Stampin’ Up! announced this week that many stamps from the dormant list would be retired in January 2010, including my own favorite set, Branch Out. Please review this list carefully for your favorites, and feel free to contact me if you have any questions. After January 4, these stamps will no longer be available.
I’m feeling much better and hope to be back to regular posting next week.
Today Hawaii – and the rest of the world – celebrates the canonizaton of Saint Damien de Veuster. His life as a priest who came to serve the Hansen’s Disease community exiled on the Kalaupapa peninsula is a testament of love, compassion and service that is inspirational and humbling.
My kids are old enough now that they don’t do those little goodies bags of candy for their classmates. They don’t come home with backpacks stuffed full of sugary loot, either, and then head out as soon as the sun goes down for more. It’s a good thing, because like all devoted mothers, I felt obligated to save them from all of that candy, especially the dark chocolate. Well, and the Butterfingers. And maybe a Snickers or too.
Oops. Chocolate Detour. Back on track.
I don’t buy Halloween stamps much anymore because I just don’t use them. A couple of cards and I’m done. I have friends (not to mention any names, Robbie – you too, Claudine) who adore anything and everything Halloween, and I can enjoy Halloween cards vicariously through them. All the same, as October rolls in I start to think about stamping a Boo or two.
Were you paying attention yesterday? Didn’t I tell you Branch Out was an all-purpose stamp set?
This card was inspired by one that Claudine brought to share at our last club. She had spiders in the tree, which I actually liked better. But the bird from Branch Out is a raven today and that will have to do.
Trick or Treat!
Let me count the ways!
I think Branch Out is one of the most versatile stamp sets Stampin’ Up! has produced. I have used it for all four seasons, multiple holidays, and a variety of “just because” occasions. It’s not currently in the catalog, but it’s on the dormant list (113200, $22.95) and you can order it. Matter of fact, I wish you would – I would be thrilled if Stampin’ Up! would choose to take it off the dormant list and return it to the Idea Book and Catalog next July.
I saw a beautiful card – and I confess I cannot remember the location – where the crafter used another tree set with the In Colors to create a vibrant autumn card. I’ve made a few changes but I’m pleased with the results.
This is as close to Autumn Colors as we’ll see here on Maui. It’s nowhere near the same as seeing the colors change in real life, but it makes me think of Autumn all the same.
Branch Out 113200 $22.95
The Maui Stamper 