Cindy's Creations: Trip to Peoria and Back

Thursday, August 16, 2012

Trip to Peoria and Back

I've been working for several months on things for my stamping weekend in Peoria. Once we're back from one of our weekends, we start looking for ideas for the next year. Then we have to wait until the new Stampin' Up! catalog comes out in early summer so that we'll use all current products for the cards, scrapbooks and other things we make.

We make five cards for everyone going - there are eight of us. So that's 40 cards to make before leaving. Then we also take 3 non-card projects which can be anything from a stamped tile, mini scrapbook, stamped tea towel, candle, etc. So many possibilities. So that's 24 of those to make and take. We also print out lots of the other ideas we've found on the Internet on blogs, our Stampin' Up! demonstrators' site - Stampin' Connection, Splitcoaststampers, etc.

Then all weekend we stamp, making lots more samples to show our customers. We came home with 84 new cards this time plus more 3-D items!

These are the things I took: a purse that can hold a gift card or candy or something else, a votive candle holder with butterflies on it, the purple Tea for Two holds two tea bags in pockets inside, an explosion box that when you open it up the sides drop down and you add pictures on each section and this one holds a little tea light birthday cake and then the five cards for each.

Explosion Box - StampAcademy.com

Wouldn't this be fun to give to someone and when they open it up, it drops open and they see 12 different pictures inside along with that little birthday cake!