Last night was the Royal Super Sellers Gala for the Queens of Stamp Age thrown by my upline Brandi Barnard. Last year she challenged all of her Stampin' UP! team members to sell at least $500 worth for 10 out of the 12 month for 2020. Little did she know how much that challenge would be when Covid shut downs hit us all in March. But 15 amazing stampers, including myself, reached that goal and got to attend this amazing event. She of course had planned it to be an in person event when the challenge was first given but quickly switched it to on Online Event (which worked great for the Alaska, California, and Ohio Demos). Below are the gifts she gave and cards we created using the You Are Amazing Kit.
First gift was a beautiful Tiara to wear to this fancy event.
She then had us take a picture of our selves ready for the party and post on the Queens Facebook group. We then each got to vote for whose photo was the best! I was the WINNER and got an awesome stamp set Handmade For You as my prize!
Gifts
Brandi sent us all a HUGE box in the mail full of gifts that were wrapped and labeled with a number. Through out the night we got to open up each gift together. The first one was the tiara from above (for us to wear to the event).
Then our next gift was this adorable box of chocolates using the new "Love You Always Treat" boxes. Inside are 8 Ghirardelli chocolates.
Next gift was this beautiful Stampin' UP! notebook to take notes in and her favorite style of pen (LePen).
Then we got to hear from the amazing Melody Hyde who is also a Queen and works at Stampin' UP! as head of the design team (she designs like 50% of the cards in the catalogs and is amazing). She gave us AMAZING tips. She showed us how to make this frame and made one for each of us!
Kylie Bertucci
Then we got to hear from the AMAZING Kylie Bertucci who is the number 1 Demo in Australia. I've already done some training with her and knew how awesome she is but was totally fan girling her to have her at this event. She is one of the kindest most giving people I know. I owe a LOT of my online training to her and forever grateful for her example to me. She shared with us the 2002 Winter Olympics story about a speed skater who got Gold at the very end just because he kept on going and encourage us to do the same. Just keep on doing what we are doing and not let others success make our success any less special.
You Are Amazing Kit
*Original Kit design
Another gift and for our Make N Takes was the You Are Amazing Kit, plus gold ribbon, opal rounds, gold embossing powder, blending brush, and basic pattern decorative masks. We made the first 4 cards just like the kit says. Then we made the next 12 with a themes and with adding some of her gift items to it.
This kit comes with this awesome card box and we used out "leftovers" to decorate the lid as well.
Kit with Extra Embellishments
We made 4 cards with the new embellishments in mind.
There two were some of my favorites.
Of course she had has stamp on each envelope as well.
Manly Cards
These next group of cards were made to look more manly. I loved the masking/sponging on the Granny Apple Card above! We flipped over the stripe cardbase to make it green.
To cover the floral images she had some textured cardstock for us to use to add an extra layer and was super looking!
Again, envelope stamping was super important and often a forgotten step on mine.
Fancy Feminine This last group of cards she wanted the design to be fancy and feminine! I believe these ones were the favorites of the night and more of the style of everyone else. We used the mask and the new blending brush to create the green spots on the vellum tag.
She added the square doilies for 2 of the card designs which instantly makes them more girly.
We cut up one of the kit items and pieced it back together this way! I love the result of this card as well.
This final card was the combo of everything! It has so much going on and really does look like a party on a card!
Lastly, here is the beautiful Brandi who put on this event for us! She is AMAZING and so loved! Thank you Brandi for all your hard work and supporting us on our Stampin' Journey!
Happy Stampin' Everyone!!!
