A couple weeks ago, my boyfriend mentioned he needed a $10-$15 gift to bring to his work’s Christmas party. It was the day after my giant box of stamps arrived, so I jumped on the chance and told him I’d make him something to bring.

I immediately knew which stamp I wanted to use: the creepy head. Yes, I know it is a phrenology head, but you have to admit it is pretty creepy, in an interesting way.

I stamped 10 of those in black ink on creamy flat notecards, then decided I wanted to use a different stamp. I picked out the pear with handwriting, and a handwriting background. I stamped 10 pears with green ink on white flat cards, then made a mask of the pear and stamped the handwriting background over the pears:

I think it is neat how the writing almost seems to match up.

To package, I picked out a Copic marker that was very close to the pear’s ink colour, and coloured some white ribbon. Then, I made a little label out of both stamps:

He said they went over well at the party, and he must be right, because one of his coworkers wanted to buy some! She needed them for a friend she was doing a $10 gift exchange with, and she told me the friend likes oranges, yellows, and browns. I asked her how she felt about Creepy Head, or if I should switch to flowers or something else. She liked him, so I stamped him up a few more times in brown ink on the same cards:

Then I decided to spice it up and use one of the weird astronomical instrument thingys for the other half of the set, in orange ink on white.

I’m really liking the simplicity of the flat note cards. They can be more postcard-like, like the pears, in that most of the room to write is on the back; or you can have a lot of the front and all the back free, like with the smaller stamps.