My Hostess Appreciation Day

Last Saturday was my Hostess Appreciation Day that I hold at the beginning of each new catalog that Stampin' Up! releases. I invite my past hostesses from that last catalog to come over for a full fun day that is all about them. This day I had around 40 ladies invited and 33 got to come. This was the most ladies I have had attend one of my hostess appreciation days and I was thrilled!!!

Here is my basement set up waiting for everyone to show up.

I was so excited to be able to display the brand new catalog, the brand new decor elements brochure, the sale-a-bration catalog and this lovely umbrella I got at Leadership this year.

I use our pool table for the project that they all got to do this day.

Here is the project they got to do while they were here that day. I used Rose Red, Kiwi Kiss & Regal Rose Cardstock, the brand new Raspberry Tart DSP, Rose Red 1/4" Grosgrain Ribbon, Jumbo Eyelets with the Crop-a-dile, the brand new Stampin' Up! Sweetest Stem Embosslits Die with the Big Shot, Border Scallop Punch and the stamp sets Holidays & Wishes and the brand new Sweet Stems.

The inside of this awesome project. Is this not the neatest thing ever?? It is one of the easiest projects to make. All you need is one sheet of 8 1/2 x 11 cardstock, score at 5 1/2" (middle of 11" length), turn 90 degrees and score at 2", cut a "v" and fold up. Attach the sides with Sticky Tape. One side holds your regular sized cards and the other side holds the envelopes.

This project makes a great gift idea too.

These are the gifts I made for the ladies that re-signed up for this new Spring/Summer Catalog Clubs I will be having for the next 5 months. They received these bookmarks personalized with their first initial along with their new catty. They loved them!!!

I used our On Board Frames that Demonstrators got to order last year in bulk. I still have alot of them left over so I got those out and stamped on them, added our ribbon, our new Clear Rhinestone Brads and the stamp set called Lovely Letters. I have been wanting this stamp set for awhile now but did not want to get it and have to put it together. After this new catty came out I decided to order it since now ALL stamp sets are die cut!! This set of 30 stamps only took me about 10 minutes to put together since the letters were all die cut. Gotta love that!!!

Sorry this picture is not the best. Here is what the bookmark looks like in the catalog. Too cute!!! AND I forgot to make myself one!!! How could I do this??

I made these cute little gifts for my ladies that were in my clubs for the last catalog that did not miss one club meeting. This was their "Thank You" gift for making all the meetings.

I used our Decor Elements flower in Rose Red and purchased these sticky notes from Wal-Mart. To help this project stay together since most ladies will probably keep them in their purse I used our Crystal Effects, this stuff is like super glue for scrapbookers and I love it!!

All I did is measured my big sticky note pad and went from there making the booklet. Very easy and fast to make. All the ladies that received one just loved them and of course I made one for myself to carry around so I can mark all the wonderful pages of my new Spring/Summer Catalog. I am sure I will have almost every page in this awesome catalog!!

Too cute!!

These are the gifts I made for everyone that RSVP'd to come to my hostess day. These are the mini legal pads you can purchase at any office store. I picked mine up at Staples and had them cut them into 3rds for me. I attached magnets to the back of them so they can now hang them on anything they want for a quick note or list.

I think they turned out great and everyone just loved them.


These are some calendars I picked up at Target in the dollar bin that my good friend and downline, Kelly, altered for me. I used these as some door prizes. Did they not turn out too cute?? Thanks Kelly for doing this for me, it helped me alot!!!

She also did these for me too. These are also calendars that I picked up at Target in the dollar bin. They are just the bigger ones. These too turned out awesome!! Thanks Kelly again for all your help!!

I also had other pocket calendars that I picked up at Target that were already prettied up that Nicole, my good friend and upline, added some ribbon to them for me. They turned out awesome and I totally forgot to get a picture of them!! I had like 10 of them that I also gave away as door prizes. Thanks Nicole for doing that for me, it helped alot!!!

This is an area that I reserve for give aways. These items are raffled off if anyone places an order that day. They receive a ticket for every $5.00 they spend that day to choose which item they want a chance to win. Everyone always loves this and I do it at all my Hostess Appreciation Days.

Here is the food table. I always make the main portion of the meal, which I made chili this time, and everyone else signs up to bring other items. For every item they bring they get an extra ticket in the door prize drawing bucket. We always end up with lots of great food and lots to drink!!!

The ladies have started arriving!!!

Here I am showing off my brand new Stampin' Up! sweater I got at Leadership. Gotta love all the Stampin' Up! logo items they make available to us demonstrators.

Welcoming everyone.

I had everyone busy doing a word search using Stampin' Up! words while we were waiting on a few more to show up.

After everyone showed up and I went through all the awards I give out to my hostesses and all the new announcements from Stampin' Up! my hostesses got to play a very fun game that involves gift wrapping and prizes!!!!

This game is played to music and four different gifts being passed around the huge circle. When the music stops whoever is holding the gift gets to open it. The only thing about these gifts is no one know how many times they have been wrapped!!!!

It is always exciting to see who finally gets to the actual present.

For this game I had four gifts going around and had 6 winners!!! I usually put some small items in between some of the layers of wrapping. Everyone always has so much fun!!!

I also have contests going on where they can bring items they have made using all Stampin' Up! products. I have a card, layout and 3-D categories. Anyone is welcome to bring items for these categories and everyone gets to vote for their favorite in each group. Here Dianne won for her layout, Kelly won for her card and Sheila won for her 3-D item. They all get a FREE stamp set from me for winning. Thanks ladies for all the awesome items everyone brought. It was hard deciding on just one in each category to vote for!!!

Random pictures of everyone doing their projects, eating or just talking.

Here I am holding up the name of the lady who won the Grand Door Prize which was a bucket full of items from the brand new Retro Fresh Style Watch that is on page 10-11 of the brand new catty. This included the stamp set Cheep Talk, On Board So Tweet, Good Morning Sunshine DSP, Flower Assortment Designer Brads, Bright Delights Rub-Ons, Hooray Designer Hardware and Pig Tails Ribbon Originals. Emily H. won this awesome prize!!!! Congrats Emily for winning and thank you to all of you awesome ladies for coming!!!

To all of you!!!! I thank you for your friendship and business. I would not be where I am today without all of you!!!

**there is also other great prizes and specials that go on this special day but you have to be a hostess to take advantage of these. If you would like more information on how to become a hostess please email me anytime.

Enjoy,
Tiffany

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