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Convention’s opening night General Session began with a theme song which I  mentioned on an earlier post but I was not sure of the name of the person performing. It was Ryan Innes from The Voice for those of you who watch that show. It is one of my favorites.

While a big part of Stampin’ Up is devoted to cards and we tend to make more cards than anything else in class there is a a lot of fantastic paper crafting being done and I thought I would share some of the clever things I particularly liked which were made by other demonstrators and on display.

And this final photo of the 5,800 demonstrators who enjoyed Stampin’ Up! Convention 2013. Can you spot me?

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I spent today doing laundry and just trying to recoup from several days of limited sleep, lots of walking, and time change differences. So I thought I would share a few more photos from convention and Salt Lake City.

These are the gift bags I made for my downline and upline who attended convention. They were filled with the things you might need when away from home. Snacks, candy, chap stick, hand sanitizer, wet wipes, Tide to Go, and more.

An amazing vase in Nordstrom’s made entirely from bottle caps.

This dress was made entirely from looped ribbon in the window of a paper store called Papyrus.

This display board shows every size envelope that can be made with the Envelope Punch Board which will be coming out in September. It’s an amazing tool that makes envelope making so easy. I can’t show the photo of it yet but it’s just like the one made by We R Memory Keepers.

This wall of butterflies was above the entrance to the food court at the City Creek Mall. It was beautiful and with Stampin’ Up’s butterfly stamps, punches, and embosslets it could easily be recreated.

Just one of the many display boards of card samples we had to look at and photograph. Thousands of cards!

Stop by tomorrow for a few more photos.

The third and final day of convention was Saturday and jam-packed with activity.  We had more general sessions and break-away classes, plenty more give-aways and even some final swapping. In the past not everyone would win a prize from the Prize Patrol but this year they arranged it so that by the end of convention everyone had received something free. I won a great Christmas word stamp set and a tag kit however I am not allowed to show it yet. Have to wait until the holiday catalog comes out August 1st. Let me just say that I am very excited over a number of stamp sets and kits and accessories, especially after seeing samples made using them these past few days. There were 25 people who by the end of the day yesterday had not won anything and they received every stamp set in the holiday catalog.  I think I am coming home with about 7 new stamp sets, about 150 swaps, and so many new ideas.

Brenda, Doris, and Carol with their Prize Patrol goodies

Kaye with her winning stamp set

This is a photo of the group of us that are all part of the 321 Stamp Group – while some are my downline, we all are Catherine’s downline.

The convention was over about 6PM Saturday and we were fortunate to have gotten complimentary tickets to a concert of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir (360 members) and Orchestra with two amazing artist featured. Lindsey Stirling is a violinist who does contemporary dance while she plays. I couldn’t help but think of people who can’t walk and chew gum at the same time as she is playing and dancing at the same time. She has the 8th most viewed video on You Tube which I watched last night. Over 66 million views.  You can see it here. The other featured artist was Nathan Pacheco. What an amazing voice. These are both young people. Truly talented. And of course everyone knows about the phenomenal Mormon Tabernacle Choir. The auditorium holds 20,000 people – huge! And it was packed.

After returning to the hotel after the concert I had to pack and so I am now writing this post on Sunday afternoon in the Denver airport where I have a two and a half hour layover. We did have one of the best and funniest flight attendants on our flight from SLC to Denver. Very entertaining.

It’s another late night as I didn’t get home until 11:00 so I’m finishing this up and calling it a night.  Glad to be home in my own bed.

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Before I get to day two of convention let me do a wrap-up of day one.

Stampin’ Up! was trying to set the Guinness World record for the most cards mailed from one location and we did it with 2,984 cards. We were told about this several weeks ago so that we could bring a card ready to mail. The card had to have a written message inside, verified, and ready to mail. The cards had to be deposited within a three hour window.

You can see that the count was just over 2,000 when I dropped my card. I had a demonstrator take this photo with the mailman and then I took her picture. Shortly after I realized I had lost my new iPad. I went into panic mode but it had been turned into Lost and Found. So thankful for the person who turned it in.

Today, day two, started out with another General Session where we had some great demonstrations and card ideas. We also were told about some great new products that will be coming out soon and I am very excited about them. There will be two new thinlet collections for the Big Shot to make cards with movable parts. There is a new product line coming called Underfined which includes all of the materials to carve your own stamp. It looks pretty easy and I’m anxious to try it. There are some more new things coming which I will tell you about later. Of course there was Prize Patrol several times today however I didn’t win … yet! Keeping my fingers crossed. I went to two presentations this afternoon, one on earning the incentive trip. I have to tell you that I am motivated into trying to earn one of the two trips for next year especially after they announced the destinations tonight. The Grand Vacation will be to Hawaii and the  Getaway will be to Washington DC. I would love to go to either of them and how nice would it be to go all expenses paid by Stampin’ Up!

Tonight was Awards Night followed by a party with all kinds of entertainment, fun, and of course food. Desserts of all kinds. Cake, cupcakes, parfaits, cookies, etc. There were a few tables that actually had a girl in the center and her skirt was made to be the table full of desserts.

There were games where demonstrators could win tickets which would be put into drawings for catalog shopping sprees. We played Bingo but didn’t win anything. There were two aerialists who seemed to perform for hours, hanging upside down a great deal of the time.

And there was music and dancing with a group called the Spasmatics.

Catherine and I with Sara Douglass, Shelli’s daughter.

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