Swappers Anonymous

Hi, my name is Amy, and I am addicted to swapping. You couldn't tell that, right?

Wednesday night before the Splitcoast dinner, a group of us who have been encouraging/enabling each other got together for our *own* little swap! This is the card I swapped.



Stamps: All Scallops, Flores Llamativas (Spanish Wow Flowers)
Paper: Ridinghood Red, Pink Pirouette, Chocolate Chip, DSP Bella Rose
Ink: Chocolate Chip, Pink Pirouette
Accessories: Scallop edge punch, Jumbo brads--pewter, Cropadile, Taffeta ribbon--brown, dimensionals, Round tab punch, Button Bouquet, Vintage brads, sticky strip

SCS Dinner

Tonite is the SCS dinner and swap! So exciting to spend the evening with some of my online friends! This swap just about killed me. My craft knife left an imprint on my hand. LOL



Stamps: Window Dressing, Heard from the Heart, Canvas
Paper: Chocolate Chip, Kiwi Kiss, Ridinghood Red, Bella Rose DSP, cardstock vellum
Ink: Chocolate Chip, Black Staz-On, Old Olive marker, Ruby Red marker
Accessories: scallop edge punch, silver brads, 1/16" punch, craft knife, sticky strip, bead duo-red, dimensionals

Track 4 3D swap

My Track 4 friends are having a swap!



This is a magnetic picture frame. It's about 5x7. I ended up putting sticky notes on it, because it just looked too empty without a photo! The frames came from the Target Dollar spot a year or two ago. They are covered with various DSP (Spring Fling for this one). I punched holes with a Cropadile for the ribbons, and made magnets to match!

Stack O' Swaps

These are my swaps for Convention. LOL The bottom case is all my 3D stuff. I can't believe I'm taking so much stuff! Most of them are for organized Splitcoast swaps, but there are some for just-for-fun general swapping! It's a good thing we're driving, not flying, eh?

There will be a swap posted every day while I'm gone!

Splitcoast Dinner Swap Box

I need a swap container for the SCS dinner swap, and this is what I came up with. At least it's distinctive! I'll upload my actual card for the SCS dinner swap on Wednesday.



I used Bella Rose paper (of course) and the scallop punch. Then I made medallions with Lovely Letters, Chocolate Chip ink, Ridinghood Red cs, Kiwi Kiss cs, and Chocolate Chip cs. You can't really see in this photo, but I put a couple medallions on the top, too! Just in case I "flip my lid" and it gets mixed up somewhere.

Luggage Tags

I'm getting so excited for Convention!!! Because every demo there will have the same bag, I needed a luggage tag.



I used the beautiful new Designer Paper Bella Rose, the new scallop punch, Flower Fusion, Vintage brads, Kiwi Kiss cardstock, and my computer to print my name. :-)

Duck , Duck, What???

Several of you asked for an update on the ducklings, so here they are in all their glory!



They are playing along the ditchbank near the daylilies. :-) We flood irrigate our land once every 10 days, so this little ditch has water about 4 out of every 10 days. This makes the duckies *very* happy! The formerly yellow ducklings are now these "fawn and white" Runner ducks. The little brown ducklings are still brown, but feathered now, not fuzzy. Yes, that's a little red sandbox toy floating in the ditch. If I were better at Photoshop, I would have edited it out!

Today we acquired a new duck from one of my daughter's co-workers. It is a Pekin duck, and *much* larger (about twice as big!) as our little ducks! We have named her "Eileen," because she does this funny Border Collie thing when she looks at something: she cocks her head to one side!




So far, the little ducks aren't liking Eileen too much. Which is hilarious, because they are *so* much smaller! We'll see how that goes.

Here, kitty kitty

Another Convention swap!


These little sticky note holders are so fun! Find me at Convention if you want to trade for a small 3D!

Stamps: Polka Dot BG, Window Dressing
Paper: Tangerine Tango, Apricot Appeal, Chocolate Chip (of course)
Ink: Chocolate Chip
Accessories: White gel pen, Chocolate Chip Marker, sticky notes, scallop circle punch, Cropadile, binder ring

Swap till you drop!

This is the first in a series of my swaps for Stampin Up's Convention 2008! I can't believe I'm actually going! I'm not what you'd call an adventure person.

This is my submission for the Stamp Camp CD Swap.



Box, Bag, and Tag.

Stamps: Pretty Amazing
Ink: Old Olive Classic
Papers: Bali Breeze DSP, Old Olive cardstock, Pumpkin Pie cardstock
Accessories: Old Olive Grosgrain 5/8”, Flower Fusion, Vintage Brads, Corner Rounder Punch, Slot Punch, Ticket Corner Punch, small gift bag