Come Stamp With Me!

What a week! I'm home from Salt Lake for a few days and then I head to CHA for a week. July is a crazy month. but full of stampy goodness.

Thank you for hanging out with me during convention! It was a blast. We got so many cool stamp sets I'm itching to play with. They got me a long way down my extensive wish list. The things I think I'm most excited about are:

• The stocking die
• The stocking punch
• The new Halloween line
• The incentive trip to Fiji

I got to meet some of you there which was incredibly fun, and always my favorite part of crafty events.

As if thousands of crazy stampers under one roof wasn't already more than Salt Lake could handle, we had a full moon while we were there. I had to grab a pic from my room.

How cool are those mountains in the background? Salt Lake is such a beautiful city.

When I got home, I thought I should make a card for all of you that were so sweet to hang out on my live feed and leave me your sweet comments. I really wish that all of you could come stamp with me...

Stamps: Furry Folk, Workshop Words (Free set from convention)
Paper: Whisper White, Patterns Pack III, Basic Black  

Ink: Basic Black, Daffodil Delight, Calypso Coral, Cajun Craze, Pool Party, Island Indigo, 

Lucky Limeade, Real Red, Pink Pirouette  

Accessories: Flower Punch, Rhinestones, Blender Pen, Dazzling Diamonds Glitter, Two-Way Glue Pen, 3/4" Circle Punch

So will ya? Come stamp with me? :)

Loveyameanitbye.

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Giving Away a Date With Colin Firth!

Can you BELIEVE all that great news??? I bet you never thought that stamping would win you a date with Colin Firth!!

Probably because it won't. But if it DID, it would really be cool.

However, it will get you all kinds of cool other stuff :). Like, for example, the new catalog!

 

It's live, and you can get your paws on one by contacting me. Then, there's the starter kit special, with $225 worth of stampy goodness for $99 in July! The kit contents are a $185 value, but if you join in July guess what? You get this $40 project kit bonus!

PLUS - I GET ONE TOO!!! You know you want to buy me a present :) 

To join the fun, click here.

Since I'm traveling for most of July and won't be able to have classes, I have my own special to add. Any customer that places a $50 or higher order on my website during the month of July will be entered into a drawing (1 entry for each $50 spent) to win the sassy new Pennant Parade Stamp Set and matching punch! Whee!!! :)

Now speaking of joining the fun, I decided this weekend I should get cracking on at least a few swaps for convention. Uncharacteristically early for me, I know. But I did an experiment almost a month ago that I really loved, so I thought I'd share it in Salt Lake.

Thanks to my weekly executive session on Friday mornings at St. Arbucks with Kim, I'm able to actually stamp things in a nice uninterrupted stretch, and this week I knocked out a bunch of my experiments for swaps.

Here's how it worked. I took full sheets of cardstock and sponged Daffodil Delight ink all over the whole sheet. Then I went back in spots and sponged Calypso Coral randomly all over the whole sheet. I cut up the sheet into panels, sponged the edges of each rectangle with Soft Suede and added Tempting Turquoise Craft Ink with a foam paintbrush.

Do these colors not look phenomenal together??

I just can't stop looking at them. I stamped the images from the new hostess set - Faith in Nature - over the panels in Basic Black and stuck them on white card bases. To show you how attentive and focused I am, if you look closely, you'll see that I have the leaf upside down - the script is upside down, so clearly I have the leaf in the wrong orientation. Oh well. They'll be collectors items. :)

Now I liked this technique so much that I did it on a larger scale for the Austin Art Boards Contest for Reagan Outdoor. This contest was to create a piece of art that was 6" x 24" for Reagan to use on billboards around town.

The winners haven't been announced yet, so I can't show it to you, but I will soon, I promise!

I've added a few things to my Crazy Bargains page out of my retired stash, so check here for some great $7 stamp sets.

Also, for all you scrappers out there, by popular demand, I added a scrapper's version of my Keep Calm Shirt to the store!

I'll be back tomorrow with some patriotic goodness for you. I was thrilled this morning when Google emailed me and said "You have no events today." Aaaahhh... a day of stamping!

Happy Caturday!