Friday's Forgotten Stamps

ETA: Is the white font easier or harder to read than the black?


Good morning!

Well, it's that time of week when I dust off a stamp set that's been sitting on my shelf unloved! I can honestly say, from Day 1, I have not like today's stamp set. I really don't know why, although I suspect it's because every time I inked it up it picked up ink where it shouldn't have! Just a minor annoyance, right....? Wrong.

So which stamp set am I featuring today? Label Classics. I have hardly ever used this set because nearly every time I inked it up, it got ink in the center of the image. You have to be VERY careful not to press on the ink pad too hard with this set, otherwise you'll end up with a big blob INSIDE your label, exactly where you DON'T want it. So, needless to say, I was very hesitant as I neared the Pink Passion inkpad last night.....

....Success! I managed to ink the stamp up and keep the ink only where it was supposed to be!(ok, big digression here but I have to share....I'm sitting at my office desk writing my blog. There is a window in front of me. The ground is level with the window. Guess who just stopped by and was looking inside the window at me? Peter Rabbit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He's so cute! He hopped away after about 10 seconds, but for a minute there, I was priviledged enough to experience the beauty of God's earth right there at my fingertips! Amazing! On a icker note, I've also experienced nature right here on my desk this morning as I watched one spider, and then another, crawl on the wall right in front of me, YUCK! Sionara spiders!) Ok, back to today's card. As you remember, I left off saying that I had successfully inked up today's stamp and stamped the image onto a scrap piece of Whisper White cardstock. Miracle!

So, I bought this little bee stamp yesterday at my LSS. It's one of the new Stampendous stamps. I love this little guy holding the flower! Isn't he a cutie-patootie? I sponged some Bashful Blue ink inside the label image to imitate the sky (since the little guy is flying), and then stamped him once in the center of the label with brown Staz On ink. I stamped him again on another scrap piece of paper and colored him using my SU markers in So Saffron, Basic Black, Pixie Pink and Pretty in Pink. Then I cut the little guy out, just his body, and attached him on top of the stamped image in the center of the label with foam tape so he pops out. I did the same with with the flower blossom! For his wings and little feet, I used my glue stick and applied fine glitter to make him spaaaaarkle just a tiny bit!

The bg designer paper is by EK Success and is called Blooming Flower, I matted a piece of that with So Saffron cardstock and mounted it to a piece of Pretty in Pink cardstock. Using my flower punch (Paper Shapers by EK Success), I punched out three flowers, one Pretty in Pink, one So Saffron, and one Pink Passion. Using some scrap polka dot paper, I punched small circles for the center of the flower. IThen I applied those to the front of the card randomly using foam tape. Thinking the card needed a little more "bling", I applied Stickles in small polka dots all over the flower leaves. Still needing a place to include the new sentiment I got yesterday, I made a flower leaf using Green Galore and stamped the sentiment on that! Very clever, uh?

And there you have it, today's card using my unloved Label Classics set. Hope you like it! I think it's the perfect card for a cold spring day, isn't it? (it's 16 degrees right now, ugh). Is spring ever going to get here? I sure hope it comes soon!

Well, I want to say thanks for all the wonderful comments about the new blog look. I'd say 90% of the comments were positive, but I did get a few that weren't so positive. One reader actually said she won't be back! Wahhhhhh! I don't want to lose anyone because of my blog, that's for sure. But I'm thinking the ones that are having trouble might be using Macs, not PC's. For some reason, Macs have a difficult time with color on these blogs. I had the same sort of comments on my old brown blog too. I will try tweeking a few things over the next week, so don't be surprised if you keep seeing things change ok? The bulk of the new look will stay, rest assured!!!

Have a great day!