The Stamp Review Crew: Crafting Forever

Welcome to another Stamp Crew Review Blog Hop!  We share our take on a selected stamp set every first and third Monday.  This week's hop is featuring the main catalog set Crafting Forever.  If you are following the blog hop order, you have just come from the very talented Adriana Benitez's blog.  Aren't her projects beautiful?

This set really jumps out with great images for sending cards from one crafty friend to another.  We all understand each other's obsession, right?  So here's a fun card for a creative friend with a focus on some of the new In Colors.

Stamps: Crafting Forever, Painter's Palette; Paper: Basic Black, Whisper White; Ink: Crushed Curry, Powder Pink, Sweet Sugarplum, Berry Burst, Fresh Fig, Cajun Craze, Tranquil Tide, Crumb Cake, Soft Suede, Smoky Slate, Basic Gray, Basic Black; Accessories: Aquapainter, Sponge, Square Collection Framelits, Big Shot, Dimensionals.

And this set would also pair nicely with the pencil/art palette paper from Pick a Pattern DSP.

I was even planning a card with that paper, but it didn't excite me.  The reason I bought this set was to make an unknown, but potential, future thank you project for my club members, which has yet to come to fruition.  But along that vein, I really wanted to make something different.

So I start thinking about a 3-D display items for friends... something for their craft room... and that's the direction I really wanted to go.  After sitting on my missing mojo for days, I was inspired by an embroidery hoop that's in the new Holiday catalog.

I created my stamp layout on card stock and colored it.  I had really wanted to cross-stitch this scene, so I had scanned and uploaded it to an online program.  Unfortunately the letters were too small to stitch without making the layout 12" across.  So I threw that idea out and created a framed faux embroidery hoop instead.

I attempted to mimic some aida cloth texture by pulling out the retired Square Lattice embossing folder.

Stamps: Crafting Forever, Hardwood BG; Paper: Crumb Cake, Smoky Slate, Whisper White; Ink: Pumpkin Pie, Real Red, Crumb Cake, Soft Suede, Smoky Slate, Basic Gray, Basic Black, Versamark; Accessories: Aquapainter, Square Lattice Embossing Folder, Circles Collection Framelits, Big Shot.

Hop on over to the fabulous Nancy Smith's blog to see what fun projects she has put together with this week's set.