Life's like a Bowl of Stamps: October Stamp of the Month Blog Hop

Welcome to our October Stamp of the Month Blog Hop featuring S1110 Holiday Magic, a set of 18 absolutely darling Holiday stamps!

If you have come here from Helen Onulak's Blog, you are on the right path! You can find a list of all the partipant's in case you get lost here: http://bowlofstamps.blogspot.com/p/sotm-blog-hop-list.html

This month we have nearly 60 Close To My Heart Consultants sharing their creations using this month's SOTM and other great CTMH products on their blogs. Blog hopping is simple to do - just click on the link at the end of the post on each blog to move to the next one! Here we go!

Now "Hop" on over to Beth Naumann's blog to see her beautiful eye candy! Be sure to visit all the Consultants at their Blogs to get some great crafting ideas and other fun ideas! Remember, the SOTM is only available until October 31st! Contact your CTMH Consultant (or click here) to see how you can get this stamp set for $5!

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Below is one of the ways I decided to use this stamp set. It is a 5" x 7" size card. Note that you can click on the picture to see details.

Here is just a closer look at the detail (showing the sparkly brads (retired) and the sparkles.

Supplies: Holiday Magic Stamp Set; Believe Workshop of the Go Papers; Black, Sweet Leaf, White Cardstock, Topiary, Sky, Black Exclusive Inks; Clear Sparkes, Red Sparkles; Glitter Brads (Retired); Border & label punch from SU; Spellbinder Dies; Quick Cut Scallop Die & Spellbinders Circle Dies.

Compatibility with CTMH Cricut Art Philosophy Cartridge: I was doing some playing around and found that you can cut the perfect outline shapes with your Cricut for the stocking stamps setting the size to 3-1/4". The cutting shape is found on page 67 and it is the shift key + 7th key on bottom row. See below and click to see detail better:

For the Christmas tree/banner (however you use it). I had to make a height and width adjustment. I use Cricut Design Studio because I'm a visual person and it just works so much better for me. Anyway, I set the height to 3.5" and the width to 2". The cutting shape is found on page 31 and is she shift key + 1st key in 2nd row. See below and click picture to see detail better: