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You move into a new house and a postcard arrives for the previous owner. The card simply says: Stamp Show, no details, and gives a date and time, and an address clear across town.
Oh, I was excited, and when the day came, off I went, many miles from my house. It was at a church and the parking lot was full. Oh boy, I thought, as I approached the building with great anticipation.
I thought it was a little funny that I didn't see any women outside, and quite a few older men were standing around at the door, but I assumed they might be husbands.
Inside I found: A Stamp Show, for postage stamp collectors!:mrgreen:
__________________ Bugga in OK
"Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible." Dalai Lama
This is really a fun thread....but true to us addicted stampers. I know I'm hopeless when attending church services and the homily gets to be a little too long. The mind starts wondering....you notice the folds on the statues, and how they are painted. Then the mind goes to the clothing that people are wearing, and some really would make a great card background. The flowers on the altar are beautiful, and you notice how the light creates the shadows. The homily ends, but you have this embedded in your creative mind for card making the following week.
...you purchase products with the intent of making a mini book cover out of the cardboard, and eye used food containers at a caf� thinking about how you can use them to hold your watercolor water, markers or paintbrushes :0
You sat at your table for just a moment to ink up a background and get in the car and run important errands - the 12 TODO items on the days list. And you look up at the clock again and it's 3pm in the afternoon - some how the whole day vanished.
...it doesn't matter WHAT the paint chip says - that's "Pink Pirouette" (Stampin'Up!) or "Sweet Leaf" (Close to My Heart) or "Tumbled Glass" (Distress Ink)...
... you notice your new neighbor's personalized license plates are CINDY SU and your first thought is "Hey, I wonder if she's a Stampin' Up demonstrator!"
(I changed the "CINDY" part to protect her identity)
The background on the projection screen at church is so striking and you're sure you could reproduce it; so you spend the sermon sketching it out on the bulletin complete with the color names of the inks you will use.
You know it is hopeless when you buy a small container of rhinestones and rush to put it away before your kitten decides to play with it and now you can't remember where you put it :confused:
__________________ "I have not failed . I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work" --Thomas A. Edison
Hey, great thread..........when you are out for a walk and see things like crow feathers and start imagining dipping them in ink or paint to use on a card. I also pick up nails when I see them to hopefully prevent them getting in people's tires. This morning, I picked up one that had a quite large head on it, and the wheels started thinking I could dip it in ink and make large spots on a background, lol..........
....you think of card layouts/designs when you are trying to fall asleep.
....you only clean off the dining room table (your craft table) when you absolutely HAVE to - like for company and family dinners and when the dining room ceiling springs a leak.....
.....you look at every little scrap of paper and think "I know I can use this" and you dump it in the gallon ziplock bag you use for each color.....and those bags are getting pretty full! When is a scrap not a scrap?????:twisted:
I proudly do all of the above.......:-D
__________________ Lorraine
Wife to an awesome DH, Mommy to an adorable DS who is on the spectrum for autism, and Twin Sister to Linda
DH brings home high-end car, travel, or financial services brochures from work because they used expensive paper, beautiful colour photos and would make great masculine cards.
You know you are hopeless when you excitedly tell a friend you are remodeling your living room with SU Colors - the walls will be Bashful blue, the trim Whisper White, etc. and she asks, "Are those Sherwin Williams colors?" True!!
when DH asks you why you are not making cards when you "occasionally" come in to watch TV with him
__________________ Mary ~~ QFTD #152, FS#514CC Guest Design Team 2012, 2013, 2017 & 2022 2014 CAS Spring Design Team MemberSC Guest Design Team 2015 & 2022 SU Consultant "Life's greatest adventure is finding your place in the Circle of Life" - Lion King
You know you are hopeless when...
...planning your 20th wedding anniversary vacation to Puerto Rico, instead of Google hotels in Puerto Rico you type in " maps to craft stores in Puerto Rico".
You know you are hopeless when...
... every time you go out shopping for tissue paper you look through all the brands available to ensure the one you buy has a design on the box that can be recycled as DSP on a card or other paper crafting project.
I just spent many months making the wedding stationery for my husband's nephew's wedding last week. All done long-distance, with the bride and groom's input all the way - especially the amount of time we spent deciding on the cream colour of the cardstock so it would closely echo the fabric of the bridal gown.
As Laura walked down the aisle, what was my first thought? How beautiful she looked (she did)? No - it was 'Boy - did we pick the right colour cardstock!'.
You can't get into the Mom Cave because you had a stupid fall a month ago, and the wheel chair won't fit through the door, and coloring books aren't enough anymore and withdrawal is setting in....
__________________ The future is uncertain, because love changes everything!
I knew I was hopeless when bought a bag of onions just because I knew it would make a wonderful fishing net embellishment on a card I was making! Now how can I use up all those onions before they go bad?!?
I knew I was hopeless when bought a bag of onions just because I knew it would make a wonderful fishing net embellishment on a card I was making! Now how can I use up all those onions before they go bad?!?
Heheh...chop and freeze in 1 C portions..use in soups, stews, sauces, meatloaf, etc. will last all through the winter...great buy, by the way!
__________________ The future is uncertain, because love changes everything!
Onion soup or relish will use up a lot. You could freeze the soup.
That actually is very clever about the net bag...I may have to save mine now! Do you wash it to get the onion smell out? Are you inking it-with what? Stazon since it's plastic?
Thanks for all the tips on saving all those onions...much appreciated! I dipped the netting into warm soapy water, rinsed it, let it dry, then attached it to the card in sort of a draping triangular shape...the red color seemed to work out just fine. No lingering onion odor. "Hung" a couple of crabs on the netting and built from there. Sorry, no photos, but it came out great and the recipient, a neighbor, loved it! She shared it with other neighbors and now I'm finding all sorts of weird recycled treasures left on my porch...each with a note encouraging me to find a creative way to use it. Ya just gotta luv those neighbors!
You know you are hopeless when...you look down at the gown you are wearing on the doctor's exam table, and you think, "Oh! Night of Navy and Bordering Blue." This was a while ago when Bordering Blue was still a Stampin Up color.
I just have to jump in here again. This morning I was reading something and my eyes saw the word "broken"......but I saw Bokeh (not sure of the spelling) but as in bokeh technique. still laughing at that......
You mean you haven't done that yet? Heck I bought some gift wrap once to use like DP....;)
Me, too. Gold foil cardstock costs a pretty penny, so I bought a roll of nice, heavy gold foil giftwrap at Hobby Lobby. It is a little tricky to use, because it wants to curl, but hey, it works and costs next to nothing compared to the gold cardstock.
__________________ Bugga in OK
"Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible." Dalai Lama
You know you are hopeless when....
You know you are hopeless when...
