Friday, February 23, 2018

happybirthday1

Happy Birthday AYSI Style


It's time for another AYSI challenge and this time I decided to use the sketch to make a birthday card for my Mom.  Even a little untraditional for a birthday card too.  

Here is the sketch, which I think is amazing and lots of possibilities! 



I went ahead and used a printed card base from the SU! sale-a-bration catalog and a great new set from the Occasions catalog.  Loving the pineapple background paper too!  

Hope you will join us this week at AYSI! 

Friday, February 9, 2018

waybackwhen

In a land far far away and a long time ago.....

I became a stamper.  

It was in college the summer between by Junior and Senior year.  My friend called me (on a real phone with a cord) and said have you been stamping the summer?  Stamping what was that?  At this time I was working on an art degree and quite crafty in general.  I headed out to Meijer and checked out the craft section, Stamps.  I was a poor college student then and worked for the college in the summer, so not a lot of dough was made, but I purchased my first stamp on clearance.  It was a chili pepper stamp.  I colored it with markers, not even stamping markers, like kids markers, and stamped on index cards.  That is how it all started.  

The we started a stamping group and would stamp in a RD's apartment on the weekends.  When I was an RA as a senior I spent all my money at the local stamp store, like ALL my money.  We would get paid every couple of weeks about $80 and I'd spend it on stamps!  

So what was your first stamp or crafting supply?  Share with us this week.  



These days I'm exclusive to Stampin' Up! products and stamps, but I found a bin of old stamps from way back when.  This is one of them!  I can see why I saved it, it's a beauty! I used markers (Stampin' Write) as an ode to the olden days.  ;)  

So fun to dig through old products that I still have!  

Please join us this week!