The Stamp Review Crew: Perfect Blend Edition

Welcome to another Stamp Crew Review Blog Hop!  We share our take on a selected stamp set every first and third Monday. What feels better when the weather turns chilly than a cozy, hot drink? With that in mind, we turn our focus to the fun stamp set Perfect Blend.

This is the first stop from the top, but if you are hopping around in a circle, you have just come from Rita's beautiful blog.  Today I am folding in this week's Friday Mashup challenge, a non-holiday, winter project with embossing, into my hop project.  I was just inspired by Holly's challenge photo!

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Here's the front -

And the inside - Did I tell you I was in college for 10 years?  I spent many an hour pouring over books with cups of coffee, often with wintery weather blowing outside.  There is some type of bittersweet comfort for me every time I make a coffee-stained book card.

The instructions for the inside pop-up book card was redesigned for an A2 card by shoebox swap friend Diane Zechman. 

Stamps: Perfect Blend, Yippee-Skippee!, Wahoo (September Paper Pumpkin), Gorgeous Grunge, Coffee mug (for coffee ring); Paper: Coastal Cabana, Island Indigo, Crumb Cake, Smoky Slate, Very Vanilla, Whisper White, Winter Frost DSP, Soho Subway DSP, Modern Medley DSP; Ink: Coastal Cabana, Island Indigo, Soft Suede, Crumb Cake; Accessories: Linen thread, Naturals designer button, 2-1/2" Circle punch, Sponges, Chevron EF, Perfect Polka Dot EF, Woodgrain EF, Big Shot, Dimensionals.

I wanted to make a Via Travel Pouch to coordinate with the coffee cup image, and leaning towards a vintage look, I ended up with this kinda funky, eclectic packet.  Here's the front -

Unwrap the twine from the vintage brads and flip up the front cover to reveal -

I was going for a look similar to the "You Are Here" regional collector's mug, and after the project was complete, I found it matched the New York mug pretty well.  The graphics on the Soho Subway background paper was too large for my project, so using the MDS digital paper, I zoomed out and printed on copy paper.

Stamps: Perfect Blend, Fabulous Phrases; Paper: Summer Starfruit, Soft Sky, Very Vanilla, Whisper White, Soho Subway DSP; Ink: Crumb Cake, Early Espresso; Accessories: Linen thread, Antique brads, Regals Collection button, Wide Oval punch, Sponges, Bitty Banners framelits, Squares Collection framelits, Big Shot, Soho Subway DSP MDS download, Dimensionals.

Make sure you check out the next stop to see what lovelies Cindy at Stamps, Paper and Ink put together with the set. Thanks for stopping by!

 

The complete hop list:

1. Heidi Baks  runningwscissorsstamper.blogspot.com
2. Cindy Beach stampspaperandink.typepad.com/
3. Beth Beard mylittlecraftblog.com
4. Adriana Benitez  escape2stamp.com
5. Tanya Boser   tinkerin-in-ink.blogspot.com
6. Jill Coleman  jillstamps.com/
7. Shana Gaff   stressfreestamping.blogspot.com
8. Yapha Mason   yaphamason.com
9. Mary Rindal   maryrindal.com/ 
10. Ann Schach    stampinchic.com/
11. Nancy Smith  iguanastamp.wordpress.com/
12. Martha Stewart  seasonsofstamping.com/
13. Dawn Tidd   tidbitsfromdawn.typepad.com
14. Lisa Young   addinkandstamp.blogspot.com/ 
15. Kerry Willard Bray kerrywillardbray.com
16. Rita Wright  ritascreations.blogspot.com/