Blog Hop {i{heart}papers & Market Street Stamps}

The Introduction:
Welcome to the i {heart} papers and Market Street Stamps blog hop!

If you are hopping along with us today: You should have come here from
You should have arrived here from Stephanie Washburn's blog. If you did, you are in the right place! Welcome!
If you aren't already a follower, I'd love to have you follow my blog!

If you are one of my regular readers: Thanks for coming back! I love having you! Please join along in the hop - you can start at Kate's i {heart} papers blog.

About i {heart} papers:
i {heart} papers is proud that we recently celebrated our 3rd anniversary in October. We’ve grown by leaps and bounds and have not strayed from our core principle of stellar customer service with FAST and FREE shipping. You ALWAYS receive free shipping with your $50 US order/$150 CAN order with no gimmicks or restrictions like so many other companies, and orders are almost always shipped within 24 business hours. We’re thrilled to be hopping along with the MSS team today and to be carrying the MSS line of stamps. If you’ve never ordered from us before, please mention that you learned about us on this hop for a free gift with your first order! Please visit us at www.iheartpapers.com, “like” us on Facebook (www.facebook.com/iheartpapers, where you'll find over 1900 other IHP fans!) and follow us on Twitter (@iheartpapers).
Enjoy the hop!
If you order by Wednesday midnight EST, all MSS sets are 15% off!

About Market Street Stamps:
Market Street Stamps, LLC, was founded in January 2010 by Angelica and Jorge Suarez, a husband and wife team who create unique stamps made from peach-tinted photopolymer, the best available on the market today! Market Street Stamps' goal is to produce durable, high quality designs that you'll turn to again and again! We are thrilled to be hopping with i {heart} papers and their incredibly talented design team today! Be sure to "like" us on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/MarketStreetStamps) for the latest releases and project ideas from our Design Team!

The Details:
Leave a comment on each blog along the hop. The winners will be chosen randomly from all comments on the manufacturer blogs AND the designer blogs.

Blog comments close on Wednesday, December 7th and the winners will be announced Saturday, November 26th on the ihp blog blog on Friday.

The Project:


I created a tag set with the new Market Street Stamps Honeycomb background and a sentiment from the Market Street Stamps Essential Holiday Elegance set.


The Honeycomb background naturally lends itself to a color palette featuring yellow, but I went with yellow and black on these tags for two reasons:
1 - I thought it would be fun to create tags that coordinate with the decorated gift jars I recently created.
2 - My mind went a little "punny" and when I was looking at the "Eat, Drink, & Be(e) Merry" sentiment I immediately thought it would be fun to do something "bee" themed.


I did a simple mask to merge the sentiment and background into one piece and then added a tape top border and finished them off with some twill and twine.

These tags were fairly simple to create and would be easy to mass produce. They would be fabulous attached to jars of homemade goodies or even honey. :o)


Thanks for stopping by today!

The Next Stop:
Tracy Schultz's blog


Supplies:
Cardstock: Core'dinations (Scotch); Georgia Pacific (White);
Stamps: Market Street Stamps (Honeycomb, Essential Holiday Elegance);
Ink: Memento (Tuxedo Black);
Twine: The Twinery (Buttercream);
Other: LittleRedCottage - etsy (Twill); K&Co. (SmashTape);
Tools: Fiskars (Trimmer, Scissors); Martha Stewart/EK Success (Scoring Board);