Tomorrow I am off to the 2nd Stampin’ Up! Europe convention, it is being held at Addington Palace in Surrey.

Convention is amazing, there will be around 300 demonstrators from the UK, France and Germany all together for 2 full days of stamping, swapping, learning and laughing and on Friday evening an awards dinner.

I am so pleased that 16 of my team will be going me this year and we will be kicking off on Thursday evening with a team dinner, I have a few surprises in store for them but you will have to wait until later on in the week to see them……..

I think I better explain “swaps” when ever Stampin’ Up! demonstrators get together we swap cards, 3d items, business tools all sorts of things.  Sometimes these swaps are organised in teams or on forums we also always have general swaps where we are all gathered together in one place and we swap cards.

I love swaps because I can get so many ideas from them, they help with my planning of classes Yes indeed I copy cards, there are so many wonderful ideas “case”ing ( Copy And Share Everything) is to be encouraged !

This year I have 120 general swaps which you will see tomorrow, my team goodies which I will share on Friday and 10 business swaps which I will share on Saturday.  Today’s share is a cmc swap, I think cmc stands for Convention Memory Card.

These are 9cm square cards, decorated on the front and they have contact details and a photo on the back, Now I have made 90 of these………..Actually I do need to say a big thank you to Kelly and Steph who where a great help with my business, cmc and general swaps, they are amazing!!!!

A couple of close ups of the front and back, you may see a theme emerging…………Pirates who said Pirates……….?

I think this swap is a great idea as I will receive another 89 all with pictures of my fellow demonstrators, it’s such fun!

I’m off now to pack, paint my nails and practise my presentation, yes I’m on main stage again this year on Friday with the lovely Charlotte Harding running a class on Customer service for all the UK demonstrators.  Since I have the best customers in the world, it was a joy to write !

Happy Stampin’