A Graduation Card and time to panic. LOL

My friends’ daughter graduated from High School this week.  Her party was yesterday which, of course, required a card.  Since I own exactly ONE graduation stamp and I used it on the card I made for her a few weeks ago when she had her Awards ceremony, this card was more generic in theme, but it used a NEW STAMP and also kinda used her school colors, orange and green.

The flower stamp is the new Perfect Poppies (background), which is (I think) the only background stamp to be offered in the clear mount option.  YAY!  The “Congratulations” is from an ANCIENT (2002) set, All Year Cheer 1.  Yes, there are some sets I will never get rid of.  The colors are Calypso Coral (I almost said Cameo Coral!) and Wild Wasabi and there’s a little bit of Daffodil Delight in the flower centers.  They were colored with an aqua painter using the “ink in the stamp pad lid” method.  Has anyone tried this yet with the new (foam) ink pads?  I wonder if you can still get a good squeeze of ink in the lid with those.  Hm.  The image was stamped in Basic Black (new pad, new not-so-purple-looking-ink!) on Naturals White card stock.  I only let it dry for about 10 minutes before I started coloring and had no issue with the new black ink bleeding, nor did I heat set it, but the Naturals cardstock is uncoated and does dry faster.  Your results may vary.  LOL
As for the other part of my post title, PANIC is setting in because, as of today, there are just THIRTY SEVEN DAYS until Convention!  How much do I have done on my swaps?  Um, that would be pretty close to NOTHING!
Yeah.  Bad me.  LOL  The shiny squirrels on the internet have been a big distraction lately.  I need to make some SERIOUS progress this week.  Next week we will hit the one month mark and if I don’t see some progress, I’m gonna freak out.  Of course the Holiday Mini is hitting mailboxes and will be on the demo website on Tuesday, adding another distraction.  We can pre-order from the mini on July 1, adding a whole new twist to Convention swaps…. I could use stuff from the new mini!  If I order on the 1st and 2 day expedite, I’ll get my stuff on the 5th, a WHOLE TWELVE DAYS before Convention!  *snort*  You see how the mind of a swap addict works?  It’s an illness, I tell you.  Based on the “review” from a friend who is lucky enough to have received the mini already, I think there are a few things I’d REALLY like to use on my swaps.  Which means the more I can get done, or at least partially done, before I see the mini for myself, the less tempted I will be to use new stuff.  Wish me luck!