love-a-duckie: It is a girl's prerogative to change her mind.

It is always the cry of card makers everywhere that there is never enough inspiration for men's cards. Well I think there is probably even less out there for boy's cards and so I fell in love instantly with this new "Boys will be Boys" stamp set - especially those beloved building bricks. Because I am in love with my new blendabilities I also wanted to colour them in. So I coloured in the bricks and the robot and cut them out to give myself some toppers.

But I have other new things to play with. My new "Epic Alphabet" is one of the new photopolymer sets and I used cherry cobbler ink to stamp out the word "boys. The star is from this set too. I used my blender pen to colour over the letters to blend the colour very slightly.

The old olive green zig zag pattern came from the very versatile "Work of Art" set.

This is where changing my mind comes in. Originally I had created this card on one of the whisper white notecards. I added the toy toppers with dimensionals and then created a border using the coastal cabana blendability. But I didn't like it - my border was wobbly and it was lacking something. Here's a picture so you can see what I mean:

I left it to one side for a while, then this evening I went in and did some surgery.

I chopped off the border and mounted it on a 5" square of old olive patterned paper. I added a strip of daffodil yellow DSP to the bottom section and tied some cherry cobbler baker's twine around it. I added a sentiment from the "Boys will be Boys" set. I then mounted this on old olive card and then onto a stamp shaped card blank I had in my stash. (I am sure with careful use of a circle punch you could create this effect.) I had inked the edges of the card with cherry cobbler ink.