Well, it's so sad. I had to drop out of all swaps that I was in at SCS because swapping was taking away the joy I get from my papercrafting.
So in order to get back into the mood to do papercrafting, I have been reading blogs all over the place. There are some amazing crafters out there. I would love to be as good as they are. But you have to invest time into it and not lose your enthusiasm for the craft and right now, that's what has happened to me. But I feel the urge to papercraft coming back.
October 3rd is World Cardmaking Day. Papercrafts Magazine is having a contest and I plan on entering it. I hope I can win. That would be nice to get one of those prize packages.
Have you ever just wandered around online looking at stamping stores and other papercrafting stores online? It's amazing. I finally got a book and started writing down my "wishes". Hopefully I will be able to afford to get some of the things I would like to have. I don't necessarily need them. I'd just like to have them.
Well, later gators!

Been a very long time

Well, I haven't been around on my blog in months. I know, it's very sad. But first of all, I found myself bogged down by too many swaps. Now I've removed myself from all of them. It was taking the joy out of my hobby---papercrafting. I didn't like having a deadline for doing something I love to do. So I had to think about getting that joy back instead of feeling like I just HAD to do this.
I got my issue of Paper Crafts Magazine and found that World Cardmaking Day is on October 3rd. Not only that but they have a contest where you can choose to make an original card and submit it by October 12th and win prizes. 20 lucky winners! Looks like they have a fantastic prize pool there as well. So that's what I will be doing.
I'll also be posting more on my own blog. I've signed up to read so many blogs and am getting so many ideas for cards and other things, that the joy and anticipation is slowly seeping back into my tired old bones.
Yesterday I had another birthday. I think I quit celebrating them a few years ago but the family keeps insisting on telling me Happy Birthday. Well, I can't take that away from them. I love them so much.
Look for me to start posting my crafts in here. I hope you will like them.

Michaels is adding so many new things!

I was so excited when I found out that there were tons of new clear stamps at Michaels. Inkadinkadoo and others. I already have a list of the ones I want to purchase. On top of that they had two new 3 bottle sets of the Brights Ranker Alcohol Inks. I got those with a 50 percent coupon. I'd like to try using Perfect Pearls and get some Tim Holtz clear stamps. But you know, you have to budget for things like this. You can't just go running into a store and buy it out.
Now if they would only get new Cuttlebug embossing folders and new Sizzix dies, my Cuttlebug would be very happy. I will be uploading more pictures of things I complete as I get them done. Right now I'm very involved in watching Big Brother both on TV and on Real so my crafting has kind of fallen by the wayside.
So I hope you're getting more done than I am. Later gators!

I had a wonderful 4th of July with my family, but we were missing our second oldest son who lives in NYC. The neatest thing happened though. We happened upon the Macy's Fireworks show in NYC on television and started texting our son. He was watching the show on a friend's roof. He took a picture with his cell and sent it to us. Now at least that was really like he was sharing it with us as dorky as that sounds. This is going to be quick. I have more ATC cards I want to get up on my blog but just haven't taken the time to take a picture during my vacation. Maybe tomorrow. It's my last day before returning to work.

Well, just a couple of more cards to share. The first card is done using an Inkadinkadoo stamp for a card swap that I'm in. It's for the birds. I used my Martha Stewart border punch for the border on the dark brown paper. I used my Loew's coloring pencils to color in the bird.

The next card is done with a penguin stamp and I used Glossy Accents to make the penguins stand out. I also used Stickles on the $1 Studio G border stamps. I'm not much on pink, but this looked cool that way.

The last card was done with Studio G $1 bird stamps. I used Glimmer Mist on the background paper behind the birds. Sometimes we just need to take the time to enjoy the simple things in life instead of running crazily through each day.

Well I have been busy. I've been in so many swaps at SplitCoastStampers and I finally have a break to upload some pictures of cards I have made for a swap. I am very proud of one card because it's just pretty. The other three are pretty basic cards. I'm new to making cards, but I love it! This card was made with Inkadinkadoo clear stamps! I used Memento Dew Drop dye ink pads to ink both the big bird and the background birds. I put some Stickles on the larger bird to add a little zest. This card turned out really well.

Wow, it's been over a month since I posted. Oh well.

Things are changing in the swap forums at SCS. I think it's good change. Change comes hard to people, even me, but sometimes it's for the best all the way around. If the mods and owners didn't have to deal with complaints about hostesses or participants flaking out, then there would have been no need for the change. I'm all for trying something new as long as I have warning.

I can't believe I've signed up for 20 swaps over there. I love that place. The people are nice and everyone is so talented. Much more talented than I have seen at the other place where I used to be. I'm working on some 6x6 alphabet cards for children in one swap and then I had purchased all these $1 Studio G stamps at Michaels and now I've got ATCs and cards to make in another swap using only those stamps. Interesting, thought provoking and tiring! But it's a good tired because at the end of it all, I get something cool in return.

Later gators!