Christmas Lodge from Stampin' Up!

At the Stampin' Up! Convention in July 2011, the attendees got a sneak peek at the new stamp set Christmas Lodge. Of course everyone loved the perfect Christmas tree in the set, but the snowy lodge was what caught my eye. I'm from New York so I could totally imagine sitting in there on a big comfy couch, under a blanket on a snowy Christmas morning while drinking hot cocoa by a fire. Ahhhhh.
Well with my kids back in school all morning I finally had time to pull out Christmas Lodge and play for a little while and here is my card share.

 
First I ran a piece of whisper white through

Stampin' Up! Convention - Day 3 (Friday)

Hi there My Stamping Friends, I hope you've been enjoying all the details about the Stampin' Up! Convention and my Salt Lake City adventures that you've been reading. I had so much fun while I was there and I'd love for you to join me on my next trip to Convention (July 2013 in Salt Lake City, Utah) or Leadership Conference (in January 2013 in San Antonio, Texas). I'd love to answer your questions about being a Stampin' Up! demonstrator and how this can improve your life. We currently have a $99 starter kit promotion so consider your options. While you're doing that visit my website at http://www.roseelleneastman.stampinup.net/ & click on join my team (or start my own business) to get more information. You can use my password newrecruit to get even more information and you can even sign up on line if you have all your questions answered. Meanwhile, back to the details of Convention 2011.

Friday morning started off with break out classes. I learned a few more neat details of my Demonstrator Business Website and then went on to a demonstration on some of our products and new ways to use them and new projects to create. Project coordination using our suites of products make creating so easy. Here are a few things we saw on stage.

I ate lunch quickly and got to spend time in the demonstrator resource center checking out the samples from other demonstrators and samples and ideas from the Stampin' Up! creative team. Just amazing. Here are a few things I saw.

The afternoon session was choc full of great stuff. It started with a march across the stage for annual sales milestones and then we moved on to some more product and project demonstrations. Then another march for growing your Stampin' Up! team and more product demonstrations. Lets see if you can catch any new products in these photos.

Sharon marching across the stage.

 We ended the afternoon and had a quick break before I had to get to the Hispanic Night Event. I was presenting a WOW project on stage and I was soooooo excited and a little nervous as this was the first time I was presenting with Stampin' Up! Here are a few photos of the evening and my projects. If you missed the event and want to know how I made the cards just ask. And feel free to leave me a comment and let me know how much fun you had at the event.

My friend Liliana presenting her WOW. It was a great versamark technique.

A group of demonstrators that attended the evening's festivities.



Lili and I after our presentations

Twist Card with floating reinker to color the Princesita
and coordinating candy wrappers
for my WOW presentation for the Hispanic Event

Flower Fest for my WOW presentation

Delicate Doilies for my WOW presentation

Flower Fest for my WOW presentation


All of that made for a full day. Tomorrow I'll be back to tell you about our final day at convention. Have a great day!

Rose-Ellen

One more Thanksgiving project

Hello there My Stamping Friends,

I wanted to get one more Thanksgiving project posted before December arrives. Last week, one of my very talented and creative stampin' friends, Donna, showed up to hostess her club meeting with a little gift for everyone in attendance. This little guy is so cute and I had to copy him. Donna spent a lot of time freehand drawing each of the heads and cutting out each piece for the face. She made the body with the Milk Carton die and the Big Shot (and you all know how much I LOVE my Big Shot). I believe she made the tail with some large heart punch. Here is her creation.

I had to CASE these turkeys for my Thanksgiving table and of course I only use Stampin' Up! products and I needed to make it easy so my girls could duplicate them, so here is what I came up with.

For my turkey I also used the Milk Carton die and the Big Shot. I used our Full Heart punch and the scallop circle punch for the tail. I used the Round Tab Punch for the head, a point of the star punch for his beak and the Heart to Heart for his waddle and ...hmm...thing that's on his head. For his eyes I used the Black Flourish Designer Jewels from the Holiday Mini Catalog (they aren't just for Halloween Projects!!). I used Teeny Tiny Wishes for the sentiment and used the word window and modern label punches along with dimensionals to show it off.

As always if you want to purchase the items you need to create a project like this you can visit my website at http://www.roseelleneastman.stampinup.net/ or call or e-mail.

Hope you enjoy the project and have a great day,
Rose-Ellen