Stamps, Paper, Scissors

Magnifreak!

What time is it, kids?

That's right! It's time for the Tour de Freaks Blog Tour! A time for freakishly good stampers to strut their stuff! If you've been following the tour, you've just landed here from Dawn Olchfeske's blog. But if you've started right here, fear not. You can simply follow the tour to the end and start back at the beginning and not miss a single stop!

I'm putting my post up a bit early tonight, so if you've started the tour and some of us haven't gotten their posts up yet, be patient! They should all be in place by Friday morning. And, as always, we change our links to the actual posts once everyone is up and running so you will be able to take the tour any time without getting lost. That's 'cause we are so freakishly nice!

This month's theme was Christmas Gifts. Immediately, I started feeling the pressure!

'Cause while it's fairly simple to come up with freaky good cards, I felt compelled to come up with some extra freakishly wonderful projects this time! And I think I managed it! Lookie:

Ingredients: Stamps - Christmas Punch; Paper - Christmas Cocoa DSP, Real Red, Whisper White, Soft Suede, Brushed Gold; Ink - Real Read; Markers - Real Red, Summer Sun, Glorious Green, Soft Suede; Other - large Snowflake punch, Boho Blossoms punch, Scallop Oval punch, Fancy Favor XL Bigz die, Movers and Shapers die, Snowfall Printed Acetate Sheets, gold cord, Mistletoe ribbon, dimensionals

What says "gift" better than chocolate, I ask  you? Not much! I did something unique with this Fancy Favor box: I cut out the box first then ran it through the Big Shot again with the Movers & Shapers die and cut a window in the front. To do that, I folded up all of the flaps on the bottom and made sure the fold line of the die rested on one of the score lines of the favor box, positioned the Curly Label die carefully and ran it through the Big Shot. Part of one of the flaps also got die cut by the Curly Label, but there is still enough left to overlap and it actually looks attractive, if you are into looking at the bottoms of things like this. In other words, it's GOJUS!!! (YILM!) And stinkin' clever too! I put a piece of the Snowfall printed acetate sheet inside the box.

This little favor box will fit an entire small bag of Hershey kisses...but with the top being open, it won't hold them for long! Don't ask me how I know this! Just take my word for it!

And now, for the pièce de resistance! You are gonna have your socks ROCKED RIGHT OFF by this! Yep. I'm confident! Lookie:

I know, I know...right now it looks like a huge card, but wait 'till you see what's inside! But first, the back:

Just 'cause I like to make ya wait! Are you ready for the insde now? Are you?

Okay!

Tada!!! It's an Advent calender! Isn't it GOJUS and awesomely clever? (YILM!)

Here's what's under the flaps:

 

A different picture for every day! Can you guess what I made it out of? Can ya?

It's one of those quarter collection folders! I had bought a few because I had seen an idea somewhere about making special scrapbooks out of them and had stashed them in the place I stash all such things and immediately forget about them. So when I was tearing through my stamp room yesterday in a horrid panic as to what I was going to make for the tour looking for something to alter, I found one of these folders and the rest, as they say, is history.

I tore the chipboard parts with the openings for the coins off of the base of the folder and created my own folder out of cardstock. I covered the holes I didn't need with paper. Oh, and look what's under the last door:

These are actually the only stamped images on the whole project. When I decided to do this, I gathered a lot of stamp sets, thinking I'd have to choose the smallest images I could to fit in the 15/16" holes that are in the quarter folder. But then I realized that I could go into My Digital Studio and resize any Christmas images in there to fit in the holes! And so that's what I did. I printed a whole sheet of little images out and punched them to layer behind the chipbard piece with the holes.

Now, it's traditional to put a  piece of candy inside of some advent calenders. The trouble is that these holes are small and shallow. Something like a chocolate coin would work, but  most chocolate coins are too large to fit. I did finally track some down online that were 3/4", but they were Chanukkah gelt with Stars of David on one side and a menora on the other. AND I would have to buy 5 lbs. of them for almost $70. Ouch. So I will keep looking. In the meantime, after I got this done it occurred to me that if you stacked two of these chipboard pieces, one atop the other, you could at least create more depth for each opening and you could put something like an M&M in the opening. Though you can see that the flaps are slightly open on this one, when you first put the flaps on, before you bend them up, they lay quite flat and would probably keep a piece of candy from falling out. If I do track down my chocolate coins, I will probably put a bit of Dotto on one corner of each flap to hold them closed.

Here's the supply list:

Stamps - Season of Simple Grace; Paper - Merry Moments DSP, Very Vanilla, Chocolate Chip, Old Olive, Real Red, Garden Green; Ink - Chocolate Chip, More Mustard; Other - My Digital Studio, On Board Batch of Blooms (chipboard frame), Old Olive striped 1 1/4" grosgrain ribbon, SU! Timeless Type Sizzlit dies, SU! Merry Details Sizzlit, SU! Finial Press Embossing Folder, 1" circle punch, 1 1/4" circle punch, 1/2" circle punch, gold cord, small star punch, SU! Join in the Cheer Decorative Strip die, Signo white gel pen, Scallop Circle die, Scallop Square punch, Snowflakes Set #2 Sizzlets, Scallop Circle punch, Scallop Edge punch, gold brads, Real Red 1/4" grosgrain ribbon

Now that those socks are across the room, your feet must be awfully cold! Take a little break, go fetch your socks, put them back on, and prepare to go to Wendy Weixler's blog next...but if I know Wendy, you might just as well leave those socks off 'cause she will rock them right back off again! Ta!

Another Christmas bird...

I did another CASE of one of the commercial cards I found at that one store, ya know...you know? BULLSEYE! You got it! LOL!

Anyway, this is the card I CASEd:

It's hard to tell, but the paper the bird is cut from is sparkly. I liked the color combination and I liked the idea of a die cut sparkly bird. So I sat down yesterday and got busy.

Mine doesn't look much like the original, but it made for a good jumping off place. Lookie:

Ingredients: Stamps - Teeny Tiny Wishes, Autumn Splendor, Bella Toile, French Filligree; Paper - Sahara Sand, Certainly Celery, Very Vanilla, Brocade Blue; Ink - Very Vanilla, Brocade Blue, Certainly Celery, Encore Gold; Other - Ticket Corner Punch, Modern Label Punch, Movers & Shapers Die, Holiday Windows M&S Dies, Very Vanilla Taffeta, gold brads, Iridescent Ice EP, dimensionals, sponge wedges.

GOJUS!!! (YILM!) I wasn't sure what to do with this bird window die from the Holiday WIndows M&S die, but after seeing the card from..that...that STORE, I knew! I had stamped the paper I used for the bird when I made that snowflake card. Oh, it's sparkly all right:

OOOOH pretttyyy!!!!

The color combination is not what I would usually think of as a Christmas combination, but I think it really works here.

Well, must get on with my day. Life doesn't stop just because I want to stamp! (Although I wish it would!) Ta!

Good to be back...

Hey yo!

The swine flu seems to be on the wane, finally. Emily and William are still at home today, even though their fevers are gone. Mostly because I am a big softie and when Emily looked at me with tears in her eyes and said, "Mom? Do I hafta go? My throat still really hurts!" And William followed it up with a hacking cough and my heart just said, "One more day won't make that much of a difference, except to their health." We had gotten all the way to school too and had just pulled up. So we turned around and came back home, all of us.

So now Emily is back in bed and William is on the couch, now watching television after sleeping there for an hour. They must have both needed it. Emily actually almost passed out the other night after  her fever dropped. I had just taken her temp and we were standing in the kitchen when she started to go right down and I caught her. So she needs cherishing, obviously. Emily is actually quite good at inspiring cherishing. You can't help but want to...I wish I knew how she did it, I'd bottle it and sell it to millions of women who need cherishing. I know I do!

Laurel got off relatively lightly, so she went back to school today.. And neither I nor Dan caught it at all, which is a real blessing. Not just because of the whole container of Clorox wipes we used and all the handwashing I did either, but most likely because we had probably caught it when we were in school ourselves the last time it went around in 1977.

I spent most of last week putting kits together along with taking care of sick children and I'm thankful to say they all went out in the mail yesterday (the kits, not the kids!). And I tried to stamp a card too, but it was like pulling teeth. I finally finished the one I was working on, after dinking around with it for 3 days. Lookie:

 

Ingredients: Stamps - Wandering Words, Itty Bitty Backgrounds; Paper- Real Red, Merry Moments DSP, Night of Navy, Glossy White; Ink - Versamark, Bashful Blue, Brocade Blue, Night of Navy; Other - 1 3/4" circle punch, silver brads, Basic Jumbo Grommets, post it note, Real Red striped grosgrain, brayer

The technique is Versamark resist...if you look closely, you'll see little stars. I stamped Santa and  his sleigh, put the sticky note mask punched out with the 1 3/4" circle punch, then stamped using Versamark with the speck stamp from Itty Bitty backgrounds. Then I took my Bashful Blue and my Brocade Blue ink pads, opened them both and put the two ends together that have just a thin edge of case on them. Then I inked up my brayer using both pads together (kind of a simplified spectrum pad) and rolled the ink on the glossy cardstock. There was a slight gap between the two colors that disappeared as I rolled the brayer back and forth, giving me this nice smooth gradation in color.

And it's GOJUS! (YILM!) Though not as GOJUS as some of my other stuff. It just resisted gussying...Santa wanted to be the star and wouldn't share the spotlight with many layers or lots of fancy stuff. Stubborn, stubborn man.

Speaking of Christmas, don't forget to come back around on the 20th for the next Tour de Freaks!

The next tour is featuring gift ideas for those special someones! After all, you can't give just ANYONE your GOJUS creations can you? Have to be pretty dang special to be worthy of a handcrafted gift!

Well, I must be off to cherish my children. And stamp. Definitely stamp. Ta!

Oink!

Welcome back to the International House of Contagion. Right now the Boy with the Wayward Finger seems to be down with the swine flu. He's not very sick, I will say...still finding the strength to play the Wii, which we had rented yesterday as a special treat for wonderful report cards from both Will and Emily. His teacher this year seems to have found a way to motivate him and was full of praise. And she is helping him navigate through some of the social misunderstandings that he gets into, not being as into the subtleties of language as others his age are. So I'm very thankful to have a good teacher for him this year!

Anyway, he started out with a fever, cough, and a headache, then started throwing up. He slept all night, threw up a few times, but the fever is gone this morning. I will say he has always been fairly sensible about resting when he feels sick, so I'm not worried about him and the pediatrician's office doesn't want to see him unless he gets much worse. But who knows who will be the next to receive a visit from the swine fairy.

Swine FLEW! Get it! Har har har...

I am back cutting for kits this morning, thank you for your orders! I hope to get them all cut and out the door by Saturday, Monday at the latest depending on whether *I* get sick or not and whether any of the other people in my house get a bad case of this. I am washing my hands left and right! I feel slightly weird this morning, but that's more likely a case of Too-Many-Riesens-itis than anything else...dang CVS for putting them on sale!!!

I hope to get to that video for the Faux Stained Glass this weekend, thank you for your patience! Ta!

New Kit Available and Responses to Many Requests

When I was poking through my box of things I had cut and ready to go, I came across an old friend:

I found that not only did I have one kit completely ready to go, I had the raw materials for at least 8 more if I restricted myself to the same patterns of the paper. And maybe a few more if I don't. Right now, though, I'm offering the 9 that I know I can produce without running short of anything. I'm not entirely sure about the Wild Wasabi ribbon though, so I may end up changing that to a different color. And the finish on the hardware I used for the original may vary in the kits, but it will not affect the total GOJUSness of the finished project (YILM!)

So if you have kicked yourself every since this paper and the Carousel Notes retired, you can just head on over to my kit store and pick one up:

JanTink's Kit Store

If this is totally new to you, you can view all the original views of the project here.

Now for the responses:

1) Yes, I love chocolate, how did you guess?!?!?!

2) To my readers who have requested a written version of the Magical Marquee instructions: I don't have them right now. I'm trying to figure out how to capture still photos from the video I took, which is not easy because that was the one I did with the first camera I bought and it isn't compatible with the software I have that can do that easily. I am still trying!

3) To the readers who asked if I am going to restock some of the card kits in the kit store, I am working on that too! I know I will be doing the Delightful Decorations one at least. But I am going to have to raise the price a bit, because I didn't realize that it would cost me $1.58 just to mail one kit, which is half of the price I charged. I'm going to look into giving a price break on multiple kit orders, so that if you order more than one you won't pay as much, but it will probably not be until this weekend that I get my act together, if then.

4) Yes, I really do love myself, I don't understand how that mystifies so many! But I do! Especially when I buy myself some chocolate!

I'm hoping to do a little stamping tonight, so I'll have something fresh and new soon! Ta!

Happy Monday!!!

I'm feeling really good today! Why? Heck, I don't know! Maybe it's because I'm not aching anywhere, the leaves are all raked, it's warm outside, and my house is QUIET without children and husband at home!

Plus, I made a really GOJUS card last night and can't wait to share it with you!

I'm sure most of you are more in tune with this smiley:

Well, you came to the right place if you want to enjoy my fab creativity and emerge re-energized and ready for what life has to throw at ya!

Yesterday as I was totally wasting my time on Facebook, I happened to notice a link for Religious Greeting cards off in the sidebar. So just for grins, I clicked on it and looked at some beautiful printed holiday cards. Most of them were what I call the "full frontal image" variety, with no layering or even faux layering to make them something I would want to CASE. There was ONE that caught my eye, h owever, and I printed off a picture and decided I would try to come close to it.

This is the card, which is on the Lang website. I can't link there, but I did want to let you know where it came from. For all I know, someone who reads this blog knows the artist who drew it...he or she is their third cousin twice removed and I would get a nasty comment. Don't want to go there:

 

Isn't it pretty? I love the colors and the layout, so I spent some time playing around to get something worth showing. Lookie:

Ingredients: Stamps - Friends 24/7, Always, Serene Snowflakes, All Holidays; Paper - Mellow Moss, Rose Red, Creamy Caramel, Whisper White; Ink - Basic Gray, Rose Red, Whisper White, Bordering Blue, So Saffron, Mellow Moss, Soft Suede; Markers - Going Grey, So Saffron, Rose Red, Mellow Moss; Other - Whisper White Organza Ribbon, White Signo gel pen, dimensionals, sponge wedges, aquapainter, Rich Regals Brads

GOJUS!!! (YILM!) I had a struggle with this bird, I tell ya!

I stamped it and it was just so dang DARK. I ended up painting gel pen over the top to lighten up, then adding some feathery texture with a marker. And then this bird is not that Christmassy looking, so I added some berries to the leaves.

Well, my Monday is racing onward and I still have a ton to do! Ta!

Getting out of that rut

If you are like me, and from what I read in your comments, a lot of you ARE, you sometimes get into a rut as far as the cards you design.

YOU know. I have a distressing tendency to stick to certain colors, favorite layouts, and techniques. It's really hard to break free of this tendency. The standard way of doing this is to look at what other people are making and maybe copy some of them. My readers come HERE to get new inspiration and that's fine for YOU, but where do I go? What about me? Eh? Eh?

I don't surf as many blogs as I used to, because I just don't have the time and I'm not really fond of copying other people's stuff anyway. I like to maintain the thin illusion of originality, after all, (cough, cough...ahem!) I have a certain rep to maintain, of being this glorious stamping goddess that just pulls new ideas out of her...em...HAT, yeah, that's right. So when I go looking for inspiration, I sometimes have to look in places others might not.

This past week I was cruising through a large discount chain store, heading for the food aisles to buy those items that I like to call "kid chow", that is, chips, crackers, cups of yogurt, etc. There's a distressing tendency of these items, after I buy them, to disappear with astonishing rapidity. So as I'm cruising around the store, I find that, of course, this store has put out all the Christmas stuff for sale, including their cards. I stopped to look because occasionally I get an idea from looking at commercial cards, although I wouldn't DREAM of buying them. I mean, I MAKE cards for Pete's sake! If I run out of time or energy at Christmas time, I don't buy commercial cards. I simply don't send any. But I digress...

This display had some pretty fancy cards. The commercial makers of greeting cards are onto us, ladies. They see us making these GOJUS handcrafted creations and they want a piece of the pie too. So today's cards, at least the pricier ones, feature, ribbon, die cuts and sometimes hardware in an effort to get those people who want the look of handcrafted, but they don't want to do it themselves. I took pics of quite a few of these, with the idea that I would rip-off...er I mean "borrow some inspiration" from them. After all, these companies have ripped off...I mean BORROWED the idea of this kind of card from us, haven't they? Turn about is fair play, I say.

And of course, anything *I* make myself is bound to be much more GOJUS than the one in the store. So I decided I would rip off...I mean BORROW this idea first:

 

I liked the color scheme. I liked the die cut snowflake on it. So I set out yesterday to create my GOJUS take off of this idea. Lookie:

Ingredients: Stamps - Holiday Best, Bella Toile; Paper - Sahara Sand, Brushed Gold, Very Vanilla; Ink - Versarmark, Encore Gold, Sahara Sand; Other - Snowflake #2 Sissix Originals Die, Ticket Corner punch, Eyelet Border punch, Scallop Circle punch, 1 3/8" circle punch, Very Vanilla taffeta ribbon, sponge wedge, dimenaionals, gold brads, gold EP, Iridescent Ice EP

OMGojus!!!! (YILM!) I'm thinking this card has got that commercial card licked, but good. Because not only is it a beautiful exercise in tone on tone, it's also blingy. Lookie:

To do the backround, I stamped with Encore gold on Sahara Sand, then embossed using Iridescent Ice embossing powder. It gives this card a SUMPTUOUS quality, doesn't it? Dang, I'm good! (YILM!)

The best part is that it is fairly easy to make, which brings me to the bestest best part: I'm going to be teaching this card at my next class! So if you're in the area, sign up! My next class will be at my house on Monday, November 30th at 7 PM. The theme is All That Glitters! And don't forget about the Christmas Stamp-a-Stack, scheduled for December 5th, with a deadline for paid registrations by the 29th of November!

Well, despite the fact that my card has a big ole snowflake on it, the outside temp here is 64 degrees! I'm going to go rake up the rest of the leaves while they are still dry and it is still warm outside! Ta!

This is a clean site!!!

But even I, yes, sweet little Episcopalian person that I am (okay, okay...maybe not LITTLE) occasionally feels the urge to say something a little on the naughty side.

Oh, nothing REALLY naughty...just a little, tiny, eenie weenie bit naughty, dontcha know.

It really is SU!'s fault. Truly. I would never have thought about making this card if it hadn't been for them! I can blame them and the effect of today's society and purge my guilt and shame over what you are about to see.

Last night, after a hard day in the kit mines, I was casting about for something to stamp. It needed to be a Christmas card, I decided. Looking at my stamp shelves, I spotted Holiday Lineup. I had used 2 out of the 3 stamps in the set, but I had yet to use the one with Rudolph and his buddies. I'd had this naughty idea ever since I saw it in the catalog, but I hadn't quite settled on how I was going to word the sentiment to go with it. Until last night that is.

So here it comes and if there are small children, they can't read and won't get it anyway. And older children definitely don't know what this means. Even teenagers have to think hard about it before they get it.

But Dan got it and he said, "That's interesting! You're going to get a lot of comments about that one!"

But if you want to shield more sensitive eyes, including your own, go right ahead.

Here it is...ready?

Ingredients: Stamps - Holiday Lineup, Woodgrain, Teeny Tiny Wishes; Paper - Soft Suede, Real Red, Old Olive, Very Vanilla; Ink - Basic Brown, Soft Suede, Chocolate Chip, More Mustard, Really Rust, Real Red; Other - SU! Marker J Low font, Large Oval Punch, Modern Label Punch, Sleigh Bells ribbon, Crystal Effects, Dazzling Diamonds glitter, white gel pen, sponge wedges, dimensionals, gold brads.

What's so naughty about that? Well...heh heh heh:

Wait for it....

Well, that's it and now some of you are probably shaking  your heads saying, "That JanTInk! I'm SO disappointed in her!"

I'm sowwy...I just could. NOT. RESIST.

If it makes you feel better, I will probably never send it to anyone. I can't think of anyone for whom it would be suitable...it's not exactly a card I would send even to my parents, who appreciate the amusing. But it had to be made! It just HAD TO!!!

If you're wondering how I did the main image:

I stamped with Basic Brown, then colored the image with aquapainter and ink pads. Then I used the white gel pen to color in all the eyeballs on the reindeer. And then I sponged the color over the top and erased the gel pen. Rudolph's nose was highlighted with Crystal Effects which I sprinkled with Dazzling Diamonds Glitter.

Well, there you are. This site will now return to it's previous "suitable for family reading" status.

Keep your ink pads wet and your pants dry and I'll see you around! Ta!

Double Delight Card

Welcome to November!

About now, you're probably still doing a bit of this

But it's time to stop thinking about Halloween and turn our attention to the holiday season now upon us. Some people are way ahead of the game when it comes to holiday spirit, having already put up holiday decorations and have been listening to Christmas music for weeks, while others, who shall remain nameless, view the advent of gluttony, overexpenditure, greed, and what is worse, the visits of friends and relatives whom they might rather forget they are acquainted with or are related to, with horror and dread. Most of the rest of us fall somewhere in the middle of these two extremes.

I had some fun Thursday night with some awesome ladies who are known by the rather generic name, "The Craft Club". The Craft Club has about 10 members, some of whom go to my church and some who don't. We get together once a month, sometimes at our church, sometimes at someone's house, and share a meal and crafting time together. It's a chance to connect and see what every one is making and get something done. Some stamp, some scrapbook and one person even does beading (a money hole I have so far resisted!)

I don't always make it to Craft Club, but when I do, since I rarely have time to cook to contribute to the meal, instead I bring a project for everyone to do. This is this month's project:

Ingredients: Stamps - Delightful Decorations; Paper - Bashful Blue, Soft Suede, Whisper White; Ink - Bashful Blue, Soft Suede; Other - Ornament Punch, 3/4" circle punch, 1/2" circle punch, Word Window Punch, Bashful Blue striped grosgrain ribbon, silver cord, dimensionals, sponge wedge, paper piercing tool, silver brad

HOLY MOLY, but that's GOJUS!!! (YILM!)  The ladies really loved it!

And you can too, because I cut too many! I have 5 of the kits left from Thursday night and they will be available in my kit store, along with another card I made last year for a workshop that you may enjoy! I have decided to make these kits available for only $3 each, which includes the instructions, the pieces, hardware, and ribbons needed for creating them, an envelope, plus postage. You have to provide your own  inks, adhesives, stamps, and assorted other supplies if needed.

So if you've ever wanted to have the "JanTink Experience" (I know, I know, DOESN'T EVERYONE?!?!?) here is your golden opportunity. Once I cut the pieces for class or workshop kits, if there are a lot left, I just don't have the heart to circulate them back into my cardstock collection. I figure I'll get around to stamping the extras someday, and then I never do! So this way, you are happy and I am happy because I get these out of my house into a good home and then I have a little more money to stamp with myself! It's a WIN/WIN!!

I went through the box where I put these things and found a bunch! So they will be trickling into the kit store as fast as I can put the instructions together. Luckily, I have these already written out, for the most part, since quite a few of my workshops are designed to be self-directed. I've made the purchase buttons for the cards to be an "Add to Cart" button so you can easily buy more than one kit.

So hop on over to JanTink's Kit Store if you're interested!

Well, it's back to cutting for the Stamp-A-Stack kits that have been ordered already. I'm planning on shipping out a few tomorrow, once I get some more ink for my printer and can print instructions, and then I am going to stamp something new! And shiny! New and shiny! Yay! Eeeee! (sorry...just a little excited there!) Ta!

New Kit Options

I've got some good news and some irritating news! Good news first:

After I posted my 2009 Stamp-A-Stack kit here, there were some who were worried, 'cause they didn't have the stamp sets I used. Last year, I only used one, this year I used four. So I figured I'd do sumthin' nice for folks who may own not quite so many. Lookie:

 

Aren't these GOJUS?!?!? I think so! (YILM!) This kit is only available through the mail...won't be teaching this one! And you only need Winter Post and one stamp from Sincere Salutations (or a simliar sized greeting). Colors are Night of Navy, Rose Red, Garden Green, Old Olive, and Very Vanilla.

For purchase information, I've created a new kit store page you can reach here:

JanTink's Kit Store

You'll also find I have a limited quantity of last years' kit, something I discovered when I was moving some boxes around. So I have those for sale as well.

Soon, I'm going to be adding some more kits, with single cards and other items I've found that I still have kits for. So keep an eye on my Kit Store...there is a link in the left sidebar under "Services I Offer".

And now the irritating news: Real Red cardstock and Garden Green cardstock, which are used in these kits, are on backorder right now. I expect to get more Real Red by the end of this month. Garden Green has no fulfillment date at present, but I'm hoping it won't be any longer than Real Red. If you order a kit and I am not able to deliver it when you would like to have it, let me know and I will cheerfully refund your money.

If you've already ordered the Dasher/Tree Trimmings kit and you'd like to switch to one of the other ones, please let me know! And if you'd like to simply buy the instructions for one of the kits, I sell the PDF for $10.

It's Halloween, so must dash and start taking kids to the party they are going to! Ta!