Stamp Review Crew: Charming Sentiments

Hello and welcome to this Stamp Review Crew bonus blog hop! Normally, you can expect to find us on the first and third Mondays each month, but today we are exceptional! And we are exceptionally small, as there are only four stops on the hop (see the list of today’s blogs by clicking the banner, above). You may have hopped here from Holly’s blog, Rubber Redneck. If you regularly hop with the Stamp Review Crew, you have enjoyed many of her creations!

Our focus today is on the must-have message set, Charming Sentiments:

Not only is this full of wonderful, basic sentiments for the front of your card, but there are also coordinating messages for the inside. I appreciate that, and I know many of you agree. Notice the bundle’s Sentiment Silhousettes die set that gives these images a fussy-cut look — without the work! However, I decided I would get enough mileage from the stamp set alone (or with assorted non-bundle dies), so that’s what I have used here. These three cards all started with a 12″ x 3½” piece of Perfectly Penciled Designer Series Paper, which I colored with Stampin’ Blends markers and then cut apart or die cut.

The first card uses an embossed strip between two sections of DSP; the heat-embossed sentiment is on a matted scalloped circle.

I created a custom background with an Artistic Mix mask for this next card, then die cut two Designer Tags from my custom-colored DSP. The sentiment here is also heat embossed.

I used one of my favorite layouts for my final card, cutting the edge of the DSP with the “angle” die from Basic Borders. The sentiment on the black panel is heat embossed.

These are all basic layouts, ones I use over and over. Nothing complicated here. To prove it to you, I’ll share details about these cards in upcoming Heartfelt Inkspiration blog posts and provide links to free project sheets.

Now, it’s time to move on to see what Lou Kitzelman has for you at With a Bow On Top. Enjoy!