Hi Friends and Stampers,
When I first saw this Post Box die and stamps, I fretted all the way til payday that they would sell out before I had the opportunity to buy them, lol. Sometimes you see something that makes the want bump explode! Does that ever happen to you? I see really cute stuff and I do want it, but then occasionally I just NEED some of the things I see.
I just love shaped cards and I just love this post box. The matching stamps and dies are a perfect accessory to this post box. All made my Honeybee stamps. I have several of their stamp sets and I just love them all.
I had so much fun making these post box shaped cards. I belong to a stamping club so I went ahead and made a dozen of them. The first one to try out and get a sample of what I want it to look like and then the rest was assembly line which goes much quicker than the making of the original.
I really had no idea that Delicata Silvery shimmer ink works so well on colored card stock. I was originally thinking I would have to emboss the postal wavy lines with a heart on each of papers. But it worked like a charm and maintained the image. A lot of colored ink gets soaked up into the card stock. So this was a great surprise. I also used wink of stella for the stamps on the envelope. Sometimes you just need a little glitter here and there.
Do you ever get free sequins in your orders? I do occasionally and I keep them in my stash for just this occasion. Most of these sequins came from Kat Scrappiness in little "Thank you" samples. I would like to buy more sequin samples, but the drawer I use for these and other supplies is currently full to the brim, so I enjoyed using my stash for these.
This is also going to look really cute in a scrap page layout. I haven't quite got that design in my head yet, but I'm working on it.
I hope you get some snail mail love in your mail box soon.
Holly
