Western Fair Schedule

This is the complete list of classes that our Stampin' Up! booth will be teaching at the Western Fair this fall. We are very to have partnered with the Western Fair to offer these classes for FREE to crafting enthusiasts in London & Area. If you are visiting the Western Fair this September pop by our booth in the Canada Building.
We will have room for 12 crafty people at each class. You have to get a ticket for the class in order to attend it. Tickets are free, we will not charge for a class. If you would like to attend a class, you must be at least 18yrs old.
We will be distributing free tickets to the class in the same manner that the Creative Festival in Toronto does.
Tickets are available at the information booth located inside the Canada Building (same building we are located in). There will be a sign posted for the class about 40 minutes before the class starts - line up at the sign. At 15 minutes prior to the class the agent at the information booth with give 12 tickets to the first 12 people in line. These will be specially printed tickets. Once you have a ticket, bring it to our booth and you can have a seat in the Stampin' Studio located right next to our booth. Classes are on a first come first served basis - If you want to come to the class it will be worth the wait in line.
If you don't know what the Canada booth looks like, here's a photo of it on the Western Fair's website: http://www.westernfair.com/rentals/rentals-canada.html
We will also have little cards made up for people who don’t get a ticket asking them to visit out booth for information on how to attend a similar class after the fair. We would love to be able to teach you all at once, but there just isn't enough space to accommodate classes larger than 12.
All of the classes will be free. You don't have to bring anything with you - we will have all of the supplies right there for you.

Friday September 11th

1:00pm: Make a set of fabulous notecards
3:00pm: How to rubber stamp & make cards
5:00pm: Technique class on decorative scoring
7:00pm: Easy “Big Shot” birthday cards

Saturday September 12th:

12:30pm: Elegant hand-made wedding invitations
1:30pm: Punch art animals
3pm: Christmas 12x12 scrapbooking layout
5pm: Technique class on watercolouring

Sunday September 13th:

11:30pm: Simple Halloween treat favour class
2:00pm: Great projects featuring dry embossing class
5pm: Simple stamped holiday gift tags
7pm: Rubber stamping techniques

Monday September 14th:

5pm: Old time handmade Christmas card class
7pm: Elegant hand crafted thank you card class
8:30pm: Winter 12x12 scrapbooking layout class

Tuesday September 15th:

5pm: Tear it up with Stampin’ Up!
7pm: Handfolded decorative snowflake ornament class
8pm: How to use a die cut machine

Wednesday September 16th:

5pm: Decorative punch art class
7pm: Make a notebook with designer paper

Thursday September 17th:

12:00pm: Beginner Birthday card class
2:00pm: “Thinking of you” handmade card class
4:00pm: Post-it Note purses
7:00pm: Technique Class: Rock ‘n’ Roll

Friday September 18th:

12:00pm: Krafty Christmas Card class
4:00pm: Rubber stamping 101 class
5:30pm: Origami Box wedding favours
7:30pm: Handmade notebook with die cuts

Saturday September 19th:

1:00pm: Funky & Fast Thank you cards
3:00pm: Halloween 12x12 scrapbook layout class
4:30pm: Easy handmade wedding favour class
7:00pm: How to make easy birthday invitations & cards

Sunday September 20th:

12:00pm: How to make a greeting card from scratch
2:00pm: Fun and Easy invitations
5:00pm: Punch art class
7:00pm: Basics of card making class
8:00pm: Basics of scrapbooking class

We are very excited to offer you these classes. If you would like more information about these classes, check back over the next month as we will be posting detailed information about each individual class - including who is teaching it, photographs of the designs and projects, the supply list of the materials used to create the projects and more.

New Ideas

Hello all!

Well, my creative juices have definately been flowing lately. I've been getting ready for the Western Fair this year, and I'm very excited to be at the booth this year. As well I'll be teaching classes for FREE!! That's right, you read that, I said free. Once the project schedule is finalized I'll post it on the site of what will be offered and when. If you miss a class, or you don't get a ticket to participate you can sign up at the booth for me or any of the other demos to do the class in your home.

So, let's see what I've created lately. My first creation is for a thank you card. I love it. Hope you do as well.

These cards are made with 2 pieces of paper, whisper white, and basic black. The ink is basic black, and craft white. One is a 5x5 card, one is 31/2 x 5 card, and the other is a regular card size 41/4x51/2. Granted, Stampin Up does not sell envelopes for the very small one. So, this would be hand delivered with no envelope, or if you're not a demonstrator, you could go to different stamp stores to see if they sell that size.

I tried to load up the cards I made last night, but for some reason they aren't loading. Must be the way I saved them to the computer. So tune in soon for the cards that I made last night. They are made with Elegant Eggplant, Almost Amethyst, and Basic Grey, and Whisper White. The stamp set I used was Fifth Avenue Floral, the same as the thank you cards.

Party in the Park in St. Thomas

Well, we partied it up in Pinafore Park on Saturday August 1st. It was a great venue, and there were a lot of other products to look at. There was Stampin Up of course, then, Epicure (which I thought was a skin thing, turns out it's food items lol). There was a rep from Pampered Cheft, Tupperware, a jewellery company, purse company called SheShe, Mona Vie and many more. I just can't remember them all. They also had a demonstration from the Midnight Sun Martial Arts Acamedy from London. That was pretty cool to see.

Overall it was a great time, well except for the wind. Dani, Catherine and I became very good at anticipating when the signs, and demo boards were going to blow over. I think I hurt my back, catching it once.

I do hope we do it again next year. If you've never been to Pinafore Park like myself, you are missing out on a beauty. There's this huge splash pad there too. Not to mention the beautiful trees, and area to walk. Thank you to Heidi who organized the event.

Western Fair

I am so excited to annouce that we will be having a Stampin Up Booth at the Western Fair. The fair runs from Sept 11-20th the last day happens be my 35th, (yes you read that right) birthday. I am so excited to tell you all that Alesha, my upline has invited all of her downline to participate at the booth. Even better, there will be classes every day, I think 2 in the morning and 2 in the evening teaching you and everyone you know about different ways to use the Stampin Up products.

I will be at the booth, hopefully every night after 3pm until it closes. I'll be doing a few classes I'm sure, not sure which ones yet. This is where you come in. What type of class would you like to see? Click on the comment at the bottom and let me know. We need at least 40 classes, so your input is great. If you do make a suggestion and we use it you'll get a surprise. I'll let you know if your idea was used.

I hope to see all of you at the fair. I am so thrilled to be a part of it this year.

Holiday Mini!!

For those of you that have never played or fallen in love with Stampin Up this year the Holiday Mini, is even bigger and better. It will be coming out in August, and I'm not allowed to give a pre-view until it's released, but I can tease you with some of the amazing things that will be in it.

First the Christmas stamps that are coming up, are absolutely beautiful. I'm in awe with some of them. If you're looking for a great snowflake one, we've got one coming. There are cutesy ones for Christmas, and Valentine's day, Halloween, and even new and beautiful ideas for weddings.

Stampin Up is really expanding it's wings with what we can do with paper, and imagination. I for one am looking forward to this Holiday Mini.

If you would like a copy I need to know before July 31st so I can get one mailed directly to you. If you would like one, all I ask is that if you want to order from it, please contact me as your Demonstrator, or if you order online, choose Kristine Romyn as your demonstrator. It only costs me $1.70 to send them to you, but it would be nice to be able to fill that order for you.

There was going to be a Stamp a Stack schedueled for July 31st. No one has approached to sign up. Therefore it has tentatively been cancelled. If I do receive a request from more than one person, I will do the Stamp a Stack.

Stay tuned for more exciting news.

Stamp-A-Stack

Well, I saw a sneak peek of the new Holiday Mini. WOW!! That's all I can say. I love it. There are so many new initiatives that Stampin Up is embarking on, and I'm excited. The stamp sets, and the papers, and ideas are phenomenal. I can't wait for all of you to get one. Let me know if you want one, and I'll have it mailed to you. Just promise that if you see anything you want, you'll order through me. Your friendly Stampin Up demonstrator.

Well, for those of you that missed last night, and that's everyone except for Anne. You missed out on some great cards that we made.

For this card we used the new Rich Razzleberry In Colour card stock and ink.

The Stamp Set is Happy Everything and the wheel background is Fast Flowers.

This card literally took maximum of 5 minutes to create. It's a fun uplifting card, and with the versatility of the stamp set you can use Happy everything, life, birthday, for you, together, holidays, and days. It's an 8 piece set. Well worth the money. If you're interested in taking a closer look at it, visit page 142 in the new 2009-2010 catalogue. There's a link on the page, or just click Here.

This card I absolutely adore. I had made this very card at Alesha's place on one of my downline meetings. Let me tell you, I love recreating this card. There are so many different colour combos you can use.

Here I used Melon Mambo, and Basic Grey. Both card stock and ink. The stamp set is Flight of the Butterfly. It's a great stamp set, I had a hard time at first finding things to make with it. I visited Splitcoast Stampers website and clicked on the SU Galleries and was able to get great ideas.

The last card is the hardest card that we made, and it took approximately 10-15 mins to make only because of the punch, and the two step stamping we did. But, it was worth every minute. Tell me what you think.

This card uses three more In Colours. We have Dusty Durango, and Soft Suede, the accent colour is Crushed Curry. I must say that I really love all the In colours this year, and have used them all. Not often do I find I can use all the colours.

The stamp set I used is unfortunately a retired hostess set that I earned. It's called Dream a Little. If anyone of my friends or customers want to borrow it, just let me know.

I'm BACK!!!!

Yes it's been a very long time since I last blogged, and for the very few of you that actually check it out, I am soooo sorry. A lot has happened in the last few months, I got married, I almost lost my demonstrator status because I wasn't making any sales, but with the help of my amazing upline Alesha I was able to keep my status.

So, what's new? Lots, can I just tell you that I love the new catalogue, it's amazing. Truly amazing. The new In Colours, are the best that they've ever had in my opinion. I adore Rich Razzleberry, I even love the name. Who ever has that job of making up colours, and then naming them, man I want that job.

So here's a few pieces of information. I don't have a website like some demonstrators have that you can order off of, however if you do order online from http://www.stampinup.com all you need to do to get the preferred member pricing is choose me as your demonstrator. Kristine Romyn, then you won't pay as much.

If you'd like a catalogue please email me kromyn@rogers.com or send me a comment on here and I'd be happy to put you on the list.

Looking forward to updating with new pictures of things we've made lately.