Postage Set Fun

 Hello Peeps,

Hope your day is going well. 

I've just finished sewing a Bingo Bag for my mom that I've been working on most of this week. She is an avid player at her town's Senior Center, and she's been playing for years. It's required to use daubers to play and most bingo players have several in multiple colors, hence the need for a specialized bag to carry them. Most bingo bags are round, with the dauber pockets on the outside of the bag, which usually has no additional pockets on the inside for other storage. I decided to create my own pattern with more pockets inside and out, and I'm pretty pleased with the results. We'll see how mom likes it. It's going in the mail for her tomorrow.

I did take some time from sewing to make a card for Jaydee's CAS Postage theme at the Paper Players. In fact, while I had the postage die and stamp set out, I ended up making five cards. It's been a minute since I've used these postage themed supplies and I was having some fun. 

The postage die that I used is from Gina K Designs, as is the coordinating postage stamp set. The larger images are all from GKD stamp sets as well. 

Here are all of the cards. For me, it's hard to choose a favorite, so I'm entering one I consider more "clean and simple" for the challenge. Plus, the kitties just make me smile.

The paw prints, sentiment and kitty images are from the GKD Frisky Felines stamp set. I stamped them in Charcoal Brown and colored them with Copic Markers. The postage themed images are from the GKD Postcard stamp set. The die is from her Master Layouts 1 4 die set. After cutting out the die, I used 1/8" Masking Magic strips to block off the boxed areas before stamping and coloring.

Here are the other four cards, all made using the same postage die and Postcard stamp set.

This large stamped image is from the Blooming Butterfly Mini set, one of the incentive sets from a few months ago. The image is stamped with Black Onyx ink and colored with Copic Markers. 

This is the newest incentive stamp set called Dreams Come True. I've used some brand new GKD ink colors to stamp the flowers and leaves.

The final two cards use the same stamp set called Delicate Dahlias. It comes with coloring stencils and I used those to color the images with blending brushes. After the images were colored, I used the coordinating postage grid stencil to add shading in each box.

 I didn't finish the insides of these yet. I will add them to my stash and do the inside sentiment depending on the occasion.

Now that the sewing project is finished, I'll be back to paper crafting. I've got a few challenges in mind to get me going.

Have a great Friday!

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: All Gina K Designs sets, Post Card, Delicate Dahlias, Dreams Come True, Blooming Butterfly, Frisky Felines

Paper: Gina K Designs card stock

Ink: Gina K Designs and Copic Markers

Other: Gina K Designs Master Layouts 14 die set (postage die) with coordinating stencil, Blending brushes, Masking Magic strips