Welcome to The Joy of Sets Blog Hop! You are currently visiting Angie McKenzie from the USA and are either starting with me or landing here after visiting the blog of Allie Gomez. I hope that you are enjoying your weekend!
The Joy of Sets is a closed Facebook group full of papercrafters who love to stamp and create beautiful things whether it is cards, 3D projects, or scrapbooking. The best part of the group is that we share the love of using all of our stamping supplies from any company whether it's new or old. If you need some crafting mojo with your supplies, this is a group you should check out! And there's several group members who will be hopping every month throughout the year!
There's nothing like summer to get you thinking about books... reading outside, summer reading clubs, library story time, book clubs... you know just reading for FUN! This month's Reading is FONTS-amental theme should definitely get you feeling this love as we all share our fun projects!
This brings back so many memories of years gone by for me... kids today do not know what a library card is thanks to digital books. And I am sure they can tell me a thing or two about the fun of reading digitally... but it will go in one ear and out the other with this old-fashioned book lover! I love books so much that I collect them and decorate with them.
The Summer Days stamp set was perfect with the Stamp of Authencity stamp set that hasn't been used in years! And the twelve stamp sets that were chosen for the amazing FONTS of the sentiments was almost as fun to comb through as the sentiments were picked for book readers. How many times have you ever wanted to sit down and say thank you to the book? The hours spent on an adventure in another world... another time... another life? Ahhhhh.... and then to pass it on to someone else to read. Fun, right?!?
Well, embossing the sentiments and then applying Mango Melody over them just brightens your day as you see the words come to life on the Whisper White cardstock. Fussy cutting the words and applying them randomly on the card front are like word bubbles or random thoughts as you are reading. The Stampin' Blends brought the summer time reading to life. While distressing the edges add to the well loved look of much used cards and turned pages.
The background was almost too nice to cut up so a second one was created for those who wish to make simple cards.
I hope you have been inspired by my project today. There are several of us participating so be sure to hop around each of the blogs to see all the amazing "FONTS" inspiration. I know you don't want to miss any creative inspiration... so up next is Annette Ball!
August 2020 Blog Roll
Thanks for hopping by my little corner of the world. I'm looking forward to seeing you again soon!! Have a blessed day!
Card Recipe:
STAMPS: Summer Days, Stamp of Authenticity (retired), A Good Man, Free as a Bird, Harvest Hellos, Fancy Phrases, Country Home, To a Wild Rose, Rooted in Nature, Inspiring Iris, Lovely You, Strong & Beautiful, By the Dock, Butterfly Gala, Tasteful Touches
INKS: Memento Tuxedo Black, VersaMark, Mango Melody; Dark/Light Crumb Cake, Dark/Light Granny Apple Green, Light Daffodil Delight, Dark Flirty Flamingo, Light Night of Navy, Light Balmy Blue, Dark Shaded Spruce, Dark/Light Mossy Meadow, Light Cinnamon Cider and Ivory Stampin' Blends Markers
PAPERS: Whisper White, Mango Melody, Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla cardstocks
OTHER: White Stampin' Emboss Powder, Embossing Buddy (retired), Whisper White Baker's Twine (retired), Paper Snips, Multipurpose Liquid Glue
I love the library card
ReplyDeleteThank you, JoAnn! :)
DeleteLove, love this Angie, I too am a bookworm, can't beat a good book. Loving all the yellow as well x
ReplyDeleteSo glad you enjoyed it! xx
DeleteLovely summery, sunshiny card.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Jill. :)
DeleteLovely cards, love books as ell :-)
ReplyDeleteThanks, Gez! Books are indeed awesome! :)
DeleteThis was a great idea for a challenge Angie - I'm with you on the whole books paper thing maybe it's because we are crafters but I cannot get on with digital books - I love the smell and feel of old books and the history behind them - who read them before we did? Thanks for organising us again this month.
ReplyDeleteI'm so with you on that, Fiona! Nothing like the smell and history of where the book has been. x
DeleteOh Angie I just love how you have used the Summer Days stamp set. This set had not appealed to me before but you have brought some memories back for me with your beautiful cards. x
ReplyDeleteThanks so much, Rochelle! x
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