Hat's Off To These Stampers...

To Tracy Durcan (Tracy-Stamper on SCS) for sending me a brand new set of stamps (Stampin Up's Love it) as a thank you for the Black White Contest. Tracy won second prize and she wanted to return the favor. Thanks, Tracy! You can find her blog here . . . To Lynne Clark (Lynnewithane on SCS) for sending me this lovely calendar. I'm posting just 2 of the beautiful "pages" of this calendar. Imagine doing all this work and then sending it to me -- I've never met Lynne!! I'm such a total nincompoop that it took me a WEEK to figure out that the CD case opens up and serves as a stand for this calendar! . . . Thanks so much for thinking of me Lynne. To Julie Ebersole (Julie HRR on SCS) for this post on her blog, covering the subject of intellectual property and its application to the papercrafting industry. My "copyright" info on this blog is a light hearted jab directed at thieves . . . stamping is a hobby for me, but it is a business for others. Julie's post is an excellent reminder . . . To Liz (Redapron on SCS) . . . for her many cards to my Mom. Here is one example of many lovely cards that Liz sent to my Mom. And, finally -- look at this {great} card! Oh, the artist? That would be ME! LOL My internal stamper compass decided that this card was simply magnifico!! (You may laugh, but the beauty of the internet is that I can't hear you!!). It's the card I made for my husband's birthday last week. How I made this card: The 3 heart stamp is and oldie but goodie from Hero Arts and is literally one of the first stamps I purchased. It's a keeper. I stamped it on a Fabriano-Medioevalis card purchased from Starlitstudio (an A+ recommendation for this stationery and store!) with Black Memories ink. Colored in with Stampin Up watercolor crayons -- real red, yoyo yellow, and pink and used an aquapainter to blend. The phrase is 2 words from the new Paper Trey line of stamps. This set of words is called Paper Tray and are clear acrylic. They come in a nifty CD case. I used SU's Real Red Craft ink on these words, which were quite easy to line up on an acrylic block.