It’s time for the August challenge on A Blog Named Hero. This month’s theme is Stretch Your Stamps. I decided to stick with the Christmas theme again this month.

A lot of stamp sets come with small images to fill out the set. I hardly ever use them. So for my card today, I took the tiny images from the Holiday Messages (coming soon) and added them to a block to create my own background.

I stamped the sentiment from the same set on a stitched die cut square and colored the images with Copic Markers. Attached my self made background to a kraft card base, added a piece of red glitter ribbon, and my sentiment to the card. I added one red jewel on the sentiment square to finish off the card.

I loved the way this turned out and will have to use this technique with all my other little stamps!

Head over to A Blog Named Hero to see all the other awesome cards from the design team and join in on the challenge!