Showing posts with label Stampin' Up! Onstage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stampin' Up! Onstage. Show all posts
The weekend before last was the Stampin' Up! Onstage Local event in Telford. Its a mini convention where Stampin' Up! demos get together and find out about new products, receive business training, recognise each other success, receive free products and SWAP!
I decided to use products from the Stampin' Up! Autumn Winter Catalogue and I made 70 Candy Cane Lane Lotus Biscuit Christmas Hanging Tree Treats swaps. I got such a lovely range of swaps back and hopefully I will get a chance to share these with you. Maybe I might finally do a YouTube video?
The Candy Cane Lane Product Suite is just lovely. Whilst I usually favour non traditional colours at Christmas, the main colours featured in this suite, Crumb Cake and Real Red are just perfect to use for the swap idea I had. Early Espresso and Whisper White are also featured in this suite but I decided to use the side of the DSP that was mainly Crumb Cake so my swaps had a uniform look.
I used all of these products shown in the collage below to make my swaps - Read Red & Crumb Cake Stampin' Write Markers, Layering Oval Framelit Dies, Read Red & Whisper White cardstock, Real Red Stitched Edge Ribbon, Candy Cane Christmas stamp set and the Candy Cane Lane Designer Series Paper. You can order all of these from my online shop 24/7.
To make my swap, I simply cut a piece of DSP long enough and wide enough that wrapped around the biscuit. I then stapled the ribbon around the centre of the long side. I then used Fast Fuse to adhere the DSP wrap to the biscuit.
I then used my Stampin' Write Markers to colour in the stamp. I loved the look shown in the catalogue using 2 different colours on the one stamp. It was totally worth the time it took! The trick is to breathe on the stamp after you've coloured in stamp to reactivate the ink. I really enjoyed using this technique so I ordered the Regals & Subtles Marker packs in my recent order and I am looking forward to colouring stamps in again in the future.
Next I die cut the stamped image using the Layering Ovals dies. I layered the Whisper White oval on top of Real Red Cardstock, using the scallop oval die from the same set. I then used Stampin' Dimensionals to attach it to the front of the biscuit, hiding the staples I used to make sure the ribbon stayed put.
If you don't know what Lotus biscuits are, here is a picture of them. You can buy packs of 20 inexpensively on Amazon and from pound stores. You might have had one or two of these biscuits on the side of a hot drink in a coffee shop - I don't know anyone who doesn't like these so I hope everyone enjoyed receiving one of these as my swap.
I've put together a collage of some photos from Onstage Local in Telford. Here are me and my friends Aimee, Baz & Sasha - we had a great time and I can't wait until the next event. As well as attending this event, we all attended an craft afternoon arranged by Sarah Berry the day before. It was such fun and Sarah created some fab projects for us to make - to see pictures from the day, visit Sarah's blog by clicking here. We all went to Nandos in the evening and chatted the evening away with friends old and new, it was lovely but there might have been too much red wine consumed!
Do you want to come along to a Stampin' Up! next time? All you have to do is join my team of demonstrators and you will be eligible to attend Stampin' Up! events and also events set up by members of Michelle Last's Pinkies group. Please do get in touch with me if you want to find out more about joining and how you would benefit from 20% discount.
I am so thankful to have Michelle as my upline, Michelle runs a successful business, supports the whole Pinkies team all year round through team events, team challenges, Facebook groups and parties - and every now and then some happy mail just turns up. I was so thrilled to find out that Michelle is the #1 Stampin' Up! Demo for the UK and is placed 3rd in the world in the global 100. What am amazing achievement - well done Michelle!
I was also excited to be recognised for having recruited a team member in 2016. You don't get to walk the stage but you do get to stand up and be cheered on by fellow demos and receive a ribbon to attach to your badge. I am a hobby demo at heart but I am pleased Aimee decided to join my team in February during Sale-a-Bration and would love to welcome more team members. Aimee became a qualified recruit a few months ago and is enjoying the journey she has taken with Stampin' Up! This was her first Stampin' Up! event and I made a little gift for Aimee to recognise her becoming a qualified recruit. This will be featuring on my blog very soon. If you want to check out Aimee's cards you can find her on Pinterest by clicking here
I hope you have enjoyed reading about Onstage and looking at my swaps today!
Here are my swaps from Onstage Local in Telford. I made 75 of these and luckily managed to swap with 75 ladies in less than an hour before the event kicked off. The registration started at 7:30am. I hate early starts but I was looking forward to the day so much that it was almost like getting up to go on holiday, you don't mind as you know that what follows will be amazing.
The swaps I made coordinate with the team swaps I made on my previous post. I wanted to make something similar but different as I needed something that I could make easily in a much larger quantity. Its always hard to make this volume. Some ladies made gift boxes and gift bags, which is a huge task. I know how time consuming that can be as I made gift boxes last year and hanging scent pockets the year before. Even though my swap this year is only a card front, it still took me a long time to make due to the die cutting. Overall for both sets of swaps, I die cut 100 butterflies. My friend Aimee kindly lent me the small butterfly from the Bold Butterfly framelits dies so I could run two dies through my big shot at the same time. Honestly, this saved me SO much time. Thanks Aimee!!
To keep with the theme of my other swap each butterfly was literally covered in Wink of Stella Glitter in clear and the edge of the basic black cardstock was coated with Wink of Stella Glitter in gold. This took quote a while but I think it was worth it in the end. The effect, I hope, was to make the card feel opulent and special.
I absolutely adore the font used in this sentiment from the stamp set For The New Two. This set is retiring so make sure you order it soon before the stock runs out.
As promised, here are some pictures from Onstage Local. Unfortunatley I don't have any photos of the ladies I sat but I had a fab time with them and loved sharing all of the excitement of the day together with them - thanks ladies!
This was one of several large screens where we watched recorded content from the Onstage Live event in the states. I even watched a presentation by Brandy Cox. I was quite excited (even though she wasn't actually there) as her YouTube videos were what first got me interested in Stampin' Up!
I loved the effort Stampin' Up! went to this year to make the tables look pretty. There was a real wow factor when we walked in.
We all received a canvas bag and in it was a stamp set from the new catalogue, a fabric zipped pencil case and a pack of pens. We also had a coloured badge for Prize Patrol!
I couldn't believe that we also got this great notebook & 6 month planner. Its so nice I don't think I can even write in it.
You can also see my new swap bag in this picture. It wad handmade by Divas Intuition who I found on Etsy. It's perfect for swapping. The swaps I made fit in it perfectly but I needed another bag for the swaps I received.
Here is a table of 3D swaps on display. I was lucky enough to receive some of these. I haven't had a chance yet but I am planning on filming a YouTube video of all of the swaps I received.
Here is a make and take that we made. This is a card from the Oh Happy Day Card Kit. I should be receiving the kit next week as part of my pre order. Pre ordering is just one of the benefits from being a demonstrator and from attending the event.
Here is another make and take we made. I love this DSP!
And finally, here is a sneek peek of 3 new designer series paper packs. I love these patterns so expect to see these used in a lot of my projects this summer!
I hope you enjoyed seeing my swaps, photos from Onstage and the DSP sneek peek.
Come back on Wednesday to see my project that I've entered into a Washi Tape Challenge. The challenge was to find new ways in which to use Washi tape in a project, so come along and get inspired by all of the makes we've made.
Stampin' Up! held their UK event called Onstage Local in Telford at the weekend, over 380 demos attended and it was truly an amazing day! We got to see the new catalogue and get an idea of what products were retiring. To see the retirement list, scroll down to the end of this post.
If you are a new follower or a new crafter, let me tell you all about what swaps are. Swaps are hand crafted card fronts or 3D items that you make multiples of to swap with others. The objective for this event was to use current product and showcase these in a design that others can use as inspiration or as samples to show to customers or take to events. At the same time you get to meet and mingle with lots of demos. Its such fun but its not compulsory! You get exactly what you put in, so if you make 100 swaps, you will come home with 100 swaps.
On the Friday before Onstage I attended an event in a hotel that was arranged by my upline Michelle Last. It was a lovely afternoon crafting, playing games and catching up with old friends and making new ones. For this event I made 25 of these swaps, one for all 24 demos attending and 1 for me to keep.
Most of the products I have used in this project are now retiring and I will be very sad to see the Timeless Elegance DSP go.... BUT I knew that would happen as all DSP retires every year. I know I have used it in my of my projects lately, one reason was to use up what I had left but the other reason was simply because I love it so much.
I'm actually quite excited to use the new DSP coming out and come up with some new designs! I am sure you will like to see something new from me too!
I really hope everyone liked my swaps. When I got home after a long drive on Saturday evening, I spent an hour looking through the swaps I received. My husband was after the chocolate that was contained in some of them but I am leaving them where they are at the moment as I am thinking of doing my first Youtube video to show all the swaps I received over the two events. Would you like to see them? Scroll down and leave a comment if you would like to see the swaps I received.
In this photo I've tried to capture the glitter effect of the butterfly and sentiment but as usual its so hard to capture in a photograph. You can just about see the glitter on the butterfly in this photo. To achieve this look I have used the Wink of Stella glitter pen in clear on the Sahara Sand cardstock after I die cut the butterfly. For the sentiment I used my brayer to stain the wooden sentiment with Basic Black Archival Ink, allowed it to dry and then added glitter, again using the Wink of Stella glitter pen in clear. The whole effect is very sparkly. I also added glitter to the edges of the cardstock, for this I used the Wink of Stella Glitter pen in gold around the edge of the Basic Black cardstock
The retiring products from the 2015-16 Annual Catalogue and Spring Summer Catalogue are now live and showing in my online shop!
Every year products are retired in order to make way for brand new shiny products. I will be selling my retired products in June so if you are interested in seeing what I've got, please leave a comment or subscribe to my blog.
Now, if I could give you once piece of advice, it would be to have a look through the retiring items straight away and place an order for anything that you have had on your wishlist. Its important you do this as soon as you can as they can sell out very quickly and they are not manufacturing anymore of these items.
Last year I was going to order some transfer (adhesive) sheets and I waited a day and they were gone. Needless to say I have used the sheets I had left over very sparingly and when I run out I will be very sad as they are fab to use with intricate die cuts.
To go to my online shop and view the products click here, or click on one of the buttons below.
If you have any questions about the retiring list or how I made these swaps, leave me a comment or contact me directly using the social media icons.
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