Hi Stampers,

Happy Sunday friends !

Since last Sunday was  occupied with my Glitter Queens retreat

I wasn’t able to post my Sunday share  last week

soooooo This  week I will highlight  some of the fun we all had.

We added Thursday to our retreat  this year.

Years past we had

Friday and Saturday and then everyone left Sunday

 but the last years  retreat I requested  that we add an extra day  and I  loved it so much~

NO rushing trying to get everything in plus we were able to get in a

Final event  treat on Saturday evening ( more on that below).

Thursday  everyone starting arriving around 2:30 pm  and we kicked it off  with making a few  projects.

 1st up was the  new  Christmas card kit in the Holiday catalog called

Watercolor Christmas Project kit  #144649

Here are all the Glitter Queens with their  card we made with this kit .

( Kathie wasn’t able to join us Thursday night so she came in Friday morning  but we made her cards/ projects for her )

The matching stamp set  for this kit also in the

new Holiday catalog  starting Sept 1, 2017

 is called

Watercolor Christmas

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(c)#144838

This kit is really beautiful  plus you get enough

to make 20 cards 5 cards of each design .

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We also made  3 projects using the Coffee cafe’ suite

I posted 2 of the (3)  projects  last this last week  via videos

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Coffee Cafe’ Treat Tube Holder  HERE  

Mini Coffee Cup&  Gift card holder HERE 

   Plus  my Shoe Box swap we all made on Saturday  

which was this video posted HERE

The other videos will be posted this upcoming week .

Friday  we spent all day making  our shoe box swaps .

Everyone  brought  all the supplies for all of us to make their  swap card

 Plus something else brand new this year (Thank you Dee )

 instead of filming everyone

shoe box swap  and then  editing the video and posting them  

to our Glitter Queens team FB page .

We did  FB live videos  of everyone’s swap  

PLUS we had ( 2) extra bonus  FB live videos.

So much fun!!!!  

This way everyone  was involved  in their swap card

 plus I didn’t have to edit them LOL!  

That was seriously so so so much FUN!  

I felt so spoiled  again this year .

I can honestly say every year our retreat  keeps getting better and better  .

I  will  posted all the pillow gifts in  the

2017 Glitter Queens Retreat photo gallery HERE

But here  are a few I will post  for now .

The other one will be posted in the gallery next Sunday since

 I will be posting a video on their last pillow gift next week.

 

When they arrived I had  these beautiful bags waiting for them .

I had  them  made for  each of the ladies  and inside  held a bunch of goodies like

 Coffee Break designer paper / Coffee Break card stock pack/ Linen thread / Ribbon  etc…

They also had these Yeti style cups  waiting for them on

Thursday night on their pillow  which I also had made  with

Glitter Queens on them with their name  as well .  

Plus I made the Coffee Cafe’  coffee packet holder  to  go with it .

This Pillow gift was  given to them on Friday night .

This was a  special  gift all the way from Thailand and China .

Thailand  is where I got the sparkly bags that  all held a

Clear Block “D”  that was engraved with Glitter Queens and also their name.

  Behind  each of the bags ( the way I packaged them all up ) was a  gift we got  while we were passing through

Shanghai China  when coming home from  Thailand .

we seen this guy making stamps  out of  stone .

he craved them while we waited ~ less then 5 minute each  it was amazing .

 Here is an up close photo of the block and the  stamp .

I thought what an amazing little gift

 I also wish I had bought the ink pads he had since our ink does work ‘okay)  but  his ink  was much better  for the stone to stamp

 but the only  color he had was red .  ( lesson learned ) which is why  all the stones were stained in Red  

since he stamped them for me  before we left to make sure they were all correctly spelled .  

The stone’s was craved  with each of our names and  our name’s in Chinese  below that .

Which if you look closely at  all the gifts  above  wrapped up,

I stamped  each of their names on the tag  so  we knew which package went to the Glitter Queen on their pillow .

The Clear Block, Yeti style cup and Bags

were all  purchased through Tamara Davis .

Side note to all my  Glitter Queens:

Tamara will be  opening a  link for you  if you want  the cup and bag  like  shown above.

 All of us wearing  our Glitter Queen t-shirt that

 was a pillow gift from Kathie and she made them all for us  

 They are all gorgeous and so sparkly….of course in all our favorite colors too .

This years retreat I also added  a 3-D project  

This is like our Shoe Box swap BUT

everyone designed a 3-D project and brought all the supplies for all of us to make it .

Saturday we sent all day making everyone’s  3-D project.

So much FUN!

My FSM club members will get to view some of those

awesome swaps & 3-D projects  for  September & October . 

My 3-D project uses the Coffee Cafe’ suite  and that

video will be posted this upcoming week .

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 Around 5 pm Saturday  we took off  for our final event  which  we went to the  

Sea Life Aquarium  and then went to the Rainforest Cafe’ for dinner.

Seriously it was Saturday night  all  the giggles  really came out  

from being up so late every night

I know Thursday was at least a 2 am  bed time and  Friday was past 3 am bed time

I think it caught  up to all of us Saturday night .

What were we thinking when we thought it was a great idea

to do  a FB live on Kris’s pillow gift LOL!

 So many laughs!

 I love  my Glitter Queen team!

My  Glitter Queens ~ you  are the BEST!

 Those that attended  my GQ retreat and those that joined us on our FB live~  Thank you .

 I can’t express  how much  our  short time together  

filled my soul with happiness to the tippy top  of my head .

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August 1- 31, 2017

Right now  you can get your hands on these beautiful sneak peek item’s

that will be in the new Holiday catalog.

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Have a fabulous Sunday friends !

Until Later.. Happy Stamping

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