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I’ve been a busy Stampin’ Up! bee today!  I cleared out my retiring products from my stamping area and I built a spreadsheet to get an inventory going.  Had to do it.  I have multiples of ink pads and even a couple of doubled stamp sets! 🙁  Not a solid financial plan, is it?  So I figured maybe I could get a handle on it if I at least knew what I had!

The result of this effort was “discovering” stamp sets I’d sort of forgotten I have!  It was a little like opening that box from Stampin’ Up! all over again!  Kinda fun.

I also realized that I leave here in a week.  For a month.  Again.  And go right on nights. Yuk.

Making cards is hard when you work nights.  Especially when it’s more a swing than a night.  No morning time and get home too late to do much more than shower and crash.  So…I need to make cards ahead!  That was the other thing I started working on today.

With that lead in, I bet you think I’m going to share a project that uses a not-so-new-but-just-rediscovered, Annual Catalog stamp set, huh?  Well, you’d be guessin’ wrong! 😉 I’m using a fun stamp set that you can get starting TOMORROW!!!  Yes, that’s right – we’re on the very cusp of the 2016 Occasions Catalog going live!  And the Sale-A-Bration mini as well.

I’m using the SAB stamp set called What I Love. It’s a cool photopolymer set with a beautiful 3-step flower and some nice sentiments in a pretty font.  I combined that with the Bohemian Designer Series Paper from the Annual Catalog and this is what I came up with.  Take a look-see:

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