Thoughts of a Grasshopper

It isn't quite so sunny here this morning but I hear we are going to warm up to 79 today, so I can expect the sun to shine through any time now. After not stamping for so long, I found it hard to get into it this morning. My first card after the break and this is what I came up with. Stamps: I {Heart} Hearts, Seasonal Sentiments CS: WW, Blushing Bride, Chocolate Chip, In Color Patterns DP Ink: Chocolate Chip, Blushing Bride Markers: Blushing Bride, Perfect Plum, Regal Rose Punches: Scallop edge border, heart to heart, 3/16 corner small Misc.: Dimensionals, Chocolate Taffeta ribbon, rhinestone brad

It has been a while since my last post. I took a break from stamping, sort of. I usually have my Christmas cards out and being received Dec. 1st. This year the out of town cards were 2 weeks later than usual and the local cards were 3 weeks late. Some local friends may have received their card after Christmas *shudders*. Any stamping I did in December was because I was still making cards to mail off. I ended up mailing off around 124. There were still people on our list to mail a card to, but they will be getting a Valentine card instead. I spent the last month enjoying family, the festivities of Christmas, reading, cooking/baking, digi scrapping, working on scout "stuff" with my son and his friends, and enjoying life in general. I went through another spell of trying out recipes that I thought would be good or someone I knew would like. Some weren't so thrilling to my kids and one that was I didn't get a picture of. Guess I'll have to make it again soon so I...