Can I toot my own horn for a moment?

Hello! I have some exciting news for you today - I need to toot my own horn for just a bit. I don't get to do this too often :) Today I got the November issue of Stampin' Success {a SU demonstrator magazine} in my mail box and look who is featured this month - little ol' me!

I've been busting from the seams not to tell anyone until now. Back in June, Stampin' Up! sent me an email asking me if I would like to be their featured stamper for November and I'd be a fool to turn that down! Over the next month, I was interviewed {btw, I am not very good with words, so you might get a laugh out of what I told SU in my interview.}, I was sent a brand new stamp set - Wandering Words {hot off the press even. They didn't have the labels stickers made yet!}, I made my samples, and mailed them in and finally I have my 2-page spread, haha!

Here is the layout ~


And here are the cards I sent in to publish ~




It was so much fun, and a little bit intimidating, to work with a stamp set that hadn't been released or pictured yet. I felt just a tad bit special, LOL!

Thank you so much for letting me ramble about myself this morning. I'll get back to business tomorrow, haha!

Have a wonderful day -
Karen


recipes -
sweet thoughts card
stamps: wandering words
paper: chocolate chip, old olive, ruby red, sahara sand, very vanilla card stock, the write stuff dsp
ink: sahara sand, close to cocoa, ruby red
accessories: chocolate chip 5/8" grosgrain ribbon, heart to heart, horizontal slot, and scallop edge punches, stampin' dimensionals

thinking of you card
stamps: thoughts & prayers, trendy trees
paper: sahara sand card stock, merry moments, tall tales dsp
ink: close to cocoa, old olive, ruby red
accessories: stampin' dimensionals

happy christmas card
stamps: wandering words
paper: old olive, very vanilla card stock, merry moments, tall tales dsp
ink: sahara sand
accessories: elementary ribbon originals, 5/16" neutrals jumbo brads

thankful card
stamps: wandering words
paper: chocolate chip, old olive, ruby red, very vanilla card stock, merry moments dsp
ink: sahara sand, old olive, ruby red
accessories: old olive 5/8" grosgrain ribbon, playground designer buttons, swirls scribbles sizzlits die, embroidery floss, stampin' dimensionals