Ok I admit it.  I love snowmen!  I have trouble staying away from them.  I had a little piece of yesterday’s background paper left over so I thought I should use it up!  I used denim distress ink for the background and for the snowdrift.  And I have to admit I did use a die for the snowdrift.  I know I could probably cut one but I just like how they look.  I also used the distress ink on the ribbon so that it all matches.

Stamps Used:  FF36 KB’s Heart Snowman Looking Up/Lg; EE42 KB’s Heart Snowman Looking Up/Med.; C171 KB’s Snowflake; C219 Tis the Season

this is the die I used.  We have been carrying this brand in our booth.  We are working on our own dies…hopefully by next year.

So I thought I would just give you guys a little insight to our stamping making process.  We have 170 different stamps to make for the next show.  So we begin with a process we call “pulling”  Each stamp has a file folder with a ticket it that tells us what plate it is on, what size wood it requires, what size bag it goes in and then labels.  So we have to “pull” all the tickets and put them in little buckets.  It probably took us a good 8 hours to get them all pulled.  well,  that is really the second step.  The first step is just determining and putting together the order of stamps that we need.

so here is our “bucket”  to be continued 🙂

so this weekend while we were in Mandan, ND we had 1.5″ of snow and it was a mess but beautiful large snowflakes.  So this week I have a couple snowman cards and then Karissa has made a few halloween cards which will follow.  If you notice I used the AA10 and AA15 dots in the background.  I often use them in middle of flowers and different ways they  are just a simple addition to cards.

Well, we are still in Fargo, ND and have many hours to travel today so that we can have a couple days in our own bed and then off again for the York, PA show.

Ok so I goofed!  I meant to do this card yesterday and yesterday’s card today!  Sometimes I just do not have it all together 🙂  I love this embossing folder from Darice.  I used it on the front of the card too but only a section of it.  This is how the folder looks.

We have arrived in Bismarck, ND for our mini vacation.  Kevin lived in this area until he was in sixth grade and so we are on a grand adventure.  Hard to imagine that we travel for a living and traveling for a grand adventure but such is life.  We traveled to Elk River, MN yesterday and stayed at my folks for “bed and breakfast!” and then off to Bismarck today.

Have a great hump day!  We are half way to the weekend!

Here is the inside to my card from last week!  I’m liking fun folds.

We are still traveling home from Denver, CO.  Had an awesome time in Denver.  Saw some old friends, Sandy, Joanne, Tina and company!  Met some new ones…met a young girl named Sarah who was the sweetest little girl.  I really would have like to take her home!  Me, who’s happy with my empty nest.  I took a picture of Sarah because she was so cute and polite but my email not working so great this am so I’ll try and post it in the morning.

We should be home sometime this afternoon and then Pam and Monty from Morning Star are coming for a little visit.  Pam and I are going to spend tomorrow stamping so hopefully I will have a few new Make n Takes to add.  Hope your Monday’s a good one!

This card is perfect considering the snow storm we had here in MN. It was a spring blizzard. This is a really easy card to make. I used copic markers to color in the snowmen and bird. The snowflake I inked once and stamped 3 times before re-inking. Hopefully that makes sense and hopefully this will be the last snowy card we see/make for awhile. Another dimension could always be added by 3D dotting one of the snowmen. Have a great weekend and hope to see some of you at the Allentown convention!

Stamps used: E246 If Kisses were Snowflakes, EE37, A240 KB’s Arrow Snowflake, BB56 KB’s Birdbath Bird

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