Can you imagine 3000 women, and a few men, moving around a convention center, with 25-300 cards each saying "Wanna swap?" "Are you swapping?" This can happen in a restaurant, the airport, on the street, in a restroom, in a line that forms anywhere! It's definitely a type of feeding frenzy.
See those clusters of swappers? They're everywhere! And it's a good thing.
This year I took a little stress off myself and opted to swap with 2 groups, privately (one at dinner on Wednesday: UDI; the other at lunch on Friday: Sudsol) and then do my remaining swaps with the 'general population'. That way I could walk around most of the time just enjoying myself without the need to swap swap swap. Of course, when I do this, I find myself offering to swap cards for someone who's not able to attend convention but wants some new ideas. A Convention Buddy.
I'm going to share some of my favorite cards for the next few days. Then I'll share the Make & Take projects that Stampin' Up! prepared for us. More about that in a few days.
The theme for convention was INSPIRE. CREATE. SHARE. So here are my photos honoring that....
My roommate, Sue, and I met (for the first time) at the Salt Lake City airport. After dropping our bags at our hotel, we wandered over to the convention center to see what it was going to look like. We met via Sudsol (the demonstrator only business email group). We are CREATE.
Katie, from New York, arrived later on Tuesday. And the three of us became INSPIRE.
Judi, from Illinois, arrived Wednesday afternoon. We became SHARE.
We had the same kind of silly fun you see above for the duration of the Convention experience. And we all met on Sudsol over the years.
And now, a few favorite swap cards:
Dasher, under $10 stamp (116816, p. 208, $8.95). This guy just makes me smile!
How cute is this little punched lion? I could only take a photo of him at convention.
In addition to great Stampin' Up! cardstock this card uses these dies from the Big Shot Die Cut Machine (113439, p. 194, $99.95): Stampin' Up! Little Leaves (exclusive SU! die) (114511, p. 196, $5.50) and Flower, Daisies #2 (114520, p. 199, $19.95).
I can see a class project coming with this sample made with the Box #2 die (114518, p. 201, $34.95) and of course, the Big Shot Die Cut machine.
This looks like another project to me......a small portable photo album. It's made with another die for the Big Shot Die Cut machine: the Stampin' Up! exclusive Top Note Bigz die (113463, p. 198, $21.95). This die is incredibly versatile.
Final card for today, made with the same Top Note Bigz die shown above. The flowers are also made with Big Shot dies: the SU! exclusive Simple Flower die (114514, p. 195, $11.95) and the Little Leaves (exclusive SU! die) (114511, p. 196, $5.50).
It's so hard to select which cards to show since all of those I received are just wonderful. I'll be showing you more in the coming days.
Until next time........have a great day.
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