I'm in Salt Lake City for Stampin' Up!'s On Stage Live Event (similar to Convention). It has been an amazing couple of days. This has been the best Stampin' Up! Event in a long, long time. The energy level is VERY HIGH. We started Thursday afternoon with a live band — they did a great job. Our CEO, Sara Douglass (Shelli's daughter) welcomed everyone and did a wonderful job welcoming us all. She then introduced her mom, the Co-Founder of Stampin' Up! Shelli has been gone for the past year on a mission trip for her church, so everyone was thrilled to have her back.
Then we moved on to some wonderful stamping demonstrations. I qualified to attend a special dinner and dueling piano performance that night.
Yesterday was another fun filled day of demonstration and training. But the best part of the whole day was when I was presented with the Heart of Stampin' Up! Award. Sara & Shelli choose one demonstrator from all the nominees to receive this award that embodies what Stampin' Up! is all about.
It was unreal when Shelli read a portion of one of my nomination letters and she called out my name. I really didn't think I heard it right. I don't like pictures of myself, and I was doing the "ugly" cry, but here I am on stage with Shelli Gardner.
Here is another wonderful birthday card that I received.
My friend, Cheri, gave me this fun card.
I did purchase the Balloon Builders stamp set
but have not used it yet — it's time to get it out.
Cheri used neutral colors for the card — Tip Top Taupe (I think she
knows how much I like this color), Early Espresso and Whisper White.
She stamped some of the heart shaped balloons with Tip Top Taupe ink.
She added the regular shaped balloons and then added what I
call the "jelly beans" for doggy ears. She also added darker
circle stamps for the doggy muzzle and nose.
She finished the card off with some cute little Melon Mambo
hearts from the Beautiful Ride stamp set.
Thank you Cheri — you have inspired me to play with my stamp set.
