Happy Birthday - Valentine Kisses & Wild Bunch - Use Your Stash October 2026

Hello and welcome back to my blog! Today's card is for the 'Use Your Stash" Instagram Hop October 2026. I am joined by an amazing lineup of crafters so make sure you go to my Instagram page HERE to see the rest of the team's creations. 

The aim of the hop is to use up some of the huge stash that we all accumulate. Hopefully it will also inspire both ourselves and others to combine some of our old and new products to reduce that stash.

This month's theme is "Pastes & Paints". I went hunting through my stash and while I used Embossing Paste which is still a current catalogue item, I used retired colour reinkers (Pale Papaya, Mango Melody and So Saffron) to create my coloured embossing pastes. I also used the Valentine Kisses & Wild Bunch stamp sets (both retired) Artisan Sketched Garden DSP and Stampin' Blends.

Instructions:

- Use Basic Black card for the base, and then layer with a piece of the dotted Artisan Sketched Garden DSP. 

- Apply some White Embossing Paste to a Silicone Mat using a Palette knife. Make sure to apply three separate "blobs". Use reinkers (Pale Papaya, Mango Melody and So Saffron) and blend the colours into the paste. Use the Palette Knife and apply strips of the coloured paste to a piece of Basic White card and allow to dry and then adhere this piece to the card.

- Stamp images from the both the Valentine Kisses and Wild Bunch stamp sets onto Basic White using Tuxedo Black ink. Fussy cut the various images, colour with Stampin' Blends and layer onto the card.

- Stamp the sentiment from the Wild Bunch stamp set onto Basic White using Tuxedo Black ink and adhere.

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