUEK6
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May 31, 2014

Will You Join me at Convention (for FREE!)–Registration starts tomorrow!

Oh, I’m excited! Convention registration starts tomorrow for this summer’s big event. Every year for the last 5 years I’ve taken time in the summer to re-energize by visiting Salt Lake City for the Stampin’ Up convention. Its been an amazing time to get away, be inspired by so many amazing projects, swap cards with other demonstrators, get the inside scoop on what is coming up from Stampin’ Up, get free goodies, and generally have a blast. So, of course I’m headed back this year with some of the Fun n’ Crafty stampers (my downline group of demonstrators) – especially since they announced that they will be handing out the Winter Holiday catalog at convention and we even get to BUY from the catalog while we are there. Score!

But what about you?

Did you know you can attend for FREE if you join the Stampin’ Up family by purchasing your Starter Kit any time from last July until convention registration fills up? So, basically, get to pick out $150 in product of your choice for only $99, have access to all the resources and benefits of being a demonstrator, and starting tomorrow, register for convention and Stampin’ Up will pick up the registration fee for you!

Here are a few pictures from the last 4 years or see lots more photos of these events on my blog here.

2010 Convention

Meet Shelli Gardner!

See amazing displays full of ideas!

2011 Convention

Relax and have lunch with a few thousand of your friends.

See super clever stamping demonstrations!

2012 Convention

Family friendly too when you have little ones!

Did I mention you get free stamps?

Convention 2013

Love my Fun n’ Crafty group that all went to convention together last year!

Swap with other demonstrators for great card ideas!

So if you are interested in join me, I’d love to have you come with me or at least hang out with my group!

Learn more about being a demonstrator here

Sign up today and you’ll be all set to register tomorrow.

Have questions? Email me at jennifer@nwstamper.com and I’d be more than happy to chat and answer any questions you have.

April Online Stamp Club Hostess Code – G4VQJ7VB
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April 7, 2014

Sale-a-Bration countdown with Scallop Tag Punch Boxes

Ok, after spending almost an hour fighting with my computer on formatting of this blog post, I’m just giving up and I hope you don’t mind if it scrolls a little long! 🙂 I’m starting the Sale-a-Bration countdown today and so I’ll be spending the next 4 days sharing Sale-a-Bration projects, and I just know I will have a bunch to share, so I figured I’ll post a few each day to fill you up with ideas! Last weekend was my first ever Stamp & Share for my group of Fun n’ Crafty demonstrators. I am so grateful for these ladies and I wanted to make sure I was helping created events and opportunities for everyone to get to know each other, stamp together, and share ideas. So, I put together an afternoon of stamping fun and business tips. It was a huge success and I can’t wait to start planning the next one as I’d love to hold these each quarter! This time, I had some great presenters who shared some tips and tricks for some of our tools – specifically the Scallop Tag punch and the Thinlit flip dies. Kathy Thisted (below) shared on the Scallop Tag punch. She had a TON of good ideas and tips but I’ll share the one that was new and exciting to me! The idea that you can punch paper that is larger than 2”! I know, that shouldn’t be as mind blowing to me as it is, but I thought you could only punch paper that was 2” or less; but she showed how you can make borders, cut box flaps, and more with larger paper. The big trick though to making sure you have the scallop edge where you want is to mark the front of your punch with a piece of paper or post-it showing where the edges of the tag opening are. That way, you can align your score lines or markings on your paper so that the scallop tag end is exactly where you want it! Then she shared a bunch of great boxes including this one – all using some great Sale-a-Bration items including the Sweet Sorbet paper, See Ya Later stamp set, Banner punch, Sweet Sorbet accessories, and the Heartfelt Banner kit :

It is a simple 2” strip of cardstock that has been folded in half to make your basic bag shape. Then add small strips of cardstock to the sides (adhering to the inside of your tag) to make the walls to keep your goodies from falling out the sides! (side note – aren’t those little banners stinkin’ cute sticking out from behind the label framelit cut out?) Next was another box she made, only this time she took two of the flaps and cut the ends using the scallop tag punch. The opposite flaps were trimmed and decorated. But the scallop top makes for a cute decorative touch and a great place for a ribbon to tie your box closed.

Oh! I totally forgot to point out the coolest part! See that canvas banner on the side of the box? Guess where it is from? And no, she did not hand cut it! Give up? It is from the Heartfelt Banner kit!! How clever to cut up the banner kit into cute pieces to use in other projects. Love that multi-purpose functionality. I just LOVED this third box though.

Another tall box with the scallop tag punch… but my favorite touches?

The belly band with the huge flower using the Blossom Punch
Tying the Sweet Sorbet twine through the top and anchoring it with a Vintage Faceted button! Those buttons are really pretty but I never know what to do with them. Looks like this is a really good answer!

So, hopefully you saw some fun ideas and inspiration here. Have a question about one of the boxes? Leave me a comment or shoot me an email at jennifer@nwstamper.com and I’ll see if I can get the details for you!

Don’t forget, everything you see here that is from Sale-a-Bration is going away after Monday March 31st! So take advantage of the last 4 days of Sale-a-Bration

(Yes! There is still time for a last minute facebook or online party!)

So, have fun and I’ll be back with more ideas for you soon!

March Online Stamp Club Hostess Code – XEWP4DFD
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Supplies Used (click any picture for descriptions or to add to your shopping cart)

March 28, 2014

Getting Ready for a Card Bonanza!

I stayed up last night to start sorting out my card kits for my upcoming Card Bonanza this weekend. On Saturday, I’m hosting the event at my house and it is an All-You-Can-Stamp crafting event!

I was shocked to discover that I have over 130 card kits ready to go based on over 50 card designs! See, this event is what I do to use up all my extra card kits left over from my technique nights, card classes, swaps, and events. I deeply discount the kits and invite everyone over to make as many cards as they want.

Here is the scoop:

Come and stamp for only $1.50/card
Come and stamp as many cards as you want for $10 (you just have to let me know when you get started)
Pick up a premade card with envelope from my big stash for only $2

Can’t attend in person?

Get a set of 5 card kits for $11 mailed to you to make at home
(note – due to Stampin’ Up policy, kits will not include stamped images, but they will include all paper and accessories precut and portioned)

Either way, that is WAY LESS than Hallmark for some really fun and cute cards!

Here is a small sample of some of the cards available to make:

Fun, right?!

So, check your calendar and if you are free this Saturday (2/22) between 1pm- 5pm, let me know and plan on coming over for this fun event! RSVP here

Can’t attend in person but would love some kits? Email me at jennifer@nwstamper.com or order here and I’ll get you hooked up with some cute card kits!

Card Kit Grab Bag – 5 card kits shipped w/in the US for ONLY $11!

Now I’m off to finish pulling all the supplies needed for all the different cards – that is going to take me a while! But it will be fun and I can’t wait to see everyone creating on Saturday.

Virtual Stamp Club Hostess Code – BNDDMDVU
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February 20, 2014

You Did It! Winning Craft Wars: Paper Pumpkin Card

If you were reading my recap of Leadership, I mentioned a fun activity they ran over the course of the conference. They called it “Craft Wars: Paper Pumpkin”! Now, I’ll admit, I haven’t ever watched Craft Wars but I get the general idea (or at least have a guess).

You have a pile of miscellaneous crafting supplies.
You have a project goal to create.
Make something cool.
GO!

And that is pretty much how this worked. They had all of the stamps from the My Paper Pumpkin kits since March in bags in the center of the tables. You had access to:

– Whisper White or Crumb Cake card bases
– about 6 colors of ink and markers
– designer paper from the Occasions Catalog (wanna see what we had to work with?)
– gold or silver bakers twine (maybe white too)
– Essentials Wooden Elements
– and um… a couple punches and dimensionals.

So there was a lot to work from, but you were limited to what was on hand… oh, and did I mention NO cardstock except the cardbases… so we started hacking up extra Whisper White cardbases to get extra cardstock for stamping and cutting.

I started by looking at the stamps to see what inspired me. In this case, the “Wahoo” and “You Did It” stamps from September 2013 Kit (the sad part, I never actually put together my kit and wasn’t sure what I thought of the stamps at first. Um, super fun it turns out!) along with the word bubble stamp from the December 2013 Kit. Then I grabbed a few more stamps that seem like they could be interesting accents to the card and walked through the rows of paper and see if anything fits the style of the stamps and the completely fuzzy idea of what I should be making. Turns out I was grabbed by the Bermuda Bay polka dot patterned paper from the Kaleidoscope designer paper.

Then I started stamping, cutting and layering the elements. And really I still had no idea how exactly it was going to ultimately come together!

When I’m in a crunch, I’m a “glue-as-I-go” girl and so I started gluing things down which mostly works, until you decide you want to wrap baker’s twine around some paper that you already glued down. ; )

But “thankfully” I had gotten an ink smudge on the front of my card after I had only glued a few pieces of paper down, so I could pull them up, wrap my twine, and then glue everything back down on a new card base.

In the end, this is what I came up with:

This is a bit of a departure from my typical card style, but I LOVE IT! I’ll be honest, this is completely inspired by a style of scrapbooking I love… so, see – scrapbooking can be a great crossover into card making.

Well, I took this picture kind of quick and didn’t try to hard to make it super nice because I figured I’d be picking up my card the next day and taking it home where I could photograph it all nice and pretty.

But to my happy surprise – IT WASN’T IN THE BOX! Which turned out to mean, I was one of the 20 cards picked as winners of the Craft Wars competition. Yay! There were a ton of super great cards that I saw people creating so I’m glad someone on the judging panel liked my non-traditional layout.

You know, I’m thinking I may have to host my own Craft Wars: Paper Pumpkin edition!

Who is in!?

Yeah, I like that idea.

Ok, so start checking out your Paper Pumpkin kits and start brainstorming cute card ideas!

If you aren’t subscribed to My Paper Pumpkin yet, hop to it and you’ll get a set of the 2012-2014 In Color markers for FREE! You just have to sign up by Feb 10th to get the extra perk! Get going here.

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Alright, I’m off to upload more pictures over on the Facebook page – display board pictures this time! Talk about inspiration overload! But in a good way, of course. Smile

January 14, 2014

Quatrefancy Window Sheets for Scrapbooking

Ok, so I know I promised to share some projects with the Christmas Star single stamp today… but that was before I remembered that today was the Stylin’ Stampin’ Inkspiration’s scrapbook sketch for the month! I love playing along with sketches and I don’t scrapbook nearly enough…. so design team duties came first today. But, I do have my Christmas Star projects and post ready for you… it is just moved to Wednesday now. I promise this time.

But, I still have a fun project to share today! The amazing Jennifer Campbell put together a great sketch this month and I love it because it was so easy to put together an interesting layout with it. In fact, this page came together from looking at the sketch to done in less than an hour!!

September Scrapbook Sketch Layout

I have a stash of photos that I know I want to scrap that I got printed at Costco a couple months ago, and so I grabbed the pile and started flipping through until I found the perfect photos I wanted to scrap.

It was so special to me this year at convention that I had a group of downline who were able to attend with me and share the awesome experience. And it was so fun to have some friends to cheer with, lounge with, or just share ideas we saw or heard around the convention center. I really am lucky to be able to call these gals my friends!

Once I found the pictures and looked at the sketch, I knew I wanted to recreate the group bag tag for my main embellishment. I used the Fun Flower die to create the same shape, added the Fancy Flower punch, and then a 1-1/4” circle punch out of designer paper. Then, instead of our group name, I used the Banner Greetings hostess set to create my sentiment and as a throwback to the banner shape in the original sketch.

My other fun variation was to use the Quatrefancy window sheet that comes with the Quatrefancy Specialty designer series paper. This is one of those papers that often you look at and think,” how in the heck am I going to use this?” Well, I loved the subtle pattern effect it gave and thought it would be a great accent to pull out the pattern from the Convention backpack we received this year. Since the pattern was the same, it was a great way to tie together the photos, designer series paper (from the same pack) and the background paper.

Using window sheet papers this way is great because it is EASY to figure out adhesive. If nothing else, you have a HUGE piece of cardstock (from your photo mat) that will be covering up parts of the window sheet strip, and so you can happily put adhesive in that area. And in this case, I decided to layer some Pear Pizzazz taffeta ribbon over the top, and so I could also run a strip of adhesive across the window sheet to glue it to the base cardstock and then just adhere the ribbon over the top of the window sheet to hide the glue. Sneaky, huh?!

So, there you go. A fun, easy sketch and some ideas to get you started. If you want to play along and try it out yourself, you can use the sketch above and then hop on over to the Stylin’ Stampin’ Inkspiration blog to add your finished photo to the Linky there. Or just visit to see other great takes on the basic sketch. Have fun!

Card Supplies Used
Stamps – Banner Greetings
Ink – Midnight Muse
Paper – Pool Party Core’dinations cardstock, Quatrefancy designer paper, Pear Pizzazz cs, Whisper White cs
Accessories – Big Shot, Fun Flower die, Fancy Flower punch, 1-1/4” circle punch, Pear Pizzazz taffeta ribbon, Rhinestones

September 16, 2013

One Last Look at Leadership

Well, Leadership is over and I survived my 2am wakeup call to get me to the airport for my cross-country 6am flight. (Eek! that was early!) But before I completely crash for the night, I wanted to share some of my favorite things from the event.

It starts with the little things – like getting plated lunches each day! Spoiled!

I didn’t know we got something other than a box lunch, so it was a fun surprise. Smile And all the awesome free product and giveaways too!

But that doesn’t hold a candle to the sharing that went on over 2 days. I’m not kidding when I say that my brain got FULL and I was glad for dinner breaks starting at around 4:30.

There were awesome presentations by Stampin’ Up! staff and other demonstrators ranging from class and stamping ideas to how to be better organized and how to use a business plan to become more profitable!

And of course, lots of swapping and A-MA-ZING presentations on the main stage!

PSST – this is a cute idea for using the new Best Of stamp set that is available for January!

I even found it was really cool to get some frank conversations and state of the company presentations from the executive team at Stampin’ Up!

But I think the BEST thing of going to these events, is the friends I see (or meet in person for the first time after chatting online with them for ages) while I’m there. People from across the continent that I would never get a chance to see if not for this event!

People like Gail from Canada (BasketballMom for those of you on SCS); and Ronda Wade!

So, if you haven’t been to a SU event before, all I have to say is… what are you waiting for? Smile Check out the Regionals schedule for events near you (I have them posted on my FB page) or head out to Salt Lake City for Convention! I’ll be there in July and would love to have you come share it with me!!

(me & my mom – fun fact: I have been to 4 conventions, 3 regionals, and 1 leadership event; and my mom has joined me for each of those events!)

I have LOTS MORE PHOTOS up on my Facebook Page including display boards, so if you are interested in that you should come check it out!

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January 13, 2013

Stampin’ Up! Leadership–Day 2 Reveals!

Ok, so it is 2am Orlando time and I really should be sleeping because our wakeup call is only 5 hours away, but I had to stay up to share some of the awesome stuff I saw and heard at Leadership today (well, yesterday technically, but since I haven’t slept, I’ll call it today!

You can see LOTS MORE Pictures and details on my Facebook Page

But if you don’t feel like clicking just yet, here is a quick rundown of the day!

We started the day with swapping before the first General Session. Cute cards, right?!?

Then Shelli Gardner took the stage to share how the company got start and some excitement that was to come. But she left most of the announcements to the presenters… which meant we had to wait!

Announcement 1: A new kit for guys to use, designed by guys – “Dude, You’re Welcome”. It even comes with this sticker. Smile Check out this video for a quick preview of what is inside the kit.

This kit is available Monday for $24.95.

Announcement 2: Starting Monday (or maybe even now) you can sign up for a new subscription program called Paper Pumpkin. It is stamps, ink, and supplies in a box mailed to you each month to create new projects. Its only $19.95 and that INCLUDES Shipping! They start shipping in March, but you can get on the list to get one of the first kits by visiting – www.mypaperpumpkin.com

If you decide to sign up, make sure you select your demonstrator’s name during the sign up process, or you can pick me – Jennifer Blomquist – if you don’t have a demo. Smile

Then of course there were display boards, project demonstrations, lots of business sessions, and non-stop sharing!

Finally the night ended with our Pajama Party and Prize Patrol! I even won a stamp set and punch this year! So Cool!!

So, there are some highlights. If you have questions about the announcements feel free to leave me a comment or shoot me an email to jennifer@nwstamper.com

And now I’m headed to bed so I can be back for more in a few hours!

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January 12, 2013

Quick Hello from Leadership!

Yesterday was travel and check-in day here in Orlando for the 2013 Leadership convention and I think I was going non-stop all day. From the overnight flight that only let me sleep for about 3.5 hrs total to Manager’s Reception going late into the evening at Harry Potter World! Its been a blast but I am so wiped that I went the easy route and decided to post my initial pictures up on Facebook.