Your Next Stamp Release Preview: Tweet Spring Birds

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Your Next Stamp Release Preview: Tweet Spring Birds

As soon as I saw this stamp set I knew I wanted to make a slim line card. I know slim line cards are trendy right now, but I have always enjoyed that they are a different footprint to play with. Some stamp sets just lean into the long form factor of a slim line card. With so many cute birds and branches in this set a tall card allowed me to layer in several sets of branches. It’s kinda like a birdie apartment building with each branch its own apartment or telling its little story.

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Your Next Stamp Release Preview: Coffee Character

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Your Next Stamp Release Preview: Coffee Character

Always a fun time to be guest designing for Your Next Stamp. Especially with a new release arriving this Thursday. I had a complete blast playing with this Coffee Character stamp set. I mean who doesn’t need a good set of fun characters enjoying their morning pick me up. And the sentiments are a perfect match. For these cards I wanted each character to be the star of their own card, so I went with slightly smaller 4”x4” panels. I also wanted to give them fun bright backgrounds to compliment the playfulness of the stamps.

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LDRS Boadwalk Mice

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LDRS Boadwalk Mice

The more and more cards I create the more and more I realize I love cards that are full of bright colours and partial to cute scenes. I also enjoy changing up the shape of cards. Think it helps look at stamp sets from a different perspective when they are being placed in a different shape frame. This card certainly has those aspects I love about card making. Colour is layered on with stencils and also with a brightly coloured scene.

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2 Ways to use Dies to Create Colour Blocks

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2 Ways to use Dies to Create Colour Blocks

At first look you wouldn’t be able to see anything in common with these two cards. Other than they were both stamped and copic coloured. They don’t even relate seasonally. But what they do have in common is that I used the Simon Says Stamp Trio Window die to create the colour blocked areas on the card.

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Your Next Stamp Release Blog Hop

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Your Next Stamp Release Blog Hop

Welcome to Your Next Stamps (YNS) February new release blog hop. I have the pleasure of creating with the new Show Ponies stamp set. If you like ponies this set has it all.

The tussled manes on these horses made me think of how free and wild horses look when running and playing in their paddocks. A slimline card was the perfect choice to show them off running wild with only the clouds behind them and green grass at their fee.

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Jane's Doodles Challenge #3: Love

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Jane's Doodles Challenge #3: Love

Ah l’amour. Anybody remember Pepe Le Pew; the french skunk always on the look out for love from Looney tunes. Usually things didn’t end well since he was chasing after a cat who wanted nothing to do with the stinky skunk. Well for Jane’s Doodles Challenge #3 theme of love I choose to use Stinks stamp set and dies. These guys are so adorable and definitely the love thing is going to work out for these two, unlike for Pepe Le Pew.

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Gift set of cards: Single stamp set - Oh My Whiskers

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Gift set of cards: Single stamp set - Oh My Whiskers

In addition to creating a birthday card full of kitten cuteness for my friend (last post), I also wanted to create a set of cards for her to use. I don’t always mail my cards, but I do like to pull together a set of cards for my friends as birthday pressies. Continuing to use the Oh my Whiskers stamp set from Honey Bee Stamp allowed for a continuity between all the cards and yet they all use different mediums and styles.

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