Day #2 – Stampin’ Up! Convention

July 14, 2011 at 4:39 pm (Convention 2011, Reflections / Commentary)

At convention we start every morning with a party.  Our theme for this year is GROW.

Day 2 AM Party

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Day #1 Convention 2011

July 14, 2011 at 7:52 am (Card Projects, Reflections / Commentary)

Day #1 has come to a close. I am so excited for my tech clubs to get started again because I learned some great new ideas today. At convention I do lots of trades with other demonstrators.  It’s a great way to share our creativity and learn from each other. 

Favorite Trade - Day #1

This card is my favorite trade of the day. You really have to see it in person to really appreciate it. The snow both on the snow man and the snow ball have been pushed up from the back with the stylus to give it a 3-D effect.

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Arrival at Stampin’ Up! Convention 2011 – Salt Lake City, UT

July 13, 2011 at 12:09 pm (Announcements, Reflections / Commentary)

Convention 2011 Goodies!

It’s that time of year for the annual Stampin’ Up Demonstrator convention!  Like last year, I’ll be sending updates daily on a few of the cool things I’ve been learning.

This morning after an early flight (7 am), I made it to Salt Lake City.  Here is a sneak peak at all of the convention goodies. The sets are Best Friends Forever, It’s Your Day, Easy Events and Raining Flowers. I love the convention bag this year. Pretty design, lots of pockets, perfect for a laptop or lots of catalogs. They gave us a cool binder for our catalog this year! Excited to be here even though I have only had 2 hours of sleep.

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Double Embossing Featured Sample Card

June 13, 2011 at 9:08 pm (Card Projects, Reflections / Commentary)

Double Embossed Sample Card

I had such a fun time with the group who attended my Double Embossing Class.  I just recently learned this technique and I couldn’t wait to share it.  The double embossing comes in because not only are we using the embossing folders for the big shot, but we are inking them with craft/versamark and then adding the embossing powder to add a texture that also allows the colored cardstock to really pop! 

This is one of my favorites and these are the supplies we used:

Always Elegant Stamp Set
Vintage Wallpaper Embossing Folder
Basic Black and Whisper White Cardstock
Basic Black and Versamark Ink
Gold Embossing Powder
Modern Label Extra Large Punch
1 3/8” x 5/8” Oval Punch (retiring at the end of June)
Basic Black 3/8” Taffeta Ribbon

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Simply Amazing Deal!

November 18, 2010 at 7:58 am (Announcements, Reflections / Commentary, Specials)

Demonstrator Starter Kit for 50 percent off!

What do you call it when you get over $310 in crafting and business supplies for only $87.50? You can call it an amazing deal, but we’re calling it an amazing opportunity! From November 15-30, you can purchase either our Standard or Digital+ Starter Kits at 50 percent off the regular retail price of $175 (plus free shipping!), and enjoy these great benefits as a Stampin’ Up! demonstrator.
This irresistible offer is only available until November 30, 2010, so email me at stampin@anderson-isaacson.com before it’s too late!

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Busy Rubber Stamp and Scrapbook Expo Weekend!

May 16, 2010 at 8:52 pm (Announcements, Events, Reflections / Commentary)
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Thanks to everyone that came out to visit our booth at the Rubber Stamp and Scrapbook Expo at the State Fair this weekend!  Some of you are old friends and others we just met.  I hope you enjoyed the weekend and had a chance to try some of our wonderful make and take cards.  I’ll be posting some pictures of the various cards in the coming days.  Feel free to email me (stampin@anderson-isaacson.com) if you have any questions or would like further information about Stampin Up! products.

Mark your calendars now – the next Rubber Stamp Expo is this fall (October 9th and 10th).

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A Grand Old Page!

April 21, 2010 at 9:35 pm (My Digital Studio, Reflections / Commentary, Scrapbooking Projects)
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Grand Old Page!

It has become a tradition to attend the Grand Ol’ Days with my family and this is the 2nd year in a row that the girls have participated in the kiddie parade.  We found it funny that not only did Emma really want to be a clown this last year, but we happened to run into these professional clowns walking on the street – it was a definite Kodak moment!

Supplies:

My Digital Studio

Stampin’ Up! Timeless Type Alphabet Junior Medium Sizzlet Dies

Real Red and Basic Black Card Stock

Pumpkin Pie Patterns Designer Series Paper

Pink Flamingo Designer Series Paper

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Scrappin’ about Waterpark Memories!

April 20, 2010 at 9:34 pm (Reflections / Commentary, Scrapbooking Projects)
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Waterpark Page

I absolutely love waterparks and just like any kid, I would stare at the slides shooting out of the Waterpark of America Hotel every time we would drive by.  But as a local resident, you don’t just check in to hotels on a regular basis, soooooo…..when we had to leave our house for a few days during the construction, I thought what better time to take in the local tourist attraction!  I knew the girls would ove it too and boy did they deserve it after all of the disruption the construction caused in their lives.  Although bearable, I can only imagine what it felt like for a 5 year old to be stuck in just a few over-crowded rooms in our house.

Supplies:

My Digital Studio

Real Red, Old Olive Tempting Turquoise Cardstock

Real Red and Whisper White Craft Ink

Scallop Punch

Clear Circle Bigz Clear Dies

Scallop Circle Bigz Dies

Sizzix Big Shot

½” Striped Pumpkin Pie Grosgrain Ribbon

Pumpkin Pie Courderoy Brad

Real Red Epoxy Brads (Occasions Mini Catalot)

Blooms Die Cuts

Pumpkin Pie Patterns Designer Series Paper

Sunny Day Simply Scrappin Kit

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An EPIC Sale-A-Bration, is coming to a close!

March 25, 2010 at 9:38 pm (Announcements, Reflections / Commentary, Specials)
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Epic you ask? Yes, the beauty of working on a college campus is that I stay in tune with my younger side. It literally drives my brother nuts that I use words like “awesome” or “like” and then “cool”. Well, I think those particular words once used by college students is a thing of the past and we have moved on to Epic. One of my professional staff members and I were talking about how we all of a sudden see and hear this word a lot and we wondered what it was all about soooooo, I asked my student staff in an email…….all 40+ of them………..what the heck was EPIC? I quickly started to get responses and you could imply from the emails that they were thinking “you guys are soooo old”! Apparently when something is epic it meals that it is exceptional beyond belief, something so amazing that words fail to capture the awesomeness. So in Stampin’ Up! terms, this Sale-A-Bration was so epic, I loved the free stamps that were offered this year. Or….I love Sale-A-Bration because I get to see so many of my epic customers. Finally….being a hostess during Sale-A-Bration is so Epic, I earned so many free stamps. But then one of my students informed me that you can also have an epic fail and that is bad. The only epic fail I could think of to sum up Sale-A-Bration this year is…..I didn’t earn all 76 free stamp sets that Stampin’ Up! was offering this year, total epic fail (wait did I just mix generations…do total and epic belong in the same sentence?). Can you imagine earning all 76 free stamp sets….now that would be Epic.

Anyway, thanks to my staff they inspired my blog for the day. Tomorrow, I’ll post the cards we did tonight at the Last Chance Sale-A-Bration open house.  Let me know if they qualify as epic!

Oh….and you really do have until March 31 to get your Sale-A-Bration orders in. Go to my website at http://stampinwithheidi.stampinup.net to view the Sale-A-Bration catalog (the free stuff) the 2009-10 Idea Book and Catalog and the Spring Mini Catalog. I have also recently updated my events page with lots of “Epic” events.

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What to do with extra pictures?

January 21, 2010 at 9:47 pm (Reflections / Commentary, Scrapbooking Projects)
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So when you are done scrapbooking a particular event, you inevitable have some pictures printed that you are just not going to use. What do you do with them? I can tell you after going through boxes and boxes of pictures that belonged to my grandmother and my mom that I AM NOT keeping them. One of the most unuseful things you can have is album or a box full of pictures with no story attached to them. How many times have you opened an album and looked at pictures and you have no idea who it is or what they are doing? Yeah, I am not doing that to my kids, grandkids, etc.! I actually give the extra’s to my girls and they create their very own scrapbooks using my retired DSP, die-cuts and scrap paper. I think it will be fun for them to look back at their own albums to see their thoughts, the words they put to their memories, but most importantly the progress they make in their artistic ability as they get older. They started these books at age 5 so it is never too early to get them started. Here are a few pictures of their pages…..

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