Just a few pictures that aren't of cards...

I had a wonderful time at the Stampin' Up! convention and decided to share a few more photos.

Pennie when she won a prize.  Pennie introduced me to stamping just over a year and a half ago.  She not only recruited me to join Stampin' Up!, but she is now a good friend.

 I was thrilled to meet Justin Krieger and Brian King at the Stampin' Up! offices.  They both design wonderful cards and have great blogs.

I met Mary at convention.  She is also part of Pennie's downline.  I hope to see her again at future conventions (since we live on opposite coasts).

The picture above is of one of the screens showing what was happening on stage.  Pennie is on the far left.  She was on stage for having earned a trip.  

I got to finally meet Sherill Graff one evening.

Carol and I are both in Pennie's downline.  She and I are both Italian, and I told Carol that she could walk into one of my family reunions and fit right in with everyone there.

Of course, I met many other people, too, but either forgot to take pictures or the pictures didn't turn out (blurry).   While I was at convention for three days, my husband, Tom, did some genealogy research and some hiking.  He had a good time in Salt Lake City, too.

Convention and Cards

The photo below is a picture of the convention crowd of demonstrators when the doors opened.  Yes, it made me think of sardines.  We certainly were packed in there -- and I was somewhere in the midst of that crowd.  There were almost 6,000 demonstrators at the convention.

Before the convention began, I did a tour of the Stampin' Up! home office.  I took the photo below there. 

The kite card below is one we made in my stamp camp last month. I used the directions a Stampin' Up! demonstrator, Kelly Gettelfinger, provided.  Her website is filled with many great ideas and videos:  http://alwaysstampin.blogspot.com/

I love the sympathy card below.  I totally copied it from Brian King, a Stampin' Up! demo.  I met Brian at the convention and told him how I had a downline meeting and we made the card exactly like his example.  He told me that he got a lot of great feedback about this card -- simple and gorgeous.  His website is at http://stampwithbrian.com/  if you want to see more of his work.

That's all I have for you today.  I'm looking forward to getting together with my my wonderful upline (I so appreciate all you've taught me, Pennie) today to look at all the swaps we both got from convention. 

Tina