Hello crafty friends. I’ve got another new set of stamps to share today, that I picked up a couple of weeks ago. These Book Titles are a great idea – and they fit onto the stripes on the Fabric Strip card, so I made a stack of books with them! It’s been another gey and wet afternoon here today (although I was hopeful at first as we had a few hours of blue sky this morning), perfect weather to stay indoors and read your favourite book – or craft, of course!

The first step was to cut one of the plain card strips pieces into four, then took one of the quarters and stamped the book titles onto it using black Archival Ink and working down from the top. The set also includes several little decorative strips as you would find on the spine of a book, so I added one of them to each ‘book’, using low tack tape to mask off the ones above and below.

The books looked a little flat to me, so I grabbed a couple of grey Polychromo pencils, shading the lighter one along each edge of the spines and running the darker one between them to give me a shadow. After running a black Sharpie around the edges of the topper I added a mount of Toscana companion paper and attached it to a 5×5 card blank.

I deliberately put Wuthering Heights at the top – the new film goes on general release here tomorrow. I can’t decide if I want to go and see it – I saw the trailer a couple of weeks ago, but it’s had very mixed reviews from the critics (and I found the book very heavy going when we had to read it at school!) I don’t need to make a decision right away, but I have decided to share this with a couple of challenges. I took the new sketch at Just Add Ink and turned it onto it’s side for my little pile of books, the titles of which fit for Word Power.