Tuesday, March 30, 2004

 
"Those Who Abandon Their Dreams Will Discourage Yours"
I saw this on a car last night and it seems to be appropriate right now! :)

posted by erica Tuesday, March 30, 2004 []

  Monday, March 29, 2004

 
It was an action packed stamping weekend. Saturday, I spent all day at a training seminar for stamping. We heard a really great speaker named Belinda Ellsworth. I was so pumped after hearing her speak. The card swap was absolutely crazy, as I expected it to be. I got a ton of cards because I had 83 to swap. My swap card is on my cards page (scroll down to March 27).

At the seminar, there were some amazing demonstrations - I really loved the marbling, where they took a piece of paper, taped it to the top of the clear stamp set box that you get with Stampin' Up! stamps with about five or six marbles in the box and a few drops of ink in the box. Then they turned it over and rolled the marbles around and voila! It was so cool. Another one that I loved was "soot" stamping, where they stamp glossy paper with the Versamark and then held it over the flame of a candle to get it good and black, then they wiped off the paper and the image looks burned on to the paper. It's amazing. Another one was marbling with ink and rubbing alcohol. Several of the demonstrations were really cool too but I don't know how to describe them.

Then Sunday, I helped Alisa with a workshop at a woman's house. It was my first in-home workshop, which was good to observe since my own first workshop is Friday night! :) I'm so excited but a bit overwhelmed getting ready for the workshop.

I'm working on my calligraphy slowly, but I don't expect to learn it all in a few weeks. It was hard to get myself to practice with all of the stamping excitement and getting ready for the card swap at the stamping seminar on Saturday. My next swap isn't for a two weeks, but they are small 6"x6" scrapbook pages and I only have to make 33 of them. It's a technique book, which I'm still wracking my brain about how to do the technique that I've picked. You'll hear all about it as I work on it. :)

I feel so bad that I didn't mention this earlier. Another collage artist that Bryan knows, Shirin, mentioned him on her website and the hits on his website have multiplied several times! :) That's so cool! Also he has his collages up at the library. I'm sure that because of the mention on Shirin's site and the show at the library will help him get more shows! :) Congrats, Bryan! :)

Currently listening to: Death Cab for Cutie The Photo Album,
The Postal Service Give Up and whatever plays on Launch at work.

Currently reading: Nothing, but I'm going to start a book for Bryan's book group in the next few nights.
posted by erica Monday, March 29, 2004 []

  Monday, March 22, 2004

 
All of my new cards are on my Cards page.

Bryan, Meredith and I went to see Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind on Friday. It was so excellent. I know Bryan and I will be seeing it again. It was very romantic in an interesting way that I can't even really describe. If you are wondering if you should go see it, I'm telling you, "YOU MUST GO!" If you liked Being John Malkovich or Adaptation, this is an absolute MUST-SEE for you!!

A fair part of the weekend, I was working on cards for my card swap on March 27 at a Stampin' Up! training. I have about 80 cards done, only 50 of them are completely put together. Some of them need to be colored in. I'll post the card for my swap after March 27 on my Cards page.

Also when Bryan and I were home sick we watched quite a few movies:
Northfork, which was odd but good.
Capturing the Friedmans, a very interesting and puzzling documentary. On the box it says, "Who do you believe?" After watching it, I still don't know who I believe. I'm not going to give anything away, you'll just have to watch it to find out what I mean.
American Splendor. A very entertaining film.
Mona Lisa Smile. Bryan didn't watch this with me, not that I blame it, it's quite a "chick" flick.
posted by erica Monday, March 22, 2004 []

  Wednesday, March 17, 2004

 
Another new card.

It's from the "Watercolor Minis" set by Stampin' Up!
Stamp artwork © Stampin' Up! 1990-2004
posted by erica Wednesday, March 17, 2004 []

  Tuesday, March 16, 2004

 
Here's one of my new cards! I think it's really cute!

It's with one of my new stamp sets called "Nice & Narrow" by Stampin' Up!
I'm starting to get a good collection of stamps and my cards are starting to look really great! :)
If you want to see more of my cards, you can go here.

Stamp artwork © Stampin' Up! 1990-2004
posted by erica Tuesday, March 16, 2004 []

  Wednesday, March 10, 2004

 
I've been sick so I haven't been up to much. Will update soon!
posted by erica Wednesday, March 10, 2004 []