Patty's Convention Update 5 Awards Night

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I am home from the 2013 Stampin Up! Convention ... and just needed to share my excitement about the Awards Night with you!  I was beyond thrilled (like as in THRILLED TO TEARS!! excitement) over the best news of the evening... Wendy Cranford from our Luv 2 Stamp Group made it into the top 100 demonstrators of the company! 

Wendy is now a member the 2013 Founder's Circle Achievers!!

 

ABOVE: I am right under the S in Stampin and Wendy is right in front of me!

 

Above: Wendy with her Founder's Circle Bag

Below: me with my Founder's Circle Bag

Below: Wendy and I also walked on stage with my dear friend Stella, celebrating our accomplishment of earning the 2014 Stampin' Up! Caribbean cruise!

Below: It was a little crazy (read: scary) being recognized on stage for being the ONLY one in the company to earn the Achiever's Bonus 3 times last year!  One demonstrator earned it 4x and one earned it 5x.. I was honored to be recognized this way - on stage.. alone with Shelli!!!!

I was also in the top 10 of two more categories, with recognition on stage!

A HUGE thank you to my amazing and faithful customers for your support of my Stampin' Up! Business!

Just before awards night, it was exciting to see Wendy as one of the demonstrator presenters in the class titled "How I Earned the Incentive Trip" facilitated by Pam Morgan.. yay, Wendy.. you did a fantastic job, you had a fantastic year and you are AMAAAAZING!

 

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Happy Stampin' Up! Anniversary to me!

Stay tuned TOMORROW for a BIG BLOG CANDY GIVEAWAY!!!

Wow.. it is truly amazing to think that I have completed 18 years as a Stampin' Up! demonstrator!! 

This weekend I start my 19th year with this amazing company!

I became a Stampin' Up! Customer in 1993 or 1994 (can't rmember for sure) and then signed up as a demonstrator in June 1995.

What an amazing journey it has been for our family.  Jason was only 4 when I signed up .. he has grown up knowing Stampin' Up! colors, products, policies and enjoying the cruises.  

I can't imagine my life without Stampin' Up!

My hubby and son have been a HUGE and constant support and my biggest cheerleaders!

If you would like to start your own journey with Stampin' Up!, I'd love to have you join my Luv 2 Stamp Group and enjoy discount shopping on your crafting purchases!  CLICK here for more info.

Here's a litle trip down memory lane..

Who could ever forget all the sunflowers and Definitely Decorative Branch... one of my all time FAVORITE stamp sets!!

And Nellie the Nest Lady... Betsy the Beekeeper..

a couple OLDIE projects....

and Holiday Hannah.. again, .. she was one of my FAVES!!

My flower garden always makes me very happy, so I cut myself a bouquet to celebrate my Stampin' Up! Anniversary!

 

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Wow, did we have a wonderful time at the Stampin' Up! convention Awards Night!! It is delightful to sit with my fellow demonstrators and cheer each other on as we celebrate accomplishments from the past year!!

Shelli on stage welcoming us to Awards Night 2012

2 of my very dearest demo friends, Ruth (left) and Stella (right)

I was honored on stage several times.. I was so blessed this year to be in the top 10 for my personal sales, Sr. Associate promotions in my 1st level downline, Supervisor and above promotions in my 1st level downline, for earning the Achiever's Bonus twice in a year, for earning the trip to Fiji and for being in the Founder's Circle again!  Thank you from the bottom of my heart to my wonderful, faithful cutomers and to my hard working Luv 2 Stamp Group for all your support of my Stampin' Up! business!

below: my upline Sandy Hancock, myself and Jan McClurg

below: Stella and Ruth:

The really touching part of Awards Night is getting a hug from Rich, our company COO and from Shelli, our company owner... they are so genuine and amazing!

below: my upline, Sandy and I sporting our Founder's Circle bags!

below: Cindee and I with our friend Rosie

below: my gifts from Stampin' UP! for awards night and my Founder's Circle bag:

thanks for stopping by.. have a great Sunday and I'll check back soon...

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Stampin' Up! Convention fun!!

Just wanted to share some fun  Stampin' Up! Convention times with you... we've had a great few days... today is the last day of convention... can't wait to see what's in store for us!!

Cute Christmas display... Stampin' Up! goes all out on their new product displays!

 

I feel like a bag lady....

 

Fun paper flowers in keeping with the GROW theme this year..

the gifts I received from the Stampin' Up! for placing in the top 10 of the company for various categories..

 
the Coach wallet (gift from Stampin' Up!)

 
the Coach scarf (gift from Stampin' Up!)

 

Coach watch (gift from Stampin' Up!)

 
One of my very dearest Stampin' Up! friends, Janice Weightman...

 
my Upline, Sandy Hancock..

 

the cute gift boxes from Stampin' UP! with my award gifts:

 
 
I'll have some swap photos for you tomorrow..  :)

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Stampin' Up! Convention - Awards Night

It's been wonderful to connect with so many demonstrator friends here at the 2011 Stampin' Up! Convention and I thank every one of you who has stopped to say hi and tell me you have enjoyed my blog over the years!!  :) 

 
My dear husband and son flew up to Utah for Awards Night last night and it was wonderful to have them with me to celebrate!!

 
Awards Night is always such a special time to celebrate the accomplishments of my fellow demonstrators.. this year I was excited and blessed to be called on stage for 3 awards. :) Thanks to all my amazing customers and downline who have helped me establish and grow such a fabulous business!

I was #3 in the company for Supervisor and above promotions in my 1st level downline.. again.. huge congrats to my hard working demonstrators! Here I am on stage next to Mary Fish!  Love her! :)

 

I was #4 in the company for the number of my 1st level downline who promoted to Sr. Associate over the past year... congrats to all my great demonstrators!!  Here I am on stage with the darling Dawn Griffith!

 

and lastly, I placed #7 in the company overall out of approximately 40,000 demonstrators in the US, this is based on sales, recruiting, promotions, and other performance categories . 

 
These are the top 10 demonstrators in the US ..  congrats to all the wonderful ladies on stage!

 I have over 600 photos from 2 days to share... no... I won't bore you with them all but I will be blogging for the next couple weeks with lots of ideas and fun displays from Convention.  Right now typepad is being VERY slow.. it's 12:30am and it's taken WAY too long to upload just these.. so I'll call it a night and catch you on another day :)

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Stampin' Up! Convention - random ramblings from Awards Night..

Stampin' Up! does an amazing job making their demonstrators feel loved and appreciated!!  There are awards, prizes, marches on stage, flowers, gifts, ... you name it.. they sure know how to spoil us!  At Convention 2010 last week, I was recognized for ...

• #5 in Demonstrator of the Year out of all the demonstrators in the US!
• I placed 8th in the company with 13 Sr. Associate promotions in my 1st level Luv 2 Stamp Group
• I recruited 16 demonstrators into my 1st level of the Luv 2 Stamp Group
• Celebrated being in the Stampin' Up! business for 15 years!
• Surpassing the $400,000 mark in career sales!
• Selling over $60,000 in the last fiscal year!
• Earning the upcoming 2011 Incentive Trip to Alaska! All expenses paid for TWO people!

Being in the top 100 "Demonstrator of the Year" category in Stampin' Up!, means I am in the Founder's Circle and get to go on a four day, all expenses paid trip to beautiful St. George, Utah with the top 100 demonstrators in the entire country!  I have been on this trip twice before and it is so much fun to hang out with my Stamping buddies and relax, eat, talk, swap, share tips and ideas, stamp, eat, relax, visit the Stampin' Up! manufacturing facility in Kanab, relax, eat, oh .. ya..  I mentioned that part :)

Demonstrator of the Year status is determined by a combination of factors from the previous year: personal sales, personal recruiting, personal promotions, and promotions and sales of the demonstrators in the first level of your group.  I was beyond AMAZED and honored to have ranked 5th in the company.. that was a total surprise and was made even better by having my husband and son in attendance at the Awards Night ceremony!!! Bless them for driving all the way from the San Francisco area to be with me!!! 

As they called up the top 100 in groups of 10, starting from #100, I fully expected to be called WAY before #10 .. but when they got to #11 and I knew I was in the top 10, this was my reaction.. I could NOT believe it! Look at Stella's face (next to me).. she is so shocked too.... I still get butterflies thinking of that moment!

Here is the top 10... THANK YOU to Nikki Rueth for sending me this photo!!

 

This was my face as I exited the stage and was greeted by my fabulous SAM (service account manager) Terri... i was soooooooooooooooo stunned in case you cannot tell! :)

Here I am with my friends Susie and Michelle as we walk the stage celebrating over $60,000 in personal sales last year!

My friend Glad and I as we are about to walk on stage for our 15 year recognition march. 

 Thank you Stampin' Up! for making us feel so appreciated!!!

 

 

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Stampin' Up! Convention 2010 - FABULOUS FREE Stuff!

At each Stampin' Up! event, it seems we are showered with lovely gifts, presents, prizes, etc., .. last week at Convention it was no different... here are the amazing FREE GIFTS I received!

Our Convention bag, complete with free stamps sets and a wheel for our Make & Takes, a pen, a pin, a tag, free catalog and mini catalog.

Free stamp sets and wheel for Make & Takes and other free sets for awards I received for sales and recruiting.

 

Free Play Date "Quick Accents", and some of my swaps.

This was the gorgeous free bag I received for achivieving Founder's Circle (top 100 in the company):

Items I received on Awards Night:

opening the big box....

It's a Cole Haan purse, in recognition for being in the top 10 category for most promotions to Sr. Associate in my 1st level downline!

and inside the small box was this gorgeous necklace in recognition for being in the Top 10 of the entire company!!  whoohooo! :)

Nancy won a You Crew prize....  are you kidding me? this is WAY more than just a prize.. WAY to go Nancy!

And on the last day we were all given an amazing free product bundle.. check this out!

Thank You Stampin' Up! for EVERYTHING !  

 

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Stampin' Up! Convention highlights - Founders Circle

Greetings from Utah!  I am at our annual Stampin' Up! convention and wanted to report in about my visit to the Awards booth with my friend Ruth....  we went to the Awards booth together on the first day to receive our free stamping sets as rewards for our recruiting and sales efforts, and we were both awarded with a Founders Circle bag, which means we placed somewhere in the top 100 of the company!!!

It was so exciting to receive a bag and know that we would be going on the Founder's Circle trip together this fall!  Here is a close-up of the lovely bag...

So, as I am typing this... we are awaiting the Awards Night ceremony tonight.. I'll come back and finish up this post with a report on how it went... can you believe my dear hubby and son are driving up here from CA just to be with me on Awards Night!?  Oh my gosh.. amazing!

OH MY GOODNESS>>>  I am AMAZED and still in shock.. just got back fromthe Awards Night as I am typing this on Thursday night...  I placed #8 in the company in the number of 1st level demonstrator Sr. Associate Promotions, aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand the HUGE SHOCK was that I placed #5 in the ENTIRE COMPANY for Demonstrator of the year !!!!!

Here are the TOP 10 DEMONSTRATORS OF THE YEAR, and I am right in the middle at #5 !!!

Can you believe my DEAR sweet husband and son DROVE ALL THE WAY UP FROM San Francisco to be here tonight!!!???  It was such a thrill to share this evening with them!!!  Thank you guys LOVE YOU! :)

And here I am with roommate and dear friend Stella, and LONG time DEAR sweet friend Jan Wakeland.. they both have big news too, but I'll let them share that on their blogs..  love you sweet friends!

  I have soooooooo many photos and amazing experiences to share  with you and it was only Day 1 of Convention today!  Please stay tuned each day!

Patty

VACATION NOTICE... please note.. I am away at the Stampin' Up! Convention from 7/20 to 7/26.. and may not be available to return emails quickly, but I will do my best!

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$400,000 in Stampin' Up! Career Sales!

I received this lovely pin from Stampin' Up! ... I reached my $400,000 in Career Sales Milestone a few months ago and I was excited to recieve a lovely letter and this lovely pin with 4 red stones in it! 

Thank you Stampin' Up! for always making your demonstrators feel special and recognized!  Thank you for the generous cash bonus too!!  Love You, Stampin' Up!

Stampin' Up! Convention 2009 - update 3

Today was full of fun times with my downline and my friends..  I think we are all hooked on the Build a Bear items, the new jewelry and Digital Scrapbooking!!!  I can't believe tomorrow is the last day... this week went so fast!

I want to share lots of fun photos from the Stampin' Up! Convention with you ... let's start with Awards Night last night....

I am on stage for "outgoing Advisory Board" here:

I think this was the cruise achievers march.. me, Joann and Aly:

I was in the top 10 achievers in the "most promotions to Sr. Associate" category..  I'm thrilled to be in the top 10 of anything in Stampin' Up! :)  I need to locate the photo for that...

Below are the 10 achievers from #11 to #20 Demonstrator of the Year.. I was #18!! .. I'm on the left.. I'm thrilled to be in the top 20 in Stampin' Up! :)

my sweet husband and son came to Salt Lake for awards night!

Then backtracking to Check In Day.... I saw these darling ladies all ready to swap!

And here are my sweet friends from Puerto Rico!

check out these fabulous bracelets made from the Lattice Die and Shrink Plastic!!

and the last photo of the day... a SUPER CUTE nametag embellished with fun foam Big Shot die cut flowers!!

Time for bed... I'll have more news and photos tomorrow!