You Are The Icing

In typical fashion I'm supposed to be making birthday cards but I ordered some goodies and they arrived so you know you I just can't resist the urge to play.

This die and stamp set is from Poppystamps. Now I have to tell you normally I would pass up this set because it's too limiting for use but I have a 7 yr old grandson who loves donuts, I mean he doesn't just love them he LOVES them so you know I had to get the set. And first thing I did was make him a Valentine's Day card with it. 

I also broke out my colored pencils for some coloring and best as I tried to multi stamp some colored sprinkles on that donut it really can only take 2 stamps before it looks muddled. 

And because this is a small set I did a bunch of cardstock layering to use up some space. 

Now I am sure the boy will eyeroll at this sentiment, I mean after all he will be 8 soon and most 8 years olds don't want anything to do with the cheesy love bit, especially from Grandma.

Halloween - Trick Or Treat

When I first started stamping I was intrigued by the Stampscapes stamps, although they were fairly pricey I slowly accumulated a few, but like most things I never really used them because quite frankly I wasn't too sure how to use them. This of course was a long time before Youtube.

I could never bring myself to purge them because they still hold a soft spot in my creative mind and one day I hope to master them. I have decided I might need to go buy a few more. Seems in order to have a nice scene you need at least three or four of the of same scenery. Mine are all over the place.

In the mean time I brought out a few and decided they would work well for this window scene.

I have also decided this window die doesn't get nearly as much love as it should. Seems the only time I use it is for Halloween, so now I have a goal to use it for at least one of my Christmas cards as well.

 

Window die is from Poppystamps, Cat die is Papertrey Ink, background stamps from Stampscapes and the little witch die is a punch from who knows where. I can remember a time I used to go to the Expo and buy these little pkgs of punched things and these were part of that collection.