Stamp Simply Challenge #63 Thanks!
The challenge was simple and appropriate for this week! Since I am writing this feeling very large and bloated from all of my festivities! Make a card of thanks! Make sure you upload it so SCS with the keyword ssnotime63, so we can all see the cards 
Also…a little public service announcement from me today. You may have noticed my server has been down a lot. Well, I have to tell you that I need to start paying hefty fees per month to keep up with my bandwidth usage. I know this has to do with the number of visitors I get which I am very thankful for, but I also have to please ask some things of you the public. If you see a card that you like or want to feature from this blog, you may NOT copy and save and then publish the photo elsewhere on any site for any reason without my permission and written consent to do so. You may also never use my posts in feeds of any kind. This is called “leeching” and it is quite an unsavory practice especially if it is to use MY bandwidth to profit YOUR site. So if you have any of these photos of mine from this blog for any reason I ask that you take them off of your site now before I have to contact you directly. I have already had to contact some this week and I don’t like having to do it, but I will.
I do need you to understand that LINKING to MY blog from yours is COMPLETELY and totally FINE. That is a very kind thing to do and it makes me very happy to have my name linked or my names in your sidebar )) Very happy indeed. If you are not sure what I am talking about I think that this post will be very helpful to most of you. I applaud Julie for writing this. I may in the upcoming future, have to get creative about ways of making the money I have to put out for this blog back into my pocket somehow. I am unsure how I will do this, but I do not get paid to blog, and I do have to write a substantial check now each month to bring you what I hope to be some valuable ideas for you to try. Please be very respectful of this situation on anyone’s blog. This is a very disheartening situation and artists may choose not to share if it continues.
***also FYI…if you subscribe to this blog, you will recieve a full feed. When it comes in your e-mail box, I would love for you to come to my site and let me know what you think of the project. It is very encouraging when you do, and I can say, for others as well, it makes us feel like you want us to keep on inspiring you all. Please uplift someone and go to there blog via your inbox! We would love to hear your comments.***
Stamps: First Fruits
Paper: First Fruits Patterned Paper, Dark Chocolate, Summer Sunrise
Ink: Dark Chocolate, Versa Magic Rocket red gold, sage, jumbo java
Other: Nonsense Trims, button, hemp, square punch SU! 1 1/4, 1 3/8
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November 28th, 2008 at 6:10 am
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November 28th, 2008 at 6:15 am
Becky, such a beautiful project — truly lovely!!! As always – no surprise!!! And I APPLAUD you on your commentary. So sorry you’ve been having so many troubles, but glad to see you up and running this evening!!!
November 28th, 2008 at 7:37 am
What happened to my comment. SEE?? Computer dummy I am.
First—-LOVE your card!!! SO MUCH!!
Second—-starting to understand a little more about the whole stealing thing. Thanks for helping me understand
Third—-Heck yeah~~~Call me anytime lady!!!
November 28th, 2008 at 10:05 am
Beautiful project as always!
November 28th, 2008 at 12:35 pm
Beautiful and simple Becky!! Love it!
November 28th, 2008 at 12:42 pm
Beautiful card Becky and I love your blog and your style:) Thanks for sharing your talent and you are a great inspiration:)
November 28th, 2008 at 1:01 pm
What an awesome card Beck! Love that rickrack down the side, and the colors you used!
I am so sorry you and others are having so much trouble with bandwidth theft. I went through this a looong time ago too. I used to have a little code I encrypted on my website to every picture I had up, if they stole it, nobody would see the picture on their site, but would see a little graphic stating what I thought of bandwidth thieves! LOL!
November 28th, 2008 at 2:01 pm
Becky, I LOVE this! The grid, the stitching, the ric-rac! GREAT card! Love the bowl of copper ornaments, too!
Regarding the PSA… I don’t even know what bandwith is, so I’m sure I’m not one causing the problem! LOL I be very ‘puter challenged!
November 28th, 2008 at 2:17 pm
Hi, Becky: Really creative use of First Fruits! I just got this set and am so anxious to try it for thank you, thinking of you, sympathy cards, as well. Thanks so much for sharing – your artwork is inspiring and so creative!
November 28th, 2008 at 2:39 pm
Becky, I’m one of your lurkers, having only commented a few times previously. I hope that you won’t let the turkeys get you down. I’ve learned some things from your blog and would hate to see you leave the blogging community.
Du arbeit ist sehr schoen. (Hoping that I’m not confusing verbs between espanol und deutsch.)
November 28th, 2008 at 3:43 pm
gorgeous card- love it!
add me to the list of band with challenged and confused! the whole thing is over my head!!
Hoping all the announcements all over the web this week pull the plug on it!
November 28th, 2008 at 4:28 pm
So pretty! I have this PTI set and just love it! You’ve done marvelous things here with it!
November 28th, 2008 at 8:34 pm
LOVE this one, Becky! It’s PERFECTION!
Hope you are doing well and that you have a fabulous weekend! 
….and thank you for sharing. I only recently learned about all of this. I had no idea that this even went on.
November 28th, 2008 at 10:11 pm
Becky thank you so much for sharing your talent with me!! You inspire me in more ways than you will ever know!! I am just starting my artistic journey and feel blessed to be able to read your blog!! Blessings and Hugs!!
November 29th, 2008 at 12:26 am
Gorgeous card – so perfectly put together!! Seeing lots of this topic around and it’s a good message for all!!
November 29th, 2008 at 12:53 am
Beautious card Beck! I hope you had a fabulous Thanksgiving! I am still trying to recover from food coma! Gosh, what is it with us?? I mean, as if one side dish isn’t enough– you need ten and you need to load up each time you have leftovers! UGH! Meantime, I hope you figure out your computer problems! I – like Tammy and AJ am clueless! It sounds like you aren’t alone though!!
November 29th, 2008 at 2:19 am
Your card is beautiful! No big surprise there.
Thank you for sharing with us what leeching is. Until tonight I have never heard of it. I hope you will never have to stop sharing your beautiful cards and projects with us.
Mary
November 29th, 2008 at 11:38 am
Would you belive that at firat I did not recognize that stamp set as First Fruits? It is a beautiful use for one of my favorite sets.
And about sewing? Somehow I missed that skill. I can sew in a straight line, but only after I took a machine quilting class. I feel your pain. My mother never sewed or crafted, so whatever I can do, I learned after I married.
November 29th, 2008 at 4:21 pm
A question…I am just a person who subscribes to your wonderful blog. Sometimes, I will print out your instructions, and some times I will hit “save” on my computer and save the blog page to a file on my desktop for future use. I don’t have a blog and certainly don’t intend to publish anything. But does the “save” to my computer affect the bandwidth problem? Should I erase everything I have saved? I want to do the right thing. Thanks!
November 29th, 2008 at 8:03 pm
Wow it seems like everyone is talking about: hotlinking, switcherooleeching, etc. It makes a girls head swim. Speaking for myself I don’t have a blog but do save as ideas from some blogs I read for personal inspiration and do in pic name the person whom I got it from. But honestly I have never, before last week, ever heard of any of this.
Thanks for sharing
November 30th, 2008 at 3:06 am
Becky – I enjoy visiting your blog most every day and I hate that you are having trouble with theives! There is always someone out there trying to spoil things! I hope the “bad guys” see the comments you (and several other blogs) have left and wise up and quit doing this! I don’t have a blog but I enjoy seeing what all of you have created and enjoy it all. Please know that there are a lot of good people out here that wouldn’t think of doing this!
November 30th, 2008 at 5:02 am
So sorry to hear of the issues you’ve been having! It must be intensely frustrating!!!!!!!
Really hope that you’re able to find a way to make it work! I’d really hate to see your blog go! It’s one of the ones I visit quite frequently!
November 30th, 2008 at 4:28 pm
Becky I too enjoy checking your blog on a daily basis. I don’t have a blog but I do right click and save the picture to a folder on my computer with card ideas is that a problem?
December 1st, 2008 at 1:40 am
I love all your ideas. I check your blog all the time and it never disappoints. I hope you never have to give your blog up as it is so enjoyable and great for inspiration. You are very talented. It is too bad there are always people out there ruining things for honest good people. I hope you are able to track them down. If they do not comply then post their addresses and I am sure your loyal readers will flood there sites with complaints.
December 1st, 2008 at 3:58 am
Darling!!!!
I get what you are talking about now!! The blonde can learn!!!!
((HUGS))