...Introducing Yonder star and Background

Good morning and welcome to the first day of samples for our upcoming November 2nd release. I hope all our USA ladies made it safely through the night.

If you are new to us we are releasing 8 new sets on Friday 2nd November, we have loads to get through before then and an exciting trial which may benefit some USA folks! more on that later.

Here is a list of the DT ladies who are previewing with me, I know some of these ladies may have been without power last night due to the storm, so bear with us if there are gaps in the chain,

Bonnie Sharp  

Lynn Mercurio  

Belinda Change Langner  

Sarah Martina Parker  

Tosha Leyendekker 

Anya Schrier 

Kelly Schirmer 

Sandie Dunne  

Clare Buswell  

Becca Feeken 

Julia Aston  

Jennifer Holmes 

Laurie Schmidlin

 I'm kicking off with a little card that I made with two of the new sets. Yonder Star and Yonder Star Background.

Yonder Star is a Christmas set with a difference - it has a strong Western theme and compliments our existing western sets, Back in the Saddle, and Way out West beautifully. These have proven to be among our most popular sets to date and we hope you will take Yonder Star to heart also.
At Waltzingmouse Stamps we try very hard to bring you something just that little bit different that you won't see elsewhere.

On my card this morning I have used one of the sentiments from Yonder star on the centre panel. I stamped it in Pinecone ink (Versacolour) and later went in with a copic to pick out the word Y'all. It's showing up a little more yellow in our pic but IRL it is a lovely golden shade.

To create the background pattern I have used a new size of stamp for us, I'm really excited to bring you Background stamps this release. Large stamps that cover a standard US card front in one go. I will have a more in depth blog post about these later on, we have a few this release and there are some really nifty little tips that will help you get the very best from these huge stamps!

The Yonder Star background stamp features a feathered star quilt design produced in a distressed style. Perfect for all kinds of projects, particularly Western, Antique and homespun.

The design is such that areas within it may be picked out and coloured, as I have done with the stars in this example. Look closely at the image below to see how I have picked out each star with just one colour. The distress effect means that you really don't have to be careful about going over lines.

Infinite possibilities abound with the Yonder Star background stamp for all sorts of stamping, embossing and colouring to ensure that you get infinite variations from this one stamp.

I will be back later today with more samples, hope this tickles until then!