Stamp with Michele

Stampin' Up! Leadership 2012- Random pictures

 This will be the last of my Stampin Up Leadership pictures I will share with you.  Hope you enjoyed some of them also but it is time to move on.   

 

This was one of the best group pictures we had so just wanted to share.  I believe it was taken at a nice Italian restaurant we went to down on the River Walk. 

 

 

 

 

 

This is Scott Nielsen our Chief Financial Officer to give us the stats.  He did it very creatively using a book he made from My Digital Studio.  I know you can't really see the cover but it had the Yankees on it as that is who he used to play with.  Then check out the next couple photos for a surprise.

 

 

 

So Scott has a couple demonstrators that he is teaching the Salsa as he has started taking dance lessons. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So now I am not sure if she actually was a demonstrator or not but it was still exciting. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Then we had a large group of employees from Stampin Up that have been practicing for us & did a song & dance for us. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Carol & Pearl are a couple of friends I met through the STARZ group that has adopted me.  They shared lunch with us.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So the last night together we had a little fun with cameras that took automatic pictures.  I have not received all the pictures yet but here is the best I have.  Sorry about Becky being cut off. 

 

Good night!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stampin' Up! Leadership 2012- Make & Take Time

At Make & Takes we walked in to the room & saw the clean nicely arranged tables with gifts at each spot just for us.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A little box with some homemade chocolate in our little cellophane bags.  I heard an employee made the chocolate but am not sure about that.  Also was this portfolio that was a gift from Shelli & signed by her.  The tag was actually made on My Digital Studio & then she signed it. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Not so clean now but it reminds me of home. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is my roommate Monika Davis who was chosen to be a Make & Take Helper this year. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I accidently mislabeled this picture as this was taken at Regionals in San Antonio on Saturday at the Make & Take.  Oh well. 

 

Shelli Gardner was walking around & her husband Sterling said he would take the picture for me. 

Thanks for everything Shelli. You put on a wonderful party.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stampin' Up! Leadership 2012- Remember the Alamo

Sorry about 2 days in a row with no stamping pictures but I just had to share a little about my wonderful trip.  We couldn't take pictures inside the church but this was a nice picture of the front of it.  It was really weird to see tall building around this building although you would not have known by looking at this picture. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This was a wonderful picture of our group so I thought I would share. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Isn't this tree awesome?  It is right on the grounds of the Alamo also.  I can't remember how old they said it was. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I was really glad we decided not to do extra stamping events at night even though I love stamping.  It was just nice to see all the sights. 

Very blessed to be a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator, Michele Schmidt, Waterloo, IA

Stampin' Up! Leadership Conference 2012- Extreme Makeover: Home Edition

So the first day in San Antonio, TX we were advised by our river tour driver that one night during the week the lights along the River Walk would all be turned on just like it was Christmas and they would be filming a special show for Extreme Home Makeover.  Friday night was the night.  We went down on the River Walk to find something to eat but noticed lights on so proceeded to the outdoor amphitheater. 

 

 

 

We sat way up in the top left side.  We were part of the audience and had to yell & wave a flag.  We even had to do retakes as Ty Pennington was not always good about remembering his lines or to help the camera crews as they needed more footage. 

 Myself & a few of my roommates in the crowd.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here is Ty Pennington. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The next couple pictures are the parade with a band, dancers, some soldiers from the local area & even Santa Claus.  

Ty then introduced a lady by the name of Meredith Iler who is part of HelpingaHero.com. They raised 1.1 million dollars to build homes for 10 surprised and severely wounded soldiers soldiers.  They introduced each soldier & told about their injuries & gave them plans to what will be their house.  It was quite an emotional night. 

 

 

 

 

It ended with a surprise visit by Lee Greenwood who came out & sang his song "God Bless the USA". 

 

 

 

 

 

What an added bonus to our trip. 

 

We were advised this show will be airing in December 2012.  So if you are watching & don't see me make sure to listen for my voice as I left part of it there. 

 

 

 

                                                                                                                                                                                      

Stampin' Up! Leadership Conference 2012- Roommate Gifts I received.

This first gift was from Monika Davis from GA.  We have been rooming together for at least 5 years.  She made this awesome My Digital Studio Calendar which she made hybrid by adding a few items to each page.  I have added the first couple pages here for you to see. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 This cute little candy holder was made by Fran Kennedy from AL with Designer Series Paper & some Concord Crush ribbon.  She also gave me a cute tag with my name on it to use on my bag but I can't find it at the moment.  Sorry, Fran. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

How fun is this.  Becky Lambie currently from PA made these for use using some of our Designer Fabric and our ribbon.  If you look below you will see it is a jewlery bag that has little pockets inside to keep everything separate.  Love it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Linda Madison from GA brought this gift which is something I just love.  Can you see why?  Look below. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Can you believe I have not eaten this yet?  I have to show it to everyone first. 

 

 

Last but definately not least is a gift box from Diane Squires of GA.  I actually received a gift box with a different pattern of Designer Series Paper from the same pack.  Inside was a small cello bag of candy, a pair of socks with hearts on them, a pretty emery board and a small container of hand sanitizer.  Just beautiful 

 

Thanks to all my roommates for the gifts and the wonderful week spent with all of you.  You are the best!

 

 

 

 

 

Stampin Up Leadership 2012- Sneak Peek of Simply Scored Diagonal Plate

Ok not the best picture of me by far but it shows my excitement.  I won one of the first prizes the Prize Patrol gave out.  I can not show you the actual product but can show you what it will do.  It is called Simply Scored Diagonal Plate & it works with the Simply Scored that we already have.  Look below & see.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 An adorable little gift or candy box using only a 6x6" piece of Designer Series Paper. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It was sooooooo easy. 

 

Stampin' Up! Leadership Conference 2012- Roommate Gifts I gave out.

This is what I made for my roommates. It was a washer necklace using Cheerful Treat Designer Series Paper from the Hostess Section of the current Idea Book & Catalog.  I then used the Big Shot & the Matchbox Bigz XL Die to make a box to display the necklace.  If you look below you can see a close up of it.  I received many compliments.  Yeah!

 

  

 The cute little ribbon flower on the box used our Whisper White 5/8" Organza ribbon.  I taught this at our Technique Club except I took a marker along the edge of one side of the ribbon prior to cutting & melting it.  I have been wanting to try this for a long time.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I am keeping this in the vault for a possible kids class in the future. 

 

 

 

 

Stampin' Up! Leadership 2012- Swap Cards

Here is a picture of most of the swap cards I made with the help of a few customers.  There was actually 30 of 1 more card made that is not shown here.  This means I had approximately 150 card fronts I took with me.  If you look below you will see a picture of the swaps I received when I traded mine.  I bring these home and not only can I take ideas from these cards but my customers will use them to case when they come to Open Stamping. 

 

 

If you look closely at the orange card in the bottom row you can see I used a swap card for my Stamp a Stack this month. 

 

Hope you stop over to see this swaps soon.  Michele

 

 

 

 

 

Classes at Stampin' Up! Leadership Conference 2012

You might ask why I would go to our Leadership Conference.  There are so many reasons but here are a few:

 

• I have met so many new friends from all over the United States and Canada.  When we get together we share things we have tried and what worked and didn't work.  We also help each other with questions or are cheerleaders to each other even when we are not together.  You can never have enough friends. 
• I get to go visit places I have never been before.  Some of these places are Palm Springs, Memphis, Houston & San Antonio.
• It is a wonderful investment and we get to learn not only from Stampin' Up! employees but from top demonstrators.  This training can be brought back home to share with our downline.
• I learn how to use some of our new products so I can share with my customers.

 

So I am going to share some of the classes I took at Leadership this year.

Why Women Buy   Carrie Cudney

I thought this was interesting as they stated a woman is more likely to buy from a demonstrator if we establish a relationship of trust and demonstrate genuine and personal interest in her.  Stampin' Up! has always been about the relationships.  That is why they have demonstrators.  We are there to meet their customers and show them how to use the products.  They could just sell their product online for anyone to purchase but that is not what the company is about. 

 

Including A New Generation in Your Stamping Business    Amy Swartz

This class talked about the Baby Boomers, Generation X and Generation Y.  They gave us stats of how many demonstrators are in what generation and how we need to tap into Generation X and Y more to keep the company growing.  It also discussed going out of your comfort zone and the best way to connect with them. 

 

Title Benefits    Bonnie Thurber

I just love listening to Bonnie.  She is so funny but gets her points across while doing it.   She went over our current benefits for being a Sr. Supervisor and then what we would get for promoting to Manager.  She also went over stats of how many people are meeting all the requirements but maybe 1. 

 

Retaining & Engaging Your Downline  Donna Griffith and Demonstrator Patsy Waggoner

I loved this class as not only did Patsy go over what she does at her downline meetings giving us more ideas but I also found out I could go to SurveyMonkey.com and do a free survey to my customers or downline if there are 10 questions or less. 

 

As I stated this is only part of why I love going to any of the Stampin' Up! events.  Some day I hope to have downline join me at Convention or Leadership so they can experience this themselves. 

Thanks for reading, Michele

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stampin Up Leadership 2012- Make & Takes, Gifts & Prizes from Stampin' Up!

Every year Stampin' Up! just amazes me.  It started with the beautiful bag we received using some of the new fabric that will be coming out later.  This bag can be turned inside out or the buttoned bottom can be taken off & reversed so only the red fabric would be on the bottom.   When we went to Make & Takes there setting at each spot was the portfolio using the same fabric as our bags.  On it was a My Digital Studio Tag that Shelli Gardner, CEO & Co-founder of Stampin' Up! had signed.  You can put a Jr Legal pad & more in it as it has 3 pockets inside.  The theme of Leadership this year was "My Way".  They gave us so many projects so we could pick what we wanted to work on but still could bring the rest home to make later.  Also in front of us was the really cute box in front of my purse.  It has 3 kinds of chocolate in it so we could have that "My Way" also.  Can you believe the chocolate is still in there?

There were at least 4 stamp sets given (one is top secret as not out yet), Designer Series Paper, buttons, ribbon, Rhinestones, Pearls, markers, Tea Stain ink from our Distressing pack, bakers twine pack, art journal, My Digital Studio CD, extra Mini Catalogs & Saleabration brochures. 

You notice I didn't mention the brown box laying there where the label is covered up.  That is a prize I won.  More on that later.