Stamp What? ~ Frogs 'n Flies!

Hi friends!

I'm back with another fun card in the Stamp What? blog series

and the card for March is all about frogs ~

and flies!

You can read how this started on the first blog post here,

[although I've needed to change the posting date to the 10th of each month.]

I asked my son this weekend to chose the newest Old Dusty

(what we call my long forgotten Stampin' Up sets)

and when he brought this one down the hall,

we both started cracking up!

He said "I chose this one because these frogs do be swag!"

Huh?

::: cue the teenager translation subtitle:  'Cute frogs!' :::

 

Ooooof.

I'd long forgotten this one!

I LOVED it when I saw it and thought it was hilarious.

The labels are now long gone but I do know it's circa 1998

so it's been around the pond for quite some time ♥

 

And here's my card :)

I had a very hard time coloring this 

and not so happy with my color choice for the frog.

In hindsight, I'd have colored it differently but moving on!

I decided to use some older Stampin' Up designer paper as well

to keep the feel of using older forgotten supplies.

This is from the 2008 Stampin' Up! Muirfield collection.

The updated twist is that I've used the newer dies on the market

and banner dies to pop up the sentiment.

I masked off with washi tape the flies to have just the wording

and the sketch is one from this century last week at Splitcoaststampers! 

 Because we 3 are crazy, Barb and Jeanette were

totally on board for this challenge as well.

This is Barb's card +

 this is Jeanette's card.

I've purged so many of my Old Dusties through the years

but always have those 'favorites' that I'll part with last

when I'm done with stamping and paper crafting.

It's so much fun walking down memory lane and seeing stamps

that I haven't seen in awhile.

Even more fun is the surprise element since I can't pick the stamp set!

Give it a try, if you haven't!

Have someone reach for a stamp set or just pick one at random,

dust it off and modernize those Old Dusty stamp sets!

Thanks for stopping by today!
Big hugs, bigger blessings ♥

~Kelly