For My Fellow Craft Supply Consumers

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For All My Men

It seems that June is the month to honor all the men in my life. I've been blessed with the sweetest husband, a wonderful dad, and a great father-in-law (not to mention 3 terrific brothers-in-law). Anyhow, here are 3 cards made entirely of scraps cast off by my friend Cindee. The men won't mind at all, they are all the strong, handsome, frugal types.



Paper - CTMH Silhouette pack
Stamps - All CTMH

The $92 Card

One of the fun things about stamping with friends is borrowing their stuff. I used Robin's oval Nestabilities to make this card. And Cindee contributed the CTMH Hello stamp and black card stock with white core. I love how the white shows through a little bit when you run this card stock through the Cuttlebug. It's subtle on this card but you can sand it down for more emphasis.

Oh, and you stampers know how this works - now I have to buy all this stuff.

Paper - CTMH Black CS
Stamps - SU Oh, So Lovely, CTMH Gracious Greetings
Other - Cuttlebug, Nestabilities Oval, Colored Pencils/Gamsol

Where Have I Been?

Three of my stamping friends and I spent a wonderful week just stamping in Palm Springs. The other week, I've just been lazy and catching up on things that piled up while I was playing.

So while we were in Palm Springs, each of us had some stamping projects to share as well as our own personal stamping (like Christmas cards) to do. We completed 26 projects plus our own stuff. It's amazing what you can accomplish when you don't have to cook, clean, shop, etc.! One of Kay's projects for us was to cover a CD. She scrapbooks more than she stamps, so of course her CD's had cute designer paper and photos. But I thought it would be fun to have a little souvenir of the trip, so we scrounged around at the resort's concierge desk until we found an appropriate picture and "Palm Springs" font. So here is my CD souvenir refrigerator magnet.

To make your own CD magnet, just lay out your paper and trace the CD size onto it. Cut out your paper and adhere it to the CD with an adhesive runner. Add a magnetic strip to the back and it's done!

I'd Rather Stamp Than Cook

My sister-in-law Tracy shared this recipe with me. It takes almost no time to prepare, is delicious, and pretty healthy too. She did not have a name for it but I call it Southwest Crockpot Chicken. It will give you more time to do important things like stamping.

Southwest Crockpot Chicken

4 frozen boneless chicken breasts
1 can corn
1 can black beans - rinsed and drained
1 jar salsa (I sometimes use 2 if the jar is small)
1 block of cream cheese

Place 1st 4 ingredients in crockpot in the order given. Cook on high for about 6 hours. Remove the chicken breasts. Place the cream cheese into the crockpot to melt. While it's melting, cut or shread the chicken into bite size pieces. Give the crockpot a good stir until the cream cheese is mixed in. Return the chicken to the crockpot and enjoy over your favorite rice.

Asian Knot Card

Everyone that knows me, knows I love gadgets - kitchen gadgets, stamping gadgets, sewing gadgets. So here's a card I made with one of my more unusual sewing gadgets. Clover makes a series of little plastic templates for making Asian Knots. I suppose if you are cleaver and coordinated enough, you can just tie them on your own but these templates have groves, indentations, holes, etc. all numbered in the correct order to instruct you in wrapping your cord. They are (almost) fool proof.

Here's a link to the template I used on Clover's website Asian Button Knot. Click on Asian Knot templates to see the other 3 cool templates they have. I actually bought mine from someone on Ebay.

Stamps - Hero Arts
Asian Knot - Clover template

One More Mother's Day Card

This week's challenge was to make a card with no stamping, so here's my first card with stitching and my first card with Cricut letters. I've already sent out my Mother's Day cards, so I have a jump on next year!


Letters - Cricut
Paper - Making Memories
Embellishments - Cuttlebug