It takes me FOR-EV-ER to stamp SWAPS, and I don't want to be rushing at the last minute, soooo.... I've started working on my SWAPS for Convention this summer (July 29th - August 3rd) -- I can hardly wait!!!! I've got 6 members of my downline going with me this year - it's going to be so much fun having 7 of us traveling together!!
My goal in designing these cards was to keep them QUICK and EASY because I always spend waaaaaay too much time on them. The other thing is that I wanted to use up some supplies that I had a lot of - mainly colored brads. I've bought about 10-15 packs of Brads in different color assortments over the course of the last few years, and always end up using the SAME color and never the others!!! For Earth Elements, I've used the heck out of Old Olive Brads but have a gazillion of the others. In the Soft Subtles I always seem to use Bashful Blue.
I also wanted to use product that wasn't going to retire since we're on the brink of a new catalog. I know I won't SWAP with anyone that uses items that are going to retire (I just have no use for them) so I wanted to be sure to do the same. So the stamp sets that I choose are NEW to the Spring-Summer 2008 catalog so they're guaranteed to be in the next catalog. Then for accessories I really just took my best guess...... obviously, I didn't use any In Colors because we know that those will be gone, and then I didn't use any Designer Series Paper other then the Prints because chances are, all of the patterns will be gone (mostly all of them used In Colors).
Soooo..... here are the 1st 2!!! I'm not sure if I'll do more (maybe a 3rd card and a 3-D.....)..... we'll see!!
Cardstock/Paper: Pretty in Pink, Certainly Celery, Apricot Appeal and Whisper White Cardstock, Close to Cocoa Prints Designer Series Paper. Ink: Close to Cocoa and Pretty in Pink Classic Ink Pads. Stamps: "Just B". Accessories: Apricot Appeal Grosgrain Ribbon, Certainly Celery Grosgrain Ribbon, Soft Subtles Brads (Apricot Appeal, Pretty in Pink and Certainly Celery), Stampin' Dimensionals and Paper Piercing Tool.
Cardstock: Ballet Blue, Apricot Appeal, Old Olive and Ruby Red Cardstock. Ink: Ballet Blue, Ruby Red, Old Olive and Apricot Appeal Classic Inkpad and VersaMark Pad. Stamps: One of a Kind. Accessories: Corner Rounder Punch, 3/4" Circle Punch, 1" Circle Punch, 1 1/4" Circle Punch, Boho Blossoms Punch, Paper Piercing Tool, Old Olive Wide Grosgrain Ribbon, White Embossing Powder and Stampin' Dimensionals.