More Stampin' Up! Cruise photos and Paper Pumpkin

 

Thank you for all your kind comments on the Stampin' Up! Cruise photos I've been sharing with you this month... I have one last batch to share with you...

Below.. These gorgeous Dress Forms were decorated with Paper and Ribbon by Stampin' Up! staff and employees... these are all fun Designer Series Papers and Ribbons from the Stampin' Up! catalog! Aren't these too cool!?

Each day in the Hospitality Room, Stampin' Up! had a ring toss game for us to play.  We could win a different Stampin' Up! product prize each day.. too fun!!

I wasn't very good at all ... but they always made sure we "won" even if we didn't get a ring on a bottle :)

Check out my prize one day... the new In Color clothespins!! whohooo!

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Above: one of the highlights of this cruise was making friends with demonstrators from all over the world.. this was an international grand vacation!  These are my new friends Jutta and Tanja from Germany!

Above and Below... the Paper Pumpkin Story...

Stampin' Up! brought 6,000 My Paper Pumpkin kits on the ship.. they gave us each one and they asked that we look around the ship for people to give them to.  We could bring guests down to the Hospitality room to get one, or we could take a kit to someone... it was such a fun ice breaker to be able to talk to people about our group on the ship and ask them if they'd like a free crafting kit!

Above is our waiter Hera and assistant waiter Merlon with the kit that our table gave them. We each signed the box so they'd remember us. :)

Below is Robin taking several kits to give away to cruise guests!

Below is our cabin steward Joel... he loved the hand crafted cards I left him each night with a little extra tip, and he commented right away on them, so we asked him if he'd like a crafting kit.. he was delighted!!

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Below: my friends Leonie and her daughter Caitee, Sandi and Selene

Below.. the 2 best supporting guys ever.. hubby and son: Eric and Jason.  Without them I couldn't do what I do and wouldn't be nearly as excited about the annual cruise/trip!

Below: another great prize from ring toss.. the new Flower Fair framelits!

Below.. amazing Stampin' Up! and Morris Meetings staff who make our trips AMAZING!

 

Below.. some of the gifts from Stampin' Up!... they spoiled us!!!

Happy almost 28 years to my handsome hubby!

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 5 Minute Video Vacation on the Allure of the Seas!

I thought you might enjoy a fun 5 Minute Vacation on the Allure of the Seas!  This was the Royal Caribbean ship we were on with Stampin' Up! earlier this month!  I took little snippets of video around the ship and over 1,000 photos that week.  I asked Jason to make a video for me including some of the highlights, and I think you'll enjoy it!!

  

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Patty's 2014 Stampin Up Cruise update - 7

I have a final Stampin' Up! Cruise Blog Update for you .. we enjoyed several stamping presentations by very talented demonstrators from all over the world, and I thought you'd enjoy seeing some of the great ideas they shared with us, enjoy! These are GREAT ideas!

Above and Below: Contanze shared great ideas for using your Aqua Painter on Whisper White cardstock and then punching out shapes... very cool idea!

Below: Brian King demonstrated the New In Colors and also a new stamp set with this clever vase card

New In Color card comparison shown below (by Brian King)

Above  and below: Rhoda Macpherson showed the new In Colors with punched 3-D paper flowers.. they are gorgeous!

above and below: Erica Cerwin demo'd a cute Nautical Shaker Card

Above and Below: Kim Gavarra demonstrated awesome cards with the new "Work of Art" stamp set

oh and look.. here's my dear friend Leonie and her adorable daughter!

Demonstrators gathered round watching Constanze demonstrate:

 
Well my friends, I hope you have enjoyed a week of cruise updates... I'll have a few more photos for you and some of my favorite swap cards too... but we'll be back to your regularly scheduled program of blog posts soon :)

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Patty's 2014 Stampin Up Cruise update - 6

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Thought you would enjoy some random photos from all over the ship.. this ship is 17 levels, and like a HUGE floating shopping center and city... ice rink, rock climbing walls, basketball courts, zip line, wave riders, library, well over a dozen places to eat, theaters, casino, bars, and countless shops!  It's truly amazing!

Jason and I having pizza at one of the cafe's in the Royal Promenade

above.. we all got bright orange t shirts to wear for the Walk a Thon. Stampin' Up! donated over $20,000 to the Mission of HOPE (I think that is the right name?) in Haiti, to help build homes for needy residents there.  We all walked laps around the jogging track and Stampin' Up! donated money based on the laps walked/jogged.

 

Below: Patty, Jason and Eric on formal night #2

above and below.. my 2 favorite "starters" for dinner this week have been the seafood salad above and the fruit plate below. yuumm!

below: the Central Park area at night.  This is about 1/3 of the ship... just on the inside .. this is amazing.. so huge!!

Formal Night with Shelli & Sterling and Sara and Sean :) :)

I should have 2 more sets of photos for you from our trip... so many fun things to share! I hope you will tune in again!

 

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Patty's 2014 Stampin Up Cruise update - 5

 

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 The stops on this cruise are Labadee, Haiti, Jamaica and Cozumel.. it is horriblly hot here and so humid.. we are not used to this weather at all, but we have explored a little at each port, even though we've been to these stops before.  Here are some photos from our stop in Jamaica.

This pier was built by Royal Caribbean and has about 50 shops.. everything you could possibly want from Jamaica!

 

this is our ship - the Royal Caribbean, Allure of the Seas.

the ship is so huge it's really hard to get it in one photo!

Our cabin is on the 14th deck, (top deck of cabins) above Eric's head.

How fun is this!? A Patty Port!!

and look who I found at breakfast... Brian King and Mary Fish!

I have taken almost 1,000 photos already.. so I'll have more to share with you... thanks for tuning in!

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Patty's 2014 Stampin' Up! Cruise Update - 4

 

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We are having such an amazing time on the Allure of the Seas ship and one of our favorite parts of every cruise is Formal Night!  We get dressed up and love seeing our friends all dressed up, and of course being waited on for 2 hours at dinner is just AMAAAZING! :)  Here are a few photos from our first formal night on this ship.

Eric, Patty and Jason Bennett

Formal Night tablemates, Doug and Stella MacKay

Formal Night cruise tablemates Mark and Ruth Bingle

Some of the yummy desserts ordered at our table!

Patty, Eric and Jason at formal night dinner.

Some of my very dearest Stampin' Up! demonstrator friends!

Stella MacKay, Jan Wakeland, Janice Weightman, and me :)

So for fun, we did the mini golf on the ship after dinner.. in our formal attire!! AND whohooo I got a hole in one!!!

Well, I hope you enjoyed that little peek into a Formal Night on the ship. WE are having fun, eating way too much but having a great time!

Check in again for more photos.. as you can tell, the internet connection seems to be cooperating so far on the ship.. isn't that pretty crazy that I can be blogging from the middle of the Caribbean!?

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Patty's 2014 Stampin' Up! Cruise Update - 3

 

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We are having such an amazing time on the Allure of the Seas ship with a few hundred Stampin' Up! demonstrators from all over the world!  You would not believe the huge-factor scale of this ship.. it's amazing!!

Below: the "boardwalk" at the rear of the ship, and the Aqua Theater at the very back.

Below: Central Park on the ship... it feels like you are in a mall on this ship... we only felt it move once on the very first night and after that we have not even felt it move!!  amazing.. like a floating city!

Below: beautiful glass birds in Central Park

below: yep, even mini golf on this ship!!!

below: a Dreamworks parade in the Royal Promenade with Shrek and lots of fun dressed up characters

A couple of fun photos for you from the Stampin' Up! Gathering Room.. so fun to hang out and visit with other demonstrators... here I am with Dawn and Leonie:

And Stampin Up had some catalogs out for everyone to look at.. check this out.. Eric, Jason and Rich (Dawn's husband) LOVED the new Catalog!

I have formal night photos to share with you tomorrow.. tune in again :)

 

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Patty's 2014 Stampin' Up! Cruise Update - 2

 

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You know that one of the things we all enjoy most about cruising is the food.. right?  So... I just have to share some of the amazing meals we've been enjoying this week on the Allure of the Seas! Thank you Stampin' Up! for this fabulous week!

just a small part of the Dessert Bar at lunch in the Windjammer Cafe

 

Patty's Seafood pasta - dinner, night 1

everyone's favorite treat: the ROLLS with dinner!  This is our waiter, Hera serving Janice and Paul Weightman

Dinner, night 1: cruise achievers and their husbands/families:

Left to right: Betty Button, Jan Wakeland, Patty Bennett and Janice Weightman

 

Eric Bennett and Rich Griffin discussing man-stuff over breakfast

my luxurious breakfast... oh my!!

Jason's double cheeseburger lunch! yum.. and the fries are to die for!!

hope you enjoyed those yummy pictures!

I'll be back tomorrow with more photos from around this amazing ship!

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Stampin' Up! 2014 Caribbean Cruise Swap

 

 

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Today is the big day... the day that we hand in our swaps on the Stampin' Up! cruise!!

Do you remember a couple weeks ago, I shared some of my swap card design ideas with you when I was working on my Cruise Swaps (see this post)? Several of you left me a comment to say which one you liked best.. well, I did kind of a hybrid between 2 of the ideas and this is what I ended up making for my Stampin' Up! Cruise swap!

 

I was so excited that I FINALLY broke out the Backyard Basics stamp set and framelits (can you believe I had not used them yet!?) and I used the butterfly from that stamp set on my cards... then it was published on the retiring list and promptly SOLD OUT within a couple of days! !  Wow!  I hope my fellow cruisers don't mind that this butterfly is now unavailable... oh well. 

A little Behind the Scenes Sneak Peek...

I did a watercolor wash with Calypso coral and Daffodil Delight ink on Watercolor Paper with my Aqua Painter. Then I stamped the butterfly with Staz On ink on the dry paper, and die cut them with Backyard Basics butterfly framelit.

Only had to create 25 swaps for the cruise ... this is how I get all the pieces stamped, cut and ready to assemble.

I punched the tags with the Scalloped Tag Topper Punch with watercolor paper then stamped the flower and stem images from the Simple Stems stamp set on the watercolor paper.

Below is another version of this card.

 

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Patty's 2014 Stampin' Up! Cruise Update - 1

 

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We are having such an amazing time on the Allure of the Seas ship with a few hundred Stampin' Up! demonstrators from all over the world, and their spouses and families!  What a neat experience this has been to meet so many of my fellow demonstrators from all of our foreign markets... Australia, New Zealand, UK, Germany, Netherlands and France!

 We left the San Francisco Bay area and flew over Alcatraz and the Golden Gate Bridge... I never get tired of seeing those California landmarks!

and on the plane we could connect to the Southwest Airlines Wi-fi and track our trip.. how fun is that!? We flew from CA to Chicago and then to Florida.. kind of the long way around but

I wanted to share some fun photos with you from our time on the ship so far... Enjoy!

This was our first sighting of the ship as we rode from the Hyatt Pier 66 hotel to the dock - the Allure of the Seas!  It's HUGE!

Jason took this photo of us as we set sail and left Ft Lauderdale:

Good bye Ft Lauderdale... Caribbean here we come!

Stampin' Up! reserved the outdoor Boardwalk for a private sail away party after dinner.. how cool is that!?

And then we had a private showing of the Oceanaria acrobatic water show.. amazing!

Hope you enjoyed that recap of day 1... I'll post a couple more times this week, so please check back when you can!!

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Setting Sail on a Stampin' Up! Cruise

 

Packed our Bags - CHECK

Checked the list twice - CHECK

Plane Tickets, Cruise Docs and Passports - CHECK

Cleaned the house for the Housesitters - CHECK

We are ready to go! We are boarding the ship today!!

I've been getting a few of my Project Life cards ready for our Memory Album so that I can scrapbook when we return! 

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Cruise Updates:

Starting on Monday, May 5th, I'll be posting some photos and updates from the cruise ship, assuming that the internet connection cooperates!

You can see photos of our amazing ship on my Pinterest Cruise Board here

You can see video from the ship webcam here, use the drop down menu to view other parts of the ship.

 

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Stampin' Up! Caribbean Cruise Passport Packet

 

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My family and I are very blessed to have earned a dozen Stampin' UP! trips/cruises over the 19 years I've been a demonstrator.  I am grateful to my faithful customers for their orders all year long to help me earn these trips!  We will be attending the 2014 Caribbean Stampin' UP! cruise in May, and I thought I'd share my passport cruise packet with you as well as my thoughts on my swap card...

Above:  Stampin' UP! sends us a lovely packet for each trip and it includes luggage tags, lanyard/name badges, agenda, tickets, and a beautiful passport wallet!!  Don't they have amazing attention to detail?

My friend Joy made me this gorgeous beaded lanyard and I'll be attaching my name tag to it, especially for the dinners in the dining room.. won't that be GORGEOUS!?

Below:  Demonstrators are taking 25 cards on the trip to swap... Stampin' UP! will collect them and give us back 25 different cards... I'm working on designs for my swap... do you have a preference?  Leave me a comment below and let me know which one you like best :)

I used my FAVORITE Watercolor Wonder notecards, and Watercolor paper for the Scalloped Tag punches, and the Butterfly from Backyard Basics.  There is a matching Backyard Basics die cut for the butterfly so it makes cutting them out easy!  The stamp set is called Simply Stems and is found on pg 33 in the Occasions catalog.

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How about a little

Throw Back Thursday?

<<< This was the 3 of us on our 2nd cruise with Stampin' Up! in 2002.  We cruised out of NY City to Bermuda.. by far one of my very favorite cruises ever!  (except for the very rough seas on the way back!)

 

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UPDATE:  Sorry to have to report that the Backyard Basics set and matching framelit dies shown above are SOLD OUT.  Remember..  all retiring items are WHILE SUPPLIES LAST.

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