So sad to see you go.....

Tomorrow morning, we'll be taking a trip to one of my DS's favorite places. The post office!

My first package of Easter cards will be making its way to a very dear friend from high school. The Easter basket card which I made with the spring showers paper is literally my favorite card I've made yet. I love the yellow polka paper, and I love the scalloped frame around the basket (a cool trick I learned, guess where. Splitcoast!) I'm pretty sad to see it go, but I've got enough material left around here to make a few more. I'm just happy to see it go to a good home... sniff sniff.

Do any of you hoard your most favorite creations? My aunt told me that she saved the cards I gave her as a Christmas gift. She was afraid to give them away, that people really needed to RATE to get a card. Now that she knows she can get more, she'll send them more freely. What a compliment!

So, to any stalkers out there...here is a question to draw you out.... what is your favorite item that you've created to date?

Easter Goodies

Honestly, why do I torture myself? I gave up candy for Lent, then I had the bright idea to create Easter goodie bags. What was I thinking?? You can't even imagine how amazing this stuff smells, when you can't have it. The peeps are really killin' me. I swear.

I created both a boy and a girl version of these Easter goodie bags. Stampin Up's Bunny Hugs set is really **SO** cute. The Pretty in Pink cardstock is embossed using my Cuttlebug, the scallope circle is punched with my Marvy Uchida giga scallop punch and then stamped with Dots and Daisies from Stampin Up and colored in with a white gel pen. The bunny ears and nose are colored in with a Pretty in Pink marker and then given a little shimmer with my Sakura Stardust pen. He's popped up on dimensionals so that he stands out a little better. Ribbon courtesy of Starlit Studio on eBay. I've got to order more of that stuff.

In addition to the candy bag toppers, I've also made a few different Easter cards out of this set too. I'll post those tomorrow. I love when I get my money's worth out of a set!!

While I'm not a demonstrator for the company yet, I do hope to someday sign up. In the meantime, if you fall deeply, hopelessly in love with these products like I have, you can contact either of my friends Erica or Sarah. These woman are two of my closest friends who are both demonstrators for the company. I call them my enablers, my "dealers" at times - wink!! I'm attaching links to their Stampin Up websites for you to get your addiction going!