Today I have the annual Stampin' Up! Regional Seminar. Regional seminars are full-day events offering practical business advice, creative demonstrations and free product. We get a free stamp set, Make & Takes, door prizes, lunch and informative presentations by Stampin' Up! staff and local demonstrators. And of course when demonstrators gather we swap. Here are my 36 swaps...

On Saturday we held the Hamilton Extravaganza, introducing the new Autumn-Winter Mini. At this Extravaganza, four pairs of demonstrators prepared and taught a project, moving from table to table so at the end of the day everyone of the 60ish stampers who attended took home four lovely creations using a variety of advanced techniques.

Out with the old and in with the new... so the saying goes. We say farewell to Sale-a-bration and the Summer Mini for another year and welcome the new 2011 Autumn-Winter Mini Catalogue.

This thank you card was inspired by a previous card made using the Greenhouse Garden stamp set...

This cute little card was given to me by my good friend Bev. It uses Concord Crush, Pear Pizzazz and the little owl out of the Punch Bunch Sale-a-bration stamp set...

Here are some more watercoloured cards made using the Sweet Summer Sale-a-bration stamp set. This one is in Rose Red...

I have been playing with the Sale-a-bration stamp sets and I adore them all! This card uses the Sweet Summer Sale-a-bration stamp set and was inspired by Michelles' Sweet Summer card...

This is the birthday card I made for my eldest daughter, who turns 10 at the end of this month. I made it to match the friendship envelope mini album I made for her...