Holiday Cards and a Give Away

I am having my first give away today!  But first, my project….cuz it's all about me you know.  ME, ME, ME.  I joined a card exchange hosted on the blog Brooklyn Bride.  Why was I on a bridal website?   No idea… I must have clicked over to it for a project or something from another website or an email.  It is a great blog with lots of great ideas... and one card swap.  This was my first card swap.. Hard to believe since I have been making cards since before there was a stamping industry.  I made cards in the early 1990's using a candle flame or stove burner to melt the embossing powder.  Imagine the sheer number of cards I burned….. Cuz you know I am not careful with things like that.  Impatient?  Yes….Careful?  No.

I am happy with the way the cards turned out.  Since I only had to make 5 cards I didn't mind a labor intensive design.  My muse was a luminary that I saw in the December issue of Martha Stewart Living using the Martha Stewart "Star" Anywhere Punches.  Immediately I had the idea to do a dark background with the stars punched out and a silver, glittered paper behind so the stars appeared as silver glitter.  I intended to use foam tape or a pop dot between the two layers to add depth but in the end i didn't like the look and laid the black card stock directly onto the silver glitter paper.

I had to send one card to Portugal and one to Ontario.  The other 2 went stateside and I did send one to the woman hosting the swap.  I managed to get them in the mail today.

On to the SWAG.  I have a Give Away from the online scrapbooking company Stop and Scrap.  I LOVE the company and have proven my love by shopping there quite a bit this year….shut up Rick!… as I was saying, I have shopped there quite a bit this year because their prices are fantastic.  Stop and Scrap is a 4 year-old company that specializes in selling brand new scrapbook lines as they are released.  They are the place to go to get the latest in the industry.   I know from being a customer that this year they have seen tremendous growth and they recently expanded both the business and the family with new partners and a new baby.   Stop and Scrap offers a tremendous amount of pre-orders ensuring you get the hottest products before they sell out.  For crafters like me who live in a town with no local scrapbook stores, having a resource like Stop and Scrap has been very valuable.

I am giving away a coupon worth $25 off of a $50 purchase for one of my readers (coupon good for 30 days).  Leave a comment today (up until 11:59 p.m. EST) and I will pick a random winner tomorrow.
But that is not all…. There is also a coupon available for everyone to use for $5 off a $25 order good today only.  Use code JELLYBEANS.

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