Hello everyone! I was so sad to have missed last month’s Squirrel hop with my dearest crafty friends!!! Life happened, and I’m experiencing a flare in my condition which affects my hands so crafting and typing are more harder right now. So that mean this month will be short and sweet! OK, so you should have arrived here by my sweet friend, V’s blog, Passions and Distractions. By now, you know the drill… monthly hop with theme and challenge of a specific technique or supply. This month our theme is Humor and the supply is stencils. Texture pastes are out of the question for me right now, so ink blending it was! Despite my issues, I managed to make a set of 4 cards!!! Say what??? IKR?!? Take a look:

See? Simple! Same stamp set, similar color palette, same line of inks, same technique… but different stencils, different dies, and a different funny sentiment on each one. The stamp set used is from Lil’ Inker Designs and its called The Fine Print. I didn’t take pics, but on the inside of each card is stamped either “Always Read the Fine Print” or “Read Between the Lines”. Cute, right? Oh wait… maybe you need to see each one closer to understand what I mean. Be sure to read the *whole* sentiment, even if you have to squint to see it! Hehe… first up:

This GO TO HELL card uses a Simon Says Stamp stencil called Waves, and I used it on its side to hopefully resemble flames. LOL A Spellbinders pinking die was used to stencil the focal piece/sentiment. This card makes me smile because my hubby and I have a joke from 30 years back… He was talking to a friend on the phone and I hollered out “tell him I said hi”, to which my husband then told him “Karen said go to hell”. It was so funny at the time that it has “stuck” and we use that whenever one of us will be seeing someone without the other… “Tell so-and-so I said to go to hell!” Next up:

This I’D KILL YOU card was a pain in the ass to make but I love how it turned out! I’m pretty sure Courtney Kreeber never intended the stencil she designed back in the Create and Inkspire days called Ink Splatter to be used in this way. 1 stencil, 1 die, 2 inks, and 6 epoxy dots, and this card was done. Next up:

I HATE YOU is made with a My Favorite Things stencil called Radiating Rays with the center being the perfect spot for a sentiment. I thought the rounded rectangle die was a good fit for this card. And finally the last card of the set:

This YOU’RE A PAIN card is just as simple as the previous card. The stencil is from Creative Expressions and has a weird name: That Special Touch – Falling. See? Weird. Anyway, the center was perfect for a sentiment and with the rotation of the design, I couldn’t help but rotate the sentiment for fun as well as adding some matching foil epoxy dots.

I think these cards are funny as hell, but I have a warped sense of humor. You’ll have to let me know if they made you giggle too. There are 2 more sentiment in the set but I ran out of time to use them. These cards were hard enough to pull off! That’s it for me but be sure to hop on to the talented Lounon of Craft Me Craft Moi! She’s sure to have an incredible take on the theme! Thank you for dropping by today and leaving a comment… let me know which card is your fav, or if the sentiments offend you! I originally had a completely different plan for this month, and even started the other cards but ran out of time to make them. You *may* see them eventually if I can get some crafty time on a day when my hands work better! Fussy cutting may be involved…..