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A Little Summer Break

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We are taking a little family summer break.  :)

We are planning a few fun trips, a few family visits - and maybe tackle a few of those projects that have been hanging around the house forever!   Possibly a trip to the beach is in order.

I will be around to answer e-mail (and maybe sneak in a blog post or two…).

But…

Any orders placed in the store after Sunday, July 25 won’t be shipped until Monday, August 9th.

I hope this is not too much of an inconvenience.  I’ve found that running the store, while fun, can be very demanding.  Taking a break from it once a year keeps it fresh.  Its always exciting to dive back in after being away for a while.

Speaking of diving –  what do you think of Jack?  I think he is pretty cute in his retro swim suit.  I colored him with Copics – for some reason I was in the mood for orange.

For the blue background, I stamped the Cover-a-card Circle Swirl background stamp  in white ink.  Then I just added the sandcastle that comes with Jack as a little accent.

Speaking of Jack – Rachel H won the Jack at the beach stamp for sharing her opinions on digi stamps.  Rachel – I sent you an e-mail.

 

 

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Can we have a cup of coffee and a chat?

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Well…. it has to be virtual coffee….

So here is my cup of  Joe, using the IO Latte Cup cling stamp and Basic Grey Koshi papers.  I love this stamp.  It was the one that introduced me to Leigh Hannan’s designs over at IO – and now I’m addicted (to the stamps and to coffee I think…)

And that chat….

If you are one of my 4 regular blog visitors (Hi Mom!!), you might have noticed a distinct lack of posting recently.

There are a mix of reasons.  I hurt my back and couldn’t sit for long – so blogging was tough (all better now though).  We have had a bunch of summer activities (like everyone I bet).  The garden has been keeping me busy (I’ve already canned beets, pickles and froze green beans).

But the main reason is it finally hit me how fast my kids are growing up.  J will be in 5th grade this year.   She is a great kid, but the tween attitude is creeping in.   I figure I better spend some time with her now before she wants nothing to do with me!   Ohhh…. those teen years are looming.

So I’m making a conscience effort to set aside other things to do activities with the kids this summer.  Its hard for me not to craft, blog, post tutorials, etc.  But I think its the right thing to do right now.

Oh, I’m sure I’ll still sneak in a project here and there. And I’m still adding new goodies to the store.  But I’ve given the DT the month of July off to have some summer fun too.  We’ll all be back in August with some nifty Fall and Back to School projects, challenges and contests.

(I made a digi scrap page! Another little project I’m working on this summer.  I’m taking web classes at the Jessica Sprague site.  Love her classes.  Totally not affiliated in any way.  I’m sure she has no idea who I am.  But really she does an excellent job teaching how to use photoshop for digi scrapping.)

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Spring is in the air….

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thistles1003I fell in love with this stamp as soon as I saw it!   I just love how cheerful and springy it is.

This is a cling stamp called Thistle Carden. 

I colored it with copic markers.   I also added some copic glitter pen but its hard to see in the picture. 

The lacy border at the bottom was made with the Lace Heart edger punch – but covered the top part of the hearts.  (The paper is from my stash – I think its from WR Memory Keepers??)

I hope everyone is having a great week.  It finally stopped raining here and the sun is actually shining!

If you have time to stamp this week – don’t forget to enter our sketch challenge for the chance to win the Miss Anya stamp set.

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