Back at last...!!

Hi stampin' friends! Did you miss me these last few days? I've just been really busy!! Friday night, I was at the Canadian Cancer Society's Relay for Life. Our team, Rose's Buds, raised over $3500! Yay team! Thanks to everyone who made a donation on behalf of our team. It was a long and cold night - I walked for 3 hours in total, first from 8:30-9:30 pm and then from 2:30-4:30 am. We had fun and it was for a good cause.

Okay, on to stamping... I know that many of you have seen these cards but they're all great cards and are all made with stamp sets that are retiring. The first one is made with the And Everything Nice stamp set (page 88). I haven't had a chance to use this set too much - lots of colouring involved in this one! It's an adorable set though and this card is perfect for our climate on the wet (oops, West) coast. Notice the Wax Paper Resist technique in the background.

This card was one that we did at a Stamp-A-Stack a while back. It uses the Celebrate in Style (pg 160) stamp set along with the Weathered background stamp. This card is so fun! We've also used the Spring Showers Designer Series Double-Sided Paper on this one.

This card, stamped with the All Wrapped Up set (pg 103), has been popular. I received this in a swap a while back. It's so cute because the plastic bag has actually been cut out and some Saran Wrap has been wrapped around and tied with Linen Thread at the top. Absolutely adorable!


And, this last one is from our most recent Stamp-A-Stack. I bought this stamp set just to have the airplane stamp (yes, I'm a collector of airplane everything... you should see my office!). The stamp set is called By Air (pg 101) and it's a fun set to use for little boy cards. The "Happy Birthday" greeting comes from the Simple Sayings II (pg 184) set - we coloured it with a Stampin' Write Marker to ink only the words we wanted to stamp.

Speaking of Stamp-A-Stacks, there's another coming up this weekend and although Friday night is full, there is lots of room Saturday morning! I'm going to be using lots of stamp sets that are retiring so this is your chance to get some last ideas and inspiration for some of these sets. Email me at bevennis@shaw.ca if you'd like to join the stamping fun!

Happy stampin'!

Bev.

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