Stamps

How's everyone doing?  It's Friday!!!  Which honestly, means nothing to me at the moment as I'm on summer break! 

I've really enjoyed seeing all the upcoming releases from CHA this week.  I'm planning on working on some, if not all of the challenges, over at 2Peas this weekend.  Woot!

Meanwhile....onto today's layout...

So I have tried to include stamps more and more on my layouts. Especially since joining Studio Calico where they put such awesome stamps in the kits every month. On the layout I'm sharing today, I used a couple of those Studio Calico stamps.

Happy

Supplies: patterned paper - American Crafts, Cosmo Cricket, Echo Park, Studio Calico; journaling card - Lily Bee Design; tab - Smash (K & CO); stickers - Crate Paper, October Afternoon, American Crafts, Authentique; stamps - Studio Calico; ink - Jenni Bowlin; punch - Fiskars; other - ribbon

Thanks for reading!

My First Attempt at Hexagons

Hi all....I'm here today with a layout I made recently using Studio Calico's May kit: 35 MM. 

Hello My Name Is Lisa

With this kit was probably my favorite stamp ever, this great hexagon outline. I started with a piece of white cardstock and created a partial background using this stamp and the six primary and secondary colors, alternating them and going for a less than perfect grid.

I also used the great hexagon mistables from Studio Calico and created a design with those around my photo and placed some randomly inside the grid I created.

The letter stickers are the Color Magic stickers from Heidi Swapp. I ended up using some Copic markers to color them in and they didn't turn out quite like I had hoped. A little too streaky and hard to read.

Overall...I really love this layout. It's very different from my usual work and uses a lot of bright colors (not to mention that the subject matter ain't too shabby either!)

Supplies:  patterned paper - Heidi Swapp; stamp - Studio Calico; ink - Colorbox, Stampin' Up; clips - SMASH (K & Co); washi tape - Bazzill; letter stickers and die cut - Heidi Swapp; hexagon mistables - Studio Calico; markers - Copic

Here's my question for anyone that has used the SC mistables or the American Crafts mistable thickers or any other color alterable product...how do you completely cover them, while keeping them from getting so saturated that they fall apart when using a mist?  I ended up using stamp ink to cover the mistables I used here because my success rate with spraying them is zilch.  The pros always make them look so easy! 

Thanks for looking!