![]() Yarn comes in so many textures and colors (remember the comedian Gallager and his bit about “colors only found in yarn” LOL!) and it is pretty cheap. I love to use yarn on cards because then you can use the yarn to tie on a tag to the present or even use in place of ribbon on a gift. It is the same technique I showed you in the Crochet Heart Video. To make the crochet border you simply punch holes in a strip of cardstock and pull the yarn though as if the holes are your foundation row. ![]() This was for a birthday we went to yesterday. What a relaxing way for them to start the day, much better than me nagging them to get up for school! Why am I talking about crochet you ask? Because I crocheted a border for this card: I taught one of my girls to crochet this weekend, she was inspired by the totally rad poncho I was working up, she was instantly “hooked” (‘scuse the bad pun!) The kids were all up early and after breakfast the girls sat knitting and crocheting quietly in the living room. Happy Monday folks! I don’t want to jinx things by saying this out loud (wait, I ‘m typing, this doesn’t count then, ha ha) but this morning went so smoothly. I will also share some fun coloring tips and tricks in today’s video! I had to mention that because I have lots of the wood mounted ones and they are too pretty to unmount LOL! Don’t you dare call Hoarders on me! Tip, if you have the wood mounted House Mouse Stamps you will get a great impression if you lay the stamp rubber side up on your table, ink it up and lay your trimmed cardstock on the rubber and rub the back of the paper. I have to say I wasted a lot of paper stamping those old wood mounted ones. I love that most of their designs are available in unmounted rubber now (and some even in clear sets with sentiments!) because I get the detail of the rubber but I can put them on my curved block (I am using a Mega Mount in my video but the Rock-a-blocks also work well and are much cheaper) and get a perfect impression every time. ![]() Until recently you could only get House Mouse stamps mounted on wood, I have a lot of those and while they are beautiful sitting on my shelf they could be tricky to stamp because they were so detailed. Before you knew it I had my local stamp store (sadly, no longer in business) special ordering me stamps and one time I hit the mother lode at a yard sale and bought a bunch. I have to admit I am usually not a big user of cute stamps but I have loved the House Mouse stamps since my friend Tracey introduced me to them years ago, I stamped out a few of hers to color and I was hooked. Hi friends! Oh I do love a good stamp pun, don’t you?
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