Well Convention is over and we are back to our routine here in Mid Western Ontario. It was a memorable event and one I will not forget quickly. I am busy here preparing projects for my Holiday Catalogue Open House which takes place next Wednesday August 7th and again on Monday August 12th. I will be posting pictures soon of projects I have made. The one thing I want to leave you with is the video that my daughter Jenna and I made for the Commercial Contest that we entered for the Convention. We won fourth place with our video that promotes Paper Pumpkin. Do you know what Paper Pumpkin is? It is a monthly subscription from Stampin Up that comes right to your door. Right now when you sign up you get the first two months at 1/2 price. So for $12.50 you can receive two months of Paper Pumpkin, which includes delivery (taxes are extra). The first kit also includes a clear block valued at $11.50 What are you waiting for? Sign up today! Simply go to www.paperpumkin.com and register. Where it indicates the name of the demonstrator enter my name, Carolyn Helder and where it indicates Promo code enter PUMPKINDEAL. Watch the video and plan your escape.

Look at the people, Stampin Up Convention 2013

Well I think you can get an idea from this crowd how many people were at the Stampin Up Convention. Every morning this crowd gathered to be able to get in the Main Stage seating. I was overwhelmed to be in this group. Of course we were always at the back of the line, I just prefer to be there when there are this many people. When we were sitting in the main stage area the first day we couldn't even see the presenters on stage there were THAT many people. They had big screens everywhere so we could all see what was going on.
Joanne and I participated in a Shoebox Class swap on Thursday afternoon hosted by Loni Spendlove  and went home with 15 different class ideas. I loved the card pictured here below created by Beth, whom we met at the swap and continued to hang out with during our stay. Everyone was so good to us while we were there. The Summer Stamp Club is making this new card using Coastal Cabana and the new Chalk Talk Framelit die tonight.

Back from Convention

I am back from the Stampin Up Convention and it was fantastic! So many ideas, so many prizes, so many friends! You can see me pictured here with my friend Loni whom I met in San Antonio 18 months ago and Joanne who is my upline and has been my Stampin Friend for 9 years and my new friend Kelly on the right who has been a demo for about 18 months. We all spent the four days together doing various activities.

All of us also went to a performance of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir on Saturday night and it was amazing! What an experience. If any of you out there would ever like to have this much fun let me know and I will sign you up as a demonstrator today!

At Convention

I am here in Salt Lake City Utah and enjoying the beauty of this State. There are mountains where ever we look, it's truly amazing. Yesterday Stampin Up's annual Convention started and I am here with 6000 other demonstrators. The excitement is palpable! We visited Stampin Up's home office in Riverton and what a beautiful building and environment to work.  My friend Joanne a fellow Stampin Up Demonstrator is also here with me and we are seeing the sights together and making new friends.

Pictured here you can see the welcome banners that greeted us when we arrived at the Home Office.

You can see the boxes all sitting inside the Distribution Centre in the Stampin Up warehouse ready to be picked and sent out to us! It was amazing!

Ok I have to get ready for more fun today, stop by again for more news!

Best of 25 Years July Stamp Set

This months' Best of 25 Years Stamp Set is once that Shelli Gardiner co-founder of Stampin Up has chosen herself. She went through the past catalogues and found these images for this month's stamp set. Don't you love these images? It will be interesting to see the different ways this stamp set gets used. I particularly like the typewriter and the Baroque Motif. I am enclosing a couple of pictures of projects that Shelli has made using these stamps. If you would like to own this stamp set just drop me a line and I will be pleased to add it on my next order.