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Mesquite Stamping Convention

This past weekend was the Stamp Scrap Art Tour convention in Mesquite, Texas.  My friends and I have gone for the last 7 or so years.  This year, as always, I bought raffle tickets for the Big Basket of Goodies, but this year I won!!!!

Here is the Goodie Basket.  It was massive!

Inside, there was sooo much stuff!  Some inkpads, Copics Twinkling H20 and Gelly Roll pens:

Punches:

An album:

A Crop-a-dile!!!!

And bunches and bunches of stamps!!!!!

St. Valentine's Day Cards

I usually don't make Valentine's day cards, but this year I was really down and the red/pink color combo was a great pick me up!  I'm making some CAS cards (clean and simple), which is my usual style, but these are even more CASer.  All the supplies are from my stash and I don't know whose they are.

Southwest Birthday Card

Here is the second card made using the new rubber!  This time I made a birthday card for my step-dad using the sun/saguaro/bunny stamp.

Stamp:          My Heart Stamps For You
Ink:               Momento
Copics:      
Accessories: Cuttlebug embossing folder "Southwest"
Paper:           August Green Linen, and then 2 colors of yellow from my paper stash.

New Rubber

I ordered some new stamps today.  I've had my eye on one or two of them and when I stumbled across the unmounted sheet of all of them, I couldn't resist.  I got them in the mail today and made a card.  I believe that is a first!

Here are the new stamps.  They are from My Heart Stamps For You.

And here is the card I made.  It also uses new stamping stuff.  I got the Cricut Southwest Borders embossing folders for Christmas and used one of them.

The card base and mat are from The Paper Cut, Augusta Green Linen.  I used Copics YG61, YG63, YG67, R05, E31, E33 and E34.

New SW Borders Embossing Folders From Cricut

I found these embossing folder borders with SouthWest designs from Cricut and knew that I had to have them and I had to get them for my mom.

Here is what they look like:

The only examples I've seen so far just use one border along the bottom or side.  I'm going to try to emboss the same folder over and over again for a background.

RIP Neil Armstrong

Hi all,

Growing up I wanted to be an astronaut...to go to Mars. That dream was put aside when I was a Senior in High School and realized that an injury to my eye as a kid meant that was not going to happen.  But space travel has been near and dear to me.  I am too young to remember the moon landing and Neil Armstrong's "small step", but my mom realized the importance of this and put my in front of the TV (I was about 18 months old) so that I could always say that while I don't remember it, I watched it.

Neil Armstrong's death has, of course, brought that occasion to the forefront of our thoughts and I wanted to let my mom know how much it means to me that I am able to say that I watched that, even though I don't remember that.  So I made her a card to tell her that.

The card base is SU's Not Quite Navy and Dustin Pike's digi moon was printed on white cardstock.  The flag is on a toothpick that I got at Hobby Lobby.  I removed the toothpick and used a Sharpie silver paint pen for the flag's staff.