I actually put away all the Stamp Camp stuff (okay, most of it), and took down the big table. I did!!!! My Dining Room is one big empty! This place is pretty big when it is a normal condo and not one humongous Craft Room overflow area!
Lessee, I did a little organizing in what we'll call the Captain's Quarters, getting ready to STAMP in there. Oh yeah, baby! My dream come true! Then I hit the Post Office; stopped by Chloe's (the coffee shop that carries my cards) and swapped out a bunch of old cards for new ones (I sold 6! woo-hoo!); went to my storage unit to retrieve all my walls and display stuff for this weekend's show; drove across town to IKEA and ended up with light bulbs (what a wasted trip); got home and invoiced the coffee shop for the sales; placed my SU workshop order; forgot to print more biz cards (drat!); then I CRAFTED!
Since the room formerly known as The Other Room is currently being called "The Captain's Quarters", this must be the Captain's Table:
Wanna see what I've been up to all day as far as crafting? Let's get started with the Show & Tell. Oh, oh, wait a minute. FIRST, look what came in the mail yesterday:
NOW for the crafty parts:
The other end got one of the larger Filigree brads. The ribbon is the retired Pomegranate from SU, and it is so thick and luscious ... m-m-m. I added some bling in the center of both sides of the stamped image. The whole thing is held together with red sticky tape.
Then I wanted to make a few with the remaining Chocolate Chip satin ribbon, so I went in search of my Choc Chip Craft ink so I could emboss the image, just to be different. I found this:
Then I got bored and went in search of something a little different, and came up with this:
By this point I'd given up on the Craft Ink and tried plain old Choc Chip, but it would not stamp dark enough on the Naturals Ivory for my liking, so I ended up using the Choc Chip marker and it worked just fine! Since the ribbon has black in it, I nested a black scallop between the two white ones. It looks pretty nice.
I opted for no bling on this one. And I only made one.
I took a moment to play with it some more. I covered a scrap of black card stock with adhesive (love that ATG!) and stuck down several pieces of the ribbon. Then I broke in my new Nesties Labels 5 set and cut out two of these:
THEN, I started to make some Christmas cards! CRAZY, I KNOW! I am doing three Holiday Craft shows, so you'd think I might want to have a few Christmas cards, right? My first batch is 12 cards with this image:
Well! I think that qualifies as a very full day! Tomorrow I plan to finish up these 12 cards, bag & tag them, then work on a card design with an Outlines image I have waiting for me. Big plans, yes, I know. Good thing I work well under pressure, huh?
Okay, past my bed time, and I am fatigued. Thanks for stopping by!
Wow!! you have been busy. Love your bookmarks...permission to use the idea please. :-)
ReplyDeleteShame about your wasted trip to Ikea, your room looks fabulous, oh! to have a room again.
Looking forward to see what you come up with when you eventually use your die cut, ribbon bedecked label thingies.
Adore your Christmas cards, such a fabulous sentiment to go with the cat's backs, just what they would be thinking....lol!!
What a fab post! The pp and cc ribbons are delicious. Your book marks are beautiful. The cork ribbon is very cool (no, I do not need any) and your Nesties with it are very inspirational; I can't wait to see what you do with them.
ReplyDeleteThe cat cards crack me up :)
AWESOME cat cards!!! and fabulous bookmarks...and i am getting QUITE interested in these SU pairings of stamps with punches/dies. (maybe *I* am gettin' older & wiser too?) (at least ONE of these is true!!!) ;)
ReplyDeletere ribbon: i totally thought it was books! even after i read that it was corks, i had to go back and really LOOK. so i say make a bunch of bookmarks, and just DON'T MENTION corks, and it'll be *FINE*!!!
(of course, after a month or two, the readers in question may well start to wonder why they suddenly & for no good reason crave a glass of wine every time they sit down with a good book, but i seriously doubt they will ever connect up the dots!!!) :)