Stamps, Paper, Scissors

At this time...

Of the Stampin' Up! year it's easy to get a little squirrely, if you are a demo.

Why?

Well, if you are like me, by now you have gotten pretty much everything you want out of the catalog. You've gone through it backwards and forwards, made your wish list, and slowly checked off things as you got them. By the time you get near the end of the catalog, if you haven't gotten it yet, you wonder if you should or you no longer want it because it isn't new and shiny anymore and part of the attraction is just gone.

So you tend to, say, indulge in new stuff from...cough...{whispering} other places. And if you're smart, you actually use that stuff. But sometimes just buying it is enough and you let it sit in your stash and never use it.

So while I am waiting to put my preorder in on Monday, so I can get my new catalog in my order, which is...is...KILLING ME, if you must know, I am at my most vulnerable to stuff from...cough...{whispering} other places. Which I have, I must admit, indulged.This must stop! I have a new catalog coming! I need to save for that!

So the only thing for it is to use some of that OTHER stuff, stuff that I already had and never used, right? It's the only thing for it. USE IT! USE IT! It's new to me, since it hasn't been used! Right?

And I still had some 6 x 6 pads that I had...cough...bought the other day, 'member that? And some stamps I already had from a ways back. And since I was making something, just for fun, say, I could break out some other schtuff I'd had for a while and hadn't used, so the long and short of it is I made THIS:

Ingredients (all SU! unless otherwise noted): Stamps - Bird Notes (Crafty Secrets); Paper - BoBunny Ambrosia Collection, Crumb Cake, Bermuda Bay, Vintage Cream (PaperTrey); Ink - Palette Noir Black, Crumb Cake;Other - Prismacolor Pencils, Gamsol, Cuttlebug 2 x 2 Vintage dies, Prima Pixie Ellie flowers, Very Vanilla Seam Binding ribbon, Notch corner punch (retired), Labels Framelits, Basics Jewels Rhinestones, sponge wedge, dimensionals, Crumb Cake marker.

So there it is and it's GOJUS!!! (YILM!) And I'm not sorry! It was nice to use some of my retired stuff, some of my stashed stuff. I refuse to apologize! You can't make me!

But ya know, I'm really longing for Monday so I can put that preorder in! And I'm overnighting it so I can have it on Tuesday. I figure I spend a bit on expediting, but it will stop fundage from being diverted to...cough...{whispering} other places. Ta!

Shhhhh...don't tell nobody...

I didn't exactly commit rubbah-dultery, but I did use some "contraband". I was at my favorite scrapbooking place last month and was lured into it by the siren call of patterned paper pads, so hard to resist! Lookie:

Ingredients (SU! unless noted otherwise): Stamps - Bring on the Cake, Nature Walk; Paper - Prima Sun Kiss Collection, Papertrey Ink Aqua Mist, Marigold Morning (retired), Very Vanilla, Early Espresso; Ink - Early Espresso, Marigold Morning (retired); Other - Very Vanilla Seam Binding, Decorate Label punch, Modern Label punch, Ticket Corner punch, Metallic Brads, Prima Charmé Rose Sun Kiss, Early Espresso marker, Signo White gel pen, dimensionals, sponge wedges.

GOJUS!!! (YILM!) I love these colors, that's my only excuse...such pretty paper and then the paper  Charmé roses were GOJUS too! Which takes me back to the days of my youth, when Marie Osmond made her debut with...

Paper roses

Paper roses

Oh how real those roses seem to be

But they're only

Imitation

Like your imitation love for me..

 

Yep, just like me, she used to be so...so...STINKIN' YOUNG!!! Sigh...amazing how getting one year older can affect you!

Well, I'm off to tear my hair out and wail...I mean, work on Artisan stuff some more. I have one project left to finish and it's giving me FITS! Ta!

 

I fell offa da wagon

And committed rubbahdultery. I do this occasionally...I think it keeps things fresh! Not something I recommend for actual marriage, but for stamping...yeah...it does!

While a lot of us demo types swear an oath of chastity and foreswear all other products, most of us realize that non-demo types are gonna buy whatever they want and use it too. I certainly don't expect everyone to be "SUO", i.e. "Stampin' Up! Only." There are certainly lots of other companies out there with great products besides ours. My job, in my not-so-humble opinion is to show you how nifty OUR stuff is. But you are going to make up your own mind. Not me.

Of coures, most of what I use IS Stampin' Up! I don't really use anyone else's inks, cardstocks, and not even that much ribbon from other sources very often. But there is a whole lot of rubbah out thar, some of which I even own myself. And I have been looking at it lately and thinking, "Maybe I should use that sometime!" And so, given a sketch challenge from another company whose stamps I bought not too long ago, I decided to do just that. Lookie:

Ingredients: Stamps - You're My Hero (Taylored Expressions); Paper - BasicGrey Out of Print, Island Indigo, Pool Party, Melon Mambo, Basic Black, Groovy Guava (YES! Works beautifully with this patterned paper!), Whisper White; Ink - Island Indigo, Pool Party, Melon Mambo, Basic Black, Groovy Guava; Other - Star punch, Ticket Corner punch, Basics Jewels rhinestones, Basic Black striped grosgrain (retired), Basic Black Marker, Neutrals Glimmer brads, Spica Clear Glitter pen, black Sharpie, dimensionals.

GOJUS! (YILM!) I wanted a bit of glitz to the doodling I did on the edge, but I didn't have a black Spica pen, so I doodled first with a Basic Black marker, then went over the lines with the clear Spica pen:

I don't know if you can see it, but the lines shimmer a little bit. Looks awesome! I also colored our rhinestones with a black sharpie to create black jewels.

I was attracted to these stamps because I am always looking for something to make cards for my husband with. He thought this card was pretty dang cool (YILM!) though it is not for him....too much pink! If you recall the bow-that-was-not-a-bow incident, this definitely doesn't fit the bill for a GUY card.

This has been a hectic weekend. Laurel, who you may recall was sick this past week, ended up in the ER yesterday. Turns out she had pneumonia, so she got to spend the night in the hospital last night! But she is recovering quickly and is already home and sleeping a lot, a common effect of pneumonia. She'll be out of school for a little while longer as she recovers.

So not much stamping has been done over the past two days. My punishment for committing rubbahdultery!

Oh well...it was fun while it lasted! Ta!

Graduation Gift Card Holder

Taking a little break from

To bring you the project at the heart of controversy:

Ingredients: Stamps: Teeny Tiny Wishes, Great Grads (retired), Paper - Bazill cardstock, Scrapbook Customs Class of 2011; Other - Electronic Die Cutting Machine (cough...cough..do you hear something?) ,electronic die cutting machine cartridge "Happy Graduation", Word Window punch, Modern Label punch, Keytag punch (retired), free SVG file from here.

This is the inside:

The one problem I had with this gift card holder was that the card would fall out quite easily unless you stuck the card in there with adhesive. So I made a few changes. I changed the fold so that the front of the card would tuck into the bottom, and then I came up with the solution of having the greeting hold it in. It's popped up on dimensionals and keeps the card from sliding out of the pocket.

The interesting thing about this whole dealio was that I had quite gotten over my irritation with the teacher for commandeering the gift purchase. I like this teacher...this was her first year teaching the 8th grade, so there were a lot of things she had to take on. Plus, she does an awesome job with the Boy and I have to admire anyone who can manage to teach him anything.

But what ended up happening the day before graduation, though, was that the people who were supposed to do the class banner got into a tiff and didn't finish it. The principal had gotten irritated with them and after finding out that the teacher had bought all the gifts and that the 7th graders were wrapping them, jumped to the conclusion that the teacher had had to take it upon herself to buy the gifts, rather than that she had just done it. So the principal sent out an email to ALL the 8th grade parents to say, basically, that someone had better pick up the banner and finish it, because she wasn't allowing the teacher to do it as she was already picking up the slack for those who were not doing their jobs.

Um. Yeah. I got pretty mad, let me tell you. I sent her an email back, with the whole long story of my involvement with the gift and my effort to at least provide the gift card holders. I got an apology. So I am good.  I got another apology from the teacher, who had been horrified when she read the email herself and made sure the principal got set straight. All is well and forgiven. But most importantly, the kids had a great graduation and are now on their way to high school!

I would have never guessed that this whole thing would open such a big can of.... Because now that I have this thang, having just one cartridge for it isn't enough. I have been haunting Ebay, mostly, trying to pick them up on the chirp ...er..I mean CHEAP.

Well, back to work. Ta!

 

A Really Rockin' Graduation Card

Did you miss me? Life gets so busy around here sometimes!

I decided to give you a little break from the dribble of Artisan UnAward winning entries and show you something that has SIN written all over it.

 

Yes, SIN!!!

The SIN of RUBBAHDULTERY!!!

What? What did you think I meant?

ANYWAY, my husband had a gig on Saturday at a graduation party. The graduate was another member of the band and she has been playing blues harp since before she was 9 years old. Dan has played in her band for almost as long, so she's like a little sister. So Dan asked me to make a card for her. I wanted to tie in the music thing, make it look really COOL, plus work in the school colors, which were, unfortunately, blue and orange.
Yeah, blue and orange. Not the easiest color combination to work with. How do I, even as wonderfully talented as I am (YILM!) get around BLUE and ORANGE!?!?!?

Well, it wasn't easy, but I think I just may have pulled it off! Lookie:

Ingredients: (SU! unless otherwise noted) Stamps - Great Grads (SU!), Rock Star (Inkadinkadoo); Paper - Brilliant Blue, Tangerine Tango, Whisper White, Basic Grey Ambrosia PP; Ink - Brilliant Blue, Tangerine Tango, Summer Sun, Versamark; Other - Cuttlebug Typewriter Alphabet dies, 1 3/4" circle punch, Clear EP, Maya Road swirl ribbon, Whisper White Organza ribbon, Square Fire brads, dimensionals, brayer, Orange EP (retired)

GOJOMACIOUS!!!! (YILM!) I never thought I'd have much of a use for orange EP, but it's a good thing I hung onto the Bold Brights EP assortment I bought back when SU! had more embossing powder in the catalog.

The technique is, of course, Joseph's Coat Inside-Out, one of the techniques I unvented a few years back. You can see the tutorial for it here.

Well, I better get back to doing what I do best, goofing off. Ta!

The torture never stops...

For those Frank Zappa fans out there: actually, Dan is the Zappa fan, and when we began dating, I was inducted into the official "My Boyfriend Listens to Zappa, So I Have to Learn to Love It Fan Club". And I did come to have an appreciation for Frank Zappa, though I don't reach for his CDs to while away my stamping hours.

The torture I'm referring to is the Artisan Awards. 'Member that? How so many of us stamped and trimmed and punched and inked our fingers to the bone in hopes of winning cash, a catalog shopping spree and some other cool things?

Yesterday was the date that winners were supposed to be notified by phone. I know lots of people who entered who were sitting by their phone all day. ALL DAY! But since I used my cell phone, I just carried mine with me everywhere. I made sure to put it on vibrate when I was vacuuming. I made sure to put it in the bathroom when I took a shower.

And like all the other people waiting to hear yesterday, I did not get a phone call. From what I've been able to tell, no one did.

All day. Waiting. Nothing.

Some one finally called and asked if the calls were going out today. And they were told that SU! was "in the process" of making contact with the winners and they should be done in the next couple of days.

Two more days. Two more days of this:

I don't know if I can take it!!! Ack!

Well, anyway...so many of you were interested in medical transcription and asked me to share which course I was taking.

When I first started looking into this, I did a google search, something like, "Best online course medical transcription". And I came across a couple of web forums where that very thing was being discussed. And I learned that there were three programs that were highly recommended, some people going so far as to say that they had taken a course elsewhere and ended up enrolling in one of these because their original choice had been a waste of time. So I looked into all three of these:

The Andrews School
CareerStep
M-Tec

I ended up choosing the Andrews School. For a couple of reasons:

a) because the payment plan was one that was more affordable for me. I put down a large down payment, then will be paying monthly for two years on an interest free loan for the rest.

b) because the program seemed to be comprehensive. The M-Tec program has to be taken in two tiers, so it would be more expensive in the long run.

So far, I have been more than satisfied. The program seems to be very thorough and the communication with the instructors very satisfactory. All the materials you need are included. It takes a year to complete and they do help place you when you graduate.

Well, this blog is about stampin', and I have some to show you. It's just not...SOB...strictly SU!
Well, the reason why is that recently I received something unusual in the mail. It was a pickle, from my pal Dawn Griffith. Dawn and I share a love of the green and sour, which I recently discovered from her blog. So we compared notes and the end result was that Dawn sent me one of those BP gas station cukes that she ordered in bulk!

And man, was that sucker SOUR! I like a good pickle, but it was little more sour than I usually go for (though quite delish!) So I made a card to send to Dawn to thank her and she must have gotten it by now, so I am going to post it so y'all can see:

Ingredients: Stamps - Pickle Jar (Lockhart Stamps), Outlined for Fun (SU!), In a Pickle (Lockhart Stamps); Paper - Good Morning Sunshine DSP, Summer Sun, Chocolate Chip, Whisper White, Pacific Point, Kiwi Kiss; Ink - Basic Black, Kiwi Kiss; Other - Scallop Oval punch, Wide Oval punch, Kiwi Kiss striped grosgrain, gold brands, prismacolor pencils, gamsol, Sakura clear glaze pen, sponge wedge, dimensionals.

Isn't this STINKIN' CUTE?!?!? But it gets better:

I just had to alter the sentiment a bit. Bahahahah!

Now, I have to show something I've been meaning to show you. My daughter Emily seems to have inherited the artistic genes from me and she has filled up the sketch book I bought her for her birthday already. She's very good at copying Naruto (Manga) drawings by eye now, here's one of her drawings:

Not bad for age 12, eh? What am I saying!?!?! It's FABOO!!!!

Of course, when she is drawing things out of her head, they are not quite as anatomically accurate, but she's coming along! But I have to show you the Mother's Day card she made me:

I will treasure it forever, obviously! It's nice to know that even though I am not a ninja, I am still loved by Emily! And it's nice that I am so nice and thin on the front of the card, LOL!

More news: the boy with the wayward finger was accused yet again yesterday of using the center phalange on his right hand (see? already I'm learning medical terms!) to express a thought towards a class mate, which he vehemently denied. As a result, he spent the afternoon in the principals office doing work. Probably a better idea than having him be at home...he actually ENJOYED that, even though I tried hard to make it unenjoyable. Sigh.

I'd like to think that he didn't do it, as he says he didn't, but I just don't know. All I know is that once you get a rep for doing that, as I told him, his classmates can use that against him to get back at him simply by saying he did it. So I told him that from now on, KEEP YOUR HANDS IN YOUR POCKETS when talking to your classmates! LOL! Eleven and a half more days of school...I think waiting to see if we can get through the rest of that without any birds flying is going to be far harder than waiting to see if I won an Artisan Award! But if I do, you'll be the first...well, SOME of the first to know! Ta!

The dangers of psychic resonance....

Is not limited to SU! stamps, you have to realize.

After having my ears cleared and was once again receiving the psychic resonance from my SU! stamps, I forgot that there were other stamps also emitting some degree of psychic resonance. I know, I know. I should have taken precautions, and believe you me, I have for the future:

Dis tinfoilz hat shud keep outz teh mysteereeuss dedly rayz frum UDDAH RUBBAH.

For some reason, the SU! R&D team has obviously developed a work around and the psychic resonance from THEIR stamps seems to flow through just fine.

But, while I was unprotected, I must confess: Yes. I committed...{sob}...RUBBAH-DULTERY!!!!

My eye was caught by this:

Which was posted as a challenge on the Stamping Bella Blog, Blogabella. "Hmmm..." sez I, "I have not many Bellas, but I *do* have a few images I stamped when BFF Paula came over. Mebbe I can just get those down and dust them off!"

 I blame Paula for letting me stamp the images! It's not my fault!!!

And I blame Shannan for pointing me at the challenge! It's not my fault!!!

And so I did what any stamper under the influence of psychic resonance would do. I stamped. And this is what I came up with:

Ingredients: Stamps - Cake-a-bella (Stamping Bella), It's Your Birthday (SU!); Paper - Basic Grey Ambrosia, SU! Kraft Print Pattern DSP, SU! Morning Marigold, SU! Wild Wasabi, SU! Kraft, Papertrey Stampers Select White; Ink - Versafine Onyx Black, SU! Wild Wasabi, SU! Sahara Sand, SU! Pumpkin Pie; Other - Decorative brad - Making Memories, SU! Wild Wasabi double-stitched grosgrain, Doodlebugs yellow with squiggles, Sakura Stardust pen, Provocraft Cuttlebug swirl embossing folder, Prismacolor Pencils, dimensionals, sponge wedges, white gel pen, SU! Word Window punch

 Isn't it GOJUS?!?!? (YILM!) I'm torn between delight at my genius and deep shame at betraying my SU! stamps. But ya know...all this stuff is just layin' around here and if I don't use it up it will continue emitting psychic resonance! The resonance will build and build until it reaches dangerous levels and WHO KNOWS WHAT WOULD HAPPEN THEN?!?!?!?

So, a little release valve like this is only precautionary...right? Right?

I knew you'd understand. Can you say "forgiveness"? I knew you could. Ta!

Rubbahdultery...it's a good thing

Hey, this is not my fault! Honest!

I was putzin' along, just minding my own business when Melanie Muenchinger from Gina K. Designs contacted me, out of the blue, and asked me to play with her latest stamps! Said she's send them to me for free!

Well, you know me, say "WHO WANTS FREE STAMPS?" and I'll be the first one to raise my hand and say, "ME, ME, ME!"

The stamps, a set called "Cuddles & Hugs" arrived last week and they are STINKIN' CUTE!!! Gina K. Designs stamps are sheets of very deeply etched rubber, mounted on cling foam. You do need to cut them apart when you get them. This particular set comes with so many sentiments, you may never need to turn to a different set to use a sentiment. I particularly liked the ability to combine sentiments to create new phrases, so that's what I did here.

Ingredients: Stamps - Gina K. Designs Cuddles and Hugs, Cornish Heritage Farms Pretty Pattern Backgrounder; Paper - Basic Grey Sugared 6 x 6 DP, Papertreyink Sweet Blush, Spring Moss, Stamper's Select White, SU! Cameo Coral, Close to Cocoa, Chocolate Chip; Ink - Adirondack Espresso, Papertreyink Berry Sorbet, Spring Moss; Other - Papertreyink Berry Sorbet twill ribbon, gold brads (SU!), Chocolate Chip marker, white gel pen, Scalloped & Classic Heart Nestabilities (Spellbinders), Prismacolor pencils, Gamsol

Isn't this STINKIN' CUTE?!?!? (YILM!) I used the phrase "Hugs and Smiles" and the word "Kisses" and stacked them on the same acrylic block, placing some scotch tape over the word "Smiles" before I inked up and was able to create the phrase "Hugs and Kisses" so that I had a nice rhyming sentiment for "for the Mr. & Mrs.".

I chose the flamingo stamp first , because flamingos remind me of my grandma, who had the ubiquitous plastic pink flamingos popular in the 50's and 60's in her yard. She also loved chunky costume jewelry and knick knacks, usually some sweet animal made of porcelain with some sort of glitter stuff all over it that would change colors according to what the weather was or ceramic elephants or roosters. She enjoyed making refrigerator magnets out of thin colored foam and sequins too...ah, the memories. It was fun making this card on my yellow formica and chrome stamping table, which used to be my grandmother's kitchen table.

This sketch is from Jen del Muro's blog i{heart}2stamp and is the "Sketch for You to Try" from June 14th. A little late, but better late than never!

Well, I promised myself the pleasure of waking my children by vacuuming up their popcorn mess from the night before, terrifying them into wakefulness with the roar of the vacuum...I'm such a mean mom...it's almost 10 AM, though, and they are still in bed! Time to get UP! Tah!

The Tale of a Card.....

I'm sure I'm not the only one who has done this. Tell me I'm not! But first, let me 'splain, Lucy!

Okay, so I'm in the FedEx/Kinko's near me a few weeks back photocopying the church bulletin, just like every Saturday. And, like every Saturday, I have to get a receipt. Since this is one of the "mini" Kinko's, they don't have a kiosk so that I can get my receipt myself, allowing myself to stay buried in my little 21st century cocoon, cut off from real human contact and only communicating with people online, but instead I actually have to ask a real human for the receipt. By the cash register is a card display and one catches my eye. It's a Mother's Day card and it is just PERFECT for my mother! It only costs a couple of bucks. But I just. can't. bring. myself. to. buy. it! I can MAKE a card like that, but BETTER! Yes, I can! I am STAMPER hear me ROAR!!!!

You can see where this is going can't you?

So I am mulling this card over in my mind, wondering if I have the stamps to make it. Of course I don't! Let me introduce you to rule number 1 of Jan Tink's Law of Trying to CASE Commercial Cards:

Rule #1: You will never have the kind of stamps you need to duplicate a commercial card.

Which means, of course, that you must buy them. And I knew just where to buy them. I had been eying them for some time, wanting to purchase them badly, but putting them off buying them because I didn't really NEED them, but now, of course, I did.

The sad thing was, of course, that I could not satisfy my design needs with just one set. I needed two different ones. You can see where this is going, can't you? So yes, after trying to find these things locally and from some of my favorite web-stores, I finally had to spring for them directly from the company. And bless them, they shipped them very fast and I got them in plenty of time. Of course, each set cost $25.95. So let me introduce you to the second rule of the Law of Trying to CASE Commercial Cards:

Rule #2: It will always, always cost you much, much more to make a CASE of a commercial card than it would cost you just to BUY the card when you see it.

This is a rule that new stampers learn very quickly. I started out stamping so that I could save money on Christmas cards. Yeah, you can stop laughing now. I have heard this sad tale from more than one stamper, always followed by a manic laugh and a rolling of the eyes. WE know, don't we? We know how quickly this becomes an OBSESSIONI!

Anyway, because I only really liked the card for it's cute sentiments/sayings and the rest of it was just sadly plain if not a bit ugly, I had to resort to rule number three:

Rule #3: You dang well better make your CASE so much much cuter/more beautiful/more clever than the commercial one. Or you will feel guilty. Very guilty.

I think I've managed it:

Ingredients: Stamps - Crafty Secrets Coffee & Tea, Kitchen Classics; Paper - SU! Real Red, Basic Black, Old Olive, Bashful Blue, Summer Picnic DP, PapertreyInk Stamper's Select White; Ink - Versafine Onyx Black, SU! Bashful Blue; Other - Fiskars Mini Scallop scissors, Prismacolor pencils, Gamsol, Red dotted ribbon (American Crafts), Sakura Stardust Glitter pen; Font - fontdiner.com Loungy

Isn't this STINKIN' CUTE?!?!? In case you're having a hard time reading that, it says, "A smart mother knows her way around the kitchen". I printed it off on my printer using a cool FREE retro font from fontdiner.com.

Here's the inside:

I hasten to add that my mom is a great cook. I've learned a lot just tasting her food. The kitchen was too small for me to  help much when I was growing up (at least that's what I always used to say.) But these days, it's just much easier for her if she and Dad go out to eat. So that's what they do. Often. So you can see why this is just PERFECT for her...she'll get a big kick out of it!

In the meantime, I can enjoy my Crafty Secrets stamps...only, when I went to look at the website just now so I could see what the names of the sets are that I used because I was too lazy to go downstairs and look, I saw yet another set I must have...that Little Chef set must be mine! Mine!

So there you have it...my sad little tale of my lack of control when it comes to stamping...I'd try to grow up, but I'm having too much fun. See ya!

Mea culpa....

Bless me, my fellow stampers, for I have sinned. I have commited Rubbah-dultery yet again.

Well, I couldn't resist! The stamps were so stinkin' cute, they just called my name. And since it WAS my birthday, I thought I deserved to have a least a couple of these sooooo cute stamps! Which stamps? Stamps called Friendly Critters from Cornish Heritage Farms. Lookie:

Ingredients: Stamps - Cornish Heritage Farms Helpful Chipmunks Friendly Critters, Friendship, Pretty Pattern Backgrounder; Paper - PapertreyInk Spring Moss, Aqua Mist, Stampers Select White, SU! Almost Amethyst, Ballet Blue; Ink - Adirondack Espresso, SU Lavender Lace, PapertreyInk Spring Moss; Other - Slit Punch (SU!), 1" circle punch (EK Success), Prima Flowers, Lovely Lilac button (SU!), copper eyelet (SU!), crochet cotton, dotted organdy ribbon (Michael's), Prismacolor pencils, Gamsol

Isn't this both GOJUS *and* STINKIN' CUTE?!?!?! (YILM!) I also purchased one of the Cornish Heritage Farms backgrounders that I have been eyeing for a while. In fact...there were several things sitting in my shopping cart that I had put there long ago and backed away from...those sneaky people had left them in there! So when I went to check out, there they were and I realized that YES, I still wanted them and just ordered it all. I was in the grip of a FRENZY!!! I ended up with a couple of the Friendly Kritter stamps, 3 of the sayings to go with them, plus two backgrounders and an ink pad (the Espresso) and reinker. Happy Birthday to me, Happy Birthday to me, Happy Birthday, you stampin' genius (YILM!) Happy Birthday to me!

I'd love to tell you those were the only stamps I bought for my birthday...but I'd be lyin'! But since the other ones haven't come yet, I ain't gonna tell you what they are until I get them, so there. Ta!