Heartfelt Stampin' Event 2012

As mentioned on Friday, a group of us went into Sydney on Saturday to attend Stampin' Up Heartfelt Stampin' Event 2012 at the Convention Centre.  We had a great day watching demonstrators show some clever projects, seeing how some of the tools can be used, playing with a few of the products, checking out other demonstrators cards and projects and doing a couple of make and takes.  Some people are so clever the ideas they come up with.  Wish I had that knack.  We saw Christmas wreaths, bird house gift boxes, beautiful toppers for presents and lots of cards.  We all came home with lots of ideas buzzing around in our heads of things to try and make.  One of our group even won a prize in the lucky door competition.  We also had an interesting lunch with something in it no-one could identify but tasted OK.  

Before the event we were asked to make our own name tags to show off our creativity.  I wanted something similar for our group and of course mine had to be a bit different than everyone elses.  My excuse was I had more letters in my name so mine was a bit bigger!!  We all had owls on a brown background and our names in retired Summer Sun.  Of course I forgot to take a photo of everyone elses, but here is my badge.

 They were all blinged up a little with pearls and diamontes and I think they all looked good.  Of course there were some really beautiful and creative name badges but I was happy with ours.  Next time we might actually do some stamping!

This is one of the make and takes we were able to finish.  Everyone was given the Clockworks stamp set as part of the registration and we used this set to complete our projects.  This is a note pad cover complete with Simply Scored cover with Fancy Flower punch flower and Vintage Faceted Designer buttons.  Unfortunately it got a little squished on the train trip home.

 

There were four make and take projects in all, but we just ran out of time as there was so much to see.  And we still didn't get to see everything there.  If we go again we will have to make better use of our time.

All in all, a great day out.