I love getting a variety of swaps at Convention and regional events. It is fun to see what stamp sets inspire others and how they have been used. Some cards are ones I am personally drawn to and want to case for my own use others are not to my personal taste but are fit the tastes of my friends and customers. Those are a fantastic resource when I am designing a class or workshop for a customer who likes designs that are out of my comfort zone. For example I have a close friend who loves to embellish her scrapbook pages with lots of ribbon. Her pages look great but when I try to emulate her my page which may be identical except for text and photos feels too fussy to me. So to show off the cool swaps I received this year and gives lots of inspiration, I will be posting photos of all those I received as well as those I created and swapped to get these. These are first 2: