Stampin’ Up! have a set called Seasonally Scattered and it consists of three stamps where the words are defined by negative space – Love, Merry and Thanks. This one seems appropriate today because this weekend my friend Jen came to visit. That may not seem like such an extraordinary thing except that we’d never previously met! We’ve been working closely together for the past two years over email and instant messenger and through countless meetings but never actually in person. So she courageously came down this weekend and met not just me, but also my brother whom she’d also worked with and my sister who is visiting me. I guess she figured that she might as well get the whole trio in one go!  We had a great weekend – and my abs are in much better shape after all the laughter. So, thanks Jen.

This is a fairly simple card and is easy to mass produce as long as you’re careful about cross contamination of the colours. Taking a piece of very vanilla, I inked up the stamp in pear pizzazz and then, using a sponger, dabbed some island indigo on some of the stamp. I breathed heavily on the stamp and then stamped it onto the card stock. It’s matted in pear pizzazz on a very vanilla base. I finished the envelope using the largest envelope liner framelit and a piece of 6″ by 3″ background DSP in pear pizzazz. The background DSP packs seem pricey at $21.95 but since you can line 8 envelopes with a sheet and you get 40 sheets, it costs less than 7 cents per envelope.

Since it’s only 7.5 weeks to Christmas, I think I might get the Merry stamp out and play with that again…