Stampin’ Up! Leadership Orlando Swaps Video

Here it is – a quick video of the swaps I received from the Leadership Conference Held in Orlando and my conference highlights below

Here are some of the photos from the long weekend – in no particular order

Me and my good friends Caroline and Erna – 2 lovely demo friends from the Netherlands

The amazing $1million sales achiever Dawn – she was so sweet

My name badge – in America Silver 2 Demos are called Managers!

Demos starting to congregate on the first morning – the conference centre is HUGE

Me posing for pictures with Brian King – such a sweet guy and a great stamper

Here I am with Cayleigh, Kim and Fiona enjoying our special night out at Disney Hollywood Studios – such fun

So pretty

Some ideas for the ballon bash stamp set

This was one of my faves

A lovely idea with you and me

Some of Shellis cards

So there you go – apologies for the picture heavy post but I took nearly 400 photos in three days, and these are just a few.  it was back to the real world and the day job with a bump on Monday – and brrr its turned cold – not used to it after the lovely florida sunshine.

Being part of stampin up gives you access to exclusive events like this one and the chance to meet and make new friends with like-minded people from all over the world. (As well as a great discount and heaps of other benefits).  For me the friendships and the people you meet are the best bit – and if you haven’t joined up yet – what are you waiting for?

Stampin’ Up! Orlando Leadership

How very exciting – I am off to the good old USA to attend a Stampin’ Up Leadership Conference.

There are about 30 of us from Europe attending with around 1,000 from the US converging on Orlando, Florida for an action packed 3 day conference.  There will be lots to report afterwards I am sure, but you dont want to see that do you… you want to see the pretties… and heres some of the things I have made to take with me.

This little gift is for my travel buddy Kim Fee who is coming with me, sharing the plane, hotel and I hope a whole load of laughs.  Not going to tell you what’s inside.  The box I made using the new FREE saleabration IRRESISTIBLY YOURS SPECIALTY DESIGNER SERIES PAPER  – this comes in white, and you can spray it, sponge it or brayer it with coloured inks to get it to any colour you like.  The quality of the card is so good, its a little thicker than our standard Whisper White Cardstock – and hardly paper at all.  I do hope this makes it to the Annual Catalogue as its such fun to work with.  You can get a pack for free when you shop with me between January and March 31st and spend over £45 on a single transaction.  Click the shop now link for more details.

I sprayed mine with Calypso Coral re-inker mixed with rubbing alcohol, sponged off the excess to reveal the white leaves, and then made a tag and some flowers to decorate.  The little fluffy balls twine is a favourite of mine and in the new spring summer catalogue.

What follows are some pictures of my swaps I have made to give to other demonstrators.

Flutterby Butterfly off to America You Shall Go

So I talked about cutting out over 100 of these little swallowtail framelit butterflies yesterday – here’s what they were for.

Shhhh dont tell anyone but I am going to Stampin up! Leadership in Orlando in less than 3 weeks time – I am so excited.

These are the swaps I have made for one part of the little holiday.  (Dont worry I will be sharing a day by day account of leadership on my blog nearer the time)!

in the meantime here are the pretties – the base layer is a third of a piece of A4, and each butterfly is over 3 inches wide so I decided to go tall and skinny for this card front

Such fun…and see you tomorrow for yes you guessed it – more butterflies 🙂  My friend will be so pleased..