This card made by fellow demonstrator Kathy Chrisler reminds me of a winter storm.  In fact, Peggy and I traveled home from Leadership on Sunday during the midst of a winter storm warning which then turned into a blizzard.  Because of all the snow, instead of driving back to my house Sunday afternoon, I spent the night at Peggy’s house, as the 18 inches of snow they got along with the bowing and drifting and white out conditions was more than I was willing to try.

 

So anyway, let’s talk about this beautiful card.  The stamp set is Sheltering Tree which is wonderful because you can make trees for every season with it.  The tree was stamped with Early Espresso ink in the forefront and then without inking it up again, it was stamped in the background on the right and then again without inking it up on the left side. This “stamping off” technique helps to create the illusion of distance.  The snow hills are stamped in Soft Sky ink and then Dazzling Diamonds Glitter was attached to the snow wit.h 1 2-way glue pen.  The glitter is hard to see, but it sparkles just like real snow does.

 

 

 

 

 

Earlier during Leadership we received the “Balloon Bash” stamp set and today we received the “Birthday Bash” Designer Series Paper that coordinates with it.  I found these two adorable shaker cards on some display boards that I thought you’d enjoy.

 

 

One special part of Leadership for me was meeting (for the first time) one of my team members Amy Hannel.  She lives in Florida and decided to attend since it was more or less in her back yard.  We (Peggy and I) got to hang out each day at Leadership.  It was great getting to know her.

 

So, Leadership is done and now I’m back to the real world and posts coming from my stampin’ studio so be sure to come on back tomorrow.

 

Friday was day 4 of Leadership and it started with a great General Session with some fantastic demonstrations.  Here are a couple of cute cards demonstrated using “You Brighten My Day” stamp set which is an awesome Sale-a-bration choice.

 

We had an opportunity to help in a service project to create craft kits for sick children in hospitals.  I was assigned to assembling the wood blocks with the red rubber stamps.

 

 

We were all given a Paper Pumpkin Kit to share with someone.  I’ll be posting an opportunity for someone to win it when I return.  We did more swapping today, so I am now officially done with swapping.

 

Looks like a pretty nice assortment of ideas here with a total of 118 new card samples….oooh the ideas!

 

We attended 6 different classes in the afternoon as well as fantastic presentations by three incredibly talented demonstrators.  After dinner  we headed back to the conference center for more stamping presentations and prize giveaways. 

 

 

Peggy won 4 new packages of Blendabilites and everyone received a Project Life Kit.  More goodies…not sure how I’ll get everything home, but you know where there’s a will there’s a way!  Tomorrow I’ll post about our final day at Leadership.