Stamp Review Crew: Go-To Greetings

Happy New Year and welcome to the first Stamp Review Crew blog hop of 2023! What a great way to start the year: with you, fellow stampers; with other SRC bloggers; and with inspiring and beautiful products from Stampin’ Up! Today we are focusing on a practical stamp set from the 2022-2023 Annual Catalog; Go-To Greetings gives you four sentiments in three fonts:

Don’t forget that a Stamp Review Crew blog hop is posted on the first and third Mondays of each month (as well as an occasional bonus hop), typically featuring a single stamp set. As you visit a blog, you’ll find a link to the next blog; you can see all participating blogs here or by clicking the banner at the top of this post. And so you may have arrived here via Nikki Spencer’s blog, My Sandbox. Nikki does beautiful work, and I always look forward to seeing what she has created.

My strategy for using Go-To Greetings was to limit myself to the three versions of Happy Birthday. To give a common denominator to my three cards, I also used a set from the January-April 2023 Mini Catalog, Decorative Borders. (So that you don’t spend too long here, I’ll be talking about each of these cards in future Heartfelt Inkspiration posts this week beginning when the mini goes live on January 5.)

My first card uses the smallest Happy Birthday on a tag repeatedly stamped with a sort of art deco image. I think this is suitable for a guy; I’ll file it away.

Next is the slightly larger greeting layered on a floral border. The Designer Series Paper for this card and the previous one is from the Sale-A-Bration Dandy Designs pack. This card is for my SIL’s birthday early next month.

Finally, this card (in the mail to my sister) uses the beautiful largest version of happy birthday. As you can see, I am currently loving purple!

It was fun to combine tailored elements with curvy ones and to do some precision stamping. Don’t forget to check back this week for posts with product lists and construction details for these cards. I love comments and questions!

Now it’s time to see what Mike Funke has created on his blog, Stampin’ Style. Enjoy!