Hi everyone and Happy Martin Luther King, Jr's birthday weekend!  Tomorrow, my team and I will be participating in the Austin MLK Parade and Festival starting at the University of Texas (Austin) campus and ending at the Huston Tillotson campus and I'm totally looking forward to it. Please share if you decide to CAS this card. On another note, we are about four weeks now into the federal government shutdown here in the USA and I hurt for my fellow federal government employees and I'm saying a little prayer for them and their families. On a craftier note, yesterday, I hosted my Inaugural Stamp Class at Austin Java on Metropolis and I had seven (7) awesome stampers from my Fabulous Fun Friday Stampers group come out to show some support.  In my stamp club, I designed three cards that appeal to all stamping levels.  Take a look at this one.  I'm going to use my embossing folders more.  Quick, simple, yet elegant cards. Happy Stampin'! ...

Storage If you are anything like me, your work area stays a constant mess and maybe out of a 16" x 16" workspace you have maybe all of 6" of it available to you.  Although I don't regularly make non-greeting card paper projects, purchasing them can become quite expensive.   In this past year, I've participated in several Stampin' Up! paper shares.  A paper share offers the opportunity to receive samples of all the new paper releases offered by Stampin Up from their newest Annual, Holiday, Occasions, or Sale-a-bration catalogs.  That way you (as a demonstrator or as a customer) has the opportunity to "try before you buy"!  Additionally, Stampin' Up!'s 6x6 paper packs are no longer bound. Thanks to a YouTube Video from Nigezza Creates, I've implemented this storage system to create envelopes for my 6X6 paper shares and SU's unbounded 6x6 paper packs and store them in photo boxes that I can get at Michael's especially when th...