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A Hanukkah Card for Janet!

Aloha, all!

     Every year at this time I make dozens of Christmas cards, but only one Hanukkah Card – for my close friend, Janet.  I was so glad when Stampin' Up! included a Hanukkah stamp in their 2011 Holiday Mini Catalog – and as an A la Carte stamp, so I didn't have to buy a whole set.  Janet's friendship is definitely worth spending the money for a whole set, but it was nice that I could get just one.  Today's card also fits well with the Stampin' Up! Only Challenge theme:  Merry and Happy and Joyous!

     As a quick aside, those of you who may have seen the picture of the stamp in the catalog and are familiar with Hanukkah may have wondered about the accuracy of the symbols on the driedels pictured.  If you thought they were wrong, you were absolutely correct!  But Stampin' Up! corrected the actual stamp; so what you get when you order the stamp will be correct.  I learned this by researching this stamp on the internet while trying to figure out my own design for a greeting card.  The letters are in the correct order to say, "A great miracle happened there."  Thank you fellow Stampin' Up! demonstrator Yapha Mason for that.

     Now for the design – if you think that I've gone off the wagon and am no longer using Stampin' Up! Only products in my projects, you'd be wrong!  There are exciting new products coming in Stampin' Up!'s 2012 Occasions Mini Catalog on January 3rd.  One of them is Stampin' Up!'s own line of the new Sizzix Framelits!  I can hardly wait to show them to you come January 3rd.  But for the next couple of weeks, I hope you'll enjoy some of the projects that I'll be making using them.

     Looking back at the Hanukkah Stamp, as I said it's an A la Carte stamp, which means you can purchase it as a single stamp.  The stamp itself has the stars and driedels hanging from the word "Hanukkah" as if they were ornaments.  I decided to leave the strings out of the stamped image also based on comments by Yapha Mason, who seems to know what she's talking about!  I inked the stamp using a Night of Navy Stampin' Write Marker and just didn't ink the strings.  It helped that this was the first time I used this stamp so there was no lingering ink anywhere. 

     For the colored driedels, I first just tried coloring the driedels in with Daffodil Delight Markers but decided they weren't bright enough.  So I restamped just the driedels onto Daffodil Delight Textured Card Stock and added them to the stamped image with Mini Glue Dots.

     The other colors in this card are Whisper White (not a color, I know – but it's there!) and Marina Mist.  Of course, I had to use some Stampin' Up! ribbon to tie the card together – this time some Daffodil Delight 1/8" Taffeta Ribbon.

     I'm almost done with my Christmas cards – just about a half dozen to go, and I'll be sharing them with you as the month goes on!  I hope you're having as much fun with this holiday season as I am!!

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My Favorite Holiday Colors

Aloha, all!

     The Stampin' Up! Only Challenge theme this time around is as the title of this blog post states – I'm supposed to have created a card or other project using my favorite December holiday colors!  Every year I go through this same argument with myself:  Is it Red/Green or Blue/Silver?  If you look around at what I've been making over the past couple of months since the Stampin' Up! Holiday Mini Catalog was released, you'll see a lot of Red and Green.  So this time around, I decided that, at least for today, my favorite color combo is Blue and Silver!

    And it's not the dark blue that I've used in the past – Stampin' Up!'s Night of Navy.  No, this time around I wanted something a bit brighter, so I decided on Marina Mist.  Actually, in the Stampin' Up! color galaxy, Marina Mist is one of the "Subtle" colors.  But it surely did look bright enough for me to pair with the silver. 

     And I wanted this card to SPARKLE!  So I needed lots of glitter.  The Silver Star was easy because I could just cut that out of Stampin' Up!'s new Silver Glimmer Paper.  No muss, no fuss with that star!  But the Marina Mist star was going to be slightly more work.  I covered a square of Marina Mist Card Stock with VersaMark ink and Heat and Stick Powder and, after the heating part of the routine, sprinkled it liberally with Dazzling Diamonds glitter.  I used my heat tool again to set the dazzling diamonds into the heat and stick powder and then ran the square through the Sizzix Big Shot with the Stars #2 Die, as I had with the Silver Star.  There was a bit of the sparkling blue card stock left, so I cut a small star out, too.

     I decided to try to use the Pines and Poinsettias stamp set with the poinsettias and rose, even though I wasn't sure how it would work in blue.  I think it came out lovely!  I actually stamped it twice, once on some Whisper White Card Stock using VersaMark and then Silver Embossing Powder, and once with the Marina Mist Classic Stampin' Pad, from which I cut out just the flowers.  I then adhered the flowers on top of the silver part of the first image.

     I cut the circle with the Circle Scissors, so I'm not sure what the final measurement is.  I put the stamped image under the Circle Scissors and adjusted the center and diameter of the circle until it was just where I wanted it. 

     To give the white circle a bit of texture, I stamped some snowflakes using the snowflake stamp in the Jolly Bingo Bits stamp set, and then sponged the edges.

     No ribbon this time around – but I did add some of the Marina Mist and Silver Glimmer Brads and a few Basic Rhinestones to finish the glittery look off!

     Now I'm seriously into my Christmas crafting.  I hope you're getting into the holiday spirit with your crafting, too – and having fun with it!

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Thanksgiving Spice Cake

Aloha, all!

     Do you ever think of having cake for dessert on Thanksgiving?  Not me, either.  Dessert is definitely pie:  Pumpkin, Mince Meat, Pecan – any kind of pie at all.  But not cake!

     Except that this year Stampin' Up! has decided to name its fall Designer Series Paper in their Holiday Mini Catalog "Spice Cake."  So Spice Cake it is this Thanksgiving – for my greeting cards, that is!

     I am crazy about this color combination!  It really does look elegant when I think of decorating my holiday tables with something other than traditional fall colors, even if the names of the colors don't have a traditional Fall ring to them – Early Espresso,  More Mustard, Pear Pizzazz, River Rock, and Pool Party. 

     One of the papers in this set has a design in it that is reminiscent of the Triple Treat Flower Stamp that I used to accent the front of this card.  But using that paper was going to make this card a bit too "busy."  So I decided on the three papers that show off three of the main colors in the paper set (Espresso, Mustard and Pool Party) along with the Very Vanilla in the Victoria Lace Ribbon and the paper on which I stamped both images.

     The Triple Treat Flower stamp (an "a la carte" stamp because you can buy just this one stamp by itself) is called "Triple" because there are three different Stampin' Up! Punches that you can use to punch out pieces of the flower:  the Fancy Flower Punch, 5-Petal Flower Punch, and the 1/2" Circle Punch.  To make my flower, I stamped the image three times in the three colors in my card and then punched a different part of the flower for each of the three layers.  The final bit of accent for this card is a bow pulled together with one of the new Designer Printed Brads – the "Pool Party" color.

     This paper really is fun to use, and I hope you've had some fun playing with it this fall.  I know I have and probably will continue to play with this for as long as the holiday mini catalog is active.  Yes, there will be Christmas Cards using Spice Cake!

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Thinking of You

Aloha, all!

     I'm getting a bit of a late start this week!  Here it is almost half way through the day on Tuesday (well, first thing in the morning for me here in Hawai'i) and not a peep out of me!  The reason is that I decided that yesterday was going to be a day off for the most part.  I actually spent a good deal of the day crocheting – after all, this is Robin's CRAFT Room, and "craft" covers a lot of ground.  One of these days I'll finish the custom afghan I'm making and I'll show it off here. 

     But all the while I was doing my needlework, I was thinking of you!  So "Thinking of You" is my theme for the day.  Actually it's also the theme of the week for the Stampin' Up! Only Challenges!

     When I started planning for this card, I decided that I wanted to use some papers that I hadn't used in a long time.  I bought these papers – the Flirtatious Specialty Designer Series Paper – as soon as they were available for Stampin' Up! Demonstrators, and I think I've used them twice!  So out they came. 

     If you look in the Stampin' Up! catalog and read about this paper set, you will not find Daffodil Delight named as one of the colors featured in the set.  But Stampin' Up! has issued a catalog correction that confirms that this delightful yellow is, indeed, Daffodil Delight!  So out came the Daffodil Delight Card Stock to feature in this card.  After trying out every other color in the set to find my accent color, I decided on Pumpkin Pie.  For one thing, the Laser-Cut Doilies in this Specialty set of papers are either Pumpkin Pie or Melon Mambo (well, there's Whisper White on the back of both, so that's a third "color"!).  Once I had that set, I found a piece of the Designer Series Paper that I thought would make a nice square card.  But once I cut the 5" square, I couldn't decide which side was "up."  I'm surprised that the printed paper doesn't look worn out with all the turning around and layering in and out with the two colors and the doily.  But now it's done and I'm really happy with the result. 

     There are a couple of other features on this card that I had fun making.  One was drawing some straight lines with Pumpkin Pie Stampin' Write Marker on either side of the Whisper White 3/8" Taffeta Ribbon.  The ribbon looked a bit washed out when I first wrapped it around the central layers, and I think that the lines bring it more into focus.  The other is the small (3/4") circle of Daffodil Delight under the Whisper White Bow.  I tried attaching the bow just to the doily, but it seemed to be fragile – and the Pumpkin Pie Flower Brad didn't stand out all that well.  So out came the 3/4" Circle Punch which adds a nice accent for the card.

     This particular Thinking of You card has already been given to a friend who is facing some medical procedures this week.  A "Thinking of You" card is just perfect for this!

     Here's a sketch for this project, and I'm thinking that this would be a good sketch for some holiday cards!  I may just have to try this (among the dozens of projects I'm promising myself to try this week!).  Whatever you do with it, certainly have fun doing it!

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Sweet Treats!

Aloha, all!

     I'm back from my traveling and over with the cold that I brought home from the U. S. mainland.  So I've actually had some time in the Craft Room the past couple of days!

     While my big project for the weekend was a Create with Connie and Mary project, I also had to get a project done for the biweekly Stampin' Up! Only Challenge Design Team.  This was a very different project than what I'm used to doing.  In fact, I think that most of us on the Design Team were a bit nonplussed about having to make something that we ended up not spending much time on to make it a cute finished project.  Heck, I usually spend at least an hour or two coming up with my card design, then another hour putting it together, making design modifications as I go along.  That's not what happened with this week's project!

     For one thing, making that bag is a piece of cake (or candy, which is what's in it).  All I had to do was pick a piece of Designer Series Paper (Pick Your Poison from the Holiday Mini Catalog), cut it out with the Sizzix Fancy Favor Die, add some ribbon for a handle and it seemed like it was done.  But wait.  I only spent 10 minutes doing that.  How can that be a finished project?!  OK, so I went hunting for the Pick Your Poison Quick Accents, wrapped one of the designer stripes around the top of the bag and added a label to the front.  Done!  But wait.  That was only another 3 minutes.  Hmmm.  OK, make a ribbon fleurette to attach to the base of the handle.  Now that was more like it – it took 15 minutes to do that.  Then I decided that the two packages of chocolate covered macadamia nuts (yes, I live in Hawaii so what else would I put in a treat bag!?) needed some company.  I just happened to have some chocolate flavored Twizzlers on hand and wondered how they'd fit in one of the new 1" cellophane bags.  Turns out they fit fine, though they needed a little coaxing to get that last inch or two into the bag – they're a bit on the sticky side!  I added two self-adhesive die cuts from the Quick Accents pack to the tops, added them to the bag and, finally, I called this project, "Done!" 

     I'm having a card-making class in the craft room this weekend, so I may just have to make one of these for everyone who comes!  It really is that simple to make this little treat bag!

     As you're getting ready for treat season, remember that Stampin' Up! has so many products for us to use to make QUICK AND EASY treat holders.  Just look through your catalog and you'll see dozens and dozens of ideas!  Don't have a catalog?  Just let me know and I'll get one out to you!

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Falling Leaves

Aloha, all!

     This week's challenge from the Stampin' Up! Only Challenge blog was to have leaves as a main feature in our project.  I originally thought about using these leaves in my project for the Fall Colors challenge last time around.  But when I started to add them to that card, I decided that I'd rather use it for THIS card and do something else with the fall colors.  Still Fall colors here, though – for sure!  I just LOVE the colors of leaves in the Fall.  I also love that, here in Hawaii, I don't have to rake them after they turn brown and "fall" to the ground!

     The leaf for this card is a stamp in one of this year's Hostess sets called Faith in Nature. And the leaf, along with the other two images in the set, have words running through them that give them a sort of vintage look.  As I'm not too bad at reading French, I determined that the words SEEM to be in French, though some of the longer ones have their letters interrupted with the leaf lines.  But they sure do look nice, especially when you do as I do and sponge them up and wrinkle their edges a bit.  At first I considered just layering these stamps using a masking technique.  But once I started cutting into the first stamped image to make the mask, I realized how relaxing that effort was and I really like the end result.

     The colors in the leaves are More Mustard, Lucky Limeade, Pumpkin Pie, Cherry Cobbler and Cajun Craze.  All Fall colors where I grew up on the east coast of the United States!  The card stock colors that I used as a backdrop for the leaves are Lucky Limeade, More Mustard and Cajun Craze.  I finished the card off with a variety of colors of brads – Cherry Cobbler, More Mustard and Old Olive.  The Old Olive seemed to match the Lucky Limeade well enough to carry that color combo off. 

     And, of course, "tying" it all together is some of the fun new Lucky Limeade 3/8" Ruffled Ribbon. 

     It's been awhile since I've had a sketch for you in one of my blog posts.  So I "leave" you today with this one!  Have fun with whatever you do with this sketch!

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A Fall Favorite!

Aloha, all!

     I love Fall!  Even here in Hawaii, the nights are cooler and there are changes in the way our garden looks.  But when we lived on the mainland, as the trees started changing colors and some leaves began to drop, my heart (and wallet!) turned to Fall Mums.  I really had to set a budget for myself before I headed to the local garden store to stock up on all the wonderfully-colored pots of mums.  More than anything that time of the year, I enjoyed bringing them home, getting out all my fun colored flower pots, and making arrangements at our front door. 

     So when the Stampin' Up! Only Challenge this week asked us to think "fall colors" for our entry, mums definitely came to mind.  OK, I have to confess – you know I'm the one who makes up the challenge themes, so you can probably guess that I was thinking mums when I came up with that one!

     I wasn't sure what I was going to do with that thought, though, until I started thumbing through the Stampin' Up! Idea Book & Catalog.  Yes, I came across the stamp set, Fabulous Florets.  But that was the set I'd had in mind all along.  What did catch my attention was the little graphic in the lower outside corner of every page in the catalog – a flower pot!  The pot changes with every new section of the catalog, from an empty pot at the beginning to one with flowers at the end.  But that pot reminded me of some of the pots that I used to use for my mums.  So a pot it was!

     I really liked cutting these flowers out.  My very first Stampin' Up! demonstrator, Maria, would be so surprised to hear that as she could never get me to do ANYthing by hand way back then.  It either got stamped or punched or it didn't appear in my work.  Now, though, I find that I can have some peaceful time just sitting down and working with those paper snips.  If I could have fit more flowers in this pot, I probably would have. 

     As for the pot, I've made a template for it and it's attached here. It's sized to fit as shown on a piece of cardstock that's 3-3/4" wide.  It's easiest to cut out if you cut a piece of card stock that's 3-3/4" wide x 3" high and trace the template onto it.  Don't worry about your pen or pencil marks – just turn the pot over!

     The Fall Colors that I've used here are Cajun Craze (for the card base, the pot and one of the flowers); Old Olive (for the first mat, the mat on the tag and the leaves); Pumpkin Pie (two flowers); Daffodil Delight (two flowers); More Mustard (the center flower and the second mat); and Cherry Cobbler (one flower).  I used to tie twine around some of my pots and the Linen Thread does that job nicely for this card.  I used one of the Backgrounds I Textures Plates to emboss the pot.  The greeting is from the new stamp set, Petite Pairs.

     I hope you're enjoying getting into fall and will enjoy using whatever colors make you think of Fall in your crafting this week!

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Fun With New Stampin’ Up! Ribbon

Aloha, all!

     It's time for another challenge at the Stampin' Up! Only Challenge blog, and this time around the challenge was to use Stampin' Up! ribbons as a main feature of our project. OK, I have to tell you that I'm the one who comes up with these challenge ideas.  And this time around, I was the LAST one of the group to upload my project to the Internet.  From the minute that I posted the challenge online, my mind went blank.  Nothing, nada, zilch – not an idea entered my brain until this past weekend.  Once I had my idea – to use some of the Stampin' Up! Holiday Mini Catalog ribbons to make a woven design – I relaxed figuring that it was only going to take a short time to make my card.  NOT!!

     But now that I've finished my project, I have some great hints for you to use should you decide to try a similar project. 

     To begin, weave your ribbons so that they are face down on your working surface.  I had it in mind that I'd just put some adhesive on the ribbons when I was done weaving.  But when I was done weaving, the velvet side of the ribbon was on top, and I didn't really want to put adhesive on it.  So that's the first – and most important – hint.

     The second hint is my suggestion for what adhesive to use.  My initial thought was Sticky Sheet, but you really don't need that kind of heavy-duty stickiness for this project.  What I do recommend is the Sizzix Big Shot Multipurpose Adhesive Sheets.  This sheet is meant to be used with cutting tools, including scissors and desktop cutters.  With this project (once I got my woven ribbon turned over and all aligned again) was to cut the Multipurpose Adhesive Sheet to the fit the center rectangle where the ribbons were woven.  I was only concerned about keeping the weaving together, and not about the ends that were sticking out.  I removed the first side of the sheet and applied the sheet sticky side down.  I think that the next step is important to keeping your weaving together – begin removing the top layer off the sticky layer from each of the outside four edges in turn.  As I was removing the top layer and working to keep the ribbons lying flat on my work surface, it occurred to me that the last few ribbons on the bottom might just come off with the adhesive.  I did not want that!  Removing the top layer from the outside in worked like a charm!

     The Designer Series Paper that I used for this project is from the Holly Berry Bouquet Specialty Designer Series Paper in Stampin' Up!'s 2011 Holiday Mini Catalog.  It's the back side of one of the glitter sides, but seemed to go so well with the ribbons I'd selected.  So the pretty glittery dots are hidden forever, at least in this project.  The green in the Designer Paper set is Wild Wasabi, and the green ribbon is Garden Green.  But they don't seem to clash here at all.

     So – how much ribbon did I use?  I cut 5" strips of ribbon in the following quantity: 

• 6 – Garden Green 1/4" Grosgrain Ribbon (a new color for this year's Idea Book & Catalog)
• 4 – Cherry Cobbler 3/8" Quilted Satin Ribbon (from the 2011 Holiday Mini Catalog)
• 4 – Early Espresso 3/8" Quilted Satin Ribbon (from the 2011 Holiday Mini Catalog)
• 2 – Very Vanilla 3/8" Velvet Stitched Ribbon (from the 2011 Holiday Mini Catalog)

     I trimmed the ends of the ribbon once I had adhered the woven layer onto the Designer Series Paper.  I originally left some hanging off the edge, then realized that I'll probably want to send this to someone this year, and I wanted it to fit easily into one of Stampin' Up!'s Medium Vanilla Envelopes.  So the "hangers on" had to go.

     The Merry Christmas greeting is from the Christmas Lodge Stamp Set (would you believe – yet one more product from the 2011 Holiday Mini Catalog? – Can you tell I'm loving what's in there??)

     Thanks for stopping by today – I hope you enjoy that I'm doing something a bit different now and then.  I'm really determined that I'm going add some more pizzazz to my cards with such projects as this woven ribbon.  Stay tuned for more!

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Invitation to a Challenge!

Aloha, all!

     To begin, I hope that you all know that any time there's a challenge at the Stampin' Up! Only Challenge blog site, ANYONE can join in!  You don't have to be a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator or even have a blog.  There's a group called Split Coast Stampers that's a great place for you to post a photo of a card that you've made, and then you can link that photo back to the Challenge blog.  In fact, I think I may just have to write a tutorial on how to do that – just one more thing to add to the list of things on which I'm procrastinating (I don't know if I should be making a smiley face or a frowny face after that statement).

     OK – now here's my card for this week's SU-Only Challenge to make an invitation to a party.  As I said in the SU-Only Challenge blog, it can be any kind of party at all.  Well, one of the parties that I, as a Stampin' Up! demonstrator, occasionally have is a "Crop" or "Scrapbooking" party.  What better set to use to advertise such a party than the 2011 Summer Mini Catalog Stamp Set, Travel Log.  This stamp set is the PERFECT scrapbooking stamp set for scrapbooks about trips that we've made.  I wish I'd had more time to scrapbook this summer so I could have done more to demonstrate this set.

     One of the things that I did with one of the stamps is something that I do on occasion – I cut it up into separate stamps.  The three phrase stamps are all part of one stamp, but I cut them up so that I could easily stamp them individually if I wanted.  I was also having difficulty figuring out when I'd want to use the stamp set with all three phrases together.  Usually that would come to my mind immediately after I cut the stamp apart.  But that didn't happen this time, so I guess I'm good with them split up.

     The colors in this card, besides the Whisper White Card Stock, are Cherry Cobbler and Not Quite Navy.  I accented each of the phrases with pennants cut using the Petite Pennants Building Punch.  This is a great punch because you can punch both the straight-edged pennant and the scallop-edged pennant with the same punch! After I layered up the pennants, I tied them all with a bit of the Cherry Cobbler/White Baker's Twine.  This is one of the products from the Summer Mini Catalog that's been carried over into the 2011-2012 Catalog.

     Now I just have to figure out when I'm going to have that scrapbook party so I can make up more invitations!  If you'd like to come, just let me know when.

     And today I have a sketch for this card.  After having had quite a few posts based on the sketches of others, I finally have one of my own that I can share with you!

     I hope you have fun with your stamping this week!  And don't forget to post one of your fab cards on the SU-Only Challenge blog!

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Favorite New Stamp Set? Choices, choices!

Aloha, all!

     It's Tuesday morning here in Hawaii (already afternoon on the east coast!) and it's time for another biweekly edition of the Stampin' Up! Only Challenge blog!  Today's challenge is to make something with my favorite new stamp set.  Oh my, how do I choose?  I have over a dozen from which to make that choice, and believe me I wouldn't have bought any of them if I didn't just have to have them!  But I'm a member of the SU-Only Challenge Design Team, so I had to choose.

     Actually, I cheated.  There's not just one, but TWO new stamp sets featured in today's card:  Raining Flowers and Petite Pairs.  On top of that, there's a new color – Wisteria Wonder – and some new ribbon – 3/8" Ruffled Ribbon.

     Those of you who've been following my blog over the past few years know that Two-Step Stamping ismy favorite stamping technique.  Raining Flowers is just the latest of Stampin' Up!'s great two-step stamping sets, and it already has almost a permanent spot out on my craft table. 

     Two-Step Stamping works this way – for each image, there are two stamps.  One stamp is the outline of the image and the other is the filler or colored-in part of the image.  There are no rules about how to play with these two stamps, and you can use them effectively no matter how closely you align the two stamps.  In this card you'll notice that the flower on the right has the images almost perfectly aligned, so the image is completely colored in.  But the leaves off to the left have the outline offset from the filler stamp.  If I were a child, you'd say I colored outside the lines.  But what's wrong with that?  This is art, not real life!  It's not like I stamped one part at the top of the card and the other on the bottom!  (Hmmm, might have to try that some day.)  I just like the overall effect of the two-step no matter how perfectly it's done.

     There are a few other techniques in this card (can you believe "Ms. Measure-the-pieces-and-layer-them-up" has used the word technique more than once in a blog post???)  I added some texture to the two round flowers by stamping the larger stamp several times and cutting sections out of two of them, sponging around the cut part, and then adhering it to the middle of a larger flower with glue dots. I also added some visual interest to the layering by cutting the rectangle inside of my stamped image allowing the flower on the right and the leaf in the upper left corner to hang over the edge.  This is why I'll never give up my Fiskars Paper Cutter.  This is not something you can do with the Table Top Cutter.

     Quick tutorial:

1. Lay the edge that has the image you want to leave hanging over the edge over the cutting line on the Paper Cutter. 
2. While holding the paper/card stock firmly, fold the clear ruler down over it. 
3. Note the point on the ruler where you want the cutting blade to stop so you don't cut through the image.  If it's not exactly on a measurement line, you may want to adjust the placement of your paper so that it is.
4. Start cutting from the top of the paper, stopping when the arrow in the middle of the cutting blade reaches the mark you've chosen.  In this case, I wanted the cut to stop at the 3" mark.
5. Then note the ruler mark where you want to start cutting again.  Lift the clear ruler and slide the blade down until the arrow on the blade points to that mark. 
6. Lay the ruler down and continue cutting to the end of the paper.

7.  Once you've finished with the paper cutter, trim the part of the flower that's outside your cut.

As a final note, look at the stamped image that I used for this tutorial.  It's just ONE stamp that's part of this set.  Notice how it's been designed with the filler offset a bit from the outline.

     I'm finally back to having some fun in my craft room.  Lots of work still to do to catch up with what I didn't get done during my July travels.  BUT I'm now using card-making as an excuse to procrastinate.  Gotta love having fun!  I hope you'll have fun with some paper crafting today, too!

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