Challenge #21 - Bargain Stamp

Spent a few minutes this evening tidying away in the loft. I’ve been working on cards for a couple swaps and had quite the mess on my desk. In tucking things away - and there’s always a fair bit of tucking as space is ever an issue - I pushed this to one side and that to another and wondered, ” How much of this stuff do I really need?” All of it!

I love collecting stamps - especially those from the dollar bin. The cheaper the stamp, the easier it is to justify the purchase and the fact that you already have a bunch still in plastic doesn’t really matter now, does it?

So that’s the challenge this week. You have to use one of your bargain stamps! Be sure to tell us how much - or how little - you paid for this little treasure. Look forward to seeing your cards. I’m hoping to use some of my little gems too.

Congratulations to Hazel who won the blog candy for Challenge #20 Round and Red. Email me with your snail mail address, Hazel, at justscraps.ca@gmail.com and I’ll get a little something in the mail to you. Thanks for playing along.

Partridge berries are very much like cranberries, I think, Susan. They make great jam - my favorite - and if you don’t have cranberries for your turkey dinner - the partridgeberries are just as good if not better! We picked a few more today.

Be sure to sign on with Mr. Linky below. Mr. Linky closes again in two weeks, Sunday, October 17th,  at which time I’ll draw for a little candy.

Have a great week!

Thanks so much to everyone who participated in our last challenge. Einat, I pulled your name out of the butter tub this week and if you send me your snail address, I’ll get a little package in the mail.

Came across the term ‘fussy cutting’ on someone’s blog a little while back and just loved the phrase - don’t know if it’s original to that particular person or if it’s a phrase common to the craft.  No matter, I love it. Fussy cutting -perfect description for some of the work behind so many of the cards and layouts I see so many of you do. And certainly perfect for this one. Don’t know why on earth I’d choose a card with ‘fussy cutting’ for a card swap - I have to do twenty plus - but I’m hoping everyone will like it. I do.

Soooo - challenge for this fortnight: Let`s see a little fussy cutting on your card or layout.

Be sure to sign on with Mr. Linky below. Mr. Linky closes again in two weeks, Sunday, September 5th - can you believe it, the summer is almost gone! -at which time I’ll draw for a little candy. Have a great week and thanks for coming back!

Jean

I’m late! I’m late! This should have been posted last night but DH has had an affair with a kidney stone the past few days and I’ve been back and forth to the hospital and what not. He’s home again now and things are back to normal. Or as normal as it gets around here. Still not quite ready for that wedding. SIL called last night and I missed a few names on the list in preparing the wedding favors, etc. so I’m still not finished! I think I might be color blind. My niece had it all laid out wonderfully in a spread sheet, color coded and everything . Amongst those I missed were my brother and his wife - parents of the bride. haha  Fortunately it’s raining here today and coolish so I’ll head on up to the loft and get things done. The past couple days we’ve had fabulous weather - in the low 30s - amazing! Here in Newfoundland, that is uncommon, believe me. I hope it lasts - the wedding is on Saturday and is to take place outside in the garden! Max is ‘walking  in the wedding’ he tells me and Grammy can’t wait to see her two boys dressed up wedding fashion!

Sooooooo, in keeping with all the activities around here this week, the challenge at Just Scraps is to create a wedding card! I have to get a special one done for Sarah Jane myself but I’ve been fooling around with the stamp set Artistic Impressions from Stampin’Up. I’ve seen a number of beautiful cards using this set and have cased several.

I have a stack of tiny cards on hand that I use for leaving DH notes as necessary. They are super easy to make and he actually notices them. This is a new version - a little fancier - using the same stamp set. He’ll know he’s my king - haha - tongue’s in the cheek on that one ladies!

The hardware on the last one is actually silver but it photographed as gold.

That’s it for today.

And Congrats to Mary Demmons who won this week’s little bit of blog candy. Contact me at justscraps.ca@gmail.com Mary with your snail mail address and I’ll get a little package in the mail to you this week.  Too funny! I’ve been cutting out numbers and stirring them up in my butter tub for DH to draw from. Just discovered random.org and it took me only seconds to generate #17. Needless to say, the butter tub has just been retired!

Be sure to sign on with Mr. Linky below. Mr. Linky closes next Sunday, July 18th at which time I’ll use random .org - no butter tub - and get a little blog candy in the mail.

Have a great week !