January SOTM - This Moment

Hello. It is a new month and a new year. I hope you had a good one. This months blog hop features the stamp set, This Moment. It is only available during this month.

If you are joining the hop from here, keep hopping along until you come back here. If not, you should be coming from {Lucy Kelleher. Next in the hop is {Judy Faye Garner}.

I had so many ideas for this stamp. I may even come back with another post of projects using this stamp. 

My first project is with the hello stamp. I masked off every letter to make each letter a different color. CAS all the way. It's very easy to do this with clear stamps. All you have to do is look through to line up the stamp. No extra thing required like if you were to use wood stamps.

This card features two stamps, masked off to make one image. I took the true from "my aim is true" and love from "love notes". Now there is a swirl on the love that is hard to remove, but it doesn't look that weird with it there.

I wanted to show that you could use this stamp set outside of the love theme. I was thinking fall / Thanksgiving. I got the leaf idea from Pinterest. 

I have some tips on this one. First, I just moved and no matter how well you pack, you still lose something because you're not sure what box it is in. This happened to me. I wanted the words to be gold to match the leaves. I tried using our gold pen to color the stamp. In trials it worked, but coloring the whole word didn't stamp well. So gave up on that. So embossing powder it is. Except I couldn't find my embossing gun. I thought I went through every box I had in the room, but still couldn't find it. So I went old school. My mom used to do this back when I was a kid. Using a toaster. Yes, a toaster. It heats up enough above the toaster to melt the embossing powder. 

Tip two. I seem to lose stamps. Especially when I try to keep things clean. I don't know why but when I clean up, I lose things. Sounds backwards, I know. So I lost the Y in the handwritten Print. So I looked at the other letters to see what I could do. I thought I could turn the X into a Y and it turned out well. Just masked the bottom right part of the X and you would never know.  I also masked the arrows to make them all the same size.

Tip three. You can make your own pattern paper with washi tape. This is what I did. Now this washi tape doesn't quite allow it to lay next together and make a seamless pattern. But how washi tape is made, you can overlap without it being seen. And you can still use your Cricut to cut out the image. I used the poster board setting and it cut it out well.

I used Artbooking Cartridge on this layout. I used the font and welded the letters together. The leafs are image #M473AB. There was a cute leaf with a heart cut out of the center but didn't work well with the pattern paper / washi.

Thank you for joining us today. Now it is time to visit {Judy Faye Garner} for her artwork using This Moment. You can purchase this stamp for $5 when you place a $50 order. Place your order at {nikkageers.ctmh.com}.

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Recipe:

Hello Card

Stamps -

  This Moment S1501

Paper -

   Cards and envelopes X254

Ink -

   Sunset Ink Pad Z2191

   Ruby Ink Pad Z2170

   Gypsy Ink Pad Z2190

   Pacifica Ink Pad Z2192

   Pear Ink Pad Z2197

True Love Card

Stamps -

   This Moment S1501

Paper -

   White Daisy Cardstock 1385

   Heartstrings Paper Pack X7193B

Ink -

   Black Ink Pad Z2105

Other -

   Stuck On You Puffies Z3037

Thankful Layout 

Stamps - 

   This Moment S1501   

   Pathfinding Cardmaking Workshop on the Go G1083 

   Handwritten Print E1030

   You're the Bomb C1617

Paper-

   Colonial White Cardstock 1385

   Kraft Cardstock Z1375

   Pathfinding Paper Pack X7186B

Ink- 

   Sunset Ink Pad Z2191

   Versamark Z891

Other-

   Gold Embossing Powder Z2066

   Gold Sequins Z2012

   Gold Polka-Dot Washi Tape Z1920

   Wood Grain Embossing Folder Z1996

   Craft Heater Z555

   Atrbooking Cricut Cartridge Z1906