Monday, November 10, 2008

SU! Virginia Beach Regional

This past weekend I headed to VA Beach for the SU! Regional. It'll probably be the closest I'll ever come to making it to a convention. This was my second Regional, but the first one Shelli (the founder) was at. So, I had to get the requisite Shelli on stage pic.

Even though I wasn't able to meet up with the other lady from my SU! team there, I found a place at a table with some other VA demos. I've found stampers in general to be a friendly bunch (& a bunch of enablers!) They had some great projects for us to make (I'll post those later) & I learned a bunch of cool tips. I guess I've been doing this long enough now that I've at least heard of most techniques (at least the ones they showed us), but it's the little things that I love learning the most!

This "Snowman Kit" was a project demonstrated on stage. I doubt I'd ever make it but I still thought it was the cutest thing. She made the buttons (on clothespins) out of foam run through the Big Shot. So of course today I had to run out & get some foam! She had buttons, a styrofoam nose, foam eyes & a scarf all in the top hat to form the kit. A cool little tip was how she made the little snowman tag's face. Sorry--I didn't get a good picture of it, but instead of punching out little black bits for the eyes & teeth & sticking them on the white head, she punched out circles & squares for the eyes & mouth & then put black cardstock behind his white circle head so it only looked like she'd messed with itty bitty punch-out pieces.

The neat little idea I got from this card on one of the sample displays was simply using the Photo Corner punch to make a Christmas tree. How simple but cool is that?


This last project Shelli showed us from the stage. It's a little game where you try to rest two little BBs in the punched out holes. The display shows all the pieces. First a box of Designer Paper, two layers of foam, watercolor paper (the layer you stamp the image on) & an acetate top (click to really see it). Then you just punch a hole in the top foam & watercolor paper layers. The whole thing was about 3" x3". Probably not something I'll get around to making, but who knows--maybe stocking stuffers for the boys since they won't want my pink barrettes?






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11 comments:

  1. that christmas tree card is great and so easy for this time of the year. thanks for sharing!

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  2. Thanks for sharing some photos. I am a newbie so I've never been. Looks like fun!

    ~Samantha

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  3. Ooooh, thanks so much for sharing the highlights from the Regionals. Off topic...I love your blog! Going to spend some time going back in your archives now. :)

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  4. Sorry I missed you Julie...I felt prevledged to have my card up on the Big screen when my Upline showed it. I would of given you one. Hugs

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  5. Have to say this after commenting already from the looks of your pic you were sitting right behind me. We were right up front. Hugs Twice

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  6. I'm so jealous that you got to go to regionals! it's such a great experience, isn't it? Love the card with the photo corners. SU has such creative people working for them!

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  7. I LOVE the snowman kit. Now I've got to go make one! TFS

    Amy J

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  8. How fun you got to go to regionals! I want to go to mine someday, too!!! Neat ideas. Thanks for sharing. :)

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  9. What a cute idea for the Christmas tree! I will have to try that!

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  10. Thanks so much for sharing the regional highlights! Looks like a lot of fun...

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  11. I was thinking 2$ because I didn't use any embellishes. Thanks Julie for your help

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