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If any of you pay attention to the dates of my posts, you can see that I am playing catch up today! Despite the fact that my life has been insanely busy, I have still found time to stamp. I need to get back on top of jewelry design and getting my Etsy shop set up and my shopping cart on here sorted out (hint, hint Tris!). But needing to do and getting done are two very different things. I have given myself permission to chill a bit until Rigoletto is done on March 17. I have a role in Vancouver Opera’s Rigoletto and will be busy with that for the next bit. However, there is always time to stamp!

By the way, the pictures in all of my recent posts have been taken by me! Tris gave me a great new camera for Christmas and it takes great pictures! I loved when he took my pictures too but it’s nice to be able to do it myself. They are not exactly perfect, but, I think they look pretty good for a point and shoot. The camera is a Canon Powershot SD1100. It’s a pretty powder blue and came in a pretty powder blue case. He picked it himself and did very well! Thank you honey!

Here are some pictures of the cards that I have been working on since Christmas.

I made this card for my brother’s birthday. He actually liked it!
Stamps: Season of Friendship, Heard from the Heart
Paper: Autumn Vine DP, CS: Sage Shadow, Chocolate Chip, Whisper White
Ink: Chocolate Chip, Really Rust, Sage Shadow, More Mustard
Accessories: Gold Brads, Big Shot

I sent this card to my Mom for her Birthday
Stamps: Flight of the Butterfly, Heard from the Heart
Paper: CS: Taken with Teal, Pink Passion, Whisper White
Ink: Pink Passion, Only Orange, Taken with Teal, Certainly Celery, Yoyo Yellow
Accessories: Sticky Rhinestones (not SU!), Dazzling Diamonds, White Gel Pen

This was the alternate for my Mom’s Birthday
Stamps: Fresh Cuts
Paper: Urban Garden DP, CS: Chocolate Chip, Kiwi Kiss, Pacific Point, Baja Breeze, Whisper White
Ink: Kiwi Kiss, Baja Breeze, Pacific Point, Chocolate Chip
Accessories: HP Hardware, Silver Brads, CC Felt Ribbon, Big Shot

Another Fresh Cuts card
Stamps: Fresh Cuts
Paper: Yoyo Yellow, Basic Black, Vellum
Ink: Basic Black, Pumpkin Pie
Accessories: HP Hardware, Rhinestone Brads, BB Ribbon, other ribbon (not SU!), Brayer

This card was a lot of work! EVERYTHING is clear embossed and cut out!
Stamps: Baroque Motifs
Paper: CS: Elegant Eggplant, Lavendar Lace, Pale Plum, Whisper White
Ink: Elegant Eggplant, Pale Plum, Lavendar Lace
Accessories: Silver and Rhinestone brads, clear EP

So, I know Christmas is over but…I didn’t get to use this set before Christmas!
Stamps: Home for the Holidays
Paper: Holiday Treasures DP, CS: Chocolate Chip, Riding Hood Red, Old Olive
Ink: Basic Black, Choc Chip, Close to Cocoa, Old Olive, Baja Breeze, More Mustard, Riding Hood Red
Accessories: Gold brads, Alpine Originals Ribbon, Dazzling Diamonds

Thanks for checking out the posts today! See you soon and Happy Stamping!!!

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Last night I made an adorable stationary holder with my Love You Much Bundle. I haven’t made all the cards and tags to go in yet but it is so cute!

This is the outside and then it opens into this:

I can’t wait to fill it up with more cards! I put a few in the pockets just to show how it will look. Tags and mini cards go perfectly into the plastic bags. I am already thinking of other designs of this – Christmas, Easter, every day… My Mom loves this sort of thing – guess what she’s getting for Mother’s Day?

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This past Saturday, November 22 was opening night of Eugene Onegin, the opera that I am performing in right now with Vancouver Opera.  This opera is by Tchaikovsky and we are performing it in the original language in which it was composed….Russian.  It’s been great fun but a lot of work too!  You can check out my singing blog here. Here is a picture of me as a peasant in the show, more pics on my singing blog.

I was asked by the Chorus to make a thank you card for the lady that coached us on the Russian. I based it on a previous design but made it bigger so that the whole chorus could sign it. I made the envelope with my new toy, The Enveloper, that I picked up after a class at Scrapbook Warehouse last weekend.  Raissa’s name on the envelope is stamped with my SU! Lovely Letters Alphabet set (part of my SU! demonstrator starter kit). It is on a different colour because I originally tried to eyeball the letters right on the envelope…big mistake! But, as it turns out, a happy accident! Here are the pics, taken by my sweetie, Tris.

Stamps: SU! Lovely as a Tree
Ink: SU! Basic Black and Whisper White (both Craft), Baja Breeze, Not Quite Navy, Night of Navy
Paper: SU! Whisper White, Not Quite Navy, Baja Breeze

Stamps: SU! Lovely as a Tree and Lovely Letters
Ink: SU! Whisper White (Craft), Not Quite Navy
Paper: SU! Baja Breeze, Not Quite Navy

A friend and former classmate from UBC, Rhoslyn Jones, played the leading lady, Tatiana in the opera. Rhoslyn is from Aldergrove, BC (a local girl!) and is embarking on what is proving to be a very successful career. She looked stunning and sang beautifully at every performance. After creating Raissa’s card, I experimented with one for her.  I was clearly influenced, yet again, by Michelle Zindorf, you’ll notice that the first one has the background of the owl card I made and posted about previously. Here are the results of my experimentation:

Stamps: SU! Baroque Motifs, Local King Rubber Stamp Elegant Ladies, Stampendous Marble Texture Cube
Ink: SU! Baja Breeze, Not Quite Navy, Night of Navy, Riding Hood Red, Basic Black
Markers: COPIC – C3, C5, C7, B000, B00, B02, R27
Paper: SU! Whisper White, Basic Black, Not Quite Navy

Stamps: SU! Baroque Motifs, Local King Rubber Stamp Elegant Ladies
Ink: SU! Baja Breeze, Not Quite Navy, Night of Navy, Basic Black
Markers: COPIC – R27
Paper: SU! Whisper White, Basic Black, Baja Breeze

I ended up giving her the second one along with a cluster necklace that I made.  Rhoslyn and two other good friends, Melanie and Jeanine, and I all went out for lunch last Wednesday.  Rhoslyn wore the necklace, I guess she liked it! Here are the lovely ladies:

Brava to Rhoslyn for a fabulous run!  I hope that we get to here her again here in Vancouver very soon!