More Leaders and a card!

I want to recognize some of my leaders that were at Leadership. I love that Stampin' Up lets us parade across the stage when we accomplish a promotion, or earn a trip, or achieve some other milestone in our career. At Leadership 2012, these girls got to "strut their stuff" across the stage.

Julia Gass & Shelia deCordova got to walk (and talk) together for earning a promotion to Senior Supervisor. Congrats ladies!

 

Senior Supervisor is the first title that qualifies you to go to Leadership. Here is Shelia and Julia showing off their title badges. I think if you asked them they would say Leadership is totally worth the effort to promote to go. Cuties!!

The girl in the middle in the blue sweater is Monica Wood. Monica promoted to Manager and was part of that march. Yay Monica - Way to go!!!

This is Kim Wilson, who also promoted to Manager!!! Woohoo, Kim!!!

Here are Sherri Peters and Meg Daves. These two leaders got to take part in the Executive march. At this level you must have 14 demonstrators in your first level and rolling sales of $14,400. Sherri and Meg are well on their way to joining me at the Senior Executive level. Congratulations girls!!!

This is my SU mama, Janet Baker (demo #2) getting a hug from Shelli. Janet was honored for achieving the highest level in the company - Senior Advisor! Janet also got to go on an all-expense paid trip to the West Indies. Wow!! I love this company!

I also want to congratulate Tamzin Cochrane, Wendi Sands, Jeri Mazur, and Celia Cawthon for marching at Leadership. Since my photography skills are not stellar I did not get a picture of these girls. If you have a picture of them send it to me, won't you.

Leadership was AMAZING! and then I had a cold.

I had simply an amazing time at Leadership in San Antonio!! Learned so much and am so excited about the future of paper crafting and Stampin' Up!
Somewhere between Dallas and Edmond I found a cold bug and he has made me hurt all over. Bad bug!! Thankfully, today is better and I am getting some of my favorites from Leadership posted. Thank you for your patience.

Me and Stampin' Up President & COO, Rich Jutkins

Imagine! Sitting in a room with the President & COO and the Vice President, over Demonstrator and Employee Development, and 50 or 60 top level demonstrators and instructed to explore, question, imagine and dream about what is needed to help enable us to be the very best we can be. It was such a productive day and I can't wait to see what changes take place because of it. Thank you, Stampin' Up for listening. This, I'm convinced is what sets this company apart and why I am so proud and thankful to be associated with Stampin' Up!

More beautiful cards samples to share.

I mentioned earlier about the INK Demos Virtual Meeting we had this weekend. It was such a fun thing to do, especially seeing everyone's beautiful samples. So here are some for your to enjoy!

Margaret Raburn

Anne Copeland

Celia Cawthon

Connie Stewart

Julia Gass

Mikel Adkins

Bev Kissler

Deborah Elvers

Shelia deCordova

Angi Lay

Gayle Enouen

These are all done by my wonderful stamping friends in INK the Beginning. I know you will agree with me, these are some very talented girls! I love them!!

Hello 2012!!!

Happy New Year!
I had the best time this morning. "What did I do", you ask? Well, let me tell you about it. I got to spend the morning with an amazing group of creative women - and we were all in our PJs!
Instead of have our regular monthly meeting of my Stampin' Up! family, we had a Virtual Meeting. I called it "INK 'n PJs". We had lots of sharing and chatting and even several challenges. I asked everyone to tell me one thing they would like to accomplish in their Stampin' Up! business by the end or our year, which ends June 30, and one action step they will take to get there. Wow! What great goals, and I believe everyone is willing to work hard to achieve them. Together we will encourage each other and hold each other accountable to do our best. Just doesn't get any better than that!

One of my goals is to NOT NEGLECT MY BLOG. So, I am really going to try to post at least once a week (or more often, when I can) and show more stamped art. Let me know what you think. I love to hear from you!!

I mentioned  the challenges we had today, well here is one of them.

 My dear friend, Margaret found this sketch for us to use as inspiration for our own work. There were some really great cards created.

This is the card I created from the sketch. I changed the shape from rectangle to square and used the Scallop Square Clear die in my Big Shot to create the card base in Marina Mist. (I love my Big Shot!!) I just got my new Pennant Builder Wheel and decided that would make a cute piece in place of the solid strip across the middle. I wheeled 3 times, each in a different color- Marina Mist, Wild Wasabi & Melon Mambo. Then cut it out and layered the different color pennants. I used the Perfect Polka Dots Embossing Folder (I love my Big Shot!!) on the white square to give it fun texture and layered that on a piece of Wild Wasabi. Then I stamped the birthday cake and sentiment from Bring On the Cake stamp set and layered those on top. I think it turned out pretty cute, don't you? If you would like to try this sketch I'd love to see what you come up with. Shoot me a picture and I'll feature it on my blog and "reward" you. 

Well, I don't want to over do it, so that's all for now. Please leave me a comment if you like my card. I love to hear from you!!

Thanks for visiting My Stamping Table.
jann

i. love. pumpkin. BLING!

I just love this black pumpkin with BLING! My "BOO"tiful Halloween class will love making this, I hope!! I think this pumpkin will look sooo pretty next to the white pumpkin with black jewels we made in class last year.
We are also making a Graveyard "Welcome" sign and a cute laminar! (picture below) To finish our class I am giving the stampers a couple of ideas for using the new 1"x 8" Cello Bags. Thanks for checking me out. Please leave a comment! It's pretty scary always talking to myself. <giggle>

(Note: Trying to catch up so check back often!)

Pennants For All Occasions!!

Finding new ways to use one of my favorite toys is always fun!! My challenge was to come up with a variety of sample using the NEW Petite Pennant Punch and Pennant Parade Stamp Set by Stampin' Up! I LOVE these two items and pennants are all the rage right now so, Way to Go Stampin' Up!!

 This is a cute little wedding gift enclosure card. Aren't the little bride and groom adorable?! Yep! They are made with the Pennant Punch.

 How about an Ice Cream Come Birthday card. The pennant stamps and punch make a really cute and easy ice cream cone. Cute little tiny pennants on the inside too! Wouldn't they be cute on a baby card?! I'll have to get right on that. lol

My Open House Project

Special project just for my stamp club members.

I just love my stamping friends and many of you came to My Stamping Table Open house this past Saturday.

I am kicking myself for totally falling down of the picture taking job. Ugh! I don't have pictures of my beautiful friends. Why is it always so hard for me to remember to snap some photos while the activities are going on? :(  Anyway, I had a lovely turnout and was so honored that so many of you came! Thank You!!

 I think everyone really enjoyed making the special card I prepared for them using the new Pennant Parade stamp set, Petite Pennant Builder punch and the totally fun and whimsical Big Top Birthday Designer Series paper! I also had a very special project for my stamp club girls!! A beautiful Designer Paper bookmark.

I served my special recipe Mimosas and refreshing Orange water and of course a variety of chocolate. I threw in some Hot Tamales and gummy bears cause they were cute! haha