Silhouette Sympathy

September 16, 2008

Silhouette Sympathy

Are you surprised to see that I'm using silhouette stamps again? I'm telling you ~ I don't think I can use anything else at the moment. That's all my brain wants to create with!

What's fun today is that this is a new stamp company that I'm trying out because you know my motto.....you can never have enough stamps! (most especially if they are silhouettes or flowers and extra points if they are both).

On a round of blog hopping one day, I discovered There She Goes stamps. I had missed the initial preorder period and had to wait for the stamps to get onto the website before I could try these little guys out. These are good quality acrylic stamps. They were not flimsy as some acrylics are and stamped well pretty much right from the start.

Both the floral silhouette and sentiment are from the same set. I stamped the flowers with starry night palette ink (same with the sentiment), both first and second generation. Sometimes acrylic stamps stamp out almost completely on the first generation so that you can't do a second generation with them. I found no problem doing that with these. The trick I have found with pretty much all acrylics (well, the high quality) is when you are stamping the image for the first time, always stamp it on a piece of scrap paper, some of which I keep right at my stamping table. This is almost like a warm up for the stamp. It seems to need to have ink on it and then after that, all subsequent images stamp just fine.

The rest of the card is pretty obvious. It is done in my usual clean and simple style.

I am really pleased with these stamps. I would recommend them without any hesitation. And if you check out the website, you'll notice there are ways to acrue "points" for free items - something I am all for. I am looking forward to see what other fun sets Jessica comes up with - I am pretty positive that I will be a repeat customer!

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