It's a Beautiful Thing

We have a new IT director at my work whose favorite phrase is "It's a beautiful thing." One of the stamp sets in the new catalog is A Beautiful Thing (page 82, it's also in the preview mini), and the two just had to go together. This desk set is a gift from one of our secretaries and me to him. My daughter Katie thinks it's too feminine to give to a guy, I hope he doesn't think so.

The A Beautiful Thing stamp set actually is pretty feminine, the other stamps in the set are all flowers so I couldn't use them. And the phrase stamp says "You make my life a beautiful thing", which was too much. So, I inked it with my Basic Black marker to just get the words I wanted, and used my Stamp-a-ma-Jig to position them. The tree is from Lovely as a Tree (page 98). Everything is mounted on 4 inch coasters and held together with Hemp Twine threaded through Jumbo Eyelets. You gotta love that Crop-a-dile for punching holes and setting eyelets! Cardstock: Sahara Sand, Soft Sky, Le Jardin Designer Paper. Ink: Basic Black Classic ink. Other: Corner Punch, Crop-a-Dile, Hemp Twine, Jumbo Eyelets, Crystal Effects (used to mount the pen/penchil holder on the coaster base).

Stampin' Up will be sending out Sale-a-bration mini's for me this week, so watch your mailboxes. There's great stuff in there! If you don't have one from the end of the month, and you're on my mailing list, please let me know.