What an Amazing Week It’s Been!

 

Hello Sweet Friends!!

 

First, I want to thank you all for your very kind and generous words about my Stamping Royalty win.  I continue to feel the warmth and love shared by all of you with me, and hope that this feeling never goes away.  As each group of winners was announced, I felt more and more honored as many of the winners are women whose work I have admired and been inspired by for a very long time.  The idea that I stand next to them in this journey fills me with a sense of awe and humility . . . many of these women are stamping celebrities!!  To be in the company of these women is a total and complete honor for me.

 

Second, I want to share the cards that I submitted for the Stamping Royalty contest that didn’t make the cut.  I still like them, so I’m hoping that you’ll look at them and say to yourself, “Hey, I can do THAT!”   Here ya go:

 

Thinking of You/Hello
(I think I already shared this one with you)

 

Holiday/Season’s Greetings

 

Birthday

 

Love #1

 

Love #2 (this was my fave)

Thank You

 

There ya have it!  I’ll be entering these in the Reject Blog Hop that Dr. Amber (another of the Stamping Royalty winners!) is holding over at her blog, Damask Love.  Check it out – there’s some yummy inspiration there for you!!

 

Now, I want to tell you a little story about these cards.  A good majority of them are RE-WORKED cards that I had either created for challenges or had previously submitted (but were rejected!).  The SR entries could not have been seen on line at all . . . but with a little tweaking, they were “official.”   So I changed color schemes or added additional elements so that they differed from the original cards.  Only two of them were new creations – Love #2 and the Birthday cards.  I tell you this why?  Because I am a testament to the fact that you don’t have to be a brilliant, super creative stamper to win!  If you have projects that you love, and they haven’t been shown online (or have been previously shown or submitted, but can be reworked), it’s very possible that your submission will be chosen!!  The only way to know is to ENTER!!!  So please, friends, when you see the advertisement for next year’s Stamping Royalty contest, I hope that you’ll enter.  You can’t win if you don’t enter, right?!!

 

Okay, that’s it for me today, kids!.  Thanks again for all your kind words . . . they mean more to me than you’ll ever know.  We’re off to have dinner with some sweet friends.  I hope you have a fantastic weekend – I know I will!!

Someone PINCH me!!

Happy St. Paddy's Day, Friends!!

Pinch me PLEASE!!  I feel like I'm living in a dream right now!!  I just got another HAPPY EMAIL from Susan Opel at Paper Crafts Magazine for another one of my cards!!!  The one they chose (sorry, I can't share it with you until September!) will appear in the September/October issue of Paper Crafts Magazine.  Are you KIDDING ME?!!  Needless to say, I am beside myself with happiness and glee.  I know I'm lucky because the odds were totally against me - there were 925 submissions and 338 of them were for Halloween (the only category that I submitted for), to fill 80 spots in the issue.  There were 66 designers and 11 brand newbies chosen, so I seriously did NOT expect to get an email today.  But let me tell you, I am one happy leprechaun for sure!!

Okay, I think I've gushed enough for one day.  Thank you for indulging me.  Before I go, there's a really fun lady who is once again hosting a Reject Blog Hop.  Dr. Amber of Damask Love is the hostess with the mostess.  Check out all the fabulous rejects HERE.  I'm happily including my reject from this call.  I've submitted this puppy to death and no one has picked it up, so I think I'll put a fork in it.  I personally thought it was stinkin' cute, especially since it uses the bat from Paper Smooches' Falling For You set.  This is actually version 2 of one that I created for a CARDS Magazine call that was REJECTED, too!  LOL  But I'm okay with it . . . really, I am!

I hope you have a wonderful rest of your day!  I've been creating like a fiend, so I've got lots of goodies to share with you all very soon!  Thanks so much for stopping by!