It's September 26 -- Do you know where your hostess sets are?

If they are still in the catalog instead of in your stamp room, for goodness' sake do something about it now!

I don't mean to alarm anyone, but September is almost over, which means that there are only three months left to earn all of the absolutely awesome hostess sets from this year's Fall-Winter collection before they're gone forever! That's right, in case you didn't realize, all of the hostess sets in this collection will retire on January 1. And since the weeks between Thanksgiving and New Year's are notoriously difficult for hosting any direct sales parties, practically speaking you really have less than 2 months to book a party with your demo so you can own some of these beauties. So don't delay, book your party ASAP before all of the good days are snapped up!

Why do you need these hostess sets? Because it's so easy to make fantastic quick cards with them, of course! Check out this card I stamped using the Oh So Lovely and So Many sayings -- both level 1 current hostess sets.

The card base is going gray and I added a strip of the celery prints double sided designer series paper for interest. I used pale plum to stamp the background texture from the Oh So Lovely set on a panel of whisper white card stock. I stamped the main image with basic gray and water colored it using an aquapainter with perfect plum and certainly celery inks.

I added a perfect plum mat to the image and adhered the image to the card front. I punched a large oval from certainly celery card stock and stamped the sentiment from so many saying in perfect plum on pale plum card stock. I punched it out with the word window punch and adhered it to the large oval, which I attached to the card front with a dimensional.

And there yo have it, a lovely little card with minimal effort. Even the water coloring was easy, thanks to the basic gray ink. It really is the perfect ink for water coloring! It's softer than basic black, yet still dark enough to see the outline after it is water colored. I love it!