This is my favorite month of the year - STAMPTEMBER!
If you're new to it - Stamptember is a month-long event put on by Simon Says Stamp to celebrate the love and joy of good old stamps.
I bet you can remember exactly where you were when you found your first ever stamp, and how exciting it was to start that journey. For me - I love how stamping connects two people - the stamper and the designer. When you buy and use a stamp to create your OWN art, you are appreciating and rewarding the person whose art you are creating with. Helping them make a living creating art, while you find joy and peace in your favorite hobby.
Stamptember has lots of fun surprises - a month of releases from Simon and exclusive collaborations with all your favorite stamp companies. And remember - many of these are exclusive to Stamptember and will sell out, so strike while the iron is hot.
I have some of these in my hot little hands, so I'll help kick off the party with some of my favorites that are live today.
First up - BE STILL MY HEART - zentangled Christmas ornaments! I actually made quite a few cards with this stamp set, but chose my favorite for today - a simple black & white, which is where the art of this set lives, in my opinion.
I hand drew the strings with a Pitt Pen, and used the stripe stamp and teeny from this stamp set in Key Lime to pop that part of the sentiment. The larger sentiment is from the ornament set.
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Y'all know I adore Simon's Picture Book dies and the "twofer" you always get when diecutting with them. Normally I do them in paper, but something in this adorable new die cried out for felt. (Now that my favorite local fabric shop has closed, I buy sheets of wool felt on Etsy from this shop - only buy wool! The other stuff is raggedy when die cut.) Seriously - cute AND fuzzy? Who can resist this? I know exactly who I'm sending these two, but it's a secret. I love how you can pop the little nostrils up. Easier to see on the blue one. When I was gluing them down to the card base, I pulled their mouths slightly open so you could see the white of the card through them - something fun that stretchy felt offers that paper doesn't. The sentiments are from my favorite hippo set here. Now that I have all my stamps and dies airtabled, all I had to do was type "hippo" into the search and all my hippo sets came up!
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I can't wait to see all the collaborations and new exclusives throughout the month. One of my favorite stamp sets I've ever bought was one of last year's collaborations and I'm glad I jumped on it when I did. Stamptember is basically the holiday shopping season for stamp lovers!
Have a great weekend - make something pretty!
Loveyameanitbye.
