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Welcome to October's Stampin Sunday Blog Hop

I had great fun creating this month's project.

It's a stuffed envelope, well, I made it slightly bigger than your average envelope so I could pack lots of goodies in. When I did a search on the internet for what one was, there was such an amazing variety of creative ideas. The idea I latched onto was to decorate or gather useful items to put in a fun paper pocket.

I started off with 2 pieces of 6" wide DSP, they were then folded and cut to create a layered pocket.

I gathered some colour co-ordinated teabags and sweets and bagged them up.

These are a decorated notebook, a book mark and some sticky notes.

I then couldn't resist making some fun paperclip toppers, by the way the paper clips are quite large, about 3" long.

Here is the pocket envelope stuffed with all the goodies, ready to give as a fun gift.

To see how I put the pocket together have a look at this short video

Isn't it adorable? I look forward to making more of these.

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I had so much fun getting inky with some bright inks and various stamps. A whole sheet of card was used initially.

It's a process that requires a little bit of courage to keep applying ink and stamped images, then go in with some heat embossing and white ink to create focus and contrast.

After the colourful layer went down, I heat embossed the butterflies with black embossing powder.

To make the butterflies standout more, a blob of White reinker was put onto a block and I used the Water Painters to lighten them.

The sheet was then cut into 4 and additional stamping and swishing the bak ink pad over the edges was added.

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This is the video tutorial of the process