Here’s a fabulous new stamp set, Crafting Forever, which includes the copyright phrase in case you want to be able to sell your cards. It just needs to be stamped somewhere – I put it on the back of all my cards. But this set is a fabulous collection of images and sentiments. I love the “do something creative every day”. I truly believe that’s important. Creativity nourishes the soul. Well mine, anyway. Sometimes my creativity is cooking, mostly it’s cards. Sometimes I play my violin. But it’s all important to make you feel right. What do you do to be creative?

Here I stamped the pens and heat embossed using the copper embossing powder and then went to town with my aqua painter and three of the new inks – berry burst, lemon lime twist (yes, the one I was only using as an accent!) and tranquil tide. I put my piece of watercolor paper on a lemon lime twist mat and then used versa mark to create the pen background on the berry burst card base. I then added the perfect sentiment (although the one about housework is a pretty awesome one too!) stamped in more lemon lime twist on watercolor paper to ensure it matched. I cut it out with the Stitched Shapes Framelits dies so that there was interest on the sentiment but it didn’t need a match mat in lemon lime twist. I popped that up with dimensional which I didn’t place well and thus discovered that poking a mini dimensional into a sagging space is easy. Love the mini dimensionals – 720 in a packet for $4. Good value. And cute!

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the Stampin’ Rewards code to get five FREE handmade cards; the current Stampin’ Rewards code is NJ99GP9Q (if your order is over $150, don’t use the code, you get the rewards, but you still get the free cards). In addition, to celebrate the new catalog, if you spend $50 this month, I’ll send you the fresh fig 1/8” sheer ribbon. Click here to go to my online shop or here to join my team. To sign up for Paper Pumpkin, click here. For more details on my Customer Loyalty Programme, click here.

See you tomorrow,

Liz