Published

I received a copy of the latest "Stampers Sampler" magazine last week. It's always exciting to get one of those in the mail since I don't subscribe because it means I have a card published.

I actually had two of them published along with some friends from my local stamp club: PMS (Pretty Mean Stampers). Each year, we do a challenge. We choose one stamp and create a bunch of cards using that one stamp and then I send them into "Stampers Sampler" for their Different Point of View Challenge. We've done this for the past several years and as a club, we've been published twice. We've also had several member's cards published too.

I had included 5 of my cards and when I went back to see which ones I had sent, I shook my head as they published the uglier cards of the ones I submitted. It always seems to be that way. They never publish the card I love; it's always the one I don't like. I used to only send in cards that I loved, but now I send anything in because I never know what they will like. I encourage anyone to submit; the free magazine is definitely worth it.

As I'm not allowed to post the cards, I will just post an old card that I really like. I made it for a class I taught a couple of years ago. The background was a simple resist technique and then I just used Distress Inks overtop. I stamped the pear in Chalk Ink and was surprised to find that the Versamark resisted the Chalk Ink too! (Background & Pears by A Stamp in the Hand; Words by Amuse).