Thailand Stampin' Up! Incentive Trip Blog Hop

Welcome to July's Stampin' Up! Incentive Trip Achiever's Blog Hop. We're sharing all our experiences from the recent incentive trip to Thailand.  Hop through them all to see what everyone did.  

My daughter, Olivia, was my guest on the trip as a treat for finishing school, but when space is available Stampin' Up! allow you to also buy in extra spaces and so Charlie and Martin joined us too and what a wonderful time we had.  We made it our family holiday especially as Martin and I will celebrate our Silver wedding anniversary later this year.  

The main highlight for me was obviously sharing the trip with my wonderful family, who support me with my Stampin' Up! business, but also it is always good to catch up with friends from across the globe and make new friends.  For instance Charlie spent hours in the pool playing polo with other kids and some dads. Even when the rain crashed down they carried on playing and as a water polo player at home he was in his element and now hopefully will become pencils with a couple of the friends he made.  Stampin' Up! really is one big family. 

The hotel was beautiful and had the most amazing pools with a lazy river that linked one pool to another and so on.  Olivia loved joining me for the general session where we were treated to a copy of the upcoming winter catalogue and presentations using the products.  Of course another highlight of the incentive trips are the very generous pillow gifts we receive. One was the bag Olivia is modelling above and we also received a Thai ornament and elephant pendant.  Other gifts included product, but I can't share those just yet! 

I joined the card swap and made 26 which I handed in on the first day and on the last day I received all of these beautiful swaps from other demos.  Great for inspiration to share with my team and lovely customers and of course you my blog followers.

A special day arranged by Stampin' Up! to visit islands around Phuket, a floating village with floating football pitch and some interesting sights and smells as you can see from Olivia's face below.  It was also funny to watch our boys 'nod off' in the back of the bouncing speed boat. 

The Flying Hanuman - Our first taste of zip-lining through the tree canopy

So proud of these two amazing kids!

 Fun nights out with family and friends

 James Bond island with lunch on the beach

Our final night

Next stop Alaska for the 2018 incentive trip which I have earned now too! 

If you would like to join Stampin' Up! and my team of Tantalizing Stampers and earn your own incentive trip please do visit this page for more details or contact me to discuss the options.

Enjoy visiting the other achiever's blogs to see what adventures they participated in.  Currently you are with Zoe Tant in the UK.

Swaps for Thailand Stampin' Up! Incentive Trip

Stampin' Up! Incentive Trip Swaps with Marbled Background

Life is so exciting sometimes not least when you get to share swaps with other demonstrators from across the Stampin' Up! globe. Today I've handed in my swaps which are somewhat arty farty.  I used several products in shades of grey, but lifted it all with touches of copper foil, rhinestones, white enamel accents and the textured new copper trim; on the roll it looks like ribbon, but tease the threads apart and you can have a sleeve to slip sweet treats inside or use it like this to add texture and more.

My base card is Smokey Slate stamped tone on tone with the Marbled background.  A layer of Basic Grey which I hand cut into a pennant and then Olivia (she had to do some work for her free trip to Thailand!!!), de-bossed them all with the Seaside embossing folder.  Using the layered circles dies I cut a 'hole' in each pennant and filled it again with a hand made topper again stamped with the Marbled background and took sentiments from Tabs for Everything, along with swirls using Swirly Scribbles Thinlet dies.  Add some bling, which regular readers know i love.

Today we are at the general session and are getting sneak peeks of the Christmas/Winter catalogue. I'd love to share, but I'm sworn for now to secrecy.  Keep checking back over the weeks to come and you might see some peeks when I'm allowed to share.  Meanwhile in this heat it is too early for Christmas and the beach is calling.

Have a great day!

Zx
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