Hello, folks!
If you've visited my blog before, you can probably tell that I love animals, right? And you can probably tell that I love punny sentiments, too. Bringing animals and punny sentiments together makes this crafter smile some goofy smiles! :D
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Here I've featured the cute cow from Lawn Fawn's Critters on the Farm stamp set. The gingham and the plaid are from October Afternoon's Farm Fresh collection. I set a chunky eyelet and added some twill ribbon. I just love those chunky eyelets! I coloured the cow before I picked out the rest of the materials for the card. Looking at the card now, I'm thinkin' that brown spots on the cow might've been a good choice, but that's a-ok. :o)
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Here I've used some cute paper from Jillibean Soup, and I created the sentiment with fabric-covered Thickers and Harold's ABCs.
Hope you got a smile [or two!] here today! :o)
Hello there!
Here's a card that was made fresh today...
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Oh, the colours... This card makes me think of one of my favourite songs of all-time -- Over the Rainbow. I love, love that song. :o)
The dreamy sky background is from Sassafras' Sunshine Broadcast 6x6 paper pad -- I particularly love the sky prints from that collection. I die-cut the clouds from various prints out of Sassafras' Mix and Mend 6x6 paper pad -- love that collection!
I used the cloud die and a sentiment from Lil' Inker Designs' Rainbows & Clouds set!
Glad you stopped by today! :o)
Hello, folks!
I wanted to say many, many thanks to everyone who visited and left kind words during the Paper Crafts blog hop! I really appreciate it! Thank you! :o)
I'm here to share one of my cards that appeared in Card Ideas for Paper Crafters:
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I submitted a card for each of the sketches I contributed but only had luck with this card out of those particular sketch cards. I'm grateful that one was selected, of course! :o) When I made this card, I was gettin' antsy to use some airmail twine that I had gotten on Etsy not too long before. Isn't that stuff awesome??
The postage stamp 'frame' is a stamp from Studio Calico [I coloured it in with a Copic marker]. I used a cute sentiment from Lawn Fawn's Hello Friend stamp set, and the smiley face on the little flag is from Say Cheese. :o)
The randomly picked winner of the Card Ideas for Paper Crafters issue is...
HawaiianLibrarian
Congratulations!!! :o) I'll be sending an e.mail to you shortly for your address!
In other news, I'm only months late in posting the winners of my April/May donation-giveaway! Good grief. My apologies to those who entered! As with the first donation-giveaway, I went ahead and donated the full amounts I pledged -- $50 USD to Best Friends Animal Society and $50 CAD to WSPA Canada [both donations were made on August 17th]. The winners were Samantha and Barbara -- I e.mailed both ladies shortly after I made the donations and have heard back from them. They're both awesome people! I just want to say, the number of comments left for those giveaways will never lessen the amount to be donated -- I'll always donate the full amount pledged because it wouldn't feel right not to. And I already planned on donating those amounts from the onset anyway. :o) What I'd like to achieve with those giveaways is to help spread the word about animal causes and hopefully get some people interested in helping, too!
More things I'd like to mention...
Paper Crafts put up their call for submissions for the March/April 2012 issue last week! Check it out here!
My thanks to Jennifer for her kind words on Twitter about my Hello Friend card a couple of days ago! I was blown away by that!
My thanks, also, to Steph for posting my card using Lawn Fawn's Many Thanks stamp set on this post over at the Simon Says Stamp blog! They're giving away a Turkey Day mini stamp set on that post, too, so be sure to check that out!
Thanks for taking some time to visit my blog today! :o)
Hello, folks!
Today I'm very happy to be part of a fun Paper Crafts blog hop in celebration of the new special issue, Card Ideas for Paper Crafters!
Image courtesy of Paper Crafts magazine
Ten of us were asked to create new projects using the bonus sketches found on the last page of the issue. You can also find the bonus sketches on the Paper Crafts website here! Here's the card I made to share today...
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This card was absolutely inspired by my own little mischief maker. Hee hee hee! :o)
The cute and hilarious cat stamps are from this stamp set from Starving Artistamps, and I created the sentiment using this alphabet set from Lawn Fawn. I did all of the colouring with pencil crayons.
I used this sketch by Betsy Veldman to create my card. The centre panel there made me think of a paper bag, so that's what I used! My little guy loves paper bags, so it seemed fitting! :o) I did some hand-stitching along the top of the die-cut piece with embroidery floss. The fun patterned papers are from October Afternoon's Rocket Age 8x8 paper pad.
Card Ideas for Paper Crafters was such a fun issue to craft for! It was great to work from the sketches because they provided a jump-start for my card making. It often takes me quite a while to come up with a card design that I like, so using the sketches saved a lot of time!
What I found most challenging was that I seemed to always want to follow the sketches pretty closely -- it was a little tough for me to come up with any out-of-the-box ideas. Still, it was fun working on cards for this call!
Check out the blogs of the other nine designers for more!
Julia Stainton
Teri Anderson
Chan Vuong ----- you are here!
Lindsay Amrhein
Kalyn Kepner
Regina Mangum
Angeline Yong
Heidi Van Laar
Kimberly Crawford
Vanessa Menhorn
If you'd like to order a copy of Card Ideas for Paper Crafters, click here! Comments are open on this post, so you can also leave a comment here for your chance to win a copy! You have until midnight MDT on Sunday, August 28th to leave your comment [only one comment per person, please!]. I have Comment Moderation turned on, so don't be alarmed that your comment doesn't appear right away! You can increase your chances of winning by commenting on the other nine blogs on the hop!
Also, be sure to comment on today's post over at the Paper Crafts Connection blog! They're giving away some AWESOME prizes!
Hope you got a smile here today, and have a crafty weekend!! :o)
Hello, folks!
Today is the last day of projects for Lawn Fawn August inspiration week! The 9 new stamp sets will be in the Lawn Fawn store tomorrow -- woo-hoo! Today we're showcasing a mini stamp set called Turkey Day. Here's the card I made to share today...
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I don't eat meat, so I tried to come up with a fun non-Thanksgiving-turkey card! I had a lot of fun making this card! I surrounded the cute turkey with bird pals from the following Lawn Fawn sets: Critters in the 'Burbs, Critters in the Forest, Fly Free, Critters on the Farm, and Plus One! The sentiment is from Partly Cloudy -- I wiped the ink off of the 'w' in 'weather', stamped the sentiment, then stamped the 'f' from Jessie's ABCs. I added some hand-stitching under the sentiment to highlight it a little! :o)
I coloured the backgrounds of each circle with pencil crayons and attached them with varying levels of dimensional adhesive. I love how you can get different looks with pencil crayons just by changing the pressure when colouring and with the type of paper/cardstock you colour on -- and I love the sort of 'grainy' look of the backgrounds here. It kind of adds 'texture', doesn't it? And I *LOVE* the look of colouring just the backgrounds and leaving the characters uncoloured -- I think it puts a spotlight on the characters in a fun way! :o) I'm going to post another card with this same basic idea sometime soon -- it was a card I submitted to the Card Ideas for Paper Crafters call that didn't get picked up, but I still dig it! :o)
For more super-fun projects using the Turkey Day mini stamp set, check out the blogs of the other Fawny girls:
Julie
Latisha
Lea
Lynnette
Nichol
Teri
Tiffany
...and, of course, the Lawn Fawn blog!
Hope you got a smile here today!! :o)
Hello, folks!
Today is the third day of projects for Lawn Fawn August inspiration week! Today we're bringing you freshly-made projects with a spotlight on two previously-released stamp sets, Heebie Jeebies and Harvest Season! Half of us worked with one set, and the other half worked with the other! I worked with the super-cute Heebie Jeebies stamp set to make this card...
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I have to say that the bright colours of this card make me giddy. I just find bright colours so...uplifting. :o) And the Halloween set used for a love [or possibly friendship] card just makes me giggle. Looking at this now, I want to try making various holiday cards with colours that would just seem wrong for the occasion -- i.e. a peach Christmas card, an olive green Valentine...or a bright pink Halloween card. ;o) I just think it'd be funny! I guess you could say that I'm easily amused. Ha!
I used the cute spider and portions of the spiderweb design from Heebie Jeebies, and the sentiment was created using Quinn's ABCs and good ol' Harold's ABCs! The colouring was done with pencil crayons -- I'm completely in love with colouring with pencil crayons again, so they'll be making appearances again very soon...as in tomorrow. And Friday. Eh heh heh!
For more super-fun projects using either Heebie Jeebies or Harvest Season, check out the blogs of the other Fawny girls:
Julie
Latisha
Lea
Lynnette
Nichol
Teri
Tiffany
...and, of course, the Lawn Fawn blog!
Thanks for stopping by today! I hope you've been enjoying August inspiration week and the team's creations! :o)
Hello, folks!
Today is the second day of projects for Lawn Fawn August inspiration week! Today we're showcasing a stamp set called Many Thanks, which is like a thank you version of Hello Friend! Several of the thank you stamps from this set can easily be the focal point of your card. I think I'll definitely get as much use out of the Many Thanks set as I get out of Hello Friend! Here's the card I made to share today...
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I didn't have a lot of time to think of something 'fresh', so this card is sort of a combination of this Hello Friend card and this Quinn's ABCs card. The simple look of this card is pretty deceiving! It took a while to cut out those words...but I think it adds that little extra detail. :o)
The background was stamped using one of the stamps from Teeny Tiny Backdrops!
For more super-fun projects using the Many Thanks stamp set, check out the blogs of the other Fawny girls:
Julie
Latisha
Lea
Lynnette
Nichol
Teri
Tiffany
...and, of course, the Lawn Fawn blog!
Thanks for stopping by today! I think this is going to be the busiest week for the ol' blog -- I have a post for almost every single day. Definitely not my usual! :o)
Hello, folks!
Today is the first day of projects for Lawn Fawn August inspiration week! There are going to be 9 new sets in the Lawn Fawn store this Thursday, and the team will be sharing projects with 3 of 'em this week [plus projects using previously-released sets!]. Today we're showcasing a super-cute Halloween stamp set called Happy Haunting! Here's the card I made to share today...
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I'm really happy with how this card turned out! My cards are almost always quite CAS, but this one has a few more pieces/layers than my usual! I've used 8 of the stamps from Happy Haunting on this card!
While I love colouring with Copic markers, I missed colouring with good ol' pencil crayons, so I decided to use 'em here. I wanted the cute ghosts to have a sort of chalky appearance, so I stamped them on grey cardstock and coloured them with white pencil crayon. The pieces are attached with varying levels of dimensional adhesive [oh, how I love you, dimensional adhesive!].
The darker purple cardstock was die-cut with a Nestabilities die from the Wonky Rectangles set that I got from Spellbinders. Isn't it a fun shape? I used this same die to make a packaging project for an upcoming PC issue, so it's pretty versatile! I think of it as a "rectangle with personality". Ha! :o)
The darker purple cardstock was debossed with the canvas side of Papertrey's Linen & Canvas impression plate [a little difficult to see in the photo], and the card base was debossed with the Book Print impression plate.
This card was really fun to put together! :o)
For more super-fun projects using the Happy Haunting stamp set, check out the blogs of the other Fawny girls:
Julie
Latisha
Lea
Lynnette
Nichol
Teri
Tiffany
...and, of course, the Lawn Fawn blog!
Thanks for stopping by today, and have a crafty week!! :o)
Hello there!
I'm here to help spread the word about Skipping Stones Design's second annual Blogs 4 Boobies fundraiser!
Today is day 3 of a 3-day blog bounce [hop] where every card or project is up for auction!
Last year, Skipping Stones Design raised and donated $1108.99 to the Susan G. Komen Foundation. It is SSD's goal to raise $1500 this year, and you can be a part of that! There are 3 ways you can join in on the fun[draising]:
1. You can help by shopping!
For every stamp set purchased from August 15th through the 23rd, SSD will donate $2 to the Komen Foundation. Shopping that you can feel good about! Check out their stamps HERE!
2. You can help by bidding!
Another way you can help is to bid on a project or card along the blog bounce [hop]. EVERY card/project along the Blogs 4 Boobies blog bounce is up for auction. A starting bid of $5 or more is recommended. Your bid not only includes the card or project but shipping to your home as well.
See HOW TO PLACE A BID for more detailed instructions.
If you are the highest bidder at 8:00pm MDT on August 23rd, then you WIN the card/project!
3. You can help by telling your friends!
Help spread the word about Blogs 4 Boobies! If you have a blog, feel free to copy and paste part or all of the Blogs 4 Boobies posts that you see.
HOW TO PLACE A BID:
Step #1
Find the comment section of the blog that shows the Blogs 4 Boobies card or project that you want to bid on. Please note that you may only bid on the card/project shown in the specific Blogs 4 Boobies post. Any bids not placed on the correct post will be considered invalid.
Step #2
Once you are in the Blogs 4 Boobies comment section, type in the amount that you are willing to pay for the card/project. A starting bid of $5 or more is recommended, and your bid amount includes shipping to your home. 100% of the money raised will go to the Susan G. Komen Foundation.
Step #3
Next to your bid, type in your e.mail address.
Step #4
Watch and wait. If someone outbids you, then you may bid again. Bidding will continue until 8:00pm MDT on August 23rd.
PLEASE NOTE that the participating stampers/bloggers will RE-POST their Blogs 4 Boobies card/project on August 23rd. When the bloggers re-post their projects, the bidding will continue on the NEWEST post and that comment section.
On each blog, the winner will be the highest bid [that includes an e.mail address] in the comment section of the MOST RECENT Blogs 4 Boobies post at the end of the auction. The auction will end at 8:00pm MDT on August 23rd.
Things to keep in mind:
Near the end of the auction, you may not see bids as they come in. Some bloggers may have to approve comments before they are published. You might have the highest bid that is published, but someone might have outbid you in an unpublished comment/bid -- so bid as high as you're willing to go!
The blogger/designer will declare who has won the auction on their blog. Skipping Stones Design will send you an invoice for your donation/bid amount. Please pay that invoice as soon as possible, so the designer can get your card/project in the mail to you.
Remember, 100% of your bid will be donated to the Susan G. Komen Foundation!
Here are all of the participating bloggers!
DAY 3:
Rae Ann Barthel
Karen Baker
Pam Hornschu
Jennifer Ingle
Ria Johnson
Mel McCarthy
Stephanie Mino
Kandi Phillips
Wendy Price
Julia Stainton
Taylor Usry
DAY 2:
Teri Anderson
Ashley Cannon Newell
Karen Christensen
Jodi Collins
Kimberly Crawford
Jen Del Muro
Katie Gehring
Vanessa Menhorn
Kryssi Ng
Taylor Usry
Sankari Wegman
DAY 1:
Renae Curtz on the Paper Crafts Connection Blog
Deb Felts
Michelle Giraud
Michelle Gross
Wendy Jordan
Sarah Martina Parker
Becky Olsen
Barb Turpin
Taylor Usry
Brenda Weaver
Have fun bouncing from blog to blog, enjoy all of the designs, and make a bid or two if you can!
Hello, folks!
Last year, I made this here card and entered it into a contest that Lawn Fawn was having:
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I look at this card with fondness because I made this before I joined the DT, and I just remember how fun it was to make cards for that contest. This one was one of the contest winners, so I was pretty jazzed about that!
Fast forward. Archiver's is now carrying Lawn Fawn stamps in their stores, and they wanted samples of a few projects for their stores! This card design was one of the ones they selected. Seriously, I couldn't believe it either. A few changes had to be made so that the samples reflected supplies that could be purchased at Archiver's stores. The clip had to be changed, all of the cardstock had to be changed, and a border punch had to be used instead of the die I used for the original card. Because of the very tight schedule [and because I didn't have the right purple and yellow cardstock], I really couldn't make the entire sample cards. I could only prepare this:
I cut, punched and stamped the top 'notebook page', and I stamped and cut out the letters and smiley faces. I know they look really small and innocent there, but cutting all of those letters out was a monster of a task [worth it for LF and Archiver's, though!]. I couldn't cut out the middles of the 'R' and 'D' -- in fact, I couldn't even glue the letters and smiley faces onto the notebook pages because there just wasn't enough time.
I put the letters and smiley faces into little baggies and sent the baggies and notebook pages to LF via FedEx -- which was actually late! It was just crazy. Customs actually opened everything -- can you imagine their reaction to tons of little fussy cut letters? Ha! A group of LF folks and volunteers spent a lot of hours putting together all of the samples in order to get them done in time, so they really deserve a standing ovation for all the work they put in!
Yesterday, Archiver's sent out an e.mail to those on their e.mail list, which included images of the samples! Here's the portion of their e.mail that included the Lawn Fawn announcement:
How neat, eh? I think Putter is definitely the star of the show here -- as he should be! :o) Who could resist that sweet little face? That little guy has MAJOR Cute Power! :o)
Thanks for stopping by today, folks! And thanks to those who visited and commented during the Lil' Inker Designs blog hop! Your comments made me smile non-stop, and teacher jessy's comment cracked me up! Thank you for that! :o)
Hello, folks!
Thanks for stopping by today! Today is the first blog hop for Lil' Inker Designs. If you came here from Jen Carter's blog, you're on the right track! If not, you'll want to start at Laura's blog so you won't miss anything. There are going to be some awesome prizes up for grabs for those who complete the hop by commenting on each blog. There are 12 blogs for you to visit in total, and you'll have one full week to comment.
Today we're featuring the Rainbows & Clouds stamp set and dies!
I created two projects for today! First up is a mini album:
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This little book just makes me smile. I love making mini albums, and I'm so jazzed with how this turned out! I used coasters for the covers [I love making albums with coasters!], some fun, chunky eyelets, and super-fun spiral binding to make the book. The pink background is fabric paper that I die-cut -- I love the texture it adds to the mini album! I also die-cut fabric paper for the cloud. I love the perforations in the clouds on the Lil' Inker die -- they add such a cute detail! I die-cut the rainbow arcs from four colours of textured cardstock, adhered them to scrap cardstock, and cut the rainbow out. I then attached the rainbow with one layer of dimensional adhesive and the cloud with two layers of dimensional adhesive. The cute stickers that make up the title of the mini album are from October Afternoon.
Next up is a gift tag:
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Nothing says fun and festive quite like good ol' googly eyes, eh? Ha! I looked at the larger cloud on the die and thought, "Cupcake frosting!" This could have been due to not getting enough sleep. To be honest with you, I'm not quite sure if I think the smiley face on this cupcake is cute or borderline creepy...but I think he's festive anyway! Ha! :o) I used two stamps from the stamp set to create the tag's sentiment.
Hope these projects brought you a smile today! Be sure to check out the Rainbows & Clouds stamp set and dies -- they're fun to craft with!
The comment option is open today if you'd like to throw your hat in for a chance to win some great prizes from Lil' Inker Designs! Please note that I have comment moderation on, so your comment will not show up right away. You'll have until 11:59pm EST on Sunday, August 14th to comment.
Your next stop on the hop is the Lil' Inker Shop. That's just fun to say, isn't it?
Just in case you think you might've missed a stop, here's the entire blog hop list:
Laura Pryor
Julie Ranae
Teresa Kline
Debby Hughes
Sarah Jay
Emily Leiphart
Ariana Grant
Alicia Thelin
Amy Kolling
Jen Carter
Chan Vuong ----- you are here
Lil' Inker Shop
Thanks again for stopping by! And a big thank you to everyone who visited and commented during the DeNami/Lawn Fawn blog hop! I appreciate everyone's kindness so much!
Have a crafty week!
Hello, folks!
Today, the DeNami and Lawn Fawn blog hop continues! Yesterday, some of the DeNami and Lawn Fawn design team members kicked things off, and now, the rest of the DT members are sharing what they've made using a combination of DeNami rubber stamps and Lawn Fawn clear stamps!
I just received my DeNami stamps yesterday, so it was a bit of a mad dash to get my projects made and photographed, as daylight was fading. Big thanks to DeNami for the cute stamps, the lovely packaging and the fun crafty surprises!
Here are the cards I made for today...
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This mini card features the adorable Kitty In Present rubber stamp from DeNami with a sentiment from Lawn Fawn's On the Mend. Isn't that little cat a cutie?
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This card features the Trifle Blocks rubber stamp from DeNami with Lawn Fawn's Critters in the Forest critters and a sentiment from Hello Friend. I cut out the Trifle Blocks design and attached it with a layer of dimensional adhesive. I stamped and cut out two extra blocks -- the one with the fox is popped up with one layer of dimensional adhesive, and the one with the owl is popped up with two layers of dimensional adhesive.
Let's talk about the hop prizes, shall we?
Yes, you can win $25 gift certificates from DeNami and Lawn Fawn!
The comment option is open today if you'd like to leave a comment for a chance to win. Please note that I have comment moderation on, so your comment will not show up right away. A winner will be picked randomly from one of the blogs on the hop [only one comment per blog, please].
Here's the blog hop list for today:
Lawn Fawn blog
Julie Campbell
Amber Daigre
Tiffany Johnson
Ayana Posadas
Chan Vuong ----- you are here
Britta Swiderski
Lea Lawson
Lisa Petrella
DeNami Design blog
Hope you're enjoying the blog hop so far, and thanks for stopping by!
Hello, folks!
I'm back again to share my favourite card of the ones I was able to contribute to the July/August 2011 issue of Paper Crafts magazine!
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This is a card I made for my little guy, and it's one of my favourite cards of all-time!! I really enjoyed making this card!
Do you ever come across craft supplies that remind you of your four-legged friend and find yourself automatically clicking the 'Add to Cart' button? That's what happened to me when I saw the You Are My Sunshine stamp set from Green Grass Stamps! I sing that song to Humble all the time, and the stamps are so sweet, I couldn't pass them up. :o) It's one of my favourite stamp sets! I love off-setting the outlines from the solid images -- I think it gives a really fun, retro look!
Hope you got a smile here today!! :o)
Hello there!
I'm here to share a project that appeared in Paper Crafts magazine's special issue Stamp It! Cards: Volume 8!
Image courtesy of Paper Crafts magazine!
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When I originally mentioned these mini cards in a post I wrote at the end of June, I had not yet received my copy of Stamp It! Cards in the mail. I saw that the mini cards were shown as an online bonus project on the Paper Crafts website, so I had thought that the cards were printed as a small image in the magazine [as online bonus projects have appeared in the past, with a note to visit the website for project instructions]. It was such a great surprise to me to see the cards like this on the Editor's Note page! My sincere thanks to Jennifer for the fun write-up on the cards that really made me smile! :D
The stamps I used for these cards just make me laugh. :o) They're from Memory Box!
Thanks for stopping by today!
Hello, folks!
Today I'm thrilled to share the news that Laura and Ariana of Lil' Inker Designs have offered me a spot on their design team for the next several months! Wa-hoo!!! If you haven't yet checked out this fun line of stamps and coordinating dies, you've got to!
I made this here card to celebrate:
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I just realized that my card base kind of matches the Lil' Inker badge. Eh heh heh!
I'm a *big fan* of stamps and dies that work together, and I absolutely love the Sentiment Flags stamp set and coordinating die from Lil' Inker! You don't just get one border stamp for the flag -- you get FIVE! Love that!! Here I've used two of the border stamps for my monster's "Hip Hip Hooray" flags. :o) My first thought was to kind of curl the left side of each flag a bit and glue 'em around the flag pole [lollipop stick!], but when I was arranging all of my card elements and casually placed the flags on the flag pole to figure out the placement of everything, I ended up liking the look of the flags sticking out on the left side like that! Don't you love it when that happens -- when these little 'happy accidents' happen while crafting?
The Sentiment Flags stamp set comes with five sentiment stamps, as well as a flag pole stamp! The flag is so versatile, and you'll likely be able to fit many of your existing sentiment stamps in the flag. Here I've chosen to use little alphabet stickers to create this festive sentiment that kind of matches the monster! :o) If you're curious, he's a die-cut from an SEI kit that comes with a bunch of monster bodies and a sticker sheet that allows you to create your own monster expressions. It's like being a kid again playing with this die-cut/sticker kit! I love the different eyes together for a bit of a wonky look. :o) His window is die-cut with a Spellbinders die.
The Lil' Inker dies cut cleanly, and the stamps are of great quality -- they're sure to bring you lots of crafty fun! Next week, the team will be bringing you the first Lil' Inker blog hop, so stop by then to see what everyone's been working on!
Thanks for stopping by today! :o)
