{"id":1197,"date":"2009-10-17T09:24:59","date_gmt":"2009-10-17T14:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/?p=1197"},"modified":"2009-10-17T09:25:43","modified_gmt":"2009-10-17T14:25:43","slug":"more-stamp-carving-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/?p=1197","title":{"rendered":"more stamp carving fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"monster stamps!\" src=\"http:\/\/lh5.ggpht.com\/_ETB_wSU3fUw\/StnRnIQjrzI\/AAAAAAAAM40\/-bwBkPZ8yBA\/s720\/IMGP4224.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"307\" \/><\/p>\n<p>today i indulged in a much-needed mental health vacation day and stayed home to carve stamps with a crafty friend visiting from out of town.\u00c2\u00a0 in addition to my first big monster stamp, i also carved the star flower you see above, and a speech bubble stamp and the words &#8220;happy birthday&#8221; that fit into the speech bubble.\u00c2\u00a0 we also had my friend&#8217;s daughter make a few drawings and carved two of them.\u00c2\u00a0 the first one was just a little face with pointy ears, but the second one was a &#8220;blank&#8221; cat.\u00c2\u00a0 this young girl is realllllly into cheetahs, but also likes other big wildcats, so the idea was that if she drew a cat with no markings, then she could color the stamped image to be whatever kind of cat she wanted it to be.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"kitty\" src=\"http:\/\/lh3.ggpht.com\/_ETB_wSU3fUw\/StnRoIgRGvI\/AAAAAAAAM48\/zRsn0uvGyZc\/s720\/IMGP4223.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"458\" height=\"303\" \/><\/p>\n<p>apparently she wanted it to be very colorful (even rainbow striped) cats today.\u00c2\u00a0 i love that she drew the back legs behind the other legs!\u00c2\u00a0 we also enjoyed toasted cheese sandwiches and cream of tomato soup.\u00c2\u00a0 perfect for a chilly day!\u00c2\u00a0 this was exactly what i needed.\u00c2\u00a0 thanks for visiting and crafting with me, friends!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"toasty cheese\" src=\"http:\/\/lh5.ggpht.com\/_ETB_wSU3fUw\/StnRpiSda2I\/AAAAAAAAM5E\/Nv-5ojVicvw\/s720\/IMGP4221.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"451\" height=\"299\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>today i indulged in a much-needed mental health vacation day and stayed home to carve stamps with a crafty friend visiting from out of town.\u00c2\u00a0 in addition to my first big monster stamp, i also carved the star flower you &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/?p=1197\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1197"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1200,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197\/revisions\/1200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}