Stampin Stresss Away with Carole'Anne

Monday traveling location revealed

Good morning to y'all on this fin Monday morning
Today is not a usual back to work Monday.
Oh no friends. Today is my reveal day!
Most you have guessed that I am indeed in Florida State!!
You may not know is that I am here with my very good friend Lee!!
You see Lee earned the Disney incentive trip and I am super blessed to be her guest for this memorable trip!
I have never earned the Stampin Up trip myself, so thus is so special.
When I say special I mean in several ways!
I have had the pleasure if being hosted my Lee and her wonderful husband Darrell! Oh my I have been spoiled. On Saturday night they made me the most amazing dinner!!!!
They made steak and lobster it was just so amazing. I'll share photos of that on the weekend
Cause today I wanted to share a fee photos with you to show you that I am in deed in Florida!
Now the other super special event that took place is that I was gifted the time to meet a very very dear friend of mine.
Her name Is Tammy Jackson.
Lee arranged a a very
very special lunch for us
It was really a remarkable lunch date with Tammy.
Who would of thought that we as Internet friends would ever meet.
Well we did and she is just as sweet as I had thought.
Sooooooooo what a special time I have had all ready
Last night we had got to reunite with my sis Sandi and we got to meet her husband Ian!
Thank you Ian for helping finish my dinner he he
What else could I ask for??!!!! I am a lucky girl
Today friends we are doing Disney!!
I know uh??
How exciting I'll be sure to post photos!!
I have more blog candy for y'all!!
So here's my question to you today
Can you guess any rides that I may go on??
I will draw for all the blog candy when I am home on Sunday!!
So for now I will wish you a magical day!!
Embossed hug from me
Carole'Anne Sluchinski
Aka Stampin Stressaway

Day 2 of my trip second hint

Good morning to y'all
Had really good flights
Started with a fairly long delay leaving Edmonton airport!
Would you believe we had a snow storm!
Oh yes I do reside in Alberta after all!
We were on the runway at the airport for over an hour waiting for the plane to get de-iced!
Oh well it's part of traveling
Now I have arrived and I can assure you I do not have any snow here lol
Ouh la la so nice
Look at a couple of photos that I attached
Can you tell where I am?
It's so pretty uh
Had a delicious meal last night!
I love fish and I got to have a fabulous fish feast.
So clue two:
Word: humid
Letters: O - I
Fun giggle giggle
So friends today I get to do something super special I will share photos of that most likely Monday!!!
So for now I will leave y'all with a wish for a super wonderful Saturday!!!!
Embossed hug from me
Carole'Anne M Sluchinski
AKA Stampin Stressaway

Hint of travels along with the BIG NEWS from Stampin UP & my recipe

holly cow friends I have  a packed post blog today

first let me just share this

 it's my first hint

I am going to give a word hint

and then two letters!

ready

word is WATER

second hint is two letter

an 'A' AND 'R'

ouh this is fun uh?

okay now I had tried yesterday to get that recipe posted and well I failed

so here

we go

ouh yes it worked yahoooooo

all right now for the big news from

Stampin Up

we got alot of stuff to look after in classes in May uh ladies??

Annettes class will be Sunday May 13th

and

Kathy's class will be Sunday May 27th

same time same location!!!

we will review all this news at those classes

wanta see now the news

Click below to get the list of accesories that are retiring

Download Availability_en-CA

now for the Stamps that are retiring

Download RetiredStamps_0412_en-CA

that should be all the news from
Stampin Up for you all

oh don't worry the scissors are not retiring

so don't panic it was just an error!!!!

so friends if you need or WANT lol

any of the items on the list keep in mind that it's while supplies last!

you can shop on line anytime

Click right here to start shopping right now!!!!

tomorrow

I'll will be posting from my mystery location

are you having fun yet

I know I am

I am beyond excited about this trip

oh I know travelling it so exciting and I totally love it

y'all have a good day now you hear!

Embossed hug from me

The travelling Girl

Carole'Anne M. Sluchinski

AKA STampin STressaway

 

 

 

part 2 of Rue Des Fleurs Cards for Admin Week

Good morning

I cannot beleive it's all ready Thursday

which really feels like Friday to be since in just a little over 24 hours I'll be heading to the airport

you all know how much I love to travel and how this is one of passions

I know I have alot of passion he he I guess it makes life interesting

however THIS trip is beyond special to me

words really cannot express how excited I am

and so tomorrow I'll drop you a hint at the airport!

but for now let me share the last two of my admin cards

the first will be Kaylas

the colours for card

Basic Black

Whisper White

& Tempting Turquoise

I used the same dies as I did on Tracey's cards

I coloured her card a little different

I used the ink from my stamp pad lid with a blender pen

looking pretty don't you think?

voila Kayla's card

I like this colour combo

onto Renee's card now

colour I chose for Renee was Melon Mambo

used the same technique as Kaylas card

last details and I know present to you Renee's card

voila

let me share all three cards

do you have a favorite 

I just love to read your comments 

I so enjoy them!

so friends you keep the guess' coming

I'll drop you all a hint tomorrow

the reveal will be in the next few days and then I'll

announce the BLOG CANDY WINNER

yhahoooooo

all right I better go I have to be a work

got lot's to do today before I leave

so until tomorrow

I wish you all a great day

embossed hug from me

Carole'Anne M. Sluchinski

AKA Stampin STressaway

Recipe day and a post of some installs that Evan and I did

Good morning y'all

I am a little later then usual this morning

But slowly I am making this happen he he

so on this fine Wednesday the plan was to announce my mystery location

however a little change in plan

thought I would have a bit of fun with you all

so Friday I'll drop you a hint

Saturday I will post a few photos of my location

I will reveal the location during the following week

so you just keep guessing okay

and just for the record I did not earn the insitive trip

sadly I am no where near high enough in sales to make that

I do so love to Stamp and love everythin Stampin Up

maybe one day but not for me this year!

oh and I will draw for some BLOG CANDY

so onto posting some photos

this is the lovely purple stripe that we did on a trailer

another view of this trailer

then we went and did this gravel truck

we did the graphics on the hood as well as the door decals on this truck

Evan was a fabulous help 

this is my day job!

well part of it anyways

I wanta share a photo of Max (you know how has gained a little weight - we just found out that he has an under active Thyroid - He is on medication for this now)

does he not look like a stuffed toy or what?

yha we love our little boy

my day yesterday was a success always stressdful to do all the business aspects of business'

but this is a good thing I am done with that! yhippy

now I should most likely pack tomorrow uh?

tonight I will be helping a friends with some accounting so it won't happen tonight

it will be last minute! lol

I am beyond excited for my trip 

I do have a recipe for you

however the MAC is causing me grief on this fine day

so I'll send this recipe in an email to the office so I can post it from there

sorry

I am trying to master this laptop

it's just challenging lol

I'll get there I know I will 

anyways friends you keep them guess' coming cause I will slowly reveal the location of the mystery trip

oh come on it will be fun don't you think?

lol

Wishing you a super WONDERFUL Wednesday 

embossed hug from me

Carole'Anne M. Sluchinski

 

Rue Des Fleur thank you for your support Admin. Cards for my staff

good day y'all

today is Tuesday 

well for me it feels like a Wednesday - as I hinted yesterday I am leaving on a jet plane on Friday

tomorrow I will reveal the location that the Jet Plane will be taking me

Some of you are VERY VERY close

haven't hit it on the dot yet but oh boy so close!

Today is my BUSY IN THE CITY day

I have all the year end stuff meetings to accomplish

I have an install in the middle of that and to meet a new customer

tonight we have doggie training 

this is why I am up at 2:25am so I can do it all he he

it was a good day yesterday of getting the office back in order and sorting thru all the trade show stuff 

we put alot of our stock that we have left away and we are ready to make decals and signs he he

it jus thappens though that I have month end while I am away 

(you know to that mystery location lol)

so Tracey and I had to nail that yesterday as well

But feels good we can have a nice clean start!

all right enough about my real job stuff

oh and last night I made that Maple Salmon for supper

it was so yhummy - even my non Fish Eater Tyler ate it - yhippy victory lol

The rest of the clan all loved it - I am lucky that my entire family all loves fish!!!!!!

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let me share some cards

yes can you beleive it I have CARDS lol

that's why you are here after all right??

he he

okay so It's Admin week this week and I have three fabulous staff that I wanted to show my appreciation to

sooooooooo oh yes I made three cards 

I started with Tracey

I used her fav colour(purple which  in Stampin Up Colour is) 

Elegant Eggplant

all the cards share the same

Very Vanilla and Basic Black as there base

I used Rue Des Fleurs Stamp Set on these cards

I also used the wonderful Designer Cuts Cards on Page 9 of our current mini

so are you ready

card base and coloured cards stock ready

a little Big Shot Action here

I just love that Stampin Up has these wonderful new edgelits dies now 

and that there is even the impression embossing folders to match

see how wonderful this turns out with these two great Die Innovation

Ahw thank you Stampin Up!

my little stamp trick

visualize the images before starting to stamp

stamped the image 

now for some colouring

looking very pretty don't you think?

a little greetings

love making bows with Miss Lee's Bow Maker

ouh details thats always fun to be putting little details on cards that I create

and there we have it my first card 

this is Tracey's Admin card

I will share one more photo of her card 

tomorrow will be trip reveal day and recipe day

and Thursday I'll share Kayla and Renee's cards

there we have it friends

hope you enjoyed an actual card post day lol

On Friday as you know I will be travelling

so I will not be able to post

Saturday though I will post from my mystery location

I am so excited and look so forward to sharing with you all!

so here's to a fabulous day

embossed hug from me

Carole'Anne M. Sluchinski

AKA Stampin Stressaway

good Monday morning it was a great Tradeshow event

good morning to you all 

hope your weekend was a great one

ours was a very busy productive and a fun one

We did our trade show yhippy

it was a really good weekend to get to see everyone and to make new contacts and just to visit with some people I have not seen for a long time

my team was amazing I tell you I would of never been able to get everything done without them

I want to take this time to thank

Renee for all the design work that went into the new logo the new image and the many details to make the booth fab.(the countless hours spent on this tradeshow and for making us look amazing)

Kayla for all the extra hours you put in and the great work ethics you have girl(you are the rock of the team)

Tracey for being our backbone to this operation(and Tracey's husband for whipping up a fabulous table thank you Bruce)

holly girl you always had our back and thank you for staying late last night and helping 

thank you Evan for helping me with installs during the week and for the help setting up and loading stuff into the tradeshow

Woody thank you for helping Renee with the designs and the cool drawings for the new image and for staying late last night as well

sooooooo you can see I am so blessed to have such a wonderful team who really made this Trade show such a success

oh before I share photos I need to wish one of my wonderful ladies from Card group a happy birthday

DAR I WISH YOU A SUPER TERRIFIC BIRTHDAY 

LET ME KNOW HOW THEM FIREFIGHTERS LOOK OKAY? LOL

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let me share with you some photos from our weekend

 

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on Wednesday when I walked in the trade show this is what our booth looked like

down the isle

now let me show you how we put things together

This is the  banner bug that we had at wour booth

this was my helper

(My Evan - for Thursday and Friday - I'll share installs during the week)

our wall that we assembled  this was Thursday's task

crazyness trying to put the booth together and make it look fabulous

this was Friday afternoon hours before the show started

details

ouh la la it's coming together

looks good don't you think?

so on Friday night we found that people where wondering who we were

so on Saturday morning at like 4:00 am I whipped up this banner

then Tracey and I hung in the booth

on Saturday morning

voila

you can also see all the shadow boxes that the girls created here

they were filled with different products that we do

and we hung them on our display wall

we really did have a really great weekend

I am wee bit tired but hey ready for the week ahead

I have HUGE NEWS THAT I WILL SHARE WITH YOU ON WEDNESDAY

I will be getting on a jet plane and leaving the country on Friday 

can you guess what I am doing?

oh my - I am so excited and it's truly an experience of a lifetime for me

oh yes suspense don't you love it??

so if you can guess where I am heading out on Friday

I am offering some YHUMMY CALORIE FREE

BLOG CANDY

now Tammy you cannot play along on this one sorry cause you all ready know my big news lol

anyways friends I thank you all so much for your patiences and understanding in the lack of blog posts in the last week or so

I do have cards to share - I actually did spend a couple of hours creating cards for my staff on Sunday morning

so I will share that with you tomorrow and Wednesday

oh and I need to wish my son a GREAT day at his first day back at College today

he is going to NAIT for his last year of JOURNEYMAN HEAVY DUTY MECHANIC

how blessed am I to have two wonderful kids who have chosen good college education

sigh

all right enough of that lol

so for now I wish you all a marvelous Monday

embossed hug from me

Carole'Anne M. Sluchinski

AKA Stampin Stressaway

a Quick Thursday post with a few special cards received

Good day y'all

sorry about yesterday and I am going to appologize now before the weekend begins lol

It has been so fun getting ready to the trade show this weekend

BUT having said that I have had no spare time

Renee and I have worked till at least 8 or 9pm every day this week so far (Renee did till 11 on Tuesday night)

so needless to say not much down time has been had around here he he

oh don't you worry we like it that way lol

I am happy that even with this trade show coming up

we have several orders that had to be completed

and today I have installs

except that I have a different little elf helping me 

it's going to be Evan who will be my install buddy

we will do an End Dump trailer

the stripe I would compare it to the retired colour of Orchid Opulence 

I'll take photos he he

then we are doing a gravel truck along with the cab

after that we will be doing some order deliveries 

oh then we pick up the rest of the stuff for our booth

tonight we get to start setting up

FUN stuff can't wait to share that with you all

My team has worked so hard to make this happen

Thank you Tracey for bein the such a valued team member

Kayla thank you for working late even if you were unwell (sigh)

Renee You are the BOMB girl - you are doin awesome

Woody thank you for helpin Renee on Tuesday

to my boys - thank you for bein such a  GREAT house cleaners (you all did such a FAB job house is amazing)

all right I know you are not hear to read all this blah blah

I will continue to share cards that I received 

this card is from my mom and Bill

the tulips she chose cause they are my FAV flower

pretty uh?

this pretty card is from Wanda

look at the beautiful unique folds on this card

I love she printed my name on the front and the colours she chose

so pretty uh?

I have one last card to share with you all

it's my Darrell

here we have it 

this is Darrell's card 

he really did an amazing job on my card don't you all think??

I am blessed to have such wonderful friends and family in my life

for today I will leave you with this adorable photo of Max

you see we have had some snow 

and Max had a lot of snow balls on his little paws

he is not just too cute lol

so friends I wish you all a super fabulous Thursday 

I will try to post tomorrow 

but if I don't I beleive you know why uh??

putting in these 15 to 17 hour days in cutting into my stampin time hehe

have a good day y'all

embossed hug from me

Carole'Anne M. Sluchinski

AKA Stampin Stressaway

 

Special cards I received - share day

Good day y'all

as you know this week is a busy one for me - all good though! 

It's coming along

having a few little elves help me sure is good

thank you Tracey for volunteering Bruce to create a table for us yhippy

our table clotes will look awesome

things are happening 

we got a nice shipment of beautiful promotional products

ouh la la now for our business cards yhikes hope they get here on time

fingers crossed he he

so today I will share a few special cards that I received from my wonderful family and friends

homemade birthday cards are just the best to me

I love the effort and time that was spent and the thought you know??

it's so very special to me and feel so blessed 

I have such a wonderful environment

all right so let me share a few of them right now

the left card is Kayla's 

cute with the little rope uh>

she and Tyler gave me a gift card for Lamlees for cowboy boots

(we tried to get me boots this weekend sadly no one even has a boot close to my little foot sad)

the right card is from my Evan

he is so cute he he

the pretty pink ard is from Tracey at work

and the right card is from Tyler

I love the big green button they are sweet to take the time to make me cards don't you think??

makes me feels super special

I have more to share but I will show them tomorrow or Thursday 

if I am on a the ball I'll have a recipe for you tomorrow he he

Cake that Tracey brought for my birthday yhum

Evan and Kayla

we went out for dinner the three of us

so cute we had these little mini desserts 

lol can you tell we love desserts he he

last photo of a sneak peak at the products we have received he he

I want to post the retirement list

but I need help

cause for some reason this little MAC is giving grief again lol

I will learn all the tricks of the trade I will

just taking some time lol

so tomorrow I will have that list up for you all

so you can get your hands on any of the sets that you may had on your wish list

they will be gone and no longer available after May 31,2012

so for now this is my funny post for this Tuesday

I wish you all a really terrifik day 

 

embossed hug from me

Carole'Anne M. Sluchinski

AKA Stampin STressaway

Rue Des Fleurs little thank you Card

Good morning friends

hope you all had a great weekend

my plan to post on the weekend did not quite work out

sorry

it was a busy one

Saturday I was up around 2:00am

I did come and play in my craft room for a few hours

then I made a huge batch of italian spaghettie sauce

also made some homemade dressing for ceasar salad

then got some garlic bread ready

some homemade guacamolie

last but not least made a dessert

called sex in a pan 

meal was ready and headed to work

Kayla and I worked till 6:00pm that day

it was a long day

Sunday brought a weird morning for me when I woke up at 1:00am and could not go back to sleep 

ghurh 

anyways 

I did all my house stuff that needed to be done you know the ones laundry bathroom blah blah

then went to the city and tried to shop a little (that was not successful LOL)

then had my hair done - after that we met up for supper with my MOM and Bill

it was such a nice dinner - we really enjoyed it (and I did not cook and clean up yhippy for me)

I will be sharing all the wonderful cards that I received this week - since I have not been stampin alot

oh but trust me friends today I do have a nice little card to share with you 

I used the Stampin 411 sketch for this one

I started with a black base

cut some mocha morning DSP

this is such beautiful DSP

following the sketch

looking nice 

just trying to decide how stamp will go on

a beautiful  bow

prepared to stamp I used black ink and gold

i coloured in the areas I wanted black and the areas I wanted gold

stamped - let's assemble

when I have lot's of layers I always use sticky strip to adhere

are you ready 

 I have a card for you he he

it looks okay right?

I wanted to make it fairly manly for Darrell

that is it for today

and i'll be back tomorrow 

what will I post tomorrow

photos of cards I got or all the stuff we are doing for trade show??

let me hear from you

would love see what your interested in

thanks friends for being so patient with me lately

I know I have been less then faithful with my blog posts

I hope you know I try he he

have super wonderful Monday

embossed hug from me

Carole'Anne M. Sluchinski

AKA Stampin Stressaway