If you always want more greetings and sentiments for your cards and projects, you should consider the Many Messages Bundle which is going away when the January-June Mini Catalog ends on June 30. The stamp set and dies aren’t really going away, though. You will find them in the new Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog on page 42, but they are being sold separately rather than in the Bundle since most Bundles “retire” with a new catalog. If you want to save 10% with both the Many Messages Stamp Set and the Messages Dies, then buy the Bundle now before the Spring Mini Catalog retires.
Also, there is a new stamp set on the order of Many Messages called Many Happenings in the Annual Catalog on the same page 42. If you want to be awash in greetings, get this stamp set, too, along with the Many Messages Bundle before it retires and you will have a complete set with the die and two stamp sets of sentiments!
The main idea is that you stamp all these greetings at one time and then die cut them all at one time. Then you can save the greetings in a little bag or box and you can just choose one when you make a card! If you have the Stamparatus, this is a great time to use it with this large stamp. Make sure your ink pad is pretty juicy with ink, ink up your stamp, then use the Stamparatus to stamp your cardstock. You could make quite a collection by stamping these greetings in different colors or on different colors of cardstock and have a ton of greetings ready to go! The beauty of the Stamparatus is that if part of the stamp doesn’t stamp well, you can reink, even just that area, and stamp again with the Stamparatus since the cardstock has remained in the same place. Give a good push each time evenly over the surface to get the best results.
In the photo above, you can see the large stamp with all the greetings, the paper in the Stamparatus that has been stamped, and on the right, the one large Messages Die that will cut out all the greetings at one time with the Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machine.
On the photo above, you can see how the greetings have been die-cut in different shapes, some with stitching around the edge and some plain. The tiny little stars and hearts on the stamp are to help line up the die on the stamped paper. I found that my very well-used cutting plates that are slightly warped made it difficult to keep the die lined up perfectly, but I keep some rolls of old washi tape by my Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machine to tape down a die if need be. (You might want to get some of the washi tape stickiness off by sticking it on and off your clothing a couple of times and being careful where you place it so it doesn’t tear the paper if it is too sticky.) But it was pretty easy to line everything up with the stamped words.
Now I am finally ready to have these greetings on hand to make it quicker and easier to use on cards and other projects! I also stamped the Many Happenings set so I have lots to choose from!
Remember, if you buy the Many Messages Bundle now before it retires, you will save 10% and then you can also order the Many Happenings Stamp to use with the Messages Die in the Bundle. If you own the Stamparatus, all the better, and if not, just add one to your order as well!