Rushmore Stampin Roundup

On October 13-14th, my 3 sisters and I hosted the 1st Annual Rushmore Stampin Roundup in Rapid City, South Dakota. We had our work cut out for us for almost a year when we began planning it. Don't you love our logo? It was designed by our niece, and Peg's daughter, Kami Ireland.  It was a HUGE undertaking with all of us living in a different state but I think we can say it was a huge success. We had a little over 50 ladies come to our event, from North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Nebraska, Iowa, Colorado and Texas. We couldn't get in on Thursday night to set up our tables until 10:00 PM so we were there until 2 AM, completely exhausted as well, because 3 of us had driven up that day from quite a distance......but we were back to the conference center by 8 AM welcoming our first guests. 

From left, Rhonda Egle, from Pinedale, Wyoming, Peggy Ireland, from Box Elder, South Dakota, Sandy Cox from Loveland, Colorado, and that's me on the right from Cumming, Iowa.

On Friday morning, we started out with classes that each one of us taught. Rhonda started the morning off with her class on wood crates and matching cards.

These were some of Peg's beautiful embossing cards that she taught in her class. 

Sandy taught the Ribbon of Hope class using the large letter thinlits and the Support Ribbon Framelits.

These are the cards that I used to teach some water coloring with blender pens, reinkers and colored pencils. 

                                    Our prizes they could choose from Bingo

We then broke for a short supper period and then played Bingo. What a hoot! These ladies had so much fun and so did we. When they entered the room, we had the tables set up with a swag bag filled with card stock to make 2 cards and a stamp set, Ribbon of Courage. So appropriate for the month of October. We had bought several prizes for Bingo and we were expecting many duplicates of winners. We even played 13 games of regular Bingo and 1 game of Black Out. We did have 3 winners for Black Out. We had so many extra prizes that we decided to have an auction...talk about fun! That pretty much wrapped up our first fun day.

Terri Coy ( Waterloo, NE) winning the Big Shot in the Black Out

Peggy Dickman (Brunsville IA) winning the Pig Stamp set and Watercolor Paper in the Black Out

                      Robin Rohwear-Franson (Rapid City SD) chose the Large Alphabet Framelits

                                          Jeanne Oerlline (Rapid City) won the Snowflake Bundle

                             Lydia Matthews(Rapid City) chose the Smitten Bundle

                                Kandi Buck (Rapid City) chose the Coffee Café stamp set

                Shari Barnes (Killdeer ND) won game 3 and got the Color Seasons Bundle 

   Phyllis Stevens (Rapid City) won the Merry Music Specialty DSP and the beautiful black and                                                                         white ribbon

                            Mary Poss of Philip, South Dakota,  was the lucky winner of the Bike Ride

                   Mary Poss won twice and also chose the Softly You card kit.

                              Nancy Evans (Texas) chose the Dragonfly Bundle

                         The scorer was the choice for Charlotte Gutierrez (Rapid City)

                Jan Antczak (Omaha, NE) was the winner of Count My Blessings

Sue Maynard (Rapid City) had a hard time choosing but ended up with You've Got Style

        Robin Genlot-Mueller(Papillion, NE) won the awesome Big on Birthday stamp set

Carol Geyer (Rapid city) won game 13 and won the Christmas DSP and the Black and White Ribbon and Nichole Kelly, a thinlit. 
Other winners were Cindy Bennett (Rapid City) winning the Aqua Painters and Water color paper, RuthYordy (Rapid City) Snowflake DSP and snowflakes
Ellen Waldner (Rapid City) High Tide