Cottage Lane Stamper

 Yesterday I turned 70!!!! Hard to wrap my mind around that one!  In my mind I'm still 35.  LOL  Physically I feel about 90.   I was sick for a couple months this year and so I decided for my 70th birthday I wanted to do something special and throw myself a drive-by birthday party and opened it up to any of my friends and family on Facebook. It was the best birthday I've had in years.  When I turned 60 my friends threw me a birthday party at my favorite Mexican restaurant And when I was 50, I planned a trip to Florida and my friends threw me a surprise birthday party!!! I was TOTALLY surprised by that one.  I have some great friends. Yesterday I had a surprise too.  My pastor showed up at my door with a beautiful bouquet of flowers from my church and a card.  Another friend showed up with some chocolates from Abdullah!  Candy and flowers, such a deal.  And I was just about to get rid of all my vases.  Silly me.  ...

If you read my previous post I mentioned that I prepared for 3 classes in two days.  My Tuesday evening class back to back with my Stamp-a-Stack, which is usually the next week. We made 3 cards, four of each.  And boy oh boy you could tell I was a little off my game. These are the cards we made.     It all started with this card.  When I cut the black piece on the bottome I cut it the right depth, 2" but only 4" instead of 5-1/2".  So, no problem, we switch the card to portrait instead of landscape and everything was hunky dory.  We used the Winter Wonder embossing folder on the Whisper White top layer.  The black layer is Merry Music DSP.  The sentiment is from  October Paper Pumpkin, "Pining for Plaid" stamp set and punch with the "Everyday Label" punch.  The Basic Black back layer is 3" x 2" and both ends are punch with the Scallop Tag Topper Punch. The ribbon joining both layers is the 1/8" Silver ...