I’m counting down the days to the new catalog which is VERY easy with four cases of new catalogs sitting in my living room!!!  I can’t wait for my New Catalog Open House on January 17th…

All of these samples are made with Brocade Blue ink & cardstock and Bashful Blue ink and the card is Whisper White and the book & 6×6 scrap page is Very Vanilla giving it a more ’sleepy’ quality, I think.

In all my free time (yes, that’s a joke!), I have been doing an redesign of my main website at www.ustamp4fun.com and I have been getting many requests to update the gallery of samples by set.  (None of these requests of course are coming with an offer of money, LOL, but I will try to be better about keeping that up this year as one of my new year’s resolutions).  So, I have made a set sampler HERE for you to view all the samples I have made with this set!

It’s always fun to play with new sets!  These are two of the display items I made for Leadership using Nursery Necessites (a new set coming in January!) using plain drink coasters.  The one on the left is a mini ‘clipboard’ type altered coaster (thank you again Trisha Wampler for that idea that I am using to death) and the one on the right is a mini book with the coasters as the book covers.

The elephant (left) was embossed in white on Pretty In Pink and cut, the background papers are "Flowers for You" designer series paper and the set "It’s a Date" will be sorely missed when it expires 12/31/07, I do use it a lot!  The book cover is Very Vanilla cardstock stamped and layered with Brocade Blue & Bashful Blue, wave caps sponged in white crafters ink and, of course, glitter.

My favorite stamps in that set however are the crescent moon and star!  See the entire set of 12 stamps in the Preview Mini Catalog (go to page 12–and don’t forget to notice the matching jumbo alphabet wheel on page 13).