More is More

How blessed I am to have such great stampin’ buddies!  Today a small group of us got together to *stamp*.  Ok, it was mostly to chat, very little stamping occurred.  Joy and Daisy just got the brand new Cricut (a demo model) that will be available in June at eclectic Paperie. They brought it over and unpacked the box here.  How lucky am I???  A good part of the afternoon/evening was spent playing around with it.  It cuts 12×12 paper!  From what we could gather today it does not cut chipboard,  but is wonderful on all types of cardstock and acetate.  I’m sure Daisy will post more info about it soon on her blog.  There are so many super fun cartridges for it!

Jen, Taylor, Joy, me and Daisy 

We worked on projects a bit, talked, played with the Cricut, talked, ate pizza, talked, ate cupcakes, and talked!

 Here are the Red Velvet cupcakes I made for today with whipped Cream Cheese icing.  Mmmmm.  I wanted them to look like so many cupcake stamp images which always seem to have a cherry on top, so I topped each one with a red M&M (the dark chocolate ones)!  Yummy!!!

I started a Chantigo Monkey card while everyone was here, but the pizza arrived and I never finished it…maybe tomorrow.  I also need a wedding card to take to work with me on Tuesday. Hopefully I’ll find some time to stamp tomorrow.  As much as I love getting together with people, the only thing I can usually accomplish is working on repetitive projects like batches of Christmas cards.  To actually create something though, I guess I need to be alone.  Curt worked super hard outside all day on a backyard clean up project so I have a feeling that after church tomorrow we may be laying low around the house, which suits me fine.  Hope y’all are having a fabulous weekend!