Hi Everyone. Happy Thursday night. Greetings from convention.
Firstly, thank you to all of you who have continued to send me healing thoughts and prayers for my leg. It's looking worse than my original photos, but I continue to manage to get around. The talented Cindy Beach and Soozie4him suggested – strongly suggested that I go check it out, and I think they might just be right. 🙂 More about these two amazing ladies further in the post
A shout out tonight to Beverly…. WAY TO GO, GIRL! You are an amazing person, and an amazing demo. I cannot tell you how proud I am of you. I am so pleased to know you. Warm welcome to Crystal, too!
I have some convention news for you, then another swap cards – and some more shout outs!
- New Product Announcement: I arrived this morning late. As I was getting close to the convention room I heard the room erupt. I thought this had to be prize patrol! No… it was Shelli. She was making an announcement about a brand new product! SU has taken a staple that most of us use in our daily stamping, and upped the ante. A NEW SCORING TOOL, called Simply Scoring – will be available to demos on August 1 – and for customer's on the first day of the new Holiday Mini. (You are going to love the new mini… lots of wonderful new goodies…. new dies, new felt embellishments, new stamps (obviously :-)), a new type of glitter… all sorts of wonderful new goodies. Not least of which is the new scoring tool. Scores are at every 1/8th of an inch. An added bonus… scoring peg markers! Way cool!
- For those of you who have never been to convention, Stampin' Up! certainly knows how to throw a party. The stage set is gorgeous. The colors and the backgrounds change. I can't wait to share a couple of pics.
now take a look
Isn't that super, duper cool! It really is gorgeous.
- Today, the Prize Patrol was out and about. Some lucky convention goes received a brand new scoring board! Yep, there very own scoring board. Second prize patrol – the winners won Simply Scrapping Kits.
- SU didn't miss a beat though… as part of their +ONE campaign this year, they gave the rest of us two fabulous freebies. Each demo got a set of 8 Holiday Mini catalogs. (YOU are going to love the new catty….. some fabulous new goodies… new dies with a Christmas theme, new embossing folder, a fabulous new glitter (can't wait!), the Simply Scoring tool, and lots of wonderful embellishments for your holiday cards. Seriously – there is something for everyone.
- Then… Sara, Shelli's daughter, did a wonderful presentation and shared with us very affordable crafting ideas. She showed us how to get 40 easy to make cards from one scrapping kit. She also made fabulous cards from a Simply sent kit. Sara then invited hery daughter, Shelby onto stage. Both of them announced that each demonstrator would be receiving their very own Simply Sent kit!!!! I love getting free stuff 🙂 Shelli had a very proud mama moment having her daughter and her grand-daughter on stage. She was proud – and justifiably so. Here are a couple of shots from the projects that Sara made.
- I'm sorry this pic isnt so good, but Sara showed the projects and moved them so quickly that it was really hard to keep up. But, this is the Simply Sent kit that we received, too!
Then, here's a fabulous photo album that Sara made. This was her over the top project – and it was really cool. Once again… tough to get a good pic!
Here's a pic of the 40 cards that Sara made from the one scrapping kit… again… sorry about the photo!!!
- I took a picture of the fabulous Christmas Project that you and your new recruit can earn details of that are here. The project is absolutely gorgeous in real life.
Well, that's enough photos for tonight. I hope you enjoyed them. I will post an update on convention tomorrow, including make and take projects and others that I can photo.
A shout out tonight to Soozie4Him. Soozie is famous across on splitcoaststampers. She has always been so warm, caring and very interactive on SCS. Soozie has also been very, very supportive of my OWH card drives. Soozie sent me an email when she saw the pics of my leg… she really wanted to make sure that I was OK, that I was taken care of, make sure that I didn't need anything and we arranged to meet. Now, Brenda will tell you… I am very good at asking for help for others (like our troops), but am terrible about asking for help for myself. So, it was wonderful that Soozie reached out to make sure that I was OK and even made sure that I met up with her and the fabulous Cindy Beach today. So… Soozie… THANK YOU… your kindness really meant a great deal to me. You and Cindy are wonderful people, and I am so honored to have met you today.
Prayers to all of you who need a little lift today – including Missy and Rach. As always, thank you for visiting my blog and for your comments and the thoughts and prayers!
Hugs
Jaydee
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You have definitely given the best report of Convention that I’ve read yet. Thanks for all the news and pics. I love that Friends album.
It’s normal for your leg to be looking worse rather than better right now, and I suspect you’ve got some even more horrible shades of green and yellow to come, but I’m really glad to hear you say that you think you’ll get it checked out. Thanks to your friends for their persuasion. You absolutely deserve the TLC you got today.
Ooh I am so sorry about your leg -very descriptive use of colours, though! I hope it’s not hurting your enjoyment of convention…soooooooo envious of all who are there. Another batch of beautiful cards – I don’t know how you do it! Take care, and take care of your leg.
Aw *thank you* (blushing) : ) You are just so darn sweet and I guess that is why I can call you Sweetcake!
First, thanks for all the news from convention and sharing with us. Second, lady you don’t have to be sorry about photos, jeeze enjoy your time and don’t worry about trying to get perfect photos for us. Third, OUCH I know your leg has to be hurting and yes Linda, it is probably some shades of Daffodil Delight and Old Olive or is it Lucky Limeade? : ) Aw, that was not funny, was it? Take care and have a great time Jaydee.
Elevate that leg whenever you can, okay? I KNOW there has got to be a ton of walking at convention. I’m glad you have folks taking care of you while you’re there.
Thank you for the photos and the descriptions! I look forward to seeing what else you have to share.
Hugs to you and all.
OH, and Hi Lou! :o)
So glad you’re having such a fun time at convention! Take care of that leg….even if it means seeing a doctor!
Lynn
Oh, I sure hope you are resting your knee. When you get home–get it checked!! Oh, how about making a card using the colors you said are part of the bruising–should be quite colorful! I loved the discription of colors!!