The day was absolutely fantastic, so many wonderful and talented ladies there all to share ideas and our love of stamping, scrap booking and all things Stampin' Up! The day was a bit nerve wracking for me as I was asked to do a demonstration of something that wowed my customers. It was such an honour to be given this opportunity, and despite my gratitude and excitement I had a fair bundle of nerves as well.
The whole day was planned around heartfelt handmade projects, cards, gifts wrapping and there was a very strong Christmas theme for the day. There were share boards for attendees to put samples on, a nice way for everyone to share ideas. The share boards took the place of making swaps this year, and they were just great.
We also had a product playground manned by some very talented demonstrators sharing ideas on how to use some of our much loved tools like the Big Shot, Brayer, Heat Tool. Cathy Clark *wave* from Albany manned the Brayer stand and shared some of her samples and expertise. I'll sure be taking lessons from Cathy because I'm definitely not an expert with the brayer.
We had the make and take area where you guessed it we got to use the Stamp Set from our day pack to make some lovely projects. We also had the gathering place, a spot to the side for us to stop and have a chat or a much needed snack. There were also lots of display boards of samples of wonderful projects including a Scrapbook Gallery.
They also had two demonstration booths set up where 6 demonstrators each took a turn of demonstrating a Wow technique or project/s. Yep you guessed it this is where I was, I was lucky last on booth 2 and was there from 2.40 - 5.00pm. My booth buddies were Debbie Yeoman's from Canberra who travelled all the way over to Perth to attend the event, as the dates for the Eastern states events didn't work for her. Talk about a dedicated and Heartfelt effort not to miss an event. Richelle Fletcher from Perth was my other booth buddy, who kindly lent me some pins to put my projects up on the display boards. Richelle was a real trooper she was recovering from a cold, but soldiered through and managed to keep her voice throughout her entire presentation.
My demonstration was on 3D Cake gift boxes, combining two of my loves paper crafting and cooking. I made a wedge of Black Forest Cake... which actually made me hungry while I was demonstrating it. What can I say it was afternoon tea time.
Card: Early Espresso, Whisper White
Big Shot etc: Embossing Folder & Framelits from the upcoming Holiday Mini & Annual Catalogue, Bigz Scallop Circle
Punches: 3/4" Circle Punch
Accessories: Multipurpose Adhesive Sheets, Sticky Strip, Tombow Glue, Whisper White Organza Ribbon, Cherry Cobbler Seam Binding Ribbon, Mini Glue Dots, Bone Folder, Simply Scored, Piercing Matt
# I will be coming back and posting some dimensions for this project shortly along with a photo of the Rose topped Cupcake Box.
It was such a fantastic day and I came home with lots of new ideas and some old one's revisited and revamped. I can't wait to get stamping... A lovely part of the day was getting to play with some of the new products to make a Christmas Ornament and write a "Heartfelt" message and put it on the Christmas Tree... Anyone who made an ornament received a little something from Stampin' Up!.
A very big thank you to Stampin' Up! for the opportunity to be a part of the day as a presenter and also as an attendee. There is so much work that goes in behind the scene's to make each event something special. This one certainly delivered, thank you to Clare, Amanda, Aaron, Bec, Sophie and all the other staff at Stampin' Up! we appreciate the effort you take to give us a wonderful "Heartfelt Event".
Cheers
