Happy 4th everyone! I am showing a sampler made from parts of a swap and a class I did. Between the 2 events, I had enough sampler pieces to do 2 sampler boards. Happy me! For the last year I have been doing a monthly swap with other Demonstrators who formed a group of nine just so we would have new samplers on hand every month. Each Demonstrator takes a month and sets the theme, colors and design for the month. For this month, I was the lucky captain of the swap and choose Night of Navy, Real Red and Whisper white as the colors. The design had to use some sort of silver metallic “bling”. It did not matter if it was foil, glimmer paper or embossing.
Above is a combination of what everyone came up with for the swap, plus some things we used in a class that 4 of us are teaching for seasonal samplers. Below is a banner I made using some of the samplers I did not put in the collage.
A patriotic theme was a real challenge for the Demonstrator swap. We only use current Stampin’ Up! product and with out due dates for these, we were only just in a new catalog. For the class, we bend the rules a little. As you can see, our Demonstrator group was really creative using floral stamps for fireworks, a holiday stamp set and many techniques. As hard as I thought this was going to be, they turned out great! This month is Christmas in July and I can’t wait to see what everyone comes up with!