check out the awesome Sweet Pea Stamps sale!

Through Dec 31st!!!

All rubber stamps are 50% off

(digi's excluded)

Merry Christmas Lynette!

Each year the Sweet Pea Stamps design team loves to create a hop for Lynette, owner of Sweet Pea Stamps as our gift to her for Christmas. We are all in awe of the lovely stamps she offers and want to show our appreciation for her kindness and generosity.

My card features an image by Bill Plank titled Santa and His Helpers. I just love his images and really hope to see more in the future.

What would a blog hop be without some candy? So one lucky person will win these gorgeous rubber stamps. Just leave comments along the way - each time you do you will earn another chance at winning!

This year the hop stops are:
Karina
Alex
Ali
Connie
Jennifer
Holley
Randi
Nataliya
Lori
Sweet Pea Stamps

Thank you for stopping by and good luck! 

Hello Birdie

This week we are featuring Hello Birdie found in the Valarie Wade collection. If you have never shopped the Valarie Wade line I highly recommend her images - she creates the sweetest images!

I colored her with copics and spectrum noir markers, the papers are prima. I hope you have enjoyed your visit today!

Look at what you could receive in your next SPS order!

....Sweet Pea Stamps Gave to Me...... plate #2 with a $30 rubber stamp purchase (before shipping, digi orders excluded unless it is a combination of digi and rubberstamps)!

no need to add this to your cart, we will automatically ship it with all orders over $30 (before shipping)

Sweet Pea Stamps 50% off Sale!!!!

extended thru Thursday:

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Check out our "$2 and Under" stamp sale, they make perfect inexpensive Christmas gifts:

"$2 and Under" Stamp Sale

NEW DIGI's added this week:

Purchase $30 worth, 10 stamps (after any gift vouchers) of digi's get a $6 gift voucher for your next order (that is like getting 2 free on your next order).

NEW DIGIS

We are now offering Gift Certificates for the Christmas Season!

We have added an event calendar to our website to keep you informed on the latest happenings

Chance for Blog Candy

Blog Candy!!!!

Help us promote our sale and you could win
a Sweet Pea Stamps $25 gift card.
Here is how to enter:
post the above badge (picture) on your blog,
link the picture back to
www.sweetpeastamps.com
then post your blog address in the comment section below. Leave it up on your blog until Dec 10th
we will pick one lucky winner on Dec 10th and post it here on the blog.

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Check out our "$2 and Under" stamp sale, they make perfect inexpensive Christmas gifts:

"$2 and Under" Stamp Sale

All rubber stamps 30% off

(except for Elisabeth Bell's latest stamps &  digi's)

NEW DIGI's:

Purchase $30 worth, 10 stamps (after any gift vouchers) of digi's get a $6 gift voucher for your next order (that is like getting 2 free on your next order).

New Digi's

We are now offering Gift Certificates for the Christmas Season!

We have added an event calendar to our website to keep you informed on the latest happenings

Little Peppermint is Frolicking and Releasing Stars

...and how cute he is! These are two of the newest Elisabeth Bell images and I just love the how sweet and innocent these dragons are! I couldn't resist pairing the two to create today's card.

At first I planned on giving a newborn theme, something like It's Twins!, Congratulations! or Just Arrived! but ended up with a birthday card for a young child since that is most likely who I would ever give it to. It was colored with copics and spectrum noirs, the paper is prima. Thanks for stopping by!

Concetta Kilmer's Newest Release - Mr. & Mrs. Christmas Sweets

Mr. & Mrs. Christmas Sweets is an adorable new Christmas image for your cards and other holiday crafts. I just love them - owls are such wonderful creatures and to have them in a whimsical manner is really fun.

The paper is Nikki Sivil and they were colored with copics.

New Release - Karen Middleton's Face #2

This lovely image is one of Karen Middleton's newest releases - simply titled Face #2 it is another must have.

Currently, this image is only $3.85 with the super discount of 30%, as are hundreds of other gorgeous, unique images!

The paper is Prima, the doily behind it was colored with all sorts of daubers and Glimmer Mist to get it to coordinate with the bg. The image was colored with Spectrum Noir markers.

Christmas Angel by Valarie Wade

This is the newest release in the Sweet Pea Stamps catalog and isn't she adorable? Titled Christmas Angel, she can be found in the Valarie Wade section. She will be available as a digi and in rubber!

The image was colored with copics, the background is TH Coredinations paper that has been embossed with a Cuttlebug Snowflake design. I added a touch of Platinum ink to the raised area of the die before pressing to highlight the snowflakes. To get the sparkle on the image and sentiment I used a clear star glitter pen.

While you are out surfing today I recomend stopping by the Sweet Pea Stamps store there are some wonderful deals!

Tuesday through Friday:

All rubber stamps 30% off

(except for ching chou kuik's Plate #232, Silent Woods, Silent Cry, Fall Woods Under the Pale Moon. Concetta Kilmer's Mr & Mrs Christmas Sweets and Elisabeth Bells Releasing Stars, Li'l Miss Polly and Li'l Peppermint Frolicking. Cushion, digi's and grab bags are also excluded)

DIGI SPECIAL!

Purchase $30 worth, 10 stamps (after any gift vouchers) of digi's get a $6 gift voucher for your next order (that is like getting 2 free on your next order).

More Digi's added, including some from Valarie Wade's & Marlon Teunissen's Collection - 
New Digi's

Thanks for stopping by!

Check out the Sweet Pea Stamps Black Friday Sale!

Black Friday through Cyber Monday:

All stamps 45% off

(except for ching chou kuik's Plate #232, Silent Woods, Silent Cry, Fall Woods Under the Pale Moon. Concetta Kilmer's Mr & Mrs Christmas Sweets and Elisabeth Bells Releasing Stars, Li'l Miss Polly and Li'l Peppermint Frolicking. Cushion, digi's and grab bags are also excluded)

More Digi's added, including some from Valarie Wade's Collection
NEW DIGI'S

DIGI SPECIAL, during our black friday and cyber monday special:
Purchase $30 worth, 10 stamps (after any gift vouchers) of digi's get a $9 gift voucher for your next order (that is like getting 3 free on your next order.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving! Wow, it came so early this year - and just think Christmas is on it's way!

Have you checked out all the gorgeous images in the $2 sale lately? Here are just two of the numerous deals you can pick up!

Teresa Sherman's Penguin Family:

Teresa Sherman's Black Widow:

There are so many other awesome images on sale right now and what a great way to fill in some Christmas gifts - between crafty stocking stuffers and Secret Santa gifts you can't beat the deals! Thanks for stopping by and don't forget to check out all the great sale items!

Sweet and Sassy with a touch of Mystery

Have you seen the newest Elisabeth Bell releases? This is Lil' Miss Polly and boy does she have some sass! She will start shipping November 17 so hurry on over to the SPS store and pick her up! While you are there don't forget to check out all the awesome images for only $2 each!

She was colored with Spectrum Noirs and the papers are MME.

This image is Mystery by Anna Marine - my Variations submission at Sweet Pea Stamps.

The papers are Prima and the image was colored with Spectrum Noir markers. Thanks for stopping by!

What's in Santa's Bag?

This is my favorite image - from the ching chou kuik collection it is titled Puppet Angel in the Circus and is currently priced at only $2! Seeing it just makes me think about all the wonderful toys you may find in Santa's Bag soon and I just wanted to show how versatile this stamp really is!

The papers are Vintage Christmas themed from the blog Far Far Hill.

Sale and Special Notice from Sweet Pea Stamps!

Sun, Nov 4 - Sat Nov 17th

Our shop will be semi- closed for 2 weeks while we winterize where we press rubber.

All in-stock items and digi stamp will not be effected by this. We will not be pressing

full sheets at this time. If something is out of stock we will let you know when you order, at that time you can either have us still ship it when we are back up and running or we will refund you the amount. 

(you can still order full sheets, just know that it will not be shipped until this time)

At the same time anything I have too much overstock on, I will be marking down, so check back through out the day, as this is what I will be working on.

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UPDATED! We have 18 pages of stamps for only $2. These are overstocked stamps, once they run low we will put them back to regular prices. In the event we run out of a stamp(s)  when you order, we will refund you accordingly. This is for instock only stamps, so order early!

We have 3 grab bags we are offering:

5 unmounteds for $8

10 unmounteds for $14

15 unmounteds for $18

Grab bags available for a limited time.
(overseas grab bags are regular shipping)

 

Visit Sweet Pea Stamps today!

Day 31: 31 Days of Halloween

Yeah!!! We made it! I hope everyone had a fun time this month. It was such a challenge just getting a post up, there was no way I had time to visit all the posts every day but I will be checking things out over the next month.

Today's final project is another domino. Using the stamp from yesterday's card I pulled the cat and pumpkin to create this hanging gem.

Here is my tree - it is a prototype, I found in the backyard and it has a great blowing in the wind look to it, but it is a bit heavy on that side too so it tends to fall over if I overload it. I have plans on making one next year with floral wire, maybe some little led lights and tape..

Isn't that skull cool? There is a place that sells glass skull candle holders and they are great but at $80 each, definitely out of my price range. But I will spend forty with it filled with vodka, rofl. Crystal Head vodka is yummy, has a bit of a vanilla taste to it - worth it with that awesome bottle. There is a tequila out there that comes in a decorated skull, would love to have some of those too. But I will be happy with a couple more of these until then. Bottoms UP!!!

Day 30: 31 Days of Halloween

Ten years ago today, about 4:30 in the morning, I woke up peeing the bed! It took me about a minute, after frantically jumping up and running to the bathroom (all the while wondering why I couldn't make it stop) to realize my water had broke. It is so hard to believe that my oldest, who came into the world weighing a tad over 5 pounds, has grown so much! Of course, I am flabbergasted as to where those ten years have gone...

I thought for today's share I would show her birthday card, the image is titled Weena, from Joanne Schempp.

Have a great day!! Thanks for stopping by!

Day 29: 31 Days of Halloween

Today I have another Rebecca Sinz image to share - just a quick tag, don't know where the time is getting to but this morning all I have been doing is searching for our truck key (yes, we only have one). Or course if DH had put it on the rack where it belonged instead of giving it to me to lose, we wouldn't have this problem. If you ever need anything lost - bring it to me, I guarantee within 5 minutes it will be gone forever ;-).

Day 28: 31 Days of Halloween

Today's share is a quick ATC - I had the image colored Friday, but Saturday just got away from me with all the running around and stuff I had to do. Anyway, the image is from Sweet Pea Stamps (check out the great sale they are having over in the sidebar!), she is by Rebecca Sinz (isn't that a great name?) and is called Silken Threads.

Thanks for stopping by!

Day 27: 31 Days of Halloween

Oh NO!!! Not those again! Yes, but not really, you see Sharon asked yesterday if my girls were still helping create ornaments for our tree and since I hadn't anything ready to post today, I thought I would share what my littlest one created.

While I was working on my three, she was hard at work right along side me. These are her versions of the three images.

Slightly the same with just a bit of different sprinkled in. Of course I haven't had time to add the hangers just yet. Now, if I can just find a good stick for the tree itself. Thanks for stopping by!

Day 26: 31 Days of Halloween

This is the final of the three dom images from Red Lead Paperworks - they have a lot of awesome vintage images. Most are ATC and Domino size. Just thinking about their offerings is making me want to go buy something, sigh...but I am grounded. Da hubby decided I can't shop for my trinkets and he isn't going to buy any of his. All I can shop for is food and gas. (Luckily I had just ordered a pad of G45 paper the day before.)

Anyway, the roll is in the sidebar - have a great weekend!

Day 25: 31 Days of Halloween

Here is the next image of three Red Lead domino stamps - this is such a neat set!

Don't forget the blog roll is over there on the right hand side! thanks for stopping by!

Day 24: 31 Days of Halloween

Today's post was touch and go. When I awoke yesterday morning everything was fine...with the phone that is. But having stayed up much of the night with a bunch of sick people I laid back down once my youngest got on the bus. Well, when I got back up I found the internet down. Turns out that the guys laying new phone lines cut a cable that serviced 300 phones in the area - including mine. Luckily, as you can tell they finally put humpty back together again.

My next domino is from a cool set I just received from Red Lead Paperworks - their stamps are awesome, albeit a bit spendy. But I wait until they offer a free gift with purchase to break down and get something. This is the first image from the set of three. It was stamped with black stazon, colored with bic markers and a really thin layer of crystal effects tops it off. I was going to go with resin but found it needs to be 70 degrees to work best - it is really never that warm in my house (except maybe July/August).

Now Donna mentioned trying to find some dominoes to work on - I found a box at Walmart in the toy department and they are less than $5 for a box. Thanks for stopping by!

Day 23: 31 Days of Halloween

Well, I have decided you will be tortured for many of the remaining days with visions of dominoes. My plan is to create a Halloween Tree decorated with all the goodies I and my two minions create. This the next decoration - it is an awesome Spider Web flourish, I smudged the metallic gel sticks on the domino for the color.

 

Thanks for stopping by, the links are over in the sidebar for the hop!

Day 22: 31 Days of Halloween

Today I called on the backup team to help out. While I was playing with the dominoes they wanted to join in the fun and this is what they ended up with. To begin wit we colored our dominoes with Faber-Castell metallic colored gel sticks, then smudged it around with the fingertip. Stamped the images, added some bling and then coated with Crystal Lacquer. Now I love Crystal Lacquer and Diamond Glaze but for some reason it never really seems to dry completely for me. I have ornaments I made a year or two ago that, even now, if you press your finger nail into it a dent remains. So I guess I will start using resin for these types of projects...

Yesterday, there was a question whether the eyes glowed in the dark - that would look so cool but I didn't have anything on hand to give it the effect but in the future I will have to find something.

Thanks for all the great comments, don't forget to check out the sidebar bar over there ----> for the rest of the 31 Days of Halloween Blog Hop!

Day 21: 31 Days of Halloween

Today's project is another domino. I am putting a pin on the back so my little one can wear it to school. I stamped the spider from yesterday's ATC three times in black stazon and then colored over with a black bic marker. While it was still damp I took a qtip and smudged the ink around to remove the lines and ended up getting the cool night like background.

Thanks for stopping by!

Day 20: 31 Days of Halloween

Wow, time keeps on slippin, slippin, slippin....can not believe we only have 11 days left! That headache is still hanging on, thought about going to the doctor but the last time I went for something totally unrelated and just mentioned in passing that my head was hurting.  Next thing I know they are telling me to drop my pants for a shot and locking me in a dark room for an hour! Soooo, I decided to give it a little longer, lol.

Today's ATC has stamps from InkyAntics.

Thanks for stopping by!

Day 19: 31 Days of Halloween

Sorry I am so late posting today. I woke up yesterday at 3 in the morning with a headache that nothing can defeat.

So today I just have something super simple to share. The image is Teresa Sherman's Pumpkin Witch.

Thanks for stopping by!

Check out all the great deals at 

Sweet pea Stamps DIGIS :
buy 10 digi's ( at one time) get a $6 gift voucher for your next order,
good through Sunday, October 23rd
(if ordering only digi's, enter the code:
digi
in the coupon section at checkout
this will void your shipping charges)

Wednesday Oct 17th - Monday Oct 23rd
save 30% on all rubberstamps
(excludes digi's and grab bags)

We have 3 grab bags we are offering:
5 unmounteds for $8
10 unmounteds for $14
15 unmounteds for $18
Grab bags available for a limited time.

Day 18: 31 Days of Halloween

I actually have this one scheduled to auto post, cannot believe that! The image is titled Vampire by Anna Marine.

Isn't she awesome? The blood dripping in the background was cut by hand, just in case you wondered.

BTW, I am just curious, my kids watch this show on netflix called Ruby Gloom - who else loves this show??? Anyway, I wish they would have some new episodes it is so much fun to watch.

Day 17: 31 Days of Halloween

Thanks for stopping by! It is great to read all your comments, there were a couple questions from yesterday I wanted to answer.

First off, yes that was my black fridge in the picture - the main reason why I didn't color my dominoes when stamping them. I wanted them to stand out even more. 

Second, how I stamp on small surfaces with smudging - well usually it is hit and miss, sometimes I sand the bad image off and start all over and over and over, lol. Luckily this time I didn't have that problem. But, what I do is lay my stamp image up, ink it and press the domino on top of the stamp. It gives me a lot more control over the ink and helps for making sure I have a clean shot of the area of the stamp I am wanting to transfer.

Now today's share is an Elisabeth Bell image called Little Wispy Willow with Pumpkin. The papers of My Minds Eye and she was colored with copics. 

Thanks for stopping by! Don't forget the path to follow is right over there --->

Day 16: 31 Days of Halloween

Here's another quickie. I decided to make a fridge magnet - what would really be cool is to cover the entire door with these but I will start with just one, lol. Not sure about where the web stamp came from but the spiders and text are a Robin's Nest rubons.

Thanks for stopping by!

Day 15: 31 Days of Halloween

First, I know you have to leave a comment to be in the running for the prizes, but thanks for all the sweetness and support you gave my little. She does a lot better than yesterday's entry...she is in the 2nd grade and actually is in the top three for most of the poster contests they have at school. Sometimes she just gets in this mood and begins whining - you color so much better than I do...(not really but that is something else, lol) she does try though.

Today's project is one that came up unexpectedly. While trying to figure out what my next days post was going to be I stamped the skulls from the Teresa Sherman's Skeletal Candle Holder onto a domino thinking about making it a pendant. My husband just happened to be walking through at the moment and requested that I stamp an entire set of dominoes for him just like this.

Sorry my picture is a bit blurry, I guess I have the shakes this morning.

Hey, today is the last day to apply for the Sweet Pea Stamps design team! These opportunities do not come around very often so if you are on the fence don't dawdle!

Thanks for stopping by!

Day 14: 31 Days of Halloween

I am sorry to say I just haven't had the inclination to make anything yesterday. I started...over and over and over but it just hasn't turned out right. That being said I called in the back up team. This is my little girls take on a Teresa Sherman's Halloweenie.

Hopefully I can get my act together and add something of my own today. Enjoy the rest of the hop today!

Day 13: 31 Days of Halloween

Well, my post was scheduled to magically appear earlier, however, it is the 13th.

This ATC was a quickie, the image is Teresa Sherman's Alad Poor York.

Thanks for stopping by, maybe tomorrow will be better!

Day 12: 31 Days of Halloween

Well I finally finished something before it had to be posted!!! This was fun to create, the image is Teresa Sherman's Cloaked Lady.

The printed paper is DCWV, the ravens were cut from the cover of a stack of paper. Thanks for stopping by!

And thanks to Donna, I am entering this is in the Delicious Doodle mono challenge.

Day 11: 31 Days of Halloween

Well I am a bit late today. Had this pretty much done except I couldn't find anything in my stash to complete it. So I ended using some digi words from the Chillingsworth collection. The stamp is a Teresa Sherman image, Spidey Spider.

Don't forget to check out all the other wonderful stops on the hop ---->
Thanks for stopping by!

Today I have two posts to share, please scroll down to find your spot in the correct hop - and while you are at it why not take a detour along the way and see many lovely, inspirational projects today!
However,  if you don't wish to stray from the path you can find the Frantic Stamper Hop here and the Smeared and Smudged Hop here.

Thanks for stopping by!

Frantic Stamper Blog Hop Day 3

Today is the final day of a design team hop to help celebrate the launch of Frantic Stamper Precision Dies. You should have arrived here from Lis Whiting's blog and will next head off to Kathy Berger's blog.

Now before I share my creation I just wanted to tell you a few things about these fantastic dies:

    -no measuring needed

    -use a small piece of removable tape to hold the die in place

    -hundreds of layout possibilities by combining dies

    -using the square "punch-outs" to create layered elements, mosaics, etc.

    -cut the square "punch-outs" to make easy corners

    -don't forget turning the square dies on the bias for neat "diamond" effects

    -great for the "highlight" technique

    -great for making shaker cards

 Interesting right? I can tell you my favorite thing to do with these dies is being able to create double mats and frames.

Here are three samples - this first one was created with the 1.25" wide die that is 3 squares along with a 1" square die for the mat, the image Frantic Stamper's Old Rose. 

 The mat was created with the 1.25" and 1" square dies, the image is Frantic Stampers  Dragonfly Post.

 This one was created with the 4 square 1" die on a 4x4 gift tag base, the image is also found at Frantic Stamper.

Fran at Frantic Stamper is offering Blog Candy for this hop; either Set #1 or Set #2 of the square dies, winner's choice! Just go to the Frantic Stamper blog and leave a comment about one of the items you see on the hop to enter the give-away. The winner will be chosen randomly from qualified entries on Thursday morning, and will be notified via the blog sometime that day.

 Thanks for stopping by!

Day 10: 31 Days of Halloween

It's hump day! Yeah!

Today's image is another digi titled Precious Advice. Yes, she doesn't look very scary but it seems it would be a scary thing to have your fortune told, especially around Halloween.

Thanks for stopping by and for all the great comments - it is nice read them, they are usually few and far between.

Frantic Stamper Hop Day 2

Frantic Stamper Precision Dies

Today is the second day of a design team hop to help celebrate the launch of Frantic Stamper Precision Dies. You should have arrived here from Lis Whiting's blog and will next head off to Kathy Berger's blog.

Now before I share my creation I just wanted to tell you a few things about these fantastic dies:

    -no measuring needed

    -use a small piece of removable tape to hold the die in place

    -hundreds of layout possibilities by combining dies

    -using the square "punch-outs" to create layered elements, mosaics, etc.

    -cut the square "punch-outs" to make easy corners

    -don't forget turning the square dies on the bias for neat "diamond" effects

    -great for the "highlight" technique

    -great for making shaker cards

Interesting right? I can tell you my favorite thing to do with these dies is being able to create double mats and frames.

Here are three samples - this first one was created with the 1.25" wide die that is 3 columns tall, the image is found in the Frantic Stamper's line of rubber stamps. 

The cross was created with the 1.25" x 2 column die, the image is Frantic Stampers Dragonfly Post, the cameo is also and exclusive found at Frantic Stamper. 

 This is the 1.25" x 2 column die and a Frantic Stamper image.

Fran at Frantic Stamper is offering Blog Candy for this hop; either Set #1 or Set #2 of the square dies, winner's choice! Just go to the Frantic Stamper blog and leave a comment about one of the items you see on the hop to enter the give-away. The winner will be chosen randomly from qualified entries on Thursday morning, and will be notified via the blog sometime that day.

 Thanks for stopping by!

Day 9: 31 Days of Halloween

Today I have an ATC to share with you, I am rather uncomfortable with this format. It seems like I am leaving something unfinished by not popping onto a card front and embellishing more. But it is what it is, right?

The image is titled Halloween Trio, but to me it has a Day of the Dead feel to it. It is a digi, something else I am uneasy using. It just seems like you are cheating when all you do is print something out, however, what do you do when you find an awesome image like this and want it so bad? But I do like how this turned out.

Do you like decorating for Dia de los Muertos? Here is a cool tutorial on making some really neat ornaments at Quilting Daily.

Did you know that Sweet Pea Stamps is offering digis now? Not every image is available in the format and there are some that are not offered, such as this one, in rubber but I bet you could find a ton of cool images for all your deep, dark celebrations!

Thanks to Kristina, I am entering this in the PPP DoD Challenge #8.

Thanks for stopping by!

Frantic Stamper Precision Dies

Today is the first day of a design team hop to help celebrate the launch of Frantic Stamper Precision Dies. You should have arrived here from Lis Whiting's blog and will next head off to Kathy Berger's blog.

Now before I share my creation I just wanted to tell you a few things about these fantastic dies:

    -no measuring needed

    -use a small piece of removable tape to hold the die in place

    -hundreds of layout possibilities by combining dies

    -using the square "punch-outs" to create layered elements, mosaics, etc.

    -cut the square "punch-outs" to make easy corners

    -don't forget turning the square dies on the bias for neat "diamond" effects

    -great for the "highlight" technique

    -great for making shaker cards

Intereresting right? I can tell you my favorite thing to do with these dies is being able to create double mats and frames.

Here are three samples - this first one was created with the 1.25" wide die that is two columns tall, the image and sentiment are found in the Frantic Stamper's line of rubber stamps.

The cross was created with the 1.25" x 2 column die and the 1.25" x 3 column die, the image is Frantic Stampers Old Rose.

This is the 1.25" x 2 column die and a Frantic Stamper image.

Fran at Frantic Stamper is offering Blog Candy for this hop; either Set #1 or Set #2 of the square dies, winner's choice! Just go to the Frantic Stamper blog and leave a comment about one of the items you see on the hop to enter the give-away. The winner will be chosen randomly from qualified entries on Thursday morning, and will be notified via the blog sometime that day.

And in case you want to use it, here is the logo for the dies.

 Thanks for stopping by!