I love my girlfriends!

I had a blast with the girls last night! These women are all such a blessing in my life--I can't believe we are still hanging out 26 years later! Yep, this group of beauties has been out of high school for 26 YEARS!! Everyone looks stunning, especially Julie (in the group shot, she is to my left with the black dress on) who recently lost more than 25 pounds! Woo-hoo! Way to go Jules! The night went perfectly, lots of hysterical R-rated conversation--with this bunch it's hard to avoid that! We managed to get our girls weekend to the cabin planned for the first weekend in November! A few of these girlies have outlawed any crafting that weekend, which became a huge joke last night. Just for giggles, I'm gonna enlist the help of Julie (a fellow crafter) to plan a secret craft project for these Anti-Crafter Negative Nellies!!!! LOL...if you have any fun ideas, let me know!!!

My mojo has been sporadic at best this summer, I'm finding it difficult to make anything worth posting! But, I was lucky yesterday when this little number transpired in the course of an hour or so. Sometimes things just flow, other times getting a card made is akin to pulling teeth--painful and torturous!!! I don't know why that's so true....

I love, love, love the colors in this paper from WR Memory Keepers (the Comstock Collection). So fall and cozy like! I used two different patterns from the Comstock Collection....Buttercup and Marigold. The bottom scallops were made using the other side of the Buttercup paper. The main image is a stamp from Baroque Motifs, and I embossed it in gold on a piece of Very Vanilla cardstock. It's matted on a piece of brown metallic cardstock.

Do you see the oval sentiment down at the bottom of the card? Guess where that came from? It came from the new SU set So Many Sayings. The set is actually only 3 stamps TOTAL, but I cut each one of those stamps up into individual sentiments! I kept the foam backing on the stamps, and then store them in one of the SU clear boxes. I mount the sentiments on a clear acrylic block to use them. I am SO happy I did this! I now have like a zillion sentiments to choose from! Gotta love that investment!

On a separate front, I am enlisting your help! I recently discovered that Archivers is now carrying the Bind-It-All! I've had my eye on this baby for forever (let me just say Archivers is so behind the 8 ball on what's hot it's ridiculous--this things been hot on the blog circut for MONTHS!). Now that I can buy it and not have to pay shipping, I'm debating on whether or not I REALLY need it. I feel like I DO, but that might just be my insatiable appetite for all cool things talking! Be sure and vote and let me know what you think I should do!!!!

Hugs,
Amy