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I have several of the Honey Bee stamp sets with all the separate words that you put together to create a sentiment (Sending You Sentiments, Smile, Bless Your Heart). Some of the sentiments you can create are obvious, but I always feel like you should be able to mix and match all the words in the different sets to come up with a long list of sentiments. Has anyone created any type of list of the different sentiments you could create with these sets?
I started seeing what I could come up with, decided that some of them were obvious and quickly lost interest. I did make it through the Stellar set and the one about happy mail/love letters and Pocketful before I moved on. The Stellar set had more variety and combinations than the other two, for sure. When I got to the Pocketful set I realized that it was obvious stuff and that's when I quit. If I get bored I may go back and revisit the more complicated sets, but probably not.
Maybe an idea would be for someone who already has a set or two to start with what they come up with, along with a link to the set, and see if others find more sentiments to add...?
Just a suggestion...I often see people mix fonts by taking from different sets. Or mixing font sizes. Would that spark extra ideas?
It’s worth a try, for sure. The HB sets I have feature a distinctive print style font, and the size and space between the letters is bigger/wider than other sentiment sets. That was what caught my eye about them.
I will give this a whirl and see if anything interesting and fun spins out! Thanks for the suggestion.
Mary Ann - I just re-read your original post, and I think I misunderstood the first time. I believe you meant mixing up the sets, not just the words within a particular set, right? That would make more sense than my first read-through, since (as you mentioned) some of them are fairly obvious... That would take more time and attention, for sure. Still, my suggestion of starting off with what you came up with and others adding to it might be an efficient way to get such a list going...?
I bought some of them, and I am in the they sit un-inked camp too :oops:
I do not have problems mixing fonts or companies but, a lot of the time I end up going for a set that has sentences rather than words.
evidently my brain is not wired for making sentences which is probably why I own so many sentiment sets lol.
If you're bored and want to play with your sentiment set ... gather up the nouns in one list, gather up the verbs in another and see how many pairs you can make. From there you can add any words to embellish. Some will be obvious, some will be sweet, and some will be hilarious.
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If you're bored and want to play with your sentiment set ... gather up the nouns in one list, gather up the verbs in another and see how many pairs you can make. From there you can add any words to embellish. Some will be obvious, some will be sweet, and some will be hilarious.
Sounds like a fun lesson. In fact, if anyone has kiddos, they could use this as a home-school lesson...and maybe have some fun custom sentiments as a result! ;)
Mary Ann - I just re-read your original post, and I think I misunderstood the first time. I believe you meant mixing up the sets, not just the words within a particular set, right? That would make more sense than my first read-through, since (as you mentioned) some of them are fairly obvious... That would take more time and attention, for sure. Still, my suggestion of starting off with what you came up with and others adding to it might be an efficient way to get such a list going...?
My hope was to do both -- find phrases that can be put together from a particular set, but then also use other Honey Bee sets and "mix and match" words to come up with even more phrases.
Honey Bee Stamp sentiment sets
