Stampin’ Up! The Road Trip is Underway…Piece of Cake!

Well.  Here we are – Saturday.  THE Saturday.  If I’ve done what I set out to do, then by the time you read this, I should be on the other side of Atlanta on my way to Maryland!  We got everything packed up last night and then…it was time at the hiney-crack-of-way-too-early this morning!

I always get a rental car for these kinds of business trips…

…this is a Chevy Equinox – and it looked like it would hold all my stuff!  AND – it got the Finn-Seal-of-Approval!

Good thing it’s big cuz…

Small Ikea Table with legs – check.

Food – check.

Elevendy-hundred Thirty-One totes of various shapes and sizes with lots of stamping and mailing supplies – check.

Several Stamp-N-Storage pieces (Ink Pad Combo Holder and Hanging File Paper Holders, plus Blends Holder and new 6″ x 6″ Paper Holder) – check check and….CHECK!

Suitcase with clothes…

Uhm…

Hmmm.

Well – fear not – we did get the suitcase in plus the final large tote with my Mealthy Pressure Cooker (yes – I even took that!) and I was cooking with gas.  Er…pressure!  And I even remembered that I needed some clothes for CenterStage and OnStage! Not gonna lie – that one almost slipped thru the cracks!

So – as we continued to pack – Finn let me know his thoughts on the subject.

Yea.  That was hard to see.  I hate to leave him….😥

But – leaving is the first step to being home, so….off I went!

Now – lest you think this is not the card-blog you seek, let me share a couple of pictures of the cards we made last weekend at our Amy’s Inkin’ Krew meeting!

Gosh, I love these ladies so much! 🙂

Both of the cards that Amy designed for us to make use the Piece of Cake stamp set and Cake Builder Punch (which – fingers crossed! – should be back in stock and available to order on 18 March!), but they look totally different from one another!  Check them out!

The first is a classic white-and-silver number using the Lace Dynamic TIEF and silver embossing!

And the second got all festive and jazzed up with some How Sweet it Is DSP – and the Dot To Dot TIEF.

Here’s a tip I learned from my so-smart friend Amy!  I really like doing embossed card base fronts – but…embossing the card base itself often gets it all cattywampus.  So…here’s the tip:  emboss a like-colored panel of the card stock and then cut it to the same size as the card front and adhere it with Liquid Glue.

Light bulb!

Thanks, my friend!!

Okay – that’s a wrap – I hope you enjoyed (or at least weren’t bored out of your head!) the little peek into What-Mary-Takes-On-Extended-Business Trips or How-To-Keep-A-Stampin’-Up!-Business-Running-on-the-Road!  Not to worry – my post will be “real” tomorrow!

TTFN

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And an 8″ x 8″ Paper Holder, too!

And you can get them for your IKEA shelving systems, too!

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