Raining Flowers | The Maui Stamper

In theory, you only need a couple of stamp sets – change up your colors and your layout, and you have a completely different card:

Raining Flowers and Teeny Tiny Wishes stamp sets
Very Vanilla, Melon Mambo and Concord Crush card stock
Melon Mambo, Always Artichoke, Daffodil Delight and Concord Crush Classic ink pads
Eyelet border punch
Piercing tool, template and mat
Always Artichoke Seam Binding
Stampin’ Dimensionals
Big Shot and Fun Flowers Bigz L die
Crystal Effects

In THEORY, I said – after all, we all know there is no such thing as too many stamps. Not enough room to store your stamps, yes, this is possible.

If you look closely and compare today’s card with the previous Raining Flowers card, you’ll see many of the same elements – the Fun Flowers Bigz L die, Crystal Effects, and Two-Step Stampin’ – but these are very different cards. Of course, there are no pancakes in this post, so this card suffers by comparison, but that’s just the way the Ricotta and Mango Stuffed pancake crumbles.

I’ve gotta stop thinking about those pancakes.

What a perfect name for a stamp set!

Raining Flowers and Fabulous Phrases stamp sets
Whisper White, Melon Mambo and Early Espresso card stock
Pocketful of Posies Designer Series Paper
Baha Breeze, Melon Mambo and Early Espresso Classic ink pads
Medium Jewelry Tag punch
Big Shot; Two Tags Bigz and Fun Flowers Bigz L dies
Early Espresso 1/8 inch taffeta and Rose Red Seam Binding ribbons
Stampin’ Dimensionals, Stampin’ Sponges
Crystal Effects

Don’t forget – Designer Series Papers are on sale this month – buy 3 packages and get one free!

Speaking of free, Raining Flowers was one of the many free stamp sets I brought home from convention (talk about excess baggage – next year I’m bringing an extra suitcase!). It’s a Two-Step Stampin’ set, but even better, the various pieces coordinate and layer really well together. It’s almost like Stampin’ Up! MEANT TO DO THAT!! (I know. What a concept.)

Speaking of things I’ve been meaning to do, I finally got my two bites (ok, three) of pancakes. My son has been on the mainland for a month and he flew home yesterday. To celebrate his return home, the two of us had breakfast at Longhi’s this morning. A couple of weeks ago, Mr. Maui Stamper and I had breakfast there, and he rejected my suggestion that he order Longhi’s famous and perhaps even more fabulous Ricotta and Mango Stuffed Pancakes. Mr. Maui Stamper cares about his health, and I care about my waistline, and neither one of us could justify an entire plate full of such decadence. But I wanted some of those pancakes, so I convinced my son that we should go out to breakfast this morning since his dad is now away. Of course, I would be happy to order for him.

I have been anticipating those pancakes for two weeks, and when our server told us we had JUST (by 3 minutes) missed breakfast I was in shock. I told him how much I’d been looking forward to those TWO BITES of pancakes, and he returned in a couple of minutes to say the chef wouldn’t mind making us an order of Ricotta and Mango Stuffed Pancakes. WOW! Did that ever make my day!

Would you like to see the pancakes?