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Haha. I've always wanted to use that line! :) Obviously it doesn't take much to make me happy! LOL!
So how the heck ARE you?! I've been working some looooooong hours lately and I've been MISSING you! I was bound and determined that I was going to blog today, come h-e-double hockey sticks or high water! .....so here I am. :) Although, perhaps I should leave off that last bit about the high water as it's currently pouring rain outside. *smile*
Ahhh.....so I have many, many things to share with you in the coming days, my dear friends. I'm so sorry to have not been around much at all this past week. It pained me, truly it did. But unfortunately there are only so many hours in a day and when I'm spending 10 or 11 of them working in the studio, it doesn't leave much time for blogging. I leave on Tuesday for CHA (Craft & Hobby Association trade show) and while there are lots of things to be done for CHA and in order to be gone for a week, there are also all of the regular deadlines still to meet for things such as future product releases and magazine calls and such. It has made for a crazy week and will likely be pretty hairy around here for a bit once I get home from Chicago as well, but in the meantime, you can rest easy because I've got several fun projects that I'll be sharing with you while I'm away. Hurray -- it won't be a ghost town around here anymore! Ha.
One of the things I've been working on in my spare time (hardy-har-har!) is a few gifts that I needed for a few special people who shall remain nameless. *wink* First up is this sweet little set of note cards.
I started with berry sorbet card bases and stamped my favorite image from Background Basics: Retro in versamark ink. In case I haven't said it before, I am of the belief that EVERY paper crafter should have a versamark ink pad. Not only can you use it on almost EVERY color of card stock, but you can also use it when heat embossing. It's one of the unsung heros here in the Raspberry Suite studio! Haha.
I also added one of the fun patterns from Heather's Library Ledger paper along the bottom of the card. I rounded the corners with my corner chomper and tied a simple knot with vintage cream topnotch twill ribbon.
For the focal point on these cards, I used the mat stack 3 die to cut out the fun label shape and stamped the coordinating image from All Booked Up in berry sorbet ink. Then, I pulled out Papertrey's free anniversary set from this year -- Round and Round -- and stamped the circle/bird image in dark chocolate ink and punched it out with a 1 3/4" circle punch. I also chose two sentiments from Round and Round -- "Birthday Wishes" and "With Gratitude" and stamped them in dark chocolate ink in the handy little sentiment space on the label. This way, the recipient will have two birthday cards as well as two thank you cards on hand.
All righty, I have lots more to accomplish so I'd better run along. I just have one more biggie deadline that I need to meet before I leave town and then......I should probably pack! Haha.
I'll be back tomorrow with another fun post so I'll see you soon. Thanks so much for your patience with me this past week and thank you for stopping by today!
Much love,
{Birthday/Gratitude Set supplies}
Paper: berry sorbet, vintage cream, library ledger
Stamps: Background Basics: Retro, Round and Round
Ink: berry sorbet, dark chocolate, versamark
Other: mat stack 3 die, 1 3/4" circle punch, vintage cream topnotch twill, corner chomper
