Sentiments - Going Large!

 

I bought the Hunkydory Big Book of Festive Centrepiece Sentiments on my last visit to Craftmania and it has proved very useful!

It is an ideal way to use up some of those busy patterned background papers that don't really match any toppers or stamps

Using a big bow salvaged from last years Christmas crackers, also distracts from the background too.

Most of these cards have a ribbon to draw the eye towards the sentiments

And the sprig of holly die that I bought 5 years ago at The Works features in several cards as well!

Leaving or Getting a New Job?

I found it really hard to find the right sentiment to make a card wishing someone good luck in their new job. Despite having hundred of stamps, I only had one that said JOB and it was tiny!

So I searched around and found these sentiments from Honey Doo Crafts which fit the bill perfectly! Plus they were reduced to only £2.99, so I treated myself to the Birthday Star stamps as well. I discovered that they are a local company based here in Suffolk and they arrived next day on 1st class delivery.

I'm going to team them up with this hot air balloon die from Papercrafter mag.

One Christmas Stamp - Several Colourways!

I've got a bit carried away with this oval sentiment stamp that was part of a set from this months Creative Stamping Magazine.

I stamped it out in many different coloured inks and tried it out with different background papers.

Now I've got to try out the other

stamps in the set!

Just the Ticket!

the 'ticket' stamp

I've been looking for a small ticket shaped sentiment stamp for ages, (most were too big for me) so when I saw the  'Just for you'  freebie stamp in Papercraft Essentials magazine, I bought it just for that 1 stamp!

I then thought, I better get some use out of the other 6 stamps in the set and put together these other 2 cards. I also treated myself to the soft pastel set of Spectrum Noir pens to see how they compared to my favourite Promarkers, and I really liked them! I guess a few more will be coming my way as and when I can afford them.

If Friends Were Flowers .....

A simple card for the Sentiment challenge at Allsorts - just a Hero Arts Watercolour stamp layered onto strawberry pink cardstock with a scroll border punch down 1 side

The striped background paper is by Pink Petticoat