Monday, July 21, 2014

Stampin' Up! Convention 2014: Thursday Wrap Up

Hello All,

Thursday was our first full day at Convention.  We entered the big conference room with all of SU staff greeting and cheering for us.  They kicked off the event with an all attendee prize patrol....that was great!  It's nice to get a free prize right from the start.  I got the stamp. Shelli Gardner continued the opening session and ended with a chat with Becky Higgins, creator of Project Life and new partner of Stampin' Up! (with the Project Life by Stampin' Up! line).

Here are a few tips I learned about taking pictures with your cell phone:
  • Check lighting.  Sometimes moving just a little makes a difference.
  • Get closer.
  • Don't use the zoom. 
  • Keep still
These tips sound simple, but I think I now understand that my pictures were always fuzzy because I would zoom often.

The rest of the day was filled with some workshops, which I love because we get great ideas from them.  We also had some make and takes, however, I took the wrong packet so I just had to improvise with another project! In the evening I took a bonus class using a kit from the upcoming Holiday Catalog. It was making projects with watercoloring.  I had never watercolored so it was something new (pictures to come on this).

 

 
These boards have the contents of the Card Collections and to the side the Accessory Packs.
 








 
The boards below are sample pages that people created with the PLxSU products.









 
 
If I haven't mentioned it yet (okay I have!), I love Project Life by Stampin' Up!  It is really easy to use and yet still creates amazingly pretty pages.  It is the busy mom, or busy person's solution to memory keeping.  Let me know if you have any questions.
 
 
Stay tuned tomorrow for a big slideshow of the convention idea boards!
 
Mayra

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