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Card Makers Offer

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Stampin' Up Special!! With any purchase over $50.00 from my Stampin' Up website (see side bar)  I will send you 25 card bases and matching envelopes!  With $100.00 purchase I will send you a set of 50!  My gift to you at no additional cost! ~Ginny  I just inserted this commercial, the product review is the below post!! :)

Ever wonder how....

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Ever wonder how you can safely clean your self healing cutting mats?  Three Years ago my Husband purchased two giant cutting mats for my cutting table, they are a great yellow color and have traveled through all stages of my studio morphing.  I have used them for all of my sewing/quilting/ crafting work and after three years they were a real mess.  I have cleaned them as recommended by the manufacturer  and that helped but nothing took off the stazon inks, glimmer mists stains and other various dirt and ink stains.  I do try to be very careful and neat with my stuff, one of my however, cats just does not get staying off my ink pads!!  I actually like the prints wandering off the mat, but the rest just looked dirty.  Earlier in the week I tried my Stampin Up adhesive remover to take of old glue bits and that worked great!  Nothing else got those glue off and I tried everything! This looks just like one of those  erasers we used to use in art class back in the 70's. This is just a si
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Almost a week since my last post, My Stampin' up demonstrator kit came in, my sister from OR came in, my Son and Fiance from WA came in, my new living room set didn't come in but is in the town next door (tomorrow, I hope,  delivery).  My sister in CT had a great 85th birthday party for my mother and almost all of the family was there! In between, cleaning and cooking and sewing fuel pod covers,  We've had a great time!  Here is a pic of my family: my Mom, Son Roy, Megan, Son in law Brian, Wonderful Husband Steve, Me, Daughter Lissa and Son Steve. I haven't had much time in my stamp room this week, but I did make this card for my mom   I did a dry emboss on the background panel and use gold and then a layer of black pigment inks to give it a patina look.  The chair and chandelier were in black heat embossing, I colored the chair with Stampin' up marker. While the kids are out with friends, The Steve's are studying and I am working on getting things together for

Cards with The Word, for OWH

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My Friend Janet and I went to a Christian Womens Conference a month ago.   We stayed up till 3:30 am making these cards.  We made about 80 all together!  Good Time, Good Cause, Good Friend and Good Word!

How to Cut a reem of paper perfectly and fast!

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The SG 198 stack paper cutter. I am the Goldielocks of paper cutters.  Not that I want to be, I just am. When I was in 4th grade, way back in the 60's, I was put in charge of cutting the paper for my class.  Using a guillotine cutter, I managed with very little help to cut everything from Manila art paper to the beautiful white lined paper for our English class.  I loved it, the paper, the cutting, the glory and the fame of it all.  I think I wore a crown when I was on duty.  So that is when it started. Since then, having worked in my fathers printing business and my own dabbles in paper works I have cuts tons of paper! More recently I began selling paper and needing to cut into the preferred sizes used by card makers.  So while I had 4 very good cutters including the Genesis Trimmer, not one of them cut through a hundred sheets of 90# card stock in one swoop! So I went on the hunt.  I looked at "stack cutters" on web sites, watched videos, talked to my printer friend and

What I've been doing for the last 4 months!

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This picture might be a little hard to see, or at least  know what you are looking at.  This is a picture of my Vintage Singer Industrial sewing, I am working on a fuel pod cover for an F-16 Fighter Jet.  Not your everyday run of the mill sewing project!  I am a contract sewer and that sometime means sewing some very interesting things and sometime some very UN-interesting things.  This project along with another sewing contract has kept me sewing about 50 hours a week for the last two months.  I went back to contract work on the 13th of March, after months of not working, I took an out side job as a subcontractor, about 100 miles a day driving.  I also took another job much closer to home and also very steady! You know the old saying" Seemed like a good Idea at the time', well it fits here! Now that I have caught my breath, and put my commercial sewing room back together I feel like I've gotten my stride and am enjoying both jobs!.  I've also been busy with Operation