Stamp of the Month Challenge

From the Heart Stamps hosts a Stamp of the Month Challenge on their blog - if you participate one month, you receive the free digital stamp for the next month.  There's also a weekly sketch challenge.  They have lots of adorable digital stamp sets, and are based here in Colorado.

This month's challenge was to create a card using Hogs and Kisses Pigwit, so here's my card.  This time I created it the front panel digitally, then did a touch of Copic coloring on Pigwit and mounted it to a card base. I think he came out kind of cute!


If you're interested in the challenges, take a peek at the FTHS blog.  Here's a link to this month's challenge and all the entries: http://fromtheheartstamps.com/community/2017/02/01/free-stamp-of-the-month-february-2017-hogs-kisses-pigwit/.

Deconstructed Catalog

My husband is awesome!  Every time I go to him with a "Can you do this?" request, he does it!  He made me a stamp positioner, a storage box for my embossing folders, and LONG counters and shelving in the beautiful big craft room he built for me in the basement.  I'm lucky to have such a handy guy around, in so many ways.

Yesterday, I took one of my giant FSJ catalogs to him and asked for help.  The catalog is so thick that it doesn't lay flat when I'm using it, and I couldn't figure out a way to tab the spiral-bound one I received at Convention.  So he took it out to his shop, put it on the band saw, and sawed off the bound/glued edge.  Then I came in and did the rest.  I love it!

He cut about ⅛" off the spine.

Ready to go, with an old binder that was floating around.

Punched holes and added transparent tabbed dividers from Dollar Tree.

SO easy to use now, and my only cost was $3 for the dividers!!

From the Heart June Challenge

It's taken me a little longer than usual to post a card with this month's free digital stamp set from From the Heart Stamps. It's a cute set featuring ice cream, but for some reason I had a really hard time figuring out how to color it!  There are some awesome samples on the blog and the challenge page, but mine just wasn't coming together.  I did end up with a couple I like enough to post, but I'm going to continue trying different ways to color these images.  Maybe colored pencils...

If you're interested in joining the Digital Stamp of the Month Challenge (and getting a FREE digital stamp set each month), or it you just want to check out what the talented participants have posted with this image, click here.  There's also a weekly sketch challenge.