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ISn't this awesome I saw this on Kellys blog. Diaries of a Stamper. I just had to get one myself.

EZ Mount!?!

I have been a horrible blogger! It has been 6 days! I have been so busy! So remeber I was hit with that horrible cold, wouldn't you know it, I get it better and BANG everything happens at once! My father drove out from Calgary on Wednesday to spend some time with me and my children and take me out for dinner on October 5th for my birthday! How cool is that? Drive approx. 11 hours to take your daughter out for dinner, above all it was a great steak dinner! Mmmm....Milestones. It meant alot to me as I do not get to see my father as much as I like to as he is in Calgary and I am in Abbotsford (for those of you who don't know, about an hour out of Vancouver.) Dad left Saturday morning, and Mom and her man took me out for my birthday dinner, what did I pick again, steak! (the kiddies were out all weekend) I had some good old adult time all weekend it was great!


It is Thanksgiving weekend up here in Canada so we will be having Thanksgiving Dinner on Monday as I have to share my daughter with her father and he will have her for dinner on Sunday! Mmmm....I love turkey. Dinner will be at moms, so that leaves no mess for me and good eaten all weekend!


Onto some stampin' business! I finally had some down time today after I had picked up Trevor, he was watching a Pokemon movie. I decided that I was getting quite a collection of Bellas and that I should mount them all before if seems to overwhelming to even bother. I hadn't started when I first got them as I did not have any EZ mount. I decided again getting a hot knife as I was told that why waste your money on that when you can use a good pair of scissors and get them all sticky then clean them off. "It works just as good" also "more money to spend on Bellas!" Well that convinced me. Anything more Bellas! So now a couple of my Bellas look like they have gone through a chop shop! What is so EZ about the EZ Mount? If anyone know you can let me know! But hey it does not matter what my Bellas look like it matters what the stamped image looks like to me! If anyone wants to laugh they really don't need to use them!

There is my finished products. I even got some other stamps mounted with the not so EZ mount too! I will eventually do more...but I think that is enough for a bit as I was getting so frustrated and I have to wait for my LSS to get more in!

So because the is Thanksgiving weekend here in Canada and I am thankful to be Canadian I think that is a cause for blog candy! I do not have it ready today, be on the lookout for it tomorrow and think about what you are thankful for!

Mail Call...

Ok let's first of all get this straight, this is 2 weeks of catch up mail! I didn't get this all at once! I am trying to get everything all in order and give everyone credit where credit is due!

So quite a while back I put out a plee on Splitcoaststampers for some newer Stampin Up images as I kind of felt out of the loop not having any new images. This awesome gal Traci (chooch)answered my cry for help and decided to send me some images. She had mentioned that she also had TAC (The Angel Company) images too! I was overjoyed as you know they do not have TAC stamps here in Canada! So I anxiously awaited Traci's package. On one of the rottenest days Traci's package shows up in the mail and wow it was well worth waiting for!



Traci sent me oodles and oodles of stamped images. I will be busy for a long time. She even sent me coloured images. What fun is that? Might I add they are perfect stamped images.

Look at this beautiful card traci sent along with the package! Now what is better than stamped images? Stamps! I got 2 packages of TAC stamps and 4 mini Stampin Up stamps. This packaged totally brightened my day! Of course I had never seen these TAC stamps before either so I cannot wait to start playing with them.

Onto another day! I got back my Summer Tag Swap that I had showed you way back at the beginning of my blogging journey. I participated in this swap with a great group of ladies from a yahoo group called Swapheaven! Here is a pic of all the tags together!

Ok now onto today! Well my birthday is coming up in 4 more days so I have been getting Birthday cards too! I got a whole whack of happy mail today. First off I got a RAK from the Swapheaven group of ribbon and flowers. Well, who can't use ribbon and flowers? Then I got a beautiful birthday card from the penpal group on Splitcoaststampers from Dolores. What a great lady Dolores is, she is the one who got me hooked up on the penpal group!

Isn't this a beautiful card? Dolores is so talented! I love cards that have been cuttlebugged? Is that a word? Then I recieved this great card with a great layered flower on the front from Marcine Luke. I love the navy and yellow ribbon combination!

Last but not least I got this birthday card from Deborah Stevens on Splitcoaststampers also. I do not know if you can see that the circles pop out. The picture does not do this card justice. Wow that was alot of updating. I will not let it get that behind again! Now onto all my thank you's to everyone!

Inking Up Witchybella

Whew...I am back...not with full force yet, but I can at least think. That was an insane week, with a cold that came and knocked me on my butt! I lied in bed and did nothing, thank goodness I have older children that don't need everything done for them!



Now on to the good stuff! I got to get some work done today, nothing motivates you more than the fact that you have swaps due! In fact I got one of my swaps done for Splitcoaststampers . It is called Trick or Treat 6 x 6 Pages Swap. Now how coo is that. The recipe I am doing is Witches Brew and who better to use than Witchybella!

I printed out the recipe on the cardstock first. Then I got to ink up my Witchybella stamp from Stamping Bella for the first time and stamped all my witches. I then colored them all. I used various different markers. I first tried green and purple but then settled with black and purple. I then mounted Witchybella on the orange and onto the yellow cardstock. I added the 4 orange eyelets for a little more embellishments and then mounted it all onto the black for the last of the Halloweeny touch! I wused to hate eyelets and just collect them until I bought my Scrapparatus by Karen Foster, and now I am luvin' eyelets almost as much as I love brads!

Well, I have alot to catch up on, especially with what I have got in the mail, I will take some more pics later and post them, and show you all. I am glad to back.

So So Sick....

Hellooooo...I am so sorry I have not been updating anything! I am so sick! My dearest daughter who will be turning 10 tomorrow, has given me the nastiest cold and on top of that I have the flu too! I have not stamped, binded, or played with anything new. You know you are totally sick when you can't even shop! I even have the new Witchybella and I can't even think straight to play with her! I have got a whole bunch of great stuff in the mail this week and I haven't been able to post it or make thank you cards or anything! I feel horrible! I need to get better.

New Goodies!

I got some new goodies the other day and I purposely went and took pics to show but forgot to pst them. I think it is because I have not been feeling the greatest since then! Taylor (my daughter) seemed to give my her flu. > Good enough explaination for no posts lately? I will hopefully have some stuff to show as I have to justify buying this stuff right?

Ah...my Bind-it-all! I put my deposit down on this a couple months ago and it finally come in! Well when it came in I didn't have the money to pay the rest. Murphy's law right? I am totally excited! I started a project with pics of my niece right away and the next day I was right back at the LSS needing help! I guess that is what happens when you don't read the instructions!

New $1 Michaels stamps! (Up here in Canada they are $1.50) I didn't get them all! I really only picked out the ones I liked. I had no Halloween stamps at all! You can't get any cheaper than that!

The Essential Glue Pad >>> must have been essential all right! I have been waiting for eons for this baby! Like I went to 4 or 5 different stores looking for this every couple of months. Can you believe that? Hot item! It just so happened that I was standing in Urban Trends Scrapbooking when the box came in and I got it that way. Good thing I have no life and can loiter around my LSS!

Of course, if your LSS sold Bellas could you walk out without one? I was going to buy a Fella but I compromised and bought Retailfellabella! I even had to call my poor sick Taylor at home and confer with her on this. It was a toss up between this one and Cruisabella! This one is quite cute though! I also got the sayings "you glow girl" and the "priceless" saying I can't remember the whole thing right now!

Last but not least, our LSS now carries My Favorite Things Stamps too! I didn't know which ones to buy! To many choices...so I settled on the set "Simply Said" with all the sayings for now because I never have the right sayings and now I can say I have a set of My Favorite Things Stamps!

Well I guess I should get of the computer and get some stamping done and show you some work!

Which Scrapbooking Supply are You?

I am a pair of SCISSORS!

You're cutting edge, baby! You cut through life with ease, always keeping others on the edge. You have the power to simplify things by just cutting them out. But scissors beware - you may cut some of the important things out of your life without realizing it, in your need to keep trim!

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Leave a comment letting me know what supply you are!

CPS/CardMaker Magazine Card Design Contest!!!

When: Saturday, October 6, 2007

Note: It's time for a new contest at Card Positioning Systems (aka CPS).

We are teaming up with CardMaker Magazine to celebrate the magazine's new "Sketchbook" column that was just launched in the September 07 issue (and will be featuring some of Tami Mayberry's card sketches).

You are invited to join us for the celebration and show us what you can do with the contest sketch!! Entry is simple, just use the CPS/CardMaker Contest sketch (posted on the CPS blog) to create your best card that fits one of the following themes: Patriotic, travel postcards, summer parties, Christmas in July. Look for the special contest entry section and post a link to your creation.

There are LOTS of great prizes to be won, including the chance to have your card published in CardMaker Magazine.

Entry deadline: 11:59pm Saturday October 15, 2007.

See the CPS blog (www.cardpositioningsystems.blogspot.com) for official rules and complete list of sponsors.

3Bugs Gallery Scrap Contest

When: Sunday, September 30, 2007

Note: SCRAP CHALLENGE: For our August/September Gallery Scrap Contest, we challenge you to create a single page layout (either 8.5 x 11 or 12x12) that includes two or more pieces of patterned paper from 3 Bugs as well as 2 other products from 3 Bugs (other products include stickers, tags, monograms, design board, stamps, designer brads or ribbon). To be considered for the contest you must include "August/September Contest" in your title when you upload your layout to the 3Bugs gallery. Layouts MUST include at least 50% 3 Bugs products. Deadline to submit is September 30, 2007. If you have any questions, please email elayne@3bugsinarug.com. We will select one winning layout & send the designer a 3 Bugs in a Rug prize package. The winner will also be featured in our October newsletter!

Make sure to sign-up for our newsletter at www.3bugsinarug.com… to receive information about future contests.

Upload layouts at www.3bugsinarug.com…

Scrapbooks Etc. - Call for Projects

When: Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Note: Scrapbooks, etc. has a new column, and we’re searching for submissions. The column will be called “Etc.” and it is all about using your scrapbook supplies for home décor and gift ideas…projects other than scrapbook pages. As one of our editors (the fabulous Michelle Rubin) said, “This is about getting your supplies off the page and using them in new ways.”

If you have the April 2006 issue of Scrapbooks, etc, this column will be very similar to the ideas featured in our “Deck the Walls” column…wall art, memo boards, keepsake boxes, etc. (hence the name of the column!). We’d love to see your most creative and unique ideas!

Send photos of your projects to us at submissions@meredith.com, and put “Etc.” in the subject line to ensure your samples make it to the right people. Since I will be managing the article, you can also send a duplicate copy to me at etintexas@yahoo.com. Email submissions must be 500k or less. We will have an ongoing need for this type of project, so please send them at any time.

This column will first appear in the August/September issue. If you’d like more information or would just like to keep up-to-date with Scrapbooks, etc. you can always check out our blog at: scrapbooksetc.blogspot.com

Thanks so much—can’t wait to see your ideas! Erin Terrell, SBE Contributing Editor