This weekend is Vancouver Regionals. The Stampin' Up team is coming into town for 2 days and offering local and nearby demonstrators an opportunity to get some live training, see some fantastic presentations, do make n' takes and swap cards with each other. Along with this is the opportunity to meet Shelli Gardner herself. Hopefully she will be present as Regional appearances by Shelli are always dictated by her schedule.....and hopefully she will be here in Vancouver! I've been lucky enough to meet Shelli several times prior to this Regional event, the first time being the Opportunity night way back in 2002 when Stampin' Up first came to Canada. Then I met her at the first Vancouver Regionals where I was lucky enough to be a helper. Then I met her again in Portland Regionals a few years ago. She's the kindest, most warm hearted and genuine person I know. I love being able to say that she stears the Stampin' Up ship!
I've been busy making swaps and because I get bored of the same design, I will probably make about 80 cards, 3 different designs. The first design is the same as the one I posted 2 entries earlier in pink. But this time I did it using So Saffron. Look how many I've done!
When I was making this card, I realized I had run out of hemp twine to tie the ribbons with. So you know what they say.....necessity is the mother of invention! I just took my trusty old cutter out and cut really thin slivers of Old Olive cardstock and then used that as my ribbon.
Cool, huh? I love Stampin' Up's table top cutter....it really is the only cutter I've come across that can cut slivers of cardstock this thin! So now if ever I need to tie ribbon onto my buttons, I can just make my own using any colour of cardstock I have on hand! So cool. The pic of the cutter is below.
The cutter features a stainless steel precision ground blade for accurate cuts time after time. Item# 106959, $64.95 -- that's enough of a purchase to get one of the sale-a-bration sets free!
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