Debi's Crazy Life;

Today I begin to bid goodbye to my favorite retiring stamp sets. I am going to try to concentrate on them this month, and the In Colors which are also on their way out. Today I used two of my all time favorites; Weathered background and Wild Rose. I use weathered all the time and really hope that Stampin' Up! has something wonderful to replace it or you all are going to be seeing a lot of Sanded because that is the closest background left. Wild Rose is a wonderful set. So lovely but you gotta have a Stamp-a-m-jig or you will hate it. The details are fabulous. One this one I used Purely Pomegranate for both layers of the flowers, stamping off the first layer. The leaves are Certainly Celery and Wild Wasabi. The sponging and Weathered background is Going Gray. What I used: Wild Rose stamp set, Weathered background Basic Black, Purely Pomegranate textured, Whisper White, Certainly Celery, Wild Wasabi card stock Purely Pomegranate, Certainly Celery, Wild Wasabi, Going Gray, B...

Picture me shaking. I just survived a traumatic event. My computer was ill! And I had to go two whole days without. My computer has actually been ailing for months. If I turned it off it wouldn't turn back on. This usually involves me shaking my oldest son awake at 5:50am and dragging him out of bed to get me back up and running. Then just when I learned how to deal with that problem on my own, my diabolical computer developed a new twitch, it got amnesia. I woke up one morning to find that my computer thought that it was new years eve 2002. Now I am not real swift in the morning and you should not mess with my head first thing and this was like a cruel joke because for just one minute I thought I was in my thirties again. It did that to me again a couple of times just for giggles. My oldest son either had an attack of conscience or is just plain sick of me waking him up with my computer problems decided this was the weekend to fix my it. Little did I know that it woul...

Those of you that I hang out with on SCS or Splitcoaststampers.com know that I am a challenge chaser, known there as debils. For the rest of you what that means, is that I start each morning, with dietPepsi in hand, sitting at my computer, either checking out the challenge or eagerly waiting for the challenge to be posted. Waiting means chatting online with my stamping buddies from around the world (or at least the east coast of the US and Canada, since everyone else is sleep at 6am EST) until the challenge is posted. When it is up I scramble down to my new (!!) stamping room and begin the creative process. Usually at this point at least three out of my five children are awake or supposed to be awake (read that as teenager son) so I am multitasking. Stamp something, pound on bathroom to get someone out of the shower, layer my image, pour cereal, tie some ribbon, answer door and let in one of the kids I babysit for.... You get the picture. Tuesday is Color Challenge day. Basicall...