Halloween Ideas from Convention

One of my favorite parts of Convention was the dozens of demonstrations of holiday projects. It is now August and I have already spent a few weeks thinking of Halloween and Christmas projects! I can't help it, I love holiday projects;) LOL For the past two years my husband has gone all out on Halloween. He decorates, creates a haunted house...he basically goes crazy! So when they featured an entire hour on Halloween home decor projects I was in HEAVEN. The pumkin project was my favorite. The words are Definately Decorative elements that you simply rub on the pumkins. Easy! The jewels are pre-swirled on a sheet and you just cut them and put them on the pumkin with a transfer sheet. Super easy too.

With the same sheet of Definately Decorative Halloween elements Brent (the SU presenter) made luminaries, like the one above. Imagine those on your door steps!

This Haunted House is my second favorite project. It is a pre-cut build a house item that will be in the Holiday Mini in September. When you look in the mini catalog it is decorated for Christmas as a Gingerbread House. Brent spray painted it black, sprinkled some SU Dazzling Diamonds and added some bats he made with the new bat punch. How COOL is that! He didn't stop there, he then added vellum to the window and added a flicker candle inside.

This was a skeleton garland he made and dazzled it up with chunky glitter.

And of course, there has to be favors filled with candy at any Halloween event. Here are some cute ones. Don't you love the adorable witch hats!

All of these products are available in the Holiday Mini coming out on September 1st. Do you want me to mail you a Holiday Mini? Email me (mayramt@hotmail.com) your name and home address and I will send you one in September.

I can also teach you how to make these projects when you host a workshop.

Enjoy!

So Many Thanks

One of the best parts of Convention was seeing all of the gorgeous display boards full of thousands of samples created by Stampin' Up! Demonstrators. For each of the free stamps that they gave us they created sample boards with ideas on how to use it. Here are a few display boards using the single stamp, "So Many Thanks". I love seeing how creative people get using the same item.

Enjoy!

Stampin' Up! 2010 Convention Highlights, part 1

I am back from Convention and WOW, OMG was it fun! I had heard lots of people talk about Convention and say how amazing it was. I can honestly say that it was just what I expected and hoped for. The 3 days were filled with lots of fun, music, ideas, demonstrations, more ideas, dancing, and more! I have so much to share with you....but I will start with sharing Day 1;)

We started our journey from Elk Grove, CA to Salt Lake City UT on Wednesday. It took us 11 hours to get there! That is 11 hours with constant potty brakes, lots of DVDs for my 2 and 3 year olds and lots of snacks. This was what the road looked like for about 10 of those hours. Oh my goodness, it felt like we were on a treadmill...moving forward but not getting anywhere :) LOL. My husband and kids are the best to tolerate all that for me. Thanks a bunch!

When I checked in on Thursday I was greated with treats! We received a Convention bag in a fun summery pattern. Inside were lots of goodies including 3 stamp sets (2 from the new catalog and 1 from the Holiday Mini that will be out in September) and a matching wheel. These are my new favorites sets. They even had multiple display boards showing tons of samples with these sets.

Of course, no visit to Convention is complete without vising the Momento Mall. The Momento Mall is like a souvenir shop for SU. They have a ton of cute stuff...but it sells fast! By the time I was ready to buy some of the stuff I wanted was sold out. Oh well, it is okay. I got this cute craft bag that will be really handy. It has lots of room for ink pads, punches, and even my 12" paper cutter and supplies. Isn't it cute!

Naturally there had to be some stamping at Convention. In day 1 I attended a Make and Take workshop were we made the projects below with my new stamp sets. We used lots of cool techniques to make these including sponging, using markers, tearing, versamark ink. I will give you lots of details throughout the week to these. For my club girls, a couple of these will be your projects this week!

This was just day ONE. I have lots more to share with you. Come back this week for more pictures and product ideas!

Plus, I will be announcing new Class Kits by Mail and Product Shares tommorrow. Stay tuned.

Mayra