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At customer request I’ve decided to offer Gift Certificates to the Stamp Simply Ribbon Store. What a SIMPLY wonderful gift to give!  They will be available in any amount you choose - $25, $50, $75, $100 -or whatever amount suits your occasion.  And they’re easy to both purchase and give.  I’ll tell you how below, but first take a look:

A simple and pretty little index card style certificate in whatever amount you so choose.  To purchase a Stamp Simply Ribbon Store Gift Certificate, just email me at ssj@up.net, tell me the amount you’d like and the name and email address of your recipient.  Once paid, there are 2 ways you may receive your certificate:

1)  I can email your certificate to you, similar to the above photo, with your correct $ amount on the focal image.  You may then email it to your recipient.  Gift given, quick and simple!  Your recipient then contacts me to place her order, telling me who gave the gift to her.  I then mail out her package.

2) Option 2 is in the event you actually want to HAVE the certificate to wrap and present to your friend.  In this case, I’ll mail a certificate to you, similar to the above.  You can write your greeting on the reverse side.  It will be in a crystal clear box, ready to wrap.  There will be an additional charge of $7.50 to receive the certificate in the mail in a crystal clear box.  That $7.50 does include the shipping charges to you.

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If you like the design above and would like to recreate a card using any of the fun JustRite images, here’s the recipe and shopping list:

SU Products Used:  White, Cameo Coral, Kiwi Kiss and Raspberry Tart DP; Corner Rounder and Rounded Tab Punch.

The Stamp Simply Ribbon Store carries the following items used on this project:

2″ Stamper with 15 pt. Font and Center, along with the Times New Roman Font available in the Damask Monogram Kit, all by JustRite

Celery 1.25″  and 1/4″ Silk Ribbon by May Arts

Petite Circle Nestabilites by Spellbinders, Bow Easy and Kaiser Pearls (pearls not yet listed in store but they are available, just ask)

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Thank you so much for stopping in today.  Truly do enjoy your visits — thank you so much!!!  I have many more posts to share this week, so hope you can return!  See you soon!!!

This week JustRite Stampers is sponsoring CPS134 with Christmas themed cards.  For my card I used 2 different centers from A Merry Little Christmas, used on the 1 5/8″ Stamper.  Take a look:

Simple blue (SU Bashful Blue) and white.  The card is 5.5″ square.  The snowflake is a Cuttlebug die.  Petite Circle Nestabilities by Spellbinders were used for the remaining die cuts.  My ribbon is 1.5″ Striped Grograin that I carry.

The smaller center snowflake is from A Merry Little Christmas Set, as is the sentiment.  The snowflake is dressed up with Kaiser Pearls and some glitter, popped up with Dimensionals.  Hope you like it!

JustRite Stampers carries their full line of product.

The Stamp Simply Ribbon Store offers A Merry Little Christmas, the 1 5/8″ Stamper, the Petite Circle Nestabilities, VersaFine Ink and 1.5″ Striped Ribbon used on this card.

My friend, Carolina, has another video posted today in her bow tying series,  the Modern Bow.  FUN treatment — be sure to check it out!   Thank you, Carolina!

Thanks much for stopping in — truly do appreciate your visits!!!  See you soon!

Rich Autumn Leaves- To me the colors of autumn are rich and earthy.  Today we will create a project with leaves, and remember we’re easy, so if you don’t have actual leaf images, trees, flowers with leaves, acorns, pinecones, etc. are all OK.  But the added element is to make the project rich in color and texture by adding sponging to create that richness and depth of color.   I can’t wait to see your gorgeously rich creations today!

Keyword ssnotime106 - There is no time limit. You can play this challenge and upload your project at Splitcoast and/or your Blog, anytime at all. You (and that means anyone and everyone, blogger or not!) can play as many times as you like!!! The point is to keep it simple, quick and have fun!!! Please link back here.

Check out the great samples for the Stamp Simply Challenge today on the blogs of these fabulous designers:

• Charlene, September Guest Designer
• Janine 
• Jennifer 
• Julie 
• AJ
• Tammy took the night off due to other committments!
• Deb
• Barbara
• Jenny

Please bear with us all as we each upload and link on Thursday night.  Everyone should be up and set by Friday morning.

You may see all SCS Gallery Submissions here.

And here’s what I created for today:

An autumn card, rich in texture and color, with NO ribbon — wonders NEVER cease!  The Antique Gold Silk actually went very nicely with this paper, and I did debate the issue, but decided to forego the ribbon today as I thought this card stood very well on its own and I really wanted the focus on the image/leaf.  A simple style I use so often, with my *piping*.  Although my focal image is clean, my edges are all sponged as well as the leaf.

The image is from Autumn Blessings by JustRite, Copic colored, cut with Petite Oval Nesties.  I like using the Petites as it allows me room on the side for *something* — usually pearls, but today brass brads.  I’ve been making these same leaves each autumn for years.  The punch is by McGill and it’s quite old.  I drew in the vein lines with a pen and sponged the leaf and edges in Soft Suede by SU.  The leaf was punched from the goldish paper in the DP pack, Autumn Traditions by SU.  I tied a bit of 100% Jute String on the leaf stem, and that was ribbon enough for this card.  The focal image and leaf are mounted on Dimensionals.

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Shopping:

The Stamp Simply Ribbon Store carries the following items to make this card:

Autumn Blessings Set and the 2 1/4 x 3 1/16″ Oval Stamper by JustRite.

Petite Oval Nestabilites by Spellbinders and Scor-It Score Board

Memento Tuxedo Black Ink (not shown in store yet, but I have it available)

100% Jute String by MayArts.

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Thanks much for stopping in.  I hope we have inspired you today to create some beautiful, rich and earthy projects this week.  Sponging is a wonderful compliment to autumn creations!  Wishing you all a wonderful weekend.  I plan to be back tomorrow with a card for a fun sketch challenge — hope you can check it out!!!  Have a wonderful weekend everyone!!! See you soon!!!

I have a couple of super quick Halloween treat ideas today.  The first is a little basket that could be used for school treats, table favors, or a teacher gift as it’s cute for a desk decoration.  The second is a small money holder for a dollar or two for your favorite little ghost or goblin!  Here they are:

I used last year’s Halloween DP by K & Company that I got from Michaels.  It’s very glittery and festive. Not sure if it’s still available.  The only other paper used is Pumpkin Pie cardstock by SU for the scallop.  The stamp set used is this year’s Limited Edition Halloween Set by JustRite, called Witch Way to the Treats.  It fits on the 1 3/16″ Wooden Stamper, a fun size.  I do have a limited number of sets left, but won’t be able to get any more once they are gone.  I’ll tell you quickly how I made these and give you some closeup shots.

This little basket is so quick and simple.  It’s basically a cube that has not been pushed all the way in to form the cube.  The side flaps are only partially pushed in and adhered, if that makes sense?  I’m thinking there is an official name for one of these, but I can’t put a finger on it.  Anyone know?  To make this, start with a square of paper, 6 x 6″.  I then used my Scor-It to score 2″ in from all 4 sides.  You end up with 9 equal squares.  Cut the 2 score lines on 2 opposing sides.  Now you can fold it up, just don’t fold it all the way in, and adhere into position.  (I don’t have time to make a template and photo now to show you, but if anyone doesn’t understand and would like a template photo, just let me know and I’ll come back this evening and edit this post to include one.)

Here’s a view of the back.  I think you can see how it folds easier on this side.  My handle is made of 10″ of 1.5″ Striped Ribbon. It is just adhered to the inside of the basket with a heavy duty double sided tape, folded on the bottom where taped to create the little gather.  It is then stuffed with shredded paper and some wrapped taffy.  Finished it measures about 5″ at the widest point and about 5″ high.

This is a little holder for a dollar bill or don’t some places like McDonald’s make coupons for Halloween?  A fun way to present a little treat.  Finished it is 4″ square. Cut your paper 4 x 9″.  Again using my Scor-It, I scored 2″ from the bottom for the pocket and used double sided red tape on the sides to adhere it up.  I then scored 3″ down from the top to create the top flap, and I rounded the corners with my SU Corner Rounder.  Now it’s done, except for decoration.

Again, I used Witch Way to the Treats and the same Grape 1.5″ Striped Ribbon.  And I really like this ribbon treatment — so quick to do and fun!  The ribbon is tacked to the flap with double sided tape so it doesn’t slip and the ends are just tied with a coordinating color of 100% Jute String.  Can’t get much easier.  And in this case I love how that ribbon flying off the end of the card mimics the motion of the witches broom in the image.

Here’s the inside — fun with the double sided paper!  And just enough room for some little treat!

Nothing fancy about either of these projects.  They were kept super simple with mass producing in mind for school or other events. 

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Shopping: 

Most items to make these projects, with the exception of the paper, can be found in the Stamp Simply Ribbon Store:

Witch Way to the Treats Set and 1 3/16″ Wood Stamper by JustRite

Petite Circle Nestabilities by Spellbinders

1.5″ Striped Ribbon and 100% Jute String by May Arts

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Thanks so much for stopping in today!  Hope you are enjoying this Autumn Season!  We are still having higher than normal temps and we are waiting for the leaves to change.  It’s always so beautiful here in the fall.  And speaking of fall, that reminds me of this week’s Stamp Simply Challenge — stay tuned!  It’ll be up on Thursday evening, as usual.  Have a great week, everyone!

As I’m trying to catch up  from 2 days of no internet service, and as I know we all LOVE our ribbon, I wanted to link you to this Bow Tying Tutorial prepared by my sweet friend, Carolina Buchting.  Carolina shows us how to prepare what she calls her Classic Bow that her Grandmother taught her. 

Thank you, Carolina.  It’s a GOREOUS bow!!! 

Hi everyone!  GLAD to be back connected to the world.  2 days without internet access is a little frustrating!!!  I came home from our usual Sunday activities to find service, and I’m one happy camper!!!  I’ll get to all my emails throughout the evening - thank you for your patience!

I have  a simple CAS remake to share with you this evening.  DS#2 needed a birthday card for 6 year old Emily - like NOW!  Well, nothing in this house ready to go for little girls, so I did some scrambling.  Does anyone remember this card?  Well, I thought that just might do for a 6 year old if I switched out the sentiments.  So, off came Summer and on went her name, Emily, plus a button for good measure.  Here’s the remake:

Please see original post for specific details.  Image is by Cornish Heritage Farms, Copic colored.  I created Emily’s name using font by JustRite — Times New Roman, both Uppercase and Lowercase, used on a Harmony Rectangle Stamper.  And please remember, all the font is still on sale at JustRite Stampers through Sept. 24.  Be sure to check it out!

You’ll also note if you compare the two that I added Flower Soft in Nut Brown to the flower center on Emily’s remake.  Sure adds a lot of interest IRL — I love the addition.

Please note I have a good supply of JustRite Products shown on Page 3 of my store.  Also just want to let you know that I have some FUN new RIBBONS in, as well as a few other little items  – I’ll get them photoed and up on the Stamp Simply Ribbon Store hopefully tomorrow (Monday) sometime!  So stay tuned — I’ll post here when the new ribbons are all listed.

Thanks much for stopping in and for your patience with me while I was out of service.  Keeping my fingers crossed that doesn’t happen again anytime real soon!!!  Have a wonderful week, everyone.  I’ll be back as soon as I can!

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Editing to Add:  In reading comments, it has reminded me that not everyone understands all the lingo we use when writing posts.  I think there has been some confusion on the meanings of CAS and CASE, though similar in appearance, very different in meaning.  Let me explain:

CAS means Clean and Simple, as in style of card.

CASE is a term people use, “to case a card”.  Some people refer to is as to *Copy and Share Everything*.  Others refer to it as meaning to *Copy and Steal Everything*.  In either situation, when you CASE a card, you are copying someone else’s work.

 Hope that helps!

Hi! This is Deb! Sharon asked me to open her blog and let you all know that she has had no internet service since late Friday afternoon. She has no idea when she will be back up, this being the weekend.

Those who have ordered via email from the Stamp Simply Ribbon Store, be rest assured that she will contact you as soon as she has service.

Thank you!

CAS/BIO — So what’s THAT mean?  Clean and Simple, Black Ink Only OR Brown Ink Only.  So clean and simple in style, with only ONE ink, black or brown, and NO coloring.  We’ve done something similar before, but this time we are adding in the clean and simple element as well and allowing either black or brown ink.  ANY papers or embellishmemts are A-OK.  The idea here is to keep our effort to a minimum by doing CAS and limiting inks and omitting coloring, but allowing our papers and embellishments to give our project the POP and pizzazz.  Have fun with this one!

Keyword ssnotime105 - There is no time limit. You can play this challenge and upload your project at Splitcoast and/or your Blog, anytime at all. You (and that means anyone and everyone, blogger or not!) can play as many times as you like!!! The point is to keep it simple, quick and have fun!!! Please link back here.

Check out the great samples for the Stamp Simply Challenge today on the blogs of these fabulous designers:

• Charlene, September Guest Designer
• Janine 
• Jennifer 
• Julie 
• AJ
• Tammy
• Deb
• Barbara
• Jenny

Please bear with us all as we each upload and link on Thursday night.  Everyone should be up and set by Friday morning.

You may see all SCS Gallery Submissions here.

And here’s what I created for today:

First of all let me say, I think I broke my own rule.  This is Black Ink Only, but I’m not sure if it qualifies for clean and simple.  But I have an excuse — we have another funeral tomorrow and I really NEEDED this to be a sympathy card tonight as I didn’t have time to make 2 cards, so I am just being practical and made what I needed — so if you’ll forgive me for that — then I owe you one!  My card is 5.25 x 7.75″ high.  The papers are retired SU — Soft Sky and Spring Silhouettes DP — both of which I dearly love.  Soft Sky is probably my most favorite blue paper of all time.

My image is from Thinking of You by JustRite stamped in a good, crisp black ink — VersaFine Onyx Black, my favorite black.  Though this set is sized to fit the Classic Oval Nesties, I cut mine with the Petite Oval Nesties.  I’ve done this before and I’m lovin’ the space I have on the sides to use Kaiser Pearls.  This my favorite fun and flirty blow treatment using the Bow Easy.  Read here to learn how to do this ribbon treatment.

And here I wanted to show you that I used one of the other oval center stamps in Thinking of You for my inside sentiment.  Thought this was pretty for the inside.  And that’s about it!  Hope you can play along!

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Shopping:

The Stamp Simply Ribbon Store offers the following items used on this card:

Thinking of You Set and the 2 1/4 x 3 1/16″ Oval Stamper by JustRite

100% Silk Ribbon by May Arts and the Bow Easy

Petite Oval Nestabilities, Scor-It and VersaFine Onyx Black Ink

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Make sure you check out all the Friday players in the JustRite Font Blog Hop.  The fun is still continuing.  Read the post linked above at the JustRite Blog to learn more about the Hop, the Candy being offered and the week long Font Sale at JustRite!  And if you didn’t see the posts for Thursday, make sure you check those out too!  All are linked at the JustRite Blog.

Thanks much for stopping in today — truly do appreciate it!  Hope you can look forward to a wonderful weekend!  See you all soon - take care!

Today begins the Mega JustRite Font Blog Hop and with 54 designers sharing ideas it continues through tomorrow as well.  Be sure to read through to the end of my  post.  Tons of links are shared as well as info on the week long Font Sale at JustRite and some fun Blog Candy offerings.  Now, on to my project.  I have a lot of photos, so I’ll be brief with my words.

A trio of Christmas cards — Stamped Simply — using both Times New Roman Uppercase Font and Times New Roman Lowercase Font on the Harmony Rectangle Stampers.  I feel it’s best to keep projects simple for the holidays.  These cards were a pleasure and a breeze to make.  What a feeling of accomplishment when they go together so quickly.

Here’s a visual of what I used — Times New Roman Font Uppercase and Lowercase on the Harmony Rectangle Stampers.  I’m loving these 2 sentiments for this style of Christmas card, so I’m sure I’ll be leaving the letters in tact for some time yet.  I’m blessed to have several stampers — something you may want to consider, too, especially now when they are on sale!

My sentiment is gold embossed, outlined with a gold leaf pen (I actually use a Calligraphy Pen by Marvy Uchida — it’s my latest favorite gold pen — the tip is a bit smaller than some).  My sentiment is then nestled between rows of double embossed lines.

A similar card in a vertical orientation.  Note here how the sentiment is only adhered on the ends, allowing it to rise up over the ribbon — kind of a nice touch, I thought!  Kaiser rhinestones are used to add some glitz.  My Red 100% Silk Ribbon by May Arts is tied in my favorite fun and flirty fashion with the Bow Easy.  You can read this post to see how it is done.

This card is the same as the first, just reversed with the ribbon at the bottom.  Can you see how I’ve lined the insides of the cards in pure white? I like an inside that is easy to write on and also easy to read.   The card itself is Gold Brushed Metallic paper.

To emboss the double lines in my cards today, I used my Scor-It Mini.  I left a 1″ space for my sentiment to be placed and my double lines are 1/4″ apart.  If you use a Scor-It, using the Perga Soft on your scoring tool tip helps the tool to glide over your paper.  It feels like you are gliding over butter — totally effortless.

I have a hard time taking pictures to get the embossed lines to show up as they do IRL.  That’s what I’m trying to show you here.  I really like the depth of the embossing when using a Scor-It.

Here’s a nice closeup of the heat embossed sentiment, lined with gold leaf pen.  A couple of tips for you:

1)  People think they can’t draw a straight line so they couldn’t use a gold leaf pen. WRONG!  The pen tips are soft, like a marker.  You push the tip into the paper, starting at one corner, and draw the pen towards you with just a tiny bit of pressure. The paper forms sort of a groove in the tip and the line comes perfectly straight.  It truly could not be more simple — if you haven’t done this, give it a try.  An easy way to dress up a simple project.

2)  Another common question — how do you get the sentiment so straight on that small piece of paper.  Well, I don’t — LOL!!! I don’t stamp on a small piece.  I stamp on at least a 1/4 sheet of paper.  Once your stamper is loaded with letters and ready to go, line up the bottom edge of the Rectangle Wood Stamper with the bottom edge of the paper so it’s nice and straight and stamp there.  Now your sentiment will be straight with the bottom of the paper, so now you can easily trim it down to size on your paper cutter.  If you were using Nesties to cut your sentiment, then it would be of no concern — but today I was cutting my sentiments myself on the paper cutter.

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Shopping:

JustRite Stampers has the Font Sets I used today, Times New Roman Uppercase, Times New Roman Lowercase and the Harmony Rectangle Stampers, as well as their entire Font line on sale for one week.  Take advantage and pick up some extra Harmony Rectangle Stampers as well!

Stamp Simply Ribbon Store  carries the 100% Silk Ribbon by May Arts in 21 colors, the Bow Easy and the full line of Scor-It products.

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JustRite is celebrating a Mega Font Blog Hop, a two day extravaganza with 54 designers, in style with a Super7 Day Font Sale.  If you’re looking for some fabulous font sets, you won’t want to miss this sale, they are offering 30% off all JustRite font sets and the Horizontal and Vertical Font Stampers.  The sale begins September 17th and ends September 24th.

There’s Mystery Blog Candy being given away during the Two Day Just Rite Font Blog Hop!!! Why is it a mystery? Well there will be three blog candy giveaways on each day and you can only win by leaving a comment on the right blog!  The real surprise is you won’t know which blog has the candy. Even the designers don’t know!  So, as you visit each of the 54 designers over the two day event, take time to leave a comment. You may be one of the lucky winners! You have until 12:00 noon on Sunday to leave comments for your chance to win. You’ll want to check back at the JustRite Blog on Sunday evening to find out if you’ve won.

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And now it’s time to start hopping.  Here are the links for today’s player — so grab your cup of coffee or tea and settle in for some fun hopping!  (I’m sorry if these links, or anything else on this post,  are a garbled mess, I’m working on it - MAJOR blog issues going on here today — so sorry.  You can scroll down to an old-fashioned link list if this one doesn’t work.)

Michelle Wooderson

Sankari Wegman

Heidi Blankenship

Eva Dobilas

Beate Johns

Sharon Harnist 

Barbara Anders 

Sharon Johnson 

Deb Saaranen 

Becca Feeken

Kazan Clark 

Lauren Meader 

Tammy Hershberger 

Linda Beeson 

Jenny Gropp 

Lori Craig

Tanis Giesbrecht 

Jenn Balcer 

Lisa Somerville 

Karen Maldonado 

Pamela Smerker

Karen Taylor 

Latisha Yoast 

Julie Overby 

Mary Pfaff

JustRite Blog

Thanks so much for stopping in today!  Truly enjoyed having you here — enjoy your Hop and I’ll be back late Thursday evening with our weekly Stamp Simply Challenge.  Hope to see you then.

Michelle Wooderson
http://michellewooderson.blogspot.com
Sankari Wegman
http://sunnysankari.blogspot.com
Heidi Blankenship
http://embellished-dreams.blogspot.com
Eva Dobilas
http://evafromca.blogspot.com/
Beate Johns
http://beate.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com
Sharon Harnist
http://paperfections.typepad.com
Barbara Anders
http://barspaperpursuits.blogspot.com
Sharon Johnson
http://notimetostamp.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com
Deb Saaranen
http://deborahlynnesdreamincolor.blogspot.com/
Becca Feeken
http://www.amazingpapergrace.com/
Kazan Clark
http://nunutoolies.blogspot.com
Lauren Meader
http://laurenm.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com
Tammy Hershberger
http://stamphappy-tammy.blogspot.com
Linda Beeson
http://pkod.blogspot.com/
Jenny Gropp
http://www.onekraftykat.blogspot.com/
Lori Craig
http://loricraig.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/
Tanis Giesbrecht
http://papercanvas.wordpress.com/
Jenn Balcer
http://jbalcer.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/
Lisa Somerville
http://www.lisasomerville.com
Karen Maldonado
http://reallifeinpictures.blogspot.com/
Pamela Smerker
http://www.paperaskew.blogspot.com
Karen Taylor
http://creativeyearnings.blogspot.com/
Latisha Yoast
www.crafteebee.blogspot.com
Julie Overby
http://joverby.blogspot.com/
Mary Pfaff
http://crafty-cabin.blogspot.com/

A good friend, Barb Schram, sent me the sweetest little hand made gift in the mail.  Now, if you aren’t familiar with Barb, let me tell you, she is one of the most creative people I know.  She comes up with THE most darling little 3-D projects, food treats and gift items, etc.  And she does so on an ongoing basis — it’s just her thing and she does it extremely well!   Here’s what I got in the mail from Barb:

Isn’t it fun!  Thank you, Barb!!!!  She makes these fun little fabric, hand-sewn yo-yo’s (I think that’s what they’re called) and embellishes them up for use on craft projects.  They have an SU Dimensional on the back, so they are ready to use.  She sent me these 2 in a cello bag with a monogram on top.  (Note one pearl slipped off the button center in shipping — I fixed it upon opening the bag.)  Well, of course I had to use something from this lovely gift.  My time was limited today, so I decided to do something I haven’t done in ages — I made a fun 3 x 3 card — perfect to use as a little gift enclosure, and I just happen to have friends with S as their initial!  I’ll use the yo-yo’s on another project.  Here’s my 3 x 3:

To create this darling, tiny monogram, Barb used the 1 3/16″ Wood Stamper with Bonus 60 Pt Font and 3 Damask Borders by JustRite.  Barb used punches for the solid circles, 3/4″ and 1 1/4″, and a Petite Circle Nestabilites die for the scallop.  I used a Label 1 Nestabilites die for the framing.  Some pretty Raspberry Tart DP by SU adds the color, and done before you know it!

The Stamp Simply Ribbon Store  carries both the 1 3/16″ Wood Stamper with 60 pt Font and Damask Borders by JustRite, as well as the full set of Petite Circle Nestabilities by Spellbinders.

As a special treat this week, Barb is Guest Blogging over at the JustRite Blog.  Be sure to check out her FAB creations there as well as at her own Blog,  Explore. Dream. Discover.

And remember, Thursday begins the Mega JustRite Blog Hop.  Don’t miss it!  I, along with a ton of other designers, will be playing — stay tuned for inspiration galore!

Thanks much for stopping in today — I surely do appreciate all the time you take to check in on what I’ve been up to.  It means the world to me — THANK YOU!!!!   And hope to see you again real soon!