Happy Saturday friends! I'm thrilled you joined me today for Part 2 of my Utah tour recap. I encourage you to get comfortable! If you didn't read the blog yesterday, you can catch up on Part 1 here (and there's a giveaway too!) I was in Utah for almost a week kicking off our 10th birthday celebration and what a week it was. My mother-in-law would have loved that with each stop I made, I came bearing treats for our friends and their teams. We worked with Bubble & Brown bakery and each morning boxes of sweet treats were delivered to the hotel to take with me. And they were loved by all! While you can't quite see it, we used the Heidi Swapp Minc to make our celebration cards look extra good and shiny! Thanks Heidi!
On Tuesday morning I woke to a stunning sunrise over the mountains and knew it was going to be a great day. I took pictures along the way at each stop I made this week but with an iPhone so please don't mind the fact they're not perfect. I wanted to capture the memory in a quick and easy way.
My first stop Tuesday was to see our friends at Stampin' Up! which is a place I have heard so much about and always wanted to see. I met Rachel who you will see below who took me on a tour of the Visitor's Centre which is like a beautiful timeline of the company mixed with adorable little rooms showcasing their beautiful products and design team. I could have stayed here for so long looking at all the amazing artwork. Rachel then took me on a tour of the warehouse which was nothing less than extraordinary. Although the picture does not do it justice, the conveyor belts and tracking systems ensure orders are packed with minimal error. Clean, amazing and efficient! Love technology. Here is the tour…
This is Rachel Jensen…love her a lot!
Next stop on Tuesday was to meet with our sweet friends at BoBunny! BoBunny has always been an important partner to SCT. So long ago when I was starting the magazine and introduced myself to Jan, the owner of BoBunny, she immediately sat down with me and wanted to know everything about the magazine. Jan was one of the first advertisers and would always email me a little note when she received the magazine in the office telling me how much she loved it. It meant a lot in those early days. Below is a picture of the team of amazing people I get to work with at BoBunny. Matthew (Jan's son), Laurel, Jeri and Carley. Great team. We also got a sneak peek in the office but with new products all around I was limited for pictures. All I can say is there are great things coming out and I was thrilled they shared a little sneak peek!
That's a lot of love for SCT they said!
Tuesday evening was dinner with some friends at the Cheesecake Factory in City Creek which is in beautiful downtown Salt Lake and preparation for our final day in Utah! And for one of the first time's ever…I actually ordered some cheesecake! Like I said yesterday, I really did eat my way through Utah!
Wednesday was a very full day of meetings. My first stop was to meet with Jill Broadbent at Close To My Heart. A very sweet and knowledgeable friend that has been with Close To My Heart for 12 years and loves it so much. She is also adorable and could be my twin with her cardigan. We share a love for them! We chatted about many things and what's in store for 2016! Good things!
Next I head to meet with our friends at Echo Park and as you can see from the picture, these are some fun friends. A selfie shenanigan just had to happen! Jennifer, Andrea, Nathanael, Madison and I had many laughs together that afternoon and I was so sorry to go. Before I did they shared with me some of the amazing things coming in 2016 and believe me when I say, you're going to LOVE what they have in store for you! I may have squealed a little. After 10 years in the business, I still get very excited when I see the level of innovation in the industry.
Our final stop in our Utah tour was with our friends from American Crafts. Megan, our Editor-in-Chief, and I were treated to a grand tour of their beautiful offices by none other than Rebecca Cross of Pink Paislee and Marketing Director Grant Madsen. With over 200 employees and two floors of an office building the tour was amazing! We met people from all areas of the company and even had an opportunity to meet the CEO, Sarah DeVoll. A lovely lady with a clear vision for this great company.
Here we take a walk past the actual product designers and the art department. This room had a great vibe and great energy. Happy people! We wish we could have shown you more but we sure would not want to spoil what you'll be seeing on store shelves soon!
This next picture below while it gives you an idea of their showroom, it certainly does not show it all! There were 8 aisles that were easily 25 feet long of products on both sides. In fact, here's a little tidbit, American Crafts and their brands have over 14 thousand active products available. An amazing number! We walked through each aisle admiring the design, the innovation and clearly a very smart team. I wanted one of just about everything new we saw. I may have even been a little speechless at times! And who knows me to be that?
But here is how nice our friends at American Crafts are, this below is what was waiting to greet us when we arrived along with a beautiful card. Thank you American Crafts for all the love and support for SCT!
Thank you to Stampin' Up!, BoBunny, Close To My Heart, Echo Park and American Crafts for two incredible days. We were welcomed like family at each place and thanked for all that we do here at SCT. A great feeling. It was also mentioned many, many times how much they appreciate YOU, our readers. They are always amazed at how engaged and appreciative you are and I just smiled and said "yes, our readers are pretty awesome!"
I did have the chance to hang out with one special little lady at Cafe Rio. This is Megan's daughter Maggie who is an absolute doll. I brought her a Cinderella backpack and a Cinderella art set to which she said "thank you nice lady!" as she skipped and danced. Made me laugh all week thinking about it!
One of the other highlights of the trip was the tour of Temple Square in the heart of Salt Lake City with my friends from Doodlebug. John Bishop played tour guide and did an awesome job of that!
And I just had to go back to get a picture at night. It truly looks like Cinderella's castle! So majestic.
During our visit to Temple Square on Sunday, John wanted to show us the Tabernacle and when we walked in, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir was rehearsing. They sounded beautiful and I got to check off a bucket list item while I sat mesmerized! Such a great surprise. As an aside, when I was at Stampin' Up! that following Tuesday I actually met Spencer one of the choir members. A small world!
There you have it friends! My time in Utah was a fun mix of business and pleasure…and eating! It's always nice when your business partners are your friends. I could not think of a better way to kick off what will be another great year than celebrating with some of those companies that help make it possible.
Of course I brought home many things in my suitcase for you so I have goody box number two to giveaway today to one lucky reader. If you think you might like to welcome this box in to your home, be sure to leave me a comment below and let me know what product you just can't live without these days! Fun! Leave your comment by Thursday, November 5th! We have lots of winners to announce on Friday!
Have a great rest of your weekend and thanks for joining me today!
~ Catherine Tachdjian, Publisher, Scrapbook & Cards Today magazine
Wow— what a trip. Such lovely photos. I would love to be able to visit companies like this. Thanks for the chance to win.
What an incredible trip! So many beautiful companies and places to visit 🙂 Such a lucky girl! Thank you for sharing so many pictures with us.
So jealous!! Sounds like an amazing trip. I am in love with dies these days. Can’t wait to see what new ones may be coming out in 2016.
Thanks for sharing your awesome tours. Your pictures and descriptions are so interesting. Hard to pick one crafting item that I couldn’t live without! I guess I would have to say my BigShot as I use it for just about everything I create.
Thanks for sharing these pics! 😉
I am so impressed you can see so much good stuff and not buy everything in sight! I am glad you had fun and thanks for sharing it with us.
Thanks for sharing this amazing trip!
I wouldn’t want to be without paper! Love, love scrap booking!
I also just visited Salt Lake City. Loved Temple Square and all the lovely people we met. Unfortunately I didn’t get to see all the great companies that are located in Salt Lake. I envy you. Your pictures were great–especially the night pic. Glad I could share your trip with you as you filled in a lot of missing places.
Your trip looks amaazing! I can’t live without my Big Shot machine and the Mini Minc is on my wish list!
Such fun ! I love enamel dots and wood veneer. Perfect for adding that little extra touch to a layout or card.
Such a great tour for day 2! Paper is always my go to when it comes to scrapping and crafting!
Loved reading about your trip and all your visits to these great companies that I have bought product from for so many years to make my scrapbooking and card making so much fun. So hard to choose what I can’t live without but I guess it would have to be my Cricut. I use it for so many things.
I really like using my cuttlebug and all my embossing folders and framelits.
WOW….you are so lucky to visit those amazing companies! I can’t get enough of the new Bo Bunny Christmas lines….love the colours!
What a fabulous travelogue! Now that is a career that I would love. And that’s something coming from a retiree up to her neck in papercrafting. Currently I am obsessed with stamps & dies – so useful for card making & scrapbooking. In fact I am still picking glitter bits off my face & my Big Shot after a day making Christmas cards!
I pretty much get whatever I want when I see it.
I can’t think of anything that I couldn’t live without at the moment.
I’d love to win the surprise. Surprises are always great.
Congratulations on your anniversary.
Wow, Utah must be the creative capital of America. What a great trip. As to the one thing I can’t live without, I would say stickers. I need to have lots around for my granddaughter to create with. I can never seem to have enough.
Wow! You got to see so many great companies up close and personal! So jealous! Thanks for sharing all the pics.
What a marvelous trip this must have been!! I can only imagine being able to walk through these fabulous companies spaces and meeting all of the amazing people!! A trip of a lifetime for sure!! Thank you for sharing this grand adventure and behind the scenes look at all of these wonderful places!!@!
Maggie is quite a little darling! She is going to be a heartbreaker!
I would feel truly blessed if I was the winner of one of these magnificent boxes of awesomeness! Thank you for the chance to dream if only for a little while!
What a whirl wind tour you had – packing so much in those few days. I can’t seem to get enough dies these days. My die cutter is always on the table ready for a workout. Thanks for sharing your trip with us.
You did have amazing visits with amazing companies in Utah! I love seeing you Jill from CTMH & can’t wait to find out the good things are going to happen in 2016!
Cheese cake AND Moron Tabernacle Choir all in the same week?! Now that’s a trip to remember!
As for what product I can’t live without,… Paper, printed paper, plain card stock paper. The possibilities are endless when you have paper.
That was a fantasy trip ! Thanks so much for sharing your awesome experiences and photos. I love all sorts of embellishments and stamps, but in the end, I’m a paper girl. Love my paper. Thanks for a chance to win. Michelle t
I am so in love with my ScanNCut 2 – no more buying expensive coordinating dies and it can cut right up to the lines or leave a little shadow. LOVE it!!
I love paper. I admit I have an addiction. However, I am fascinated by the foil that is out now, and I have been slowly (collecting) and playing with it. Love it all!
Oh, my mouth is still open. Lovely people, you’ve met and all of the great products…
Wow what an amazing trip that must have been! You saw so much in so little time! A great way to celebrate, indeed 🙂 Lately I can’t live without all things GOLD!
Wow!! Glad you had an awesome time!! Thanks for all the picture!! I cannot live without paper!! and embossing powders.. and ink pads.. and my cricut!!! Thanks for the chance to win 🙂
-Berina
Moxie Craftie
Looks like you had an amazing trip. Thanks to SCT and all their partners for sharing all these amazing goodies with us!
What a fun trip to see all of the manufacturers and their upcoming product releases! Happy Anniversary SCT!
I can not live without inspiration for my scrapbooking and card making. Lots of that inspiration comes from SCT. I am truly blessed that I live in an era that has social media and blogs such as yours to keep me motivated and inspired. SCT does indeed have wonderful partners 🙂
Looks like you had an amazing time, lucky duck getting to visit all those fab places!
I couldn’t live without my stamps, but dies come a close second along with pretty DP 🙂
How so interesting to read. How so great to have had the chance to meet with all these great companies. Wow You must of had such an amazing time. To hear the choir must of been so great too. Loved seeing all the great pics. Thank you for sharing with us all about your trip.
What a super fun trip….LOVE all the pictures. Living vicariously works for me 😉
What an amazing trip! Sounds like the trip of a lifetime. What kind of cheesecake did you indulge in? Makes me hungry just thinking about it. Sounds like you had a magnificent time. Can’t live without my dies these days.
Wow! I’m so jealous! I need to take a trip like this! I’d be in heaven! I think I would love product from any of these…they are all amazing!
I love, love, love paper. I could always add more to my collection.
What an exciting day you had! I would love to see all those marvelous businesses. As for what I can’t live without these days, it’s anything CTMH! I just love that company. Thanks for the chance to win, too. 😀
i just love getting new papers!!! of course, I love anything and everything related to paper crafting! i enjoyed seeing the gorgeous decor!!!!!!
Fun.. and to think you got to see the Mormon Tabernacle and hear the choir singing. That would be so awesome – might even come before winning a prize – but the prize would be good consolation! Not sure I have a favorite scrapbook item; I pretty much love it all!
What a fun trip! Thanks for sharing photos, love seeing the home bases of so many wonderful products. I can’t live without my Silhouette Cameo and Make-The-Cut! design software.
Thanks for sharing these behind the scenes photos. I can’t live without my tonic paper cutter.
Looks like a wonderful trip! Right now my addiction is anything gold…paper, embellishments, etc. Thanks for the chance to win.
What an amazing trip!!! I’m still in awe!
All of these buildings look wonderful. What great companies.
I have been & am still addicted to wafer thin dies. It’s an obsession, I tell you 🙂 Of course a girl can never have too much paper in my book either.
I have a ribbon addiction….and paper…..and washi tape…..I think it could be a hoarding situation! ?
Loving my Big Shot!
Sounds like you are having lots of fun. Would love to win the box of goodies.
I loved reading your post. I felt like I got to tour the companies with you and meet these amazing people. What an experience! I am still in love with my stamps, paper and ink. These are the staples I turn to over and over. I love to dabble in adding lots of extras too. Sequins, stickers, chipboard and wood embellishments are my favorite. Congrats on 10 years!!!
WOW Thanks for the amazing tour. It made me feel like I was there. Oh how I would have loved that. I knew that the crafting capital was Utah but didn’t realize how much until you gave us this tour. It must have been amazing for you too. I love all the new dies and machines that have come out. I can never have too many of these. I would love to get the Silhouette next. Not that I need it but I would LOVE it. Thanks for the wonderful insight of this industry with this tour. I am so looking forward to 2016 to see the upcoming and new. I was hoping the scrapbooking industry would thrive forward.
Looks like you had a great time! It’s too hard to pick a favorite product as I love them all!
So much eye candy to take in-what a trip. My go to is always paper, no matter how disciplined I try to be with supplies I always weaken when I see great new papers.
I am loving the gold effects on everything. I will try get a good deal on a Minc,
Looks like you had an amazing trip. Thanks for the chances to win
Thanks for sharing your tour with us! So neat to see the offices where all of our favorite goodies are made! I love embellishments – ribbon, flowers, phrases etc.
What a fun trip, thanks for sharing it with us! I really love my paper trimmer, patterned papers and Sizzix Big Shot.
I love Utah when I was there in July. These pictures and all this scrappy goodness reaffirms my desire to move there!
I couldn’t live without my guillotine paper cutter…I use it with every project 🙂
I’m glad you enjoyed our great state. I am loving paper, but I think I’m addicted to dies right now.
I can’t live without the Misti. Really spoiled now!
What a fantastic trip you are having!!
I can’t seem to live without ephemera packs these days!
What an exciting trip – I am really hooked on paper right now..just cant get enough!!!! Its the basis for all cards and scrapbooking. Sure hope there is a sheet or two in the prizes you are handing out. Happy 10th anniversary.
Wow, sounds like such an amazing trip! I have to say that I am all about embellishments right now, I just can’t get enough! Thanks for sharing the love, S&CT is the BEST!
Ooooooooo, I love it all, Catherine – such an amazing trip!! Thank you for sharing 🙂 There are so many things I love … for now, my obsession is all things foiled <3
Thank you for sharing all those lovely pictures! It is great to see all the ‘behind the scenes’ of these great companies! I can’t live without my Big Shot and my adhesive gun!
Incredible trip! Thanks for sharing.
So interesting following you on your tours and seeing the background and people behind all these great companies 🙂 thanks for showing us ???
Thanks for the virtual tour of Utah!
I tend to use one tool or product for awhile, then move on to a new fav, but for something I don’t think I would want to live without, I guess it is letter stickers. Use them for titles almost all the time and often in journaling too
My mouth would have been wide open in awe that entire trip! So much great stuff to see (and eat apparently!!). I love to buy and buy everything from papers to wood veneer…these are my faves.
What a marvelous trip! So many lovely pictures, especially the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. It must have been a treat to hear them sing! I can’t live without my stamps and ink!
Wow! So incredible!!!
Oh Gees that’s a hard one! I guess I couldn’t possibly live without my big shot!
This second part of your trip is equally as fantastic as the first! Your photos are awesome and definitely showcase all the wonderous adventures you had in Utah! I have to say that the American Crafts’ showroom is incredible!!! Like so many others, I love paper! Bright, vibrant colors and patterns are my favorite. I am also trying to add to my collection of paper punches. Since I don’t have a die cut machine, I rely on these to add different shapes or borders to the paper I love so much. Thanks again for sharing your very special trip with us. I’m sure that when you look back on your 10th anniversary, memories from the time you spent in Utah kicking off your celebration will make you smile for years to come. It’s always so exciting to have the opportunity to win goodies. Thanks for being so thoughtful and generous!
Goody boxes are always most welcome in my home!!!! Paper is my must have product…if you have a good selection of papers you are set!
I can’t live without patterned paper! So many pretty designs and so much inspiration in a fairly small thing. And now I’m thinking I can’t live without some cheesecake, lol.
What an amazing trip! You saw so many cool places and meet even cooler people! The one thing I can’t live without is anything by Echo Park! Love love love them!
It must’ve been like being a little kid in the candy stores at each of your visits! How exciting and fun!
Sounds like you had a great trip, Catherine! I am LOVING our Minc machine right now – its new, you know! Thanks for letting us ‘park’ it in your booth for a while!
These posts are fun! I am loving all things gold right now. Gold foil is one of my favorites.
I can not live without paper. What an amazing trip you had. I’m looking forward to seeing the new products coming in 2016. Thanks for sharing your trip with all of us.
I need my paper cutter, always and forever! Thanks for the chance to win!!
WOW! It must be so fun to travel with you. Love the treats you took to each of the partners and how fun it was seeing bits and pieces of your visits with each company. My must have product this year besides the Fuse is the Christmas Album from Simple Stories. Other than that, anytime I get a surprise from SCT, it’s a GREAT day!. You have the best surprises. Congratulations on 10 great years and I look forward to getting your magazine for many more years.
Can I go with you next trip! Looks like so much fun. I can’t live without my dies. I reach for them all the time.
Gorgeous decor! I definitely can’t live without my Silhouette. Thanks for the chance!
WOW! Just looking at the outside of the Stampin Up building makes my heart go pitter patter!! I would have had to tear myself away from all those showrooms and warehouses full of fabulous products by all the manufacturers! So much fun in one place would put me on overload for sure. Thanks for letting us come along on your crafty adventure. As for favorite goodies lately, I am just fascinated with Brusho color pigment powders and am also trying my best to learn how to use alcohol markers.
I can’t live without splatters of ink, paint, or mist. I just love to get messy!
What a fabulous trip – and to be made so welcome must make you feel like a princess of scrapbooking (which of course you ARE)! I am so happy to welcome back vellum to my scrapbooking – especially the gold/silver foiled versions.
More fun photos. Especially loved seeing the American Crafts photos. It just shows the scale of the industry!
Thanks for the chance to win too. Right now, like so many, I’m loving watercolor products.
I am totally addicted to patterned paper, enamel dots, maskscand metal charms. Your trip sounds intriguing, fascinating and magical. Thanks for sharing it with us.
This is so interesting to see – the art department at AC must be an awesome place to work!
Utah sounds like crafter’s heaven and a haven for creative people too!!!
WOW – what an adventure, with the awesome once-in-a-lifetime bonus of seeing and hearing the Tabernacle Choir!!!
I am now officially addicted to die cutting, so I can’t live without my Big Shot.
THANK YOU for sharing your adventures and for the chance to win 🙂
Thanks for sharing another day of your fabulous trip!
My mouth literally hit the floor when I saw American Crafts product isles. I love paper and stamps! I need them in my life.
Wow! What a tour! Can’t wait to see all the things that you couldn’t take photos of. I love my husband’s watercolour paints at the moment – seem to use them on everything crafty right now!
Thanks for the Utah tour photos and commentary. Gad you had a great trip. I was late to the die cutting game, but now I’m like a kid in a candy shop when the new releases come out each month!! It’s so hard to choose!!
Wow, it would be so fun to check out the facilities of all those wonderful companies! Thanks for sharing what they gave you!
What a great trip! Envious. I guess the things l love the most are stamps and my cuttle bug and dies.
Another fascinating glimpse into the product world. I love stencils. It is a new tool for me so I’m having fun playing with different mediums and designs.
I have a serious addiction to paper and that is the product that makes everything else work! Love your blog and magazine, thanks for sharing your anniversary with us!
Wow! Looks like a great trip! I love my paper! Thank you
Thank you for sharing more of your fabulous Utah trip!!! I think the one item I can’t live without would be paper — without paper I can’t really use all of my other fabulous items.
What a beautiful adventure! You’re SO lucky to be able to visit the companies and we all loved the photos you shared.
What an awesome trip you had – looked amazing! Thanks for sharing your photos and memories.
Right now, I have to say I can’t live without distress inks. I’ve been playing with backgrounds and I love it.
Paper, paper, paper! And I’m having a great time with my Kuretake Real Brush markers. And I have a thing for stick-on dots – enamel, wood, metal, any kind! Thanks again for sharing your trip with us – it’s been so much fun to see “inside” these great companies!
American crafts showroom looks absolutely stunning could spend the entire day there… I love anything in wood and enamel dots just finish off your layout Thanks for sharing your amazing trip with us..
Oh My Goodness!!! Is drooling allowed??? What an awesome tour of these GREAT suppliers of all the things we need in our crafting room. I would welcome with open arms any of these products. A girl can never have enough crafting material. Oh what it would be to have all this at your fingertips. Catherine, you are one lucky girl and thank you so much for taking us with you and sharing all this. Happy 10th and all the best for the next 10. Love what you do and how you help and inspire us.
Oh Catherine, what an awesome time you have had this week!!! It has been so awesome to see it all. I especially loved how sweet your greetings were and I loved the AC S&CT letters waiting for you. Brilliant! Lately I cannot live without my American Crafts 01 and 03 journal pens. Love love love them and of course you and S&CT!!! Here’s to ten more glorious years.
You are so lucky, Catherine, to be able to go on an adventure to see some of these companies,,,, thanks for “bringing” us with you 🙂
Wow what a whirlwind trip of gorgeous people and place. I’m with you in wanting one of each. Everything looks like so much fun to play with. Utah is beautiful. The wall with paper flowers is just stunning. Id love to do that on one of the walls in my craft space. Thanks again for sharing your amazing week in Utah and congrats on an fantastic 10 years of keeping us updated and on trend in this amazing industry of paper crafting!
That’s so cool that you got to experience all this in less than a week! And those American Craft aisles! Oh my! Would make my eyes pop out of my head to see that in person I’m sure. Especially their patterned papers as that is my favourite go to product. 🙂
I have scrapbook envy!
Thanks for sharing more great photos from your trip. I love sequins – any size, any colour. I don’t make many cards without them. Embossing folders run a close second.
Wonderful trip, all those American Craft goodies, oh my goodness!
I just can’t live without my Heidi Swapp spray inks. I love them so much. Not many of my pages are complete with a spritz or drops of ink.
Thank you for sharing your trip Utah is now on my bucket list to visit.
Wow! Sounds like an amazing trip! It’s the paper that keeps drawing me in! There is always something great coming out!
What a wonderful trip and thank you for sharing! I’m in awe of all these sites that you visited. I would love to win your surprise! The latest item in my creativity is dies so right now I am being creative with a new die!
I love paper! Sometimes I just sit and look through my stash and it gets me so excited and happy. So, of course, I need more. Thanks for sharing the great stories of the great people and companies behind all of this happiness.
So fun! love seeing behind the scene photos! Thanks for sharing!
Sounds like such a wonderful trip visiting all those wonderful companies. Can’t wait to see all the new stuff coming in 2016.
I could not live without patterned paper! It provides much needed inspiration. I also seem to have an obsession with stamps but need to use them more often.
Thanks for sharing your wonderful trip with us. Hope to see many of the new products and your great team at Crop and Create!
Thanks for sharing your trip with us…amazing…
Love seeing it all, and the product I can’t live without would be color
Amazing trip! I can’t live without my watercolour paints right now! So much fun to create with!
Thank you Nice lady!!! LOL!
Man i would be in heaven in the AC aisles but everything would be in my hands. i spy the Rolladex that is the next thing I just have to have!
I am so in love with my cricut that I use not only for cards but
mini albums and quiet books!
Can’t wait to see all the new product from all the amazing companies you visited.
Catherine thank you o much for sharing your journey with us. right now i just love my Heidi Swapp Mat 🙂
It’s wonderful when you meet cool people behind the products! This visit to Utah looks awesome – thanks so much for the photos and recap of your trip. I was especially intrigued by the rows and rows of American Crafts products – must’ve been amazing to see them all in one place.
I always fall in love with the paper in different collections – paper has been and will be my first love when it comes to paper crafting! Thanks for sharing!
My favorite product right now is my heat gun for embossing and any coloring medium!! Thanks for sharing!
My new stampin up trimmer. Best purchase I have made this year. Sounds like a great trip to the USA. Thanks for the chance to win.
Really awesome to see the pictures of all these places! I really love ephemera packs since I love adding more embellishment to my pages. Thanks for a chance to win!!
Hmmmm. One thing I am using more than usual do is double sided tape… On a roll… Not a tape runner… A very odd thing for me!
Glad to see you were able to cross a few things from your bucket list as well as visit with business partners – who really are friends.
What a great trip. I like using embossing plates and pretty papers (just like fabrics, so hard to choose!). Thanks for the chance to win a fantastic prize too!
How fun for you to
visit all these great
companies! I’m loving
the Fuse Tool right now.
So easy to use and lots
of fun making things!
Carla from Utah
How fun for you to
visit all these great
companies! I’m loving
the Fuse Tool right now.
So easy to use and lots
of fun making things!
Carla from Utah
So many great places to visit! I couldn’t live without stamps!
I can’t live without my paper trimmer and adhesive! After that though, it’s my stamps. I LOVE my stamps!!!
Are you kidding me? WOW! I’m really big on AC script Thickers these days. Thanks for sharing this fabulous tour with all if us. And for another chance to win such fabulous scrappy loot! You’re the best! XO
I am going to have to go with “paper”, I know that’s boring but I use a TON of paper, solid colors, patterned papers, textured cardstock — I need all the colors and all the moods! Thanks for the opportunity to win.
Thanks for sharing your trip. The pics of all the vendor sites were amazing
Patterned Paper! I can never seem to have enough and I love it! Thanks for the chance at some new goodies!
I would loved to have been in Utah , you had such a wonderful time and hosts. Currently I can’t live without my Dies. Safe travels home.
YOU KNOW WHEN IT COMES TO SCRAPBOOKING, THE ONE THING I CAN’T SEEM TO LIVE WITHOUT IS MY GOOD OLD QUICK-KUTS DIES. I HAVE NUMEROUS ONES AND USE THEM FOR ALMOST EVERYLAYOUT IN SOME FASHION… AND I STILL USE MY GOOD OLD REVOLUTION CRANK TO CUT THEM OUT…IT HAS LASTED OVER 10 YEARS!
THIS TRIP LOOKED SIMPLY AMAZING, THAT KIND OF TRIP IS ON MY BUCKET LIST!
GLAD YOU HAD SUCH A WONDERFUL TIME AND SHARED IT WITH US!
Thanks for sharing your amazing trip with us! I wish you could have shown just a little sneak peak or 2 of the new products 😉
Wow..what a trip you are having and thanks for sharing all the goodies you accumulate on these travels…I can’t seem to live without my selphy these days…I don’t always get pics printed before crops so this baby ensures that I can finish a page
Utah is the place to be! Loved seeing the pretty Stampin Up vignettes! Thanks so much for taking me along on the tours of these fabulous companies!
I’m really loving working with brads and anything glittery right now. I must be in a “blingy” mood. Happy Birthday!
Thanks for a chance to win! What a marvelous trip you seemed to have. I could use a vacation myself
Wow, a dream come true to visit the brilliant manufacturers up close and personal! ….and to be able to hear the infamous Mormon Tabernacle Choir! I bet it was amazing. Thanks for sharing your “tour”with all of us!!
The best tool, (“best friend”) tool invented is the BIG SHOT. Love all the embossing techniques, metal dies etc. that you can play with on this big boy!!
Silhouette machine is my go to thing right now. Love it. YOu should hav visited with them while you were here in Ut.
Dies! I love dies. All of them. I figure they will pretty much last forever so I don’t mind investing in them. All of them. Ha! (I wish I were kidding.)
Wow, AC, Stampin Up, BoBunny…what an amazing trip! It’s so fun to see these behind the scenes. Thank you for sharing.
Hmmm, there are so many great products out that its hard to narrow it down. I do love me some washi tape though. Such a fun simple little addition of color or pattern. Thanks for sharing your trip with us.
Basic kind of gal – Herma tabs. Store here currently hasn’t restocked, so will have to watch my usage until I can get out of town.
Your tour looks like lots of fun! In terms of what I can’t live without, although I don’t really need more of it, paper is always the thing that draws me the most in scrapbooking supplies.
What an amazing trip – thanks for the play by play!!! I would have been beside myself seeing all the behind the scenes 🙂
I live in Utah and love having all these fabulous companies so close! Also, my husband works at the SL Temple! I’m glad you had a good time here.
What a great tour! All of the beautiful city sights and an eyeful of scrapbook products to make us drool! It looks like you were welcomed by one and all and I’m hoping you didn’t get too worn out with all of that travel in such a short time. Thanks for letting us come along with you through photos and the blog and for a chance to win some goodies too! My favorite tools right now are my dies. I resisted buying a die cut machine for so long but now I can’t live without them!
Sounds like you’ve had a fabulous trip, Catherine, thanks for sharing! I’m kind of enjoying the foil explosion right now….
Wow, more of my favorite companies. What an awesome experience for you. I saw all those products and I want one of each one, too. Just sitting here drooling over all that fun and all the companies. Thanks for sharing. What a wonderful way to celebrate.
Oh drats, I forgot to tell you that I can’t live without fun stamp and die sets.
I am a die hard thickers fan. I use them on almost all my layouts and project life pages. Your trip looks amazing. Thanks for the peak inside so many of my favourite companies!
I can’t get enough project life (or pocket style) cards. And I just bought my first glue gun. I’ve always been afraid of them, silly I know. But now I love it and keep trying to find more ways to use it.
What a great trip. Thanks for taking us along. Thanks for sharing the goodie box.
Wow! What an amazing trip to all of those great companies! Thank you for sharing with us. Looking forward to the future! Linda A.
It looks like you had a fantastic trip! I can’t live without my Silhouette Cameo these days. And lots of paper to use with it! Thanks for the chance to win, and congrats on 10 years!
Washi tape! I love it and use it everywhere! Congratulations on 10 years!
Thanks for sharing the second half of your trip! Can’t wait to see those new products you mentioned seeing sneak peeks of. My favourite product right now? Metal craft dies! I enjoy running them through the machine and then seeing the results. Fast and fun!
what a fantastic trip! Thank you for sharing with us!
I can’t live without my collection of dies! I can’t seem to make a card without them. 🙂
I just can’t live without my double-sided sticky tape and alphabet letters! I make cards every month, and those are my staples.
Wow, what an adventure. You captured everything so beautifully! I’m completely dependent on my Cricut Explore to cut fun boxes from my pretty papers.
Thanks so much for sharing your trip. Thanks for a chance to win. My favourite products these days is anything Project Life!
These days I often have some stamp beside me….I’ve gone stamp happy.
I cannot live without my Silhouette Cameo! It is amazing!
Wow! What a trip! Can’t wait to see what you brought back!
I just can’t live without BLING….the more the merrier!! I can give goodie box number 2 a great home! Thanks for the chance to win.
looks like an awesome trip.
I would be quite welcoming to the box in my home!!!
What an amazing trip, it sounded fantastic and what a thrill to tour such great companies!
Love SCT and thanks for the opportunity to win!
Thank you for sharing a wonderful fun packed weekend with us 🙂 I must say, I can’t live without all my different paints and colouring mediums like gelatos and watercolour crayons!! Having a ball with them 🙂
I was lucky enough to go to a Stamping’ Up open house and see all the gorgeous rooms…miss living there. Lately my dies and inks and usually making an appearance on my cards and layouts. TFS.
I can’t live without my stamps from Stampin’ Up! They are simply the best! But paper is a close second, you can never have enough paper!
Sounds like a great trip! I love my patterned paper, for cards and pocket letters!
Oh…. to be let loose in the American Crafts showroom……..
Amazing trip with all of those fabulous companies! I apparently can’t live without stamps and matching dies. I’m obsessed. Thanks for sharing your awesome trip!!
I can’t live without my dies and big shot! Almost every time I get into my craft room I use them. Sounds like a great trip. I am envious!
Oh, that beautiful wall of flowers at Stampin Up, wow! I would’ve passed out in that AC showroom, beautiful product overload… My essential tool is a paper cutter. Thanks for sharing your fab trip details!
Oh my goodness–what an amazing trip you had! I’m in love with foil & hope they keep bringing out more colors!
O M Goodness !!!! What amazing pics! You are so lucky. Do be going and doing what you do. Sharing with us is simply a wonderful treat.
I love all of my craft babies (being all of my craft supplies) but I really don’t think I could live without my paper. I have a weakness for beautiful paper. All shapes and every texture. Again thank you for being so good to us. And keep the greatness coming on and on!!!
Every scrapbookers dream to tour all the places you went to so thanks for taking me along! I just got my first BigShot, used, from a friend and I am loving it and all those super cute dies!
Great conclusion to your visit. I’ve been really impressed with all things American Crafts these days, as a scrapbooker and a businesswoman. Their products are new and fresh and they have really taken a leap forward in the last few years with their partnerships with big name scrapbook names/brands – Becky, Heidi, Amy, Lizzy etc.
What a fantastic trip!
What can’t I live without….Project Life by Stampin’ Up! right now!
WOW! Part 2 showed us truly what an amazing trip you had! Congratulations you deserve it Catherine and team! 10 years of pleasure!
Thanks for the trip summary! Interesting and fun to see all the behind the scenes places and folks. My favorite tool these days is my big shot with all those fabulous dies available with their matching stamps. They make such great cards and embellishments with such little effort.
Can’t live without paper and my sizzix big shot! What a wonderful trip! Would love to see all of that in person too!
Thanks for the opportunity Catherine and congrats for hitting 10!!! Ypu dont look a daynover 9!!! 😉
Your pics are great and made me drool over all the amazing products. You are one lucky lady!
Therr are too many products that i cant live without but if I had to choose then probably anything Project Life related!!!!
Thanks again for the chance!
Love to read about your trip. Thank you for the pictures, it is nice to see how they work. My favourite is paper, specially from doodlebug designs.
I am just getting started with scrapbooks, stamps, and cards and the many things that goes with all of this. It is amazing the number of suppliers and the number of products that they produce. I just used my Big Shot for the first time on the weekend with some Christmas dies. These are amazing crafts and art. Thank you for all you have shown me and taught me the last few months. Thanks! Thanks Thanks!
Thank you for sharing your trip. Any lady would have been in heaven to do that trip. I don’t think I could live without my die cutting machine.
Such a pleasure to meet with you and visit you for a few minutes during your visit to Stampin’ Up! I’m also glad you had the opportunity to hear us rehearsing in the tabernacle when you were in town. I hope our paths cross again the next time you visit Utah!
You were welcomed everywhere! What fun times with some of the greatest in the industry!
Another day of gifts and visits to exciting places most of us don’t get to see! The pictures, again, were very nice. I have been to Salt Lake City and it is quite beautiful. I have a Minc foil machine and I think the foil really looks pretty. I want every color of foil they have! Thanks for the 2 days of blogging and also for the chance to win!
What a lovely trip you had, thanks for sharing!
Just put Utah on my bucket list. The little girl is adorable.I think I couldn’t live without my “Big Shot”–as old as it is. That and I love PAPER!!!!
amazing trip-thanks for sharing your adventures! I am especially intrigued by what Echo Park has up their sleeve!!!! My very favorite thing is my Wink of Stella clear glitter pen-it adds just the right amount of shimmer to my projects.
Looks like a dream trip! So many fun people and eye candy to behold! 🙂
Loved looking at your pictures and seeing all the beautiful places you got to see on your trip. Like a lot of people, I love all the shiny foil paper, especially the gold. Thanks for sharing.
What a awesome trip! Thanks for sharing. I would love more dies/embossing folders as I finally am using my Big Shot. Love stamping up items too. Thanks for the chance to win some goodies!!!
Can’t live without my old Fiskars cutter. Next up is my non-stick scissors.
Embossing with Cuttlebug is a great way to quickly add dimension to my cards and scrapbook pages.
What a whirlwind tour.
I love paper, lots and lots of paper! I am just returning today from Salt Lake City, ate at the Cheesecake factory and heard the choir as well! Would love to win a little treat 🙂
I love it when an industry is a happy place, not just a competitive market place! Catherine, you have shown us that this art industry is just that. THANK YOU. You made my day! I was smiling all the way through your tour! ? ???❤️