I started with stamping - my first project, was my darling daughter Terra's birth announcements, made out of a Disney stamp and cardstock! So stamps have been a huge part of my creativity for the past 25 years now! At first when I started purchasing stamps - I bought everything I could...stamp upon stamp, and over half of them, I haven't used more than once! I wasted a LOT of money, let me tell you!
A good purchase for a stamp, is one you can not only use over and over - but also the stamp that can be used for more than one theme or use! It makes it so that flower, or present, or cloud, or saying - actually can start to give YOU back money by using the stamp versus purchasing a die cut or sticker! Plus if you pair stamps with die cuts, punch pieces, AND stickers even - your creations can truly be one of a kind!
With stamps, you can use them in different ways - use for cards, add a bit of background paper, and you are done! You can emboss the images, or just leave them plain!
Use with bookmarks - again, add a bit of background paper, color in the image, and it looks awesome!
Use with your layouts - so many different ways you can use stamps...
Use with Creative Paperclay - such as the basket stamp (see below) used here! Roll a small piece of Creative Paperclay product out, take your image stamp - and stamp the image into the clay. Using an Xacto knife - cut around the image and lay it flat to dry.
A good purchase for a stamp, is one you can not only use over and over - but also the stamp that can be used for more than one theme or use! It makes it so that flower, or present, or cloud, or saying - actually can start to give YOU back money by using the stamp versus purchasing a die cut or sticker! Plus if you pair stamps with die cuts, punch pieces, AND stickers even - your creations can truly be one of a kind!
With stamps, you can use them in different ways - use for cards, add a bit of background paper, and you are done! You can emboss the images, or just leave them plain!
Use with bookmarks - again, add a bit of background paper, color in the image, and it looks awesome!
Use with your layouts - so many different ways you can use stamps...
- Use stamps to create a border. Stamp images using the same theme you are working (see the birthday layout below).
- Stamp small images randomly on a plain sheet of paper (see the "of me" below). Take a alpha template (or die cut machine) and cut out the letters of the title!
- Use stamps as an embellishment (see birthday layout for tag, and Pieces of me for a larger embellishment) for your layouts!
- Use alpha stamps for titles - (see Grandma and Grandpa layout)!
- Take various colors of ink and stamp an image or two all over the paper. Take coordinating cardstock, photos - and you have a one of a kind layout nobody else would have!
Use with Creative Paperclay - such as the basket stamp (see below) used here! Roll a small piece of Creative Paperclay product out, take your image stamp - and stamp the image into the clay. Using an Xacto knife - cut around the image and lay it flat to dry.
Stamps are a lot of fun to work with - you will start to see more stamps in my Project Life album this year! If you need a few stamps, right now at Stampin' Up, we have our Sale-a-Bration event going on - for every $50 spent, get a FREE stamp set! BEST part about it - you have until March 31, 2016 to get your FREE sets! Shop online to make it easier for you! For every ORDER placed between now and the end of March, only lucky person will receive a stamp set, more details to follow!!! If you need any help in picking out a gift, let me know!
I hope you have just as much fun with stamps as I do! Stamps are starting to be a huge part of my crafting again, and not just for making cards! Pick out your favorite stamps and get to work - I know I have 2 days full of crafting going on, and I am planning on using stamps!
Lynda Jeffs
Memories in Tyme
Comments
Post a Comment
Thanks for the comment!!! I always like it when people take the time to look at what I create! Have a great day!!
Lynda