My tirade on the new USPS rates!

Is anyone else as confused as I am about the new postal rates here in the US? They are driving me nuts! Not to mention, it seems like things are taking SOO much longer to arrive at their destination, even with the added postage! Maybe I'm just slow on the uptake, but I can't figure them out to save my life.

So, in response to my frustrations, I decided to stamp!

The LO is from a sketch at Lauren's blog. I grabbed my little used Elvis stamp and dug through a few bags of UMs to find one of my two Elvis sentiments. I was looking for this one specifically because I knew it was about mail. Then I found a scrap of this 7 Gypsies PP and realized how PERFECT it was to use with my Elvis stamp! It has the titles of love songs in red, so I knew it would match my singing Elvis.

I pierced a rectangle around the stamped Elvis to perforate it, so that when I ripped it, it would look like the edges of a stamp. It didn't work very well, but I went with it anyway. I outlined the piece with a gold paint pen, and stamped the number in the corner to finish it off. Then I embossed some red DCWV CS using the tiny bubbles Cuttlebug folder. Some ribbon, some faux gel pen eyelets and it was done!

The stamps are all from Viva Las Vegas Stamps. I was at a rubberstamping convention in Vegas in April of 06, and spent a lot of time in that store!

Hope everyone had a great weekend, and I hope I haven't offended any of you Elvis fans out there!