Last Saturday, my friend & upline Maureen and I got up early and drove to Baltimore, Maryland for Stampin Up's regional conference. We met up with our "team" and were joined by 850 fellow east coast stampers. Yep, there were 850 of us at the Baltimore Convention Center!! A sea of stampers, creativity and Shelli Gardner, Founder and CEO of Stampin Up joined us for the fun!! I will admit, I went into complete GEEK mode when I saw she was there!! I stood in line twice to meet her and have my photo snapped with her!! She even complimented me on my pretty orange sweater and then said, well you are gorgeous anyway!! I was SHAKING when I walked away from her. I doubt Denzel Washington could have had more of an effect on me!!!
I haven't posted in awhile, but I haven't been a complete slacker either. Right after I made the Valentine's Day goodie bags shown in my last post, I started making swaps for Regional. My goal was to make 100, but I may have only gotten to 75.
Okay, so no, this is not my card. I was inspiried (as always) by Mary Fish. Although I love the simplicity of this card, I wanted to punch mine up a bit with a little color and some embellishments.
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I used the Bloomin Marvelous stamp set from the Sell-A-Bration catalog. The colors are Raspberry Ripple, Bashful Blue (which is retirning) and Summer Star Fruit. I used some dazzling diamonds in the center of each flower. The butterfly is made from the punch and is embellished with a diamond (or a pearl). I thought it was pretty nice, until I saw some of the other cards!! All I can say is WOW!! There are some creative and talented Stampin Up demonstrators out there. I will share some of the swaps, as well as the 3 projects we made over the weekend.
It was a great day, filled with projects, ideas and lots of sneak peeks at the 2013-2014 catalog. All demonstrators get to see it early, (April 24th) and my wish list is already long!! I'm excited to see the new colors and ideas!!
Oh, berfoe I sign off, here I am with Shelli Gardner!!
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