My daughter Katie helped cut and prep supplies for our Stampin’ Sisters Retreat, but she doesn’t know what our final projects are. We cut one set of everything and she gets those cut pieces to use as her samples to cut the other 92 sets. Then she attends our retreat just like everyone else. It’s fun to watch her face as she sees each project. She said she hated Project 3 and never wanted to see it again — hahaha. Then when she did Project 3 it was one of her favorites — you’ll have to come back later to see that project, but it was a fun one. At every stamping event we go to, Katie has to take a selfie of her and I. Here is our selfie from this event.
It really was a family affair, my husband Tony came Saturday morning and sharpened scissors for those that needed it. Here he is hard at work.
Ok, back to retreat. Saturday morning we had a gift at each person’s spot. We had a travel mug engraved with our Stampin’ Sisters logo. It is a fabulous mug — kept ice all day long.
We host a card swap/contest for anyone who wants to participate — 70 people participated. We collect one card from each participant and put on a display board and everyone votes on their favorite. We had three winners.
Cyndi Hogan took 3rd Place, Cheri Carol took 1st Place and Wendy Tikk took 2nd Place
We had a prize for each of them.
Do you want to see the winning cards?
Here is Cheri’s 1st place winner – beautiful.
Here is Wendy’s 2nd Place winner — so much detail — gorgeous.
Cyndi’s 3rd Place winner — full of technique — stunning
We had a wonderful Italian lunch buffet — they even made gluten free pasta for a few of us.
I love the special attention to detail that the hotel does for us. Isn’t is pretty!!!
We had a special guest in the afternoon — Shannon West from Stampin’ Up!
Shannon does many of Stampin’ Up!’s You Tube videos.
It was a great surprise for the participant — many have seen her in the videos so they were excited to talk to her and tell her all about what they love about our retreat.
I think that’s it for today. Come back tomorrow to see more fun.
