More is More

There is so much excitement going on this morning that I honestly don’t know where to begin.

The SCS Fan Club/Dirty Dozen gallery opened today and my long time friend (and StampMania co-host) Emily Gunnell (WaterPixie on SCS) is one of the two new Dirty Girls.  I almost peed in my pants I was so excited for her!  If you are a Fan Club member you can see Emily’s DD stuff in her gallery here.  I’ve been looking for her to pop up in the DD for a long time and couldn’t be happier.  I’m just so sorry I went to bed early last night and wasn’t around for the midnight reveal.  The other new Dirty Girl is Amy Rohl – also a very talented stamper and someone I have admired for quite some time.  Congrats to both of them!  If you are not a Fan Club member at SCS I highly encourage you to join ASAP!

Another piece of exciting news – my good friend Taylor has reached ONE MILLION hits on her popular blog Taylored Expressions and she is doing a full week of awesome give-aways sponsored by some fab companies!  Run over there and check it out.  Congrats to Taylor!

ETA:  I can’t believe in my rush I almost forgot to say that my friend Sharon Harnist (StamperSharon) just announced that she was chosen for the new Spellbinders Design Team!  WooHoo!  Quite an honor and she is more than up for the task!  Congrats Sharon!

And of course there is the new PAPERTREYink  release that actually happened last night.  I have been wanting a monongram set something like Ambassador for a really long time.  It’s beautiful and I love the small size and especially love border set that goes with it.  The one big draw back for me is that I really don’t care for the “J” in the set and it’s kind of an important letter for me.  So at the moment I’m feeling very torn.  I’m very particular about my “J”s.

I have several cards to share, but with all the excitement I’m running late for work, so I’ll just share one now and more tonight or tomorrow.

This card was done for the Sketch Challenge on SCS yesterday.  I’m embarrassed to say that I was late with a birthday card for a sweet and very talented stamping friend, but the sketch was just what I needed to get me going.  The image is a Whipper Snapper (by Anna Wight) and I just love it!  The background is a piece of silver-colored very thin metal sheeting run through my CuttleBug.  You just have to get some of this metal and play with it!  My friend Sencie is selling it on her blog for a very reasonable price – check it out here.  I had some shiny silver faux-button brads that go perfectly with the metal background – unfortunately in the photo they don’t look silver at all – you’ll have to take my word for it.  LOL!  Colors on this card are Rose Red and Old Olive and the image is stamped on shimmer shite.  The designer paper is from my stash and I have no idea of the manufacturer.

Wow this is just too much excitement for one day!  Especially a Thursday when I need to get to work! YIKES!  I’ve got to run for now.  Happy Thursday!  Thanks for stopping by.