August SOTM Blog Hop - A Chocolate Affair

Welcome to the August Stamp of the Month (SOTM) Blog Hop! Check with your consultant to get A Chocolate Affair

If you came here from Joy McHargue's Blog you are on the right track. If you would like to see a complete list of SOTM bloggers click here. We have over fifty consultants who have projects to share with you.

This month's set, A Chocolate Affair which has 16 Yummy stamps to eat up!

 
 


The Tag is stamped with chocolates (three in a stamp), in different colors.  They were then iced with stardust Glitz Glitter Gel.  The tag becomes the base for my latest obsession - origami folded boxes.  The box is made from less than one sheet of the new Huntington paper pack and topped with metal rimmed sparkle.

The detail:

Three by three box is perfect for four small turtle chocolates from Skinny Cow (there are six to a package so four to give away and two to eat :)

 

one more of my folding objects:

 

 Continue enjoying more ideas, using this stamp set, by joining Mary Eisen at her blog.

 

July SOTM - Sweet Life Blog Hop

Welcome to the July Stamp of the Month (SOTM) Blog Hop! Check with your consultant to get The Sweet Life

If you came here from Sarita Schraeder's Blog you are on the right track. If you would like to see a complete list of SOTM bloggers click here. We have over fifty consultants who have projects to share with you.

This month's set, Sweet Life which has great floral graphics, great for summer!

 

This card started with a colonial white base which I stamped with words from Universal Backgrounds, I also used the fireworks from the Home of the Brave Set and stamped with Hollyhock and Crystal Blue and then stamped the quote from the SOTM set using Cocoa.  I then stamped the apple set with VersaMark and embossed with clear.  Then I sprayed sunflower, hollyhock and garden green over the embossed card.  Finally, I came back with the watercolor pen and layed in color in the leaves, branch and the apple. 

The Card was finished off with a Thank You on colonial white backed with an embossed cocoa cardstock.  The thank you was affixed to the hemp surrounding the colonial white cardstack.  Here is a detail shot:

 

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HAVE A HAPPY AND SAFE FOURTH OF JULY!

June SOTM - A Flowering Bunch

Welcome to the June Stamp of the Month (SOTM) Blog Hop! Check with your consultant to get A Flowering Bunch before it is gone.

If you came here from Maria Myers' Blog you are on the right track. If you would like to see a complete list of SOTM bloggers click here. We have over sixty consultants who have projects to share with you.

This month's set, A Flowering Bunch which has great floral graphics, just in time for summer!

 

Below are two cards made with A Flowering Bunch stamps.  One card highlights the negative image and the other highlights the positive.  Hope you enjoy the contrasts.

 

The upper card is made with various images stamped with Versa Mark, the images were coated with clear embossing powder and heat embossed.  Three ink colors (crème bruele, hollyhock and blush) were sprayed over the embossed images using the spray pens.  The Thanks A BUNCH saying was a little larger than the size of label I cut out with the Cricut, using the Art Philosophy cartridge.  So, I used a black marker to color Thanks and then cleaned the stamp and colored A BUNCH to give me flexibility in placing the saying on the label.  Once the label was stamped I inked the edges before placing the label on coordinating mat.  A hollyhock double tied bow was added to the label to complete the card.

The second card was made using hollyhock, sorbet, crème bruele, and topiary to make this layered card (I threw in a little sunflower as well).  The two part label had a ribbon space in the base, the ribbon was placed through the base and around the white cardstock prior to the top piece being attached allowing for the ribbon to lay down nice and flat on the card.  Once again the saying was placed in two parts to ensure a good fit on the label.  This card was intended to provide bursts of color without spending lots of time coloring.

 Continue enjoying more ideas, using this stamp set, by joining Angela Tutton at her blog.

Pinwheel - May Stamp of the Month

Welcome to the May Stamp of the Month (SOTM) Blog Hop! Check with your consultant to get Pinwheel before it is gone.

If you came here from Sarita's Blog you are on the right track. If you would like to see a complete list of SOTM bloggers click here. We have about sixty consultants who have projects to share with you.

This month's set, Pinwheel which has several pinwheel designss in different designs and several sayings.

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The card I made uses the two large pinwheel stamps using pear and lagoon, one mid sized stamp (stripe pattern) in pear and the dot mini pinwheel in lagoon.  The mini pinwheel was cut along the design up to the middle (without cutting through) and the edges where curled by rubbing my fingernail along the curvy parts of the design.  A Green sparkle tops off the bow effect.  Each layer is adhered with a 3D tape square for additional dimension.

 Here is the close up:

 Continue enjoying more ideas, using this stamp set, by joining Shirley Ross at her blog.

April Stamp of the Month

Welcome to the March Stamp of the Month (SOTM) Blog Hop! Check with your consultant to get My Sunshine before it is gone.

If you came here from Carla Ironside's Blog you are on the right track. If you would like to see a complete list of SOTM bloggers click here. We have about sixty consultants who have projects to share with you.

This month's set, My Sunshine, is a set of eight stamps.

The card I made this month used the cricut balloon, cut out several times.  I then stamped the image in multiple colors and assembled it for a 3-D effect.  I used the bird feather stamp to create the crosshatch in chocolate on the basket.  I then assembled the basket to some varigated color twine.  Added a little glitz and here it is:

 

I like the snowflake cutout in the background as it looks a little like a cloud.
A detail shot:

Continue enjoying more ideas, using this stamp set, by joining Michelle Jones at her blog.