Thank you Split Coast Stampers!

Day before yesterday, I did something I have not done in a very long time...too long. I had my own private little Stamp-a-Stack event. I made a stack of similar Thank You cards for those who brought food to us when Mother-in-law passed away last month. Shamefully, it has taken me over a month to send these out.

I recently marked something off my bucket list: organizing my Rubber Stamps. I am very proud of the finished result, which took me a over a week to complete. I made 3 labels for each stamp set--one for the side of the stamp set case and one for the end. That way, no matter where I have to store them, I can easily see the label--in a drawer sideways, on a shelf the long way.  On the label I had the name and the number of stamps in the set; then I numbered the sets consecutively. I made a notebook page for each set, stamping an impression on the page for each stamp in the set. If the stamp set has a coordinating wheel stamp, I stamped it on the back of the page and made a note on the label that the wheels are on the back. I labeled the pages with the third set of labels I had made and placed them in a binder with an alphabetical listing of the stamp sets, along with their color-coded assigned numbers.  The sets are color coded, also for ease of storing, wherever I might be and whatever the storage situation might be. They are coded by size. All the large sets (the case the set comes in) are coded one color, the next size are coded another color, and so on.  I can now look up my stamps by set name by going to the alphabetical listing, find the number and look it up in the stack of stamp sets, without having to pull the sets down and go through them looking for the one I want. OR...I can flip through the notebook looking at the stamps and find the stamp, or individual stamps that I am in the mood to use, and find it in the stack! LOVE IT!!  <3

So, day before yesterday, when I decided to finally get down to making Thank You cards, I pulled one of my favorite Stampin' Up sets, If the Halo Fits, and got down to the business of stamping. I love to use Splitcoast Stampers for inspiration. I found the If The Halo Fits gallery and browsed for a while, pinning my favorite cards.  When I had an idea of what I wanted to do, I went back through my pins and chose the one I wanted to use as the basis, which came from CarrollAnne's Corner.

I completed 8 cards and mailed them this morning. This weekend I will be working on more Thank You cards using the Ageless Adornment set. Which one of these butterfly cards will be my inspiration?

Here is my organized stamp set collection and my Angel card. The card had Iridiscent Ice and Hologram embossing powder for embellishment. Gives it a nice shine and texture.