Clear stamps, clever storage
Today we are thrilled to introduce the talented Lori Roop, who joined our Design Team for the month of April. Lori lives with her husband and 4 kids in Ohio and has been an avid stamper for the last 3 years. She loves stamping and paper crafting and we think it shows in her beautiful… | read more »
One thing I love about stamping, is being able to use the same stamp and get different looks. One of my favorite things to do is “overlap” images.
Here’s a quick and easy overlapping technique:
Stamp your image onto a piece of plain white cardstock, then cut the image out.
When you have your “masque” cut… | read more »
Clusters of embellishments are all the rage in scrapbooking these days. But have you ever thought to use your stamps as another interesting element in a cluster of goodies?
In this example, I used the Memories Seal from the Just Add Notes set as a frame for a button.
Here you will see a flower center from… | read more »
Happy April fools’, everyone.
I hope you have enjoyed our first month with many fabulous projects and detailed tutorials from our very talented design team. For this month we have planned more tutorials and got some beautiful projects to show and inspire. On April 15th you can meet this months’ guest designer Lori Roop on this… | read more »
To create this page, I started with the Funky Circles set. I stamped a design on a white piece of cardstock using black and red ink. This formed the basis of my page and the rest just evolved from there. Having all my stamps sitting on my desk upright in the stamp box holder made it… | read more »
I love the wonderful butterfly images in the “Colorful Companions” set. You get such a wide variety of styles and each one has a different look.
I used a large butterfly and a medium butterfly to add the final touch to this welcome sign for my home. I stamped the images on patterened paper…
and I used it… | read more »
I love the idea of recycling and reusing packaging when it comes to scrapbooking. I ordered some products last month and they came in these cool plastic boxes so I kept them knowing I was going to alter them and reuse them at some point in the future.
So this week I grabbed a few simple… | read more »
I love to stamp on a variety of surfaces and textures. For that reason, Staz-On is my ink of choice. I also like that it gives a very crisp, dark image. On this page, I stamped a butterfly from the Colorful Companions set directly onto a Heidi Swapp mirror butterfly to give it a little… | read more »
Sometimes when I get a set of stamps I get locked into one way of using them. I decided to step outside my Stamp BOX to find fun new ways to use a set of stamps called He Loves Me. Here’s one of them! I used the swirled petal stamp and clear embossing ink on navy… | read more »
When I sat down and created these, I thought about how diverse the design team is. The new Neighborhoods stamp set is perfect and appropriate to say “hello” to everyone, wherever you are!
So, “greetings from here to there”!
I spoke to my sister 2 days ago and she informed me that she finally found a buyer… | read more »
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