My fingers are sore...I made the mistake of designing a cute little Valentine card for the leadership swap with 4 brads...one on each corner.....that equals 200 brads for 50 cards. 10 cards took twenty minutes to put in 40 brads. That equals 1 hour and 40 minutes of poking my fingers and poking under my fingernail to split the brads. One brad per card did not look right so I opted for 200 brads. I had heard from multiple sources, there are some very
PICKY women out there when it comes to leadership swaps. Some women will turn their noses up at a card if they don't think it is worthy. Worthy of what I ask? I am then told that they feel their work is superior and they only want a superior card..
Harrumph!!. Wow and I thought I was a stamping snob. Well this is what my table looked like while I was making 50 cards. ( Did I say remind me not to put brads in a swap card again?
OK there I said it!) I have a 6 ft crafting table. Why is it I end up in only a small portion of it? Go figure I leave myself a 2 ft x 1 ft area. Craft clutter sure can accumulate, I call it other 4 letter words but since this is "no swearing" blog I will say clutter... I will post the card
tomorrow.
Also
tomorrow I will post a picture of my new cutter and what I did with it...I found the perfect cutter for mass producing card cuts without having the cuts be all "
cattywampus" aka crooked. This is a word my mom used to use. Yes it is in a dictionary:
cattywampus (adj.) A slang word meaning awry or askew, as in "the newspapers were all cattywampus" on the floor . This cutter is the monster...it will take a finger off if you are not careful. I have returned several cutters for not being square or just being plain off in their measurements. Or just being cheaply made for the money charged. Mind you I grew up with a sharp
Ingento guillotine cutter that would cut off ....well you get it. I wanted something that would cut Catalog backs off and cut at least 20 sheets of
SU or
Bazzil paper paper accurately in one fell swoop! I found it.....
Blog Milestone Giveaway! For me hitting over 100 subscribers and over 10,000 hits in 4.5 months is amazing. So to thank one lucky reader I have made one of my Scrappin’Words© word books. You've seen them at the Scrapbook Expo and now even Bo Bunny is making large versions with chipboard. I love these little books and have started to design custom ones out of Stampin' Up paper to sell! So if you want a unique stamp workshop item you won't find anywhere else contact me! The one I am giving away was designed out of the new SU Ginger Blossom Double sided paper collection. Embellished and just enough room to put a couple of cute pictures and a little journaling to give to your favorite Valentine. Along with my custom word book you will get 2 adorable Studio G clear stamps, a roll of American Crafts Ribbon (4ft) and 2 little bags of cute bauble gems (like the "Dew Drops")
All you have to do is leave ONE comment at the end of this post between now and Saturday night 11:59 PM PST I will use a Random Number Generator to pick the winning number. Then I will post the winning comment. At that point I will ask the winner to email me with their snail mail address. So you will have to check back on Sunday PM for the winner. Blogspot does not send me your email address with your comment unless you type it in, sorry. If no one claims the blog candy by Wednesday Jan 30th 11:59PM PST, I will RNG another number.... Here is a close up of the front cover. 
Good Luck and Thank You to all my readers!
