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More Leadership Samples

Here are some more samples from Leadership 2012 and the San Antonio Regional.

 

Leadership Samples Video (Part 1)

I took hundreds of photos while I was at Leadership. Since I can't post them all on my blog I put them into a video so they would be easier to view. The video moves through the photos fairly quick so if you spot a card you like and want to look longer, just pause the video. Music would have been nice but that's way beyond my technical skills. Sorry

 

Leadership Samples

Here are a few more leadership samples. I never get tired of looking at the display boards at Stampin' Up events. There's so much talent out there.

Cute Valentines

This card was on display at Leadership and I thought it was such a neat idea I had to share. There were tons of cute samples on display so stay tuned and I'll keep posting some of my favorites. The photos that have clothes pins were the cards that were entered in the stamp set challenge. They hung clotheslines for each set and demos pinned their card up in the appropriate spot. I hope they do this again for convention. The cards were amazing!

The next two cards were made by Michelle Hall. Didn't she do a great job?

I've had several people ask what stamp set the sentiments were from. The cards below used Candy Conversations and the card above used Sweet Cake. Both can be found in the Stampin' Up 2012 Occasions mini.

Roommate Gifts

I made a couple of these make up bags and accessories as roommate gifts. One for my Convention Roommate Rita who I was hoping to run into  at the San Antonio Regional (and I did). It was great to see her again. She's so sweet.

 

The other I made for my Leadership roommate Beth. Thanks Beth for sharing your room with me. I hope I didn't snore. 

Beth was great. I've never met anyone whose sense of direction is as bad as mine. I'm surprised we managed to find our way around the city. I'm not sure about her taste in jewelry though. Check out her photo below. 

Yeah!!! I Won.

This was even more exciting than winning prize patrol! I know, this pic doesn't look too exciting but it had me jumping up and down and hugging the demo beside me. It's the list of the card contest winners. They had tons of amazing entries so it's really an honour to make the list. The card I won with was the piniata card I made with the Bundled for Birthday stamp.

Hello from Leadership

I'm having a great time at my first Leadership Conference. Here’s a pic of all my goodies. You gotta love free stuff especially when you can use it for stamping. I won the new Simply Scored Diagonal Plate during prize patrol. I can’t wait to try it out! The bags this year are the cutest thing ever and so is the matching portfolio with the tag that was  signed by Shelli.

There were several announcements today. The most exciting is the new changes to the catalogues. The main catty will be thinner (208 pages), with lighter paper and cost demos ½ the price of the old ones. We will also be able to send them out now using the mail selector program. Mail selector will stay open for the entire selling period not just during preorder (yeah!)

The minis won’t be so mini anymore. They’ll still have about 40 pages but they’ll be 8½” x 11” and will still cost demos the same price as they do now.  Starting this year, there won’t be a summer mini. The next catty will be the Annual Catalogue which starts June 1 so we’ll be able to preorder  May 1.  The Holiday Catty period will be Aug 1 to Dec 31 and the Spring Catty period will be from the beginning of January until May 31.

The other big announcement is that Stampin’ Up will be getting rid of a few of their product lines and focusing on paper crafting. The lines they told us about so far are Decor Elements and the Simply Sent jewellery.  Well that’s it for tonight. Tune in again for more leadership news and some pics of all the awesome cards and projects on display.

Pinked Flowers

I made some flowers using the tasteful trim die. I cut the Ziggy strip (I'm sure that's the technical term) and used the negative strips from each side to make the flowers. I cut each strip into 4" pieces and gathered the straight edge with a needle and thread. The stamp set is Loved Ones

A Card For My Honey

Oh crap! I made this card to leave under my husband's pillow when I left but I think I brought it with me. Oh well. I wanted a card that wasn't too feminine. I used the new edgelits and embossing folders from the occasions mini.

I can't remember the name of the stamp set that the sentiment was from and I'm too lazy to get out of my chair and go look (sorry)

Tea Time Swap

Well, I'm off to the Leadership conference this morning and I can't wait to get there! I'll be posting my swap cards and the ones I made for the stamp set contest over the next several days. This is one of the swap cards I made. I finally figured out how to get some color on my cup. I sanded both sides of vellum paper with a sanding block. I stamped the front and embossed it with Versamark then colored the image with an Elegant Eggplant marker. I rubbed the embossed image with a tissue making sure to get some of the Eggplant around the outer edges. When I cut out the image I left a bit of the Eggplant showing around the edges of the cup. I colored the flowers and leaves on the back side of the image. Since the vellum is sanded, it held the color well. I added some pink to the edges of the cup (on the backside) using a blender pen.

Packed for Baby

I tried versamark and chalks for the background on this card but it didn’t turn out quite like I pictured. I’ll have to  play with some more ideas and see what I can come up with. I'm really liking these Packed for Everything stamps. I think they were one of the first products on my 2012 Occasions Mini wish list.

CAS Sympathy

I don't often do Clean & Simple cards but here's one using the Bordering on Romance stamp set and some of the buttons from the Twitterpated collection. I cut a frame with the new framelits and used the negative as a mask for sponging. The colours are Blushing Bride and Baja Breeze.

Packed for Birthday

This is another stamp that came in the Packed for Everything bundle. I stamped an extra piniata, cut it out and attached it to the card with thread so the piniata swings freely when you move the card.

Waffle Paper Ruffle

Well it's time to unroll my white waffle paper. It's been sitting in the box for far too long. I cut the curved edge with the edgelit die. The sentiment is from the Loved Ones stamp set.

Packed for Sister

Less than a week to go until my first Leadership Conference and I still haven't made any swaps. I start planning which leads to playing then I don't get much accomplished after that. This stamp set is called Packed for Mom and the sentiment is from Loved Ones. You can find both in the 2012 Stampin' Up Occasions Mini.

This is my favorite swap design so far because not only is pink my favorite color but the little purse dangles freely from the ribbon. It doesn't matter how old you are or how many electonic devises you own, there's just something entertaining about a moving card element that makes you want to wiggle it and pass it around to all your friends to try. How come no one ever does that with an ipad?

To make the window I adhered the two top layers together then cut the window with the movers and shapers die. I stamped the sentiment on a scrap of white, punched it out with the modern label punch and sponged around the edges.

To do the faux stitching, poke holes with a mat pack and piercing tool and connect the dots with the fine tip of a black marker. To make the ribbon strip, stick some ribbon to a strip of cardstock and run it through your crimper. I tried some of the embossing folders but with the narrow ribbon the crimper showed up the most.