Stamp/Crop night

Last Friday night I went to a 6 hour crop, but I stamped. It's a group up here in Northern Illinois that meets at a lady's house once or twice per month. She's got a huge basement devoted solely to her hobby. She's got room for about 8 of the banquet tables, plus then has her stuff on shelving along one wall that you're free to use while you're working. She provides supper and dessert, all for $12. I meet several nice people and plan to attend again next month. These are two of the cards I did Friday night. The pansy one is colored with watercolor pencils. There is a vellum pop up on the orange and yellow pansy on the right hand side. It's hard to see on the scan. The other one I used a new background stamp that's nothing but the little butterflies. Sorry I'm terrible about knowing who the company was, but it stamped very well. I just laid it rubber up, inked it and laid the paper on top. Then used my finger to gently rub all over it and it got a great impression.

I'm stamping again on Saturday with my friend Rachael in Pesotum, IL. (Just south of Champaign, where we use to live) We'll do another one of our marathon stamping sessions. We plan to work with some of the stamps we've had for along time. I know we're playing with the Rubber Stamp Tapestry sets that we've both had forever, but seldom use. I'm also going to bring some of my plastic templates for different card shapes. That's another purchase that's seldom used. I'll try to remember to post some of our results next week.

An exciting piece of news, Steven has a job interview this week. He's applied at 3 different places, the 3rd one being the county nursing home this morning around 9. We then ran to Wal-mart and got home around 10:45 and they had already called to set up the interview!! It's for a housekeeping position. He's had some custodial experience while working in high school so keep your fingers crossed. I'm wanting him settled in to a job before I start work in August. If his hours are close to mine, then I can get him there and home again around my schedule.

Well better go put away last week's travel bag and pack one for this weekend.