Cardstock is FLYING!!!

Oooo lala!  I love love love this new stamp set – Lighthearted Leaves from the Holiday mini catalog!!!  I love it so much that I decided to use it for my Founder's Circle card swap!!!  I will be headed to Utah in a week and a half to relax and laugh with 100 of the top Stampin' Up! demonstrators in the US and top 10 in Canada.  We all bring 110 swap cards with us and exchange them with each other.  SOOOooooo I will be coming home with 109 different card ideas to share with all of you! SUPER EXCITED!!!

Here's the start of my swaps…oh my!  Also loving the Corrugated Paper…those little strips in the front of this pile – it really adds so much to my card.

And Friday I had HELP!!!  Cathy and Tammy came over and I put them to work…I am a slave driver!  I was soooo very grateful for the help and they did a fabulous job!  Cathy put the crochet lace on all the Corrugated Paper strips and Tammy stamped all my card fronts with VersaMark while I dusted them with Black Embossing Powder and heat set them.  We had a combined 20 hours in by the end of Friday.  I spent a few hours on Saturday painting the bleach on, adding the gold cording to Cathy's lace trim pieces and gluing them in place. Today – I have to finish the greeting on the front and put them in clear envelopes to protect them. WHEW!

Here's my finished product….I used bleach to color in my leaf images.  And after all this – I'm still in love with this stamp set!

Hope you're having a wonderful Holiday weekend!

COMING SOON:

Watch my blog – I'm getting ready to release a PDF file for my entire set of cards using Lighthearted Leaves – that you'll be able to get when you place an order with me, a kit available for all 5 cards or a PDF file I'll have available for purchase in the coming week!!!

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