June Stamp of the Month Blog Hop: It's Your Day to Sparkle

It's Your Day to Sparkle, the Close To My Heart June stamp of the month, lives up to its name!  Join me and about 20 other consultants to share ideas with this beautiful stamp set. (If you're already hopping then you've probably arrived from Terry's blog.  From here, visit Brandi's blog next.)

My first card features the gorgeous cake stamp and a sketch from Make It From Your Heart, Vol. 4.  I fussy cut it after stamping with Charcoal ink on White Daisy card stock, then added pieces of the True Love collection onto Sugarplum cardstock and Sugarplum glitter paper.

You can see how I colored the roses with my Sugarplum shimmer brush and the leaves with New England Ivy with my waterbrush, but what neither picture really shows you is how I painted clear sparkle onto the cake.  It sparkles deliciously in real life!

Here's the image of all of the stamps in this set, so you can see how versatile it is.

My second card is a fun tri-fold card that I'll be featuring later this month as it's my daughter's birthday card.  Can you see where I stamped Happy Birthday in charcoal from this set?

Thanks for letting me share two very different cards with you!  Be sure to leave a comment and then hop on over to Brandi's blog for more of It's Your Day to Sparkle!

{Click HERE for all the hop participants and their blogs.}