We enjoyed our annual employee appreciation lunch in Riverton and Kanab—good food and even better company! I look forward to the chance to mingle with and formally thank our awesome coworkers for their contribution to Stampin’ Up!

I’m still on a high from the grand opening for Courage Reins’ new indoor arena! It was everything and more than we expected! We called the event Celebrate Courage, and served a yummy BBQ dinner, enjoyed entertainment from David Osmond, and ended with a live auction.

It was the week of OnStage, and since Sara was on her way to Australia when Jacque Williams reached her million-sales milestone, I got to call and congratulate Jacque! We had a delightful visit over the phone, and I planned to post her over-the-top card the next morning, but I got on a plane to Milwaukie and completely forgot. That was nearly two weeks ago, and I feel horrible!

Please forgive me, Jacque, and we’ll see you soon! I’ll make it up to you, I promise! This is such an enormous accomplishment, and we’re so proud of you!  

While there were over a dozen OnStage Locals around the world, Sterling and I were blessed to be at the Milwaukie OnStage.

With almost 500 employees worldwide, babies are an inevitable blessing to our Stampin’ Up! family...and deserving of an adorable card (along with a gift card, of course!). It’s always more fun to congratulate the new parents when you can send a card like this one. I love the simple texture!

We go to the cabin twice a year to watch general conference, a time when leaders of our church speak to the world. I love general conference weekends! My testimony of the gospel of Jesus Christ is always strengthened!

This is the simple (and inexpensive…about $1 each) gift we gave our girls and their families yesterday in preparation for Easter. The tag totally says spring to me! The wheat berries sprout and grow quickly, so everyone is excited to see the progress each day. It’s a great opportunity to talk about the significance of new life and how it applies to Jesus Christ.

When I post a photo of the grandkids’ birthday packaging, I’ve been including a recent photo of the grandchild as well. When I post photos of our girls’ and their spouses’ packaging, I’ve just been posting their gift packaging. While I like sharing stamped projects, I love sharing something about our family. And when there’s a photo of family—all the better! So, I’ve decided to start something new.

My sweet sister Leslie passed away suddenly and unexpectedly last Monday morning. We’re not sure why, but we have faith that God has a plan and this was her time to go back to her heavenly home.

Dawn Olchefske recently achieved the remarkable milestone of one million in career sales—an accomplishment deserving of a beautiful and bright card! Of course, we’ll celebrate her in more ways than this when she visits us in Utah, but until then, we send our best wishes and congratulations to Dawn—a remarkable demonstrator!

Shanna and her boyfriend surprised Sterling and came for the weekend to celebrate his birthday. It was so nice to have all of our family together—all except the twins and our missionaries, of course. There’s nothing quite like the love of family. I feel so blessed and grateful for all of mine.

Sara loved purple as a little girl, and she still loves all tones of purple, so I chose Fresh Fig (and some bling) for her birthday packaging. I’ll be sharing a fun technique I used on this project at April’s OnStage. Until then, make time to be inspired and enjoy creating!

We had the opportunity to celebrate Jasmin Schulze and her 1M milestone when she and Jens visited Stampin’ Up! When they landed in Salt Lake City, winter greeted them with snow and ice! When they arrived at the home office, hundreds of us greeted them with cheers and smiles…and hugs, of course!

Tami White recently achieved $2M in career sales—the first person to achieve this in the history of Stampin’ Up! What an extraordinary accomplishment!

One of our employees did a stamping event with her husband’s unit. She said it was super fun to see a bunch of tough guys get so into it. She called it the Stampin’ Army. How can you not smile when you see these photos?!

Happy Valentine’s Day! Most people send greetings with a family photo around Christmas time, but I like to send love notes instead, and this is my Love card for this year. One might assume that I do this because I’m always running late, and that’s partially true, even though I hate to admit it! Another reason we send greetings in February is because our greeting might be noticed and not put in a pile to read later, which sometimes happens to me in December. Besides, I have the entire month to send my greetings because although Valentine’s Day is today, I consider February to be the month of love and wish you much love today and everyday!