For the Win!

When I made up my wish list for new stamp sets I HAD TO HAVE this set, For the Win, from the current Idea Book and Catalogue was at the top of my list! I have had it on my shelf since June (holla if you can relate!) and finally had a chance to ink it up. I have a monthly page class that meets the last Wed afternoon and evening of each month. The theme for this month was something sports, I knew immediately I was going to use this set (in fact the theme was my idea, hahaha!). I decided to create one page to showcase all three of my kids soccer photos. Here is a hot tip—my first attempt was the stamp the soccer balls with white craft ink on black card stock and emboss them with white embossing powder. They looked weird. So these soccer balls are stamped in Momento ink onto white paper and actually look like a soccer ball! Success! I also designed this page that the soccer ball can be swapped out for the class participants sport of choice. The stamp set includes a golf ball, football, basketball, and a baseball. Sadly, no hockey puck! So this will allow them to customize this page to their needs. The colors are also fairly gender neutral as well. The trophy is stamped on Crushed Curry card stock using the gold Delicata ink pads which will be releasing with the new holiday catalogue in September. I love this page and the colors so much that I

Fun tip!

To create this background I placed all 4 stamps on my block and stamped them in a random pattern. You can tell that each background is different but it was so fast to have 4 images mounted to stamp in one go!