Well, I've been having one and I'm hoping it's almost over. I'm working on a demonstrator Christmas Card swap so I will have many beautiful cards to display at my Christmas and Pizza event next month. It needs to be mailed no later than tomorrow. I had Saturday set aside to work on it, a little time on Sunday and Monday. So, I got started Saturday, designed the card (and like it!), cut out the cardstock and started doing the die cuts. Half way through my Big Shot tipped off the surface I was using and my acrylic sheets and sizzlet slipped away. The acrylic sheets were right there, the sizzlet was no where to be found. I dumped my purse. I moved boxes and furniture. My daughter looked under my bed for fifteen minutes. We looked the same places all over again, and again. I even dug through my yarn bag. No sizzlet. After several hours I started to try to redesign the card in my bed and went to bed sad. Woke up in the morning to the thought that maybe I digging through my yarn bag wasn't enough and I should dump it. And there was my sizzlet. Big sigh of relief and my world is good again. So now I have all the dies cut out, did the stamping and stuff last night and all I have to do is rush through the assembly of all forty cards with their 10 die cuts a piece tonight. I may not get much sleep, but the swap may be done. Now, though, I'm running low on adhesives. I have enough to finish the swap, but we may be using Stampin' Up Anywhere Glue sticks at this month's Monstly Monthly Mystery Hostess Workshop on the 24th. They are great glue sticks, though, so don't worry.
Not only have I been working on the swap, I have two coworkers with birthdays this week, one 
Monday and one tomorrow. Here is the first card. It was supposed to be black and silver, but have you noticed that Classic Black ink has a purple tint to it? When you apply it to silver cardstock, purple is all you see. It's actually a perfect match for Elegant Eggplant cardstock, so that's what I used. I made the background by brayering the diamonds from Stampin' Up Backgrounds 1 Texturz Plates with Classic Black ink, then ran it through the Big Shot on silver cardstock. (The ink rinses off the brayer and Texturz plate in seconds with just water.) The greeting is from Teeny Tiny Wishes, stamped with black ink and punched out with the Word Window Punch. That is mounted on a piece of Elegant Eggplant punched with the new Modern Label punch and accented with Silver Brads. I hand wrote Ozzy on a piece of Whisper White, punched with the Small Tag Punch and mounted it on an Elegant Eggplant Tag. I used the silver elastic cord from the Holiday Mini to make it look like a gift, and there it is.
Monday and one tomorrow. Here is the first card. It was supposed to be black and silver, but have you noticed that Classic Black ink has a purple tint to it? When you apply it to silver cardstock, purple is all you see. It's actually a perfect match for Elegant Eggplant cardstock, so that's what I used. I made the background by brayering the diamonds from Stampin' Up Backgrounds 1 Texturz Plates with Classic Black ink, then ran it through the Big Shot on silver cardstock. (The ink rinses off the brayer and Texturz plate in seconds with just water.) The greeting is from Teeny Tiny Wishes, stamped with black ink and punched out with the Word Window Punch. That is mounted on a piece of Elegant Eggplant punched with the new Modern Label punch and accented with Silver Brads. I hand wrote Ozzy on a piece of Whisper White, punched with the Small Tag Punch and mounted it on an Elegant Eggplant Tag. I used the silver elastic cord from the Holiday Mini to make it look like a gift, and there it is. 
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