Hot Stuff

I have to say my philosophy on stamping has changed. When I was an SU demo I only bought SU product. Now that I am a CTMH demo and have read and viewed so many blogs my view has changed. I want to create things that I personally like and that sometimes means buying and utilizing products that are "contraband" (not CTMH). Inspiration comes in all forms and I have been so inspired by all of those bloggers out there - SU demos, CTMH demos and just those who love to stamp so thank you!

Having said that - I used my blog candy gift certificate to Eclectic Paperie to purchase the Hot Stuff stamp set from My Favorite Things and the new Basic Gray Infuse 6x6 paper pad. After receiving my beautiful set I went back and purchased a couple more! I absolutely love it. Anyway, I had a couple of thank you cards to make so I used Hot Stuff and the Infuse paper to create the card below. I used blush and chocolate CTMH cardstock and colored everything in with my Prismacolored pencils.

When I was creating this card, I made a fortunate mistake. I ran the main image through my sticker xyron (the tiny 150 machine! tip: buy this! It's cheap with a Michaels, Joann coupon and its fabulous for adhesive on tiny letters and small die cuts) and I put it in upside down. So instead of adhesive on the back, I had adhesive on the front. What to do? I dunked my image in sugar dust which is like tiny sparkling little beads. Sugar dust is made by Stamp La Jolla. I bought it years ago at a rubber stamp convention. You can't tell by the picture but it gave my image the most beautiful sparkly look! I also used this bubbley looking embossing folder for my cuttlebug.
Not to be outdone - I made another card using the same color scheme but this time with all CTMH products. The stamp set is All My love and the paper is More to Adore.

As always, thanks for looking!

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