We're Blog Hoppin' With "You Are My Happy"

Celebrate National Stamping Month

With A Sarita Card Collection

Sarita's bright and cheerful colors will just seem to go with "You Are My Happy" 

stamp set trio. This stamp set includes some wonderful sayings, an alphabet set 

and some cute icons to go with the sayings. The icon stamps are open stamps

so they will need some coloring  of some sort. I'm not a fan of open stamps so I

 will share some easy ways to enhance your stamps with different techniques. 

If you have come from Katy's scrappinkaty blog you are on the right path.

Card Holder for the Sarita Card Collection

Tone on tone stamping adds dimension to your open stamps

Color in small areas of your open stamp with a coordinating marker

Paper piecing is a good way to use open stamps. 

Stamp the image on one color cardstock and stamp the same image with 

another color cardstock. Cut out part of the image and pop it up

on top of the first stamped image.

Tone on tone stamped image.

Color small areas of the stamped image with water color pencils 

and blend with the Tombow blending pen

Stamps your image with ink and color in with water color pencils.

Blend the color with tombow blending pen.

Now hop over to pamsclearlycraftycorner to check out what she's got 

going in her corner of this hop. FYI: Pam's got pictures of this stamp 

set trio so on hop over and take a look. Happy Hopping!

CTMH Supplies:

B&T Duos: Sarita

Cardstock: Outdoor Denim, Lagoon, Cotton Candy, Gypsy, Goldrush

Ink: Outdoor Denim, Lagoon, Cotton Candy, Gypsy, Goldrush

Stamps: You Are My Happy

Embellishments:Burlap, Chevron, & Seam Binding Ribbons, Bakers Twine, blue Buttons, Base & Bling Floral Accents, Glitter Ribbon, sparkles

Card Patterns from Make It From Your Heart Vol II