Convention Day 2

Are y'all ready for this update?!! Ready or not, here I go....

Shelli Gardner (Co-Founder & CEO) is entering the world of blogging! Her blog will show a personal side of Shelli that we don't get to see at SU! events and it will also have a creative challenge for her readers and she will choose the winner(s)! Her blog launches Monday, Aug. 4 @ 9a MST.

Shelli also announced that we will soon be able to purchase items from "Shelli's Collection". These are stamps, accessories and other things that she helped design personally. They will debut in the Holiday mini (except for the apron that Demonstrators could purchase here at Convention!).

This November, SU! and Country Living Magazine will once again partner to offer another stamp kit. It will be in the December issue of Country Living Magazine and will be showcased in a 21-page spread. How awesome is that?!

Watch for a great promotion coming in August! A way too cute camping set named "Under the Stars" and some other stamp sets (they wouldn't tell which ones) will be offered at a discount. This set is awesome and we were shown a card that will absolutely have you putting it at the top of your Wish List!

Decor Elements - LOTS going on here and today makes me really upset I forgot the cable to upload pictures from my camera so you can see these samples now instead of waiting until I get home!!

New colors will be available as well as 2-step Decor Elements this fall! What colors you ask? Chocolate Chip, Pixie Pink, Gable Green & So Saffron will be the colors for the Ginormous Flowers Decor Elements.

Chocolate Chip and "...a couple other colors" are the colors for the Nursery Necessities Decor Elements (they're making us wait until fall for "the other colors").

I believe Chills and Thrills only comes in black but I'm not 100% positive. I'll have to ask about this one tomorrow to make sure. I think it does because this is a Halloween Decor Element.

Real Red and Old Olive are the colors for Spotlight on Christmas Decor Element and you're absolutely going to LOVE this one!

Season of Thanks is a beautiful Decor Element and we only saw it in Chocolate Chip so I'll have to check on this one as well to see if it will come in any other color or colors. Stay tuned.

Catalog Observations:

I'm not going to comment on the stamp sets new to the catalog because it would take too much time and there isn't much to say other than I love them! Honestly, I haven't found many that I just do not like!

Since SU! will no longer be sending the Techniques Booklets with every order, there is a technique at the beginning of every section of the catalog. I love this!

Throughout the catalog you will find the usual samples but along with those you will find the items used to create those samples! It's not on every page but for the ones that it is on, it's easier to figure out what to use to recreate the project! The only thing not listed are the colors used!

The new In Colors are beautiful! Pacific Point is dark blue, Baja Breeze is medium-light blue, Kiwi Kiss is green, Riding Hood Red....red, Pink Pirouette....pink and Tangerine Tango is orange. Weird names but beautiful colors! I was able to get some great swap cards with these colors for y'all to see at the New Catalog Open House! :c)

Die Cuts - Blooms Again are die cut card stock flowers in Baja Breeze, Very Vanilla, Close to Cocoa & Kiwi Kiss. $8.95 for 1, 12x12 sheet of each color for a total of more than 120 pieces.

Gift Notes - 10 of each color - Kiwi Kiss, Riding Hood Red and Kraft, $9.95

Textured Love Notes - 10 of each color - Tangerine Tango, Bashful Blue, Old Olive, $12.95

Scallop Notes - 10 of each color - Pink Pirouette, Baja Breeze & Chocolate Chip, $11.95.

Carousel Notes - They made it into the "big" catalog from one of the mini catalogs!! 10 of each color - Ruby Red, Kiwi Kiss, Baja Breeze, $11.95.

Designer Series Paper - Summer Picnic is the only DSP you've seen before and you're going to absolutely LOVE every package of DSP!! This is the prettiest DSP I've seen yet - I want it all!! $9.95 per package.

Simply Scrappin' - They're all new as well and my mind is spinning! I need to catch up on my scrapbooks and darn if this isn't the best way to do it! $19.95 per package.

Simply Sent Card Elements - These have been moved from the front of the catalog where everyone missed them to the back where they belong! I think you're going to like these! Don't know where to start when you want to make a card? No worries, these kits include the elements you need to embellish and create fun, vibrant cards. Photos and project instructions are included but coordinating stamp sets are sold separately.

Rub-ons - We have 8 new rub-ons and I haven't been able to pick out my favorite one yet!

Chipboard - New chipboard. Including two more types of letters. and a great seasonal one with snowflakes, leaves, etc. An onboard album that is a ring binder 8 1/2 x 8 1/2 size and sheet protectors.

Flower fusion that is chocolate chip, baja breeze and pink pirouette.

New Accents and Elements that are really nice especially a new Christmas one.

How cool is this...a new clip assortment,/designer brads to die for mini library clips and Hodgepodge hardware is back in the stylized silver and VANILLA!

I LOVE the way the ribbon is displayed in the catalog!! Not only can you see what the ribbon looks like but you can see how wide it is too!

Chocolate Chip thick grosgrain is back and brought with it Rose Red, Sage Shadow, Old Olive.

A new double stitched 1 inch ribbon in four colors and a new 5/8 inch striped ribbon..the stripes in the middle with color on each end in the in colors.

A new 1 1/4 inch grosgrain in pink pirouette and a poly twill ribbon 7/8 inch in So Saffron.Taffeta Ribbon adds Riding hood red to the colors.New Designer buttons in an assortment.

NEW PUNCHES!! A scalloped square, a larger 1 3/4 circle, a wide oval, a scallop edge punch.

Curly label punch bundle - No more box on this one.

One new classy brass templates called Floral Frenzy that matches the Easter Blooms set that we got at convention.

Stipple brushes remain despite them saying they were retiring. I don't know what's going on with these so I'll have to ask tomorrow and let you know later. Right now it's bedtime for me!!

I will see you again tomorrow night to post the update for tomorrow!