Laura Rumble - Crafter

Every once in a while a stamp set comes along that just steals your heart.  For me, Pretty Pink Posh's Dinosaur Friends and Dinosaur Additions have done just that. They are sets I have used for design team work for My Perfect Stamp over and over again.  I have the matching dies too which has opened up the possibility of even more ways to use them. I have heat embossed... made cards... Stamped and coloured with copic markers... scrapped... and even made a wreath which has proudly hung on my door for months now... And the thing that gets me is every time I pull it out I am flooded with ideas - still now, months after its release and at least 15+ projects in  

  A trio of 'congratulations on passing your driving test' cards.  Why a trio?  Hmm, I do only need one but I figure if I'm playing with this many stamps I may as well stamp multiples!   I would not want to do this type of project without a MISTI.  Mind you, I don't really enjoy any form of stamping without a MISTI these days.  It's such a good tool and a must have in my craft room. I started off going through my stamp sets and pulling out anything positive and congratulatory.  I also threw in a Vrooom! and a Beep! for good measure! I arranged them in my MISTI, snuggling them together in a pleasing way with as few gaps as possible.  Gaps don't matter all that much as it's easy to go back and fill the in with a second phase of stamping. I picked my inks based on this week's Colour Throwdown challenge.  To mix things up I did one background with ombre stamping. I pulled out a few dies from my stash... I wanted to pop up a section or panel of the backgrou