Ecore Performance - April 2025

My friend Darlene developed the idea for this series and invited some of us to join her in the challenge. It's called Encore for a reason. We all have those stamps (or other card-making items) that we've only used once even though our intentions were to use them again - and again. After all, we invest a lot of money in our supplies for them only to be used once. So, this series is our opportunity to dust them off and use them a second time.

Challenge Description

Go and grab a stamp set, dies, stencil, etc - your choice, that you have used once before and have always wanted to revisit it and use it again.  However, despite your best intentions, you have yet to use it!  

Now's your chance! Go dig it out and have fun with it once again.  Create anything you like, a card, gift card holder, decorate a gift bag, make a refrigerator magnet...whatever lights up your creative juices!

We'll be posting these Encore cards on or around the 25th of each month (I'm a day early as I have another obligation on my blog tomorrow.

This month I revisited the Unity Paws for Thought stamp set. This stamp set first appeared on a card on my blog on January 21, 2025 - you can see it HERE. It is such a cute stamp set - the pup is adorable, even if he does look a little sad - but on that first card I was disappointed that I colored the pup in such dark colors. I decided to use the stamp set again, with lighter color choices. Alas, this time I think I went too light. Oh well.

Thanks for stopping by my blog today!

Stamp: Unity Paws for Thought stamped with Hero Arts Intense Black Ink and colored with Copic and Olo Markers

Papers: Opaque Accent 120# White and SU  Mossy Meadow CS and DP from my scrap file

Dies: MFT Stitched Rectangles and MFT Stitched Tag-Corner Rectangles

Embellishments: Amazon Diamond Dots