Whirlpool of Imagination

Flowers on Kraft

Lately when I've been stamping, I'm trying to use the stamp on multiple items so I feel like I'm using the stamp enough to get my money's worth. Many times I use it once and then it sits for ages before I ink it up again. I'm trying to change that.

These flowers first started off on gift tags.

The stamp is from Stampin' Up and stamped with espresso ink.

Then I decided that some note cards were in order.

The set of them. I laugh everytime I see this picture. I stamped the flowers first and second generation so they are supposed to look that way but from the distance I keep thinking I'm seeing double!

Here's a close up....

The summer is winding down so it's time for all that last minute shopping to get ready for school. I'm still trying to get into the studio each day for a little while and I have a few new types of items I have been and will be adding to the store to add that much more variety. So it's busy times here!

Have a wonderful week!

Orange Flower

I love flower stamps. If you saw how many I have.....and yet, I still keep buying them. I just realized that I created this set of items with a Gina K flower stamp that I never posted.

First I started off with a card, keeping things to my usual clean and simple look.

I liked these flowers in orange so much that I made flat notecards out of them.

And then I just had to make a tag set too.

All the same stamp and all the same ink but in a variety of items. I love how one little stamp can be used in so many ways. And yet, I still keep buying those flowers.........

Dress Up Your Wine

One of my all time go to gifts is a bottle of wine. When someone tells you, "oh no, don't bring anything, just yourselves" I just can't do it. I feel like I need to bring a little thank you. But a naked bottle of wine just won't do. It's a perfect canvas to dress up with a wine tag.

Here's the tag just on it's own. I've cut it down to fit the bottle nicely with a die cut circle to place around the nect of the bottle.

The image and sentiment are from Papertrey ink and once I stamped them, I die cut a border shape along the bottom. Because the tag is not wide, you can take pretty much any Spellbinder die and place the tag in the opening to create whatever kind of bottom to the tag that you want.

Here's the tag hanging on a bottle...

Super easy and dresses up the quick gift to make it just a bit more personal.

Have a great day!

Tags and Note Cards

I have a small set of tags today and since it's small and simple, I added a few note cards to the post too.

I'm sure most others who have this set from Papertrey realize how nicely it fits into the Spellbinders die but this was a revelation for me. I love how exact it fits!

Here's the full set. Told you these were pretty simple today.

This side flower note card is part of my newest set of note cards.

Here's the full set.

I then wanted some longer note cards when I have lists to send.

Don't love the lighting on this picture but you get the idea. Stamp is from Stampin' Up.

And here's the set with better lighting.

It's been a very quiet stamping week for me. The dog and I have spent a LOT of time together. My current goal is to work on the little nipping problem.

Dec 25 Tags

Little blog break there. I'm having time management issues getting everything done besides hanging out with Shamrock. I have two more days of tags before I spare you and move on to something else. I may even leave Christmas for a little (very little!) while.

I pulled out my Stampin Up tags set for this one. The dec 25 is from Stampin Up and stamped in cherry ink. The words on the background are from Papertrey and stamped second generation so they'd be a bit lighter.

Here's the set of three that went into this listing. I'm so happy to use up some of the manila tags I bought from Staples ages ago. The box of them has been taunting me for the longest time!

Pull Out Your Stockings

Back for another day of tags! Thanks so much for the kind words about my Santa tags. Today, I pulled out some stockings.

I have had this stocking set a while but until Papertrey came out with the matching dies, I never really stamped anything I liked with it. I really like how these look when they are cut out. Of course, there is a bit of a learning curve to stamp these right because unlike nesties, you have to cut first, then stamp but I'm getting there. Sentiment is also from Papertrey.

Here's the set of three together.

I'm on a roll here with the tags so come back again so I can show you some more. Have a great night.

Tag, You're It

My post was all ready to go and before I could hit publish, Firefox went crash on me. I've been having a bit of trouble with my computer in general but I'm hoping it's been fixed and I won't go missing again.

I'm leaving poinsettia's for a while but not Christmas. I thought this week I'd play around with tags.

This guy is one of my favorite tags I've made so far. The stamps are from Papertrey and are colored with copic markers. I added some stickles for a bit more sparkle. The button just makes it super cute to me.

Here's the set of three that I just uploaded to my store. I have to say that I haven't really done justice to this set and used it to it's full extent. I think I need to pull it out and get some more tags made. I'll have the cutest presents around!