Cocktails & Banana Splits PJ Party

Even though Regionals was canceled last weekend, a handful of didn't get word until we had already driven out and checked into our hotel room. So we did the best we could do and made the most of it… the Cocktail & Banana Splits PJ Party went on!!!!

I had made up these little cards for everyone to have when they checked in at the front desk…

After lots of cancellation/snow storm drama and dinner, the evening started off with Banana Splits and Cocktails…

We had stuck the ice cream outside in the snow before we went to dinner so it would stay cold… only when we got BACK from dinner there was about another 8 inches of snow and the ice cream was BURIED… here's the sight out our window trying to uncover the ice cream!

After we loaded up on those, we played a game… have you ever played "SPOONS"? Well, we played that but with stamps instead of spoons and called it "STAMPS"!

I made a cute little jar to hold the stamps in, and covered the deck of cards to look pretty and match

The top winners got these chocolate candy bars, they were all done with the Kaleidoscope DSP, but there are a couple variations…

Then I had some door prizes, here's the first, a basket with lotions and such…

This water bottle reminded me SO much of the image from Friends 24-7, so I just had to get it and stamp a tag with that stamp set to coordinate!

And then in keeping with the ice cream theme, I picked up these little ice cream coasters and address book and made a coordinating tag with an upcoming stamp set from the Summer Mini Catalog!

So much fun despite the snow!!!

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Syracuse Regional SWAP!

Here's a glimpse at where my stamping time has been spent lately! I just finished up 70 of these bad boys for the Syracuse Regional Seminar coming up at the end of the month here. There's still room for YOU to join us!!!!! This Regional Seminar is open to BOTH Demonstrators and Guests for just TWO more days — until this Wednesday February 10th!! If you want to come along, let me know right away so that we can get you in! (No, you don't HAVE to make 70 SWAPs yourself to attend, that's an if you want to type of thing!)

ALY'S HELPFUL HINTS:

• Don't recognize the images I used here? They're all part of FABULOUS new stamp set called "Element of Style" that is coming out in the Summer Mini Catalog on May 1st!! I was fortunate to receive this stamp set early and for FREE by attending Stampin' Up!'s Leadership Conference in January. I'm already in love with it, I think it's going to be a "most used!"
• At Leadership Conference Shelli Gardner gave a presentation on "Vintage" Stamping. I'm glad to have a name for what I think I love!!! I've always loved collage stamping but never felt I was quite Shabby Chic. Well, I'm vintage!! Though I don't always stamp that way by any means, it's what I love the most. So I allowed myself to go natural for myself and BE VINTAGE for this card.
• Getting to my Vintage roots, I discovered my MOST FAVORITE Stampin' Up! product, and it's one that I haven't hardly touched — the "Color Spritzer Tool" — oh my GOSH to I love spritzing marker on my cards!!  I just can't stop myself!! We'll be putting this tool to good use at my Let's Sale-A-Brate Card Class coming up on February 20th, so be sure to register!
• A little tip for Color Spritzing: You're going to use up the ink in your marker… a lot. But the tips do NOT get ruined when you use it properly! So to get more ink out of my markers, when it started to "go dead" (which it did a lot making 70 of these cards!) I soaked up some of it's coordinating re-inker into it's tip. Voila! New Marker!
• The white you see on the Creamy Caramel Background is a White Craft Pad that I dragged across the cardstock — fun, fun! Give it a try!
• You have permission to make PAPER WADS! You can even throw them at someone if you really want! Paper Wads are the best way to distress your cardstock. I let Landon and Brad HAVE AT IT with my pile of Brocade Blue Cardstock to make less work for me – and more fun for them!

WHAT TO ORDER:

Elements of Style (Contact me on May 1st to get this awesome set ordered!), Brocade Blue Cardstock (101166), Bravo Burgundy Cardstock (105123), Creamy Caramel Cardstock (102514), Confetti White Cardstock (102028), Bravo Burgundy Classic Ink (105214), Bravo Burgundy Stampin' Write Marker (105109), Basic Black Classic Ink (101179), Whisper White Craft Ink (101731), Rich Regals Brads (106953), Modern Label Punch (116630), Mat Pack (105826), Paper Piercer (116631), Color Spritzer Tool (107066) and Stampin' Dimensionals (104430)

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• To sign up for the "For the LOVE of Scrapbooking" Class! Click here for more details! – 5 Days Left!
  
• To contact me about registering for the Syracuse, NY Regional Seminar!! – 2 DAYS LEFT!!!!!
  
• To Sign Up for our Spring Stamping Retreat Weekend!! Click Here for more details!
• To place your qualifying orders to earn FREE Stamp Sets, it's Sale-A-Bration!! Click Here for more details!