RainyDay Stamper

Hog Wild

 I just love the pig from Button Buddies, he is just so cute.   I stamped him in Early  Expresso and remember with solid image stamps, make sure that your ink pad is juicy and allow the stamp to sit on the paper a little bit longer, to ensure a good solid image.  I really like Baja Breeze with the Early Expresso, a combo from my trusty Colour Coach.  The layout is tweaked from a stamping magazine and the background texture is from Perfect Details Texture Plate and that cool label is from the Lots of Tags Sizzlits Die.  

Happy Stamping,

Are you a Button Collector?

You know, you see the beautiful buttons in the minis or the catty, you just haaaavve to have them and there they sit, on your shelf or in your Stampin' Store TM  and you take them out and look at them, and put them back.  Then new catty and ohhh, new buttons, got to have them too!

 Oh, beautiful buttons, shiny and bright!  Well Stampin' Up! must have realized that we are button hoarders so look at this set they created and put in the catty.  Button Buddies

 Now these images do look nice, just stamped BUT they pop when you add a beautiful button. Today my starting point was this week's sketch from SCS and I knew I wanted to use the pig.

 How is that for a bright card!  I started with what colour I wanted the pig, Calypso Coral and then chose my DSP. I used Whisper White for the base and then that gorgeous DSP, Berry Blossoms.  The pig's  nose is a white button from the Neutrals Collection and I added a couple of Basic Rhinestones to make him sparkle.  The sentiment is from the Hostess set,Perfect Words and I used my Calypso Coral marker to ink up half and carefully placed it using my Stamp a ma Jig TM and then the rest of the sentiment inside

Happy Stamping,