Category Archives: Convention 2012

Day 4 (Satuday) – was our last <sob>.  Two more workshops in the morning, “I am earning an incentive trip” with Karen Hauley (#convention 2012).  This has to be the BEST reason for keeping your business goals on track – a FREE trip to FIJI!  Well, that’s what OTHER demos earned this year.  We did learn later on that the incentive trip for the 2013 grand vacation will be a Caribbean Cruise!  hmmmm…don’t think that bikini fits any more, so maybe I should start building my resistance for Mai Tai’s!  I finished up my last workshop with Donna Griffiths and “I am Savvy” (#convention 2012).  Now we are talkin’ stamping and techniques!  While I learned a lot and was totally inspired by all the other classes, getting inky is my passion, so this was fun, fun, fun!  Lots of samples and cool ideas for our ribbon, fabric and simply scrappin kits.  We finished with the final general session, part of which was broadcast LIVE to demos all over the world.  We also were given 2 MORE stamp sets (I think I ended up with 7 stamp sets, 3 boxes of fabric, buttons, rhinestones, ribbon, snail and 2 packs of designer paper! Now THAT’S what I call SWAG!)

Until next time…Keep Calm and Find Yourself a Rubber Stamp!

Day 3 (Friday) – Still with me?  After a morning general session we all went our merry ways to more workshops.  My first, “I am open for business” with Carrie Cudney (#convention 2012) was an eye-opener – lots of great ideas for finding new customers!    Can you believe that there was even a workshop about having FUN?  YES!  Shannon West was in charge of this one “I am having Fun” (#convention 2012), and I have learned you will be doing a lot of laughing when you see her name on the agenda!  I have also now learned that there is a SIXTH sense!  SHOPPING!  (Now I know I’m a natural, ’cause shopping is something that I have down to a science!)  I managed to squeeze one more workshop in my schedule, “I am Reaching Out”, with Emily Montoya (#convention 2012).  We learned important new texting words, like “AWHFY” (are we having fun yet), “E2EG” (ear to ear grin, and the best one, “Y!” (NOT what you are thinking – it means “typical man!”)

While I did not take any pictures at either of these workshops, I do have another one to share from the displays of our products at Stampin’ Up’s Headquarters in Riverton.

Until next time…Keep Calm and Find Yourself a Rubber Stamp!

Day 2 (Thursday) was our first general session, and WOW was it exciting (did I mention the song???)  We also had a speaker, Jason Dorsey, who explained the difference between “Baby Boomers”, “GenX and “Gen Y”.  I am CLEARLY a Baby Boomer, and Jason made EVERYONE laugh over and over again as he illustrated what makes each of us “special!”  I took my first workshop, “I am doing business My way” with Bonnie Thurber (#convention 2012) – Uber demos Ronda Wade and Tami White talked about what worked for them.  The second workshop that day was “I am making Money” with Pam Morgan (#convention 2012).  I was REALLY hoping to learn something here, because of course I would rather STAMP than SELL!  Pam did a great job, with the help of several demos who had the “making money” part down to a science.  Thursday evening ended with Awards Night – and I was in awe of what other demos had accomplished in terms of Sales, Recruiting and Leadership!

Until next time…Keep Calm and Find Yourself a Rubber Stamp!

i am……the theme of the 2012 convention!  This was my first, and I don’t know how Stampin’ Up could even top it.  It was FABULOUS!  I am grateful for my upline, Emily, for keeping me on track, and giving me the 411 on all the activities.  We were on the go from 6:30 in the am through probably 10pm at night, although most of the evening activities involved finding a place to EAT ;-). 

I filmed a short video of the beginning of convention, which will be on youtube shortly – I’ll link to it in a future post.  There is also a video of the convention song – soooo cute – I am still humming it!  That will be in a future post as well….so stay tuned!

The nutshell version is …stand in line EARLY (for whatever came first that day), watch swaps go on (which I could not participate in as I only prepared cards for a swap on Friday), chat with folks from ALL over the US & Canada, then rush to a seat, watch the presentation, and take off for the next thing on the agenda  – rinse & repeat!  LOL! 

Seriously, everything from the first session to the closing moments was fun, thought-provoking, inspiring, and just FULL of positive energy.  I did attend 6 workshops that were included in the convention package, and one add-on that was the perfect combination of stamping, samples and new products and techniques.  I can’t WAIT till my order comes in next week with the first of the items from the Holiday Mini Catalog so I can make samples for some upcoming classes (YES there will be CLASSES!)  The first day (Wednesday), we shopped at Memento Mall (oh yes, another loooong line), took tons of photos of cards, scrapbook pages and 3D samples, visited Stampin’ Up headquarters about 25 minutes away, and came back in the evening for the add-on class.

Until next time…Keep Calm and Find Yourself a Rubber Stamp!