Here’s a few more photos from my Big Top Catalog Kick Off event!

In order for our guests to earn door prize tickets, we had a blast coming up with unique circus/carnival-style Stampin’ Up! games that used products in a unique way! And I do not think we disappointed! Ha ha ha! First we had the Silly Willy Sponge Toss:

This one is any easy one to re-create for bored kids on a rainy day! Just cut one of our Stampin’ Up! Sponges in quarters, decorate three different  sized cups with different sized openings and associate points with them. Here’ I just used our small retired star punch and some of our new 2011-2013 In Color Designer Series pattern paper pack as wraps to provide fun colors to our cups.

Since I located the game on to TV trays next to my blinds, I had everyone stand even with the sliding door blinds opening to toss the sponges. They got two tries! Here, one of my wonderful assistants and customer Retha, gives it the ol’ college try.

Hey doesn’t this look fun? Let me tell you, "Wacky Woman Roller Wheel Bowling" isn’t as easy as it looks. We first tried it using the standard size wheel and that was way TOO HARD! When we switched it to the Jumbo Wheel size it was at least a little easier to get it to stay on the "lane" (Ha–just a couple leftover laminate flooring boards stuck together). Nor was it too easy to knock over the reinker bottles. They’re a lot studier that you’d think! After two tries, no one received more than 6 door prize tickets.

Get you’re wondering: "What the heck is this?"

Ha! The sign below says it all! (This is how all three different games were displayed. We put rice in a glass, stuck a skewer between the holes in the medallion circles cut from our new Pennant die and then stuck the skewer in a straw and displayed it with the adjacent pinwheel straw. Very effective and appropriate for our event theme!

Here you can see my crazy friend Aamy giving this kooky game a try. The object of the game was to try to pop the balloon (had door  prize ticket(s) inside) with a dropped  pencil. No one was able to do it by my husband and I. Hey, it seemed like a good idea at the time! Aamy thought she might get a little extra "help" if she were more "enhanced" on top and received a quickie balloon "boob job"! It didin’t help but we sure did laugh!

Everyone got a little more serious when it came to the Catalog Scavenger hunt. I also hope this game made their wish list grow a little longer! We’ll see! (insert evil laugh here..bwaa haa haaa!) From left to right: Diane May, Marsha Craig, Lynne Donahue, Pricilla Snyder and Aamy Harrison-with her back to us.

The fun factor was cranked up to full blast when it came to creating the make & takes. Diane May and Lynne Donahue are shown here getting ready to complete the cute mini album/coupon book!

Doesn’t Jeanneth look like she’s studying for a test? That Scavenger Hunt wasn’t that hard!

Karen Cormier got in the stampin’ zone and didn’t come up for air for an hour!

Karina wasted no time putting in her first new catalog order! Thanks Karina!

Now that’s a smile for a toothpaste commercial! Marsha had a great time and was a wonderful sport gimping around with her bum knee!

Doesn’t Susana’s cute smile give whole new meaning to the word "crafty"? She looks like she’s up to something! She’s just tyring out the new embossing folders on the Big Shot but I swear we could put a bubble above her head that would  have her saying, "Let’s see what "else" we can do with the new Pennant die!" You go girl!

Well, I’m running out of time so I’ll save the Big Top Kick Off Make & Take samples for the next post!

As always, thanks for checking in!