Blast From The Past

Hi guys, It's Tera again here to share my fun blast the past stamp project with you! 

This was such a fun challenge for me! and I hope it will inspire you!! I love that this stamp can be used in so many situations, from birthday cards, to girls night out, dog lovers, and just about anything! 

For my project I thought I would do a piece on celebrate who you are and your own style!

Stamp used:

Shoe Dalmatian Dog 3 x 2 1/4

Start by inking your stamp in black ink, then carefully wipe the ink off of the shoes/spots that you would like to be a different color and stamp on card stock. Next clean off your stamp and color the shoes in with brick red distress marker and carefully line the stamp up over your already stamped image... 

(it doesn't have to be perfect :-D ... if you would rather you could also mask the area off)

Next if you are like me and need to touch up your edging from wiping the ink off just fix it with a black marker 

 Next ink your desired embossing folder (or stencil) in your desired ink color. I used Brick red again then spritz the distress ink on the embossing folder with water. Carefully set the tag on the embossing folder and brayer it or gently rub it to be sure the whole tag touches to pick up enough color

this is something similar to what you should see after lifting straight up (I heat dried mine, but you can wait on it to dry naturally if you are more patient than me!)

Now comes the fin part sponging on ink!! I used Wild honey and Fired Brick on a make-up sponge

 I made two so i could have options to which I liked best when finished and because it is so fun!

this is when you want to measure out a piece of cardstock about an 1/8 inch bigger to really make your colors pop.. it also fits and looks awesome as a card front for an A2 card!!! (set this piece to the side)

Next Create your desired quote with a Dymo maker if you have one

(or if not another stamp even!! goodness knows I love stamped quotes!!! hehe)

 Next take your two ink pads and stamp them on your craft mat. spritz the ink with water again then rub your seam binding ribbon (or any that you have) around in the colors until you get the look you want adding more ink as you go. I also crinkle mine and heat dry it 

make a pretty bow for the top of your tag and tie it on 

 next lay your pieces out and decide where you want your stamp to go. Stamp it in black ink then color it in solid black This helps add a nice finished look behind your image and a hint of a shadow

 

At this stage you are almost done!! add your pop dots, and staple down your quote! If you are pleased with the look attach your back with Miracle Tape and Enjoy!!!!

(here you can also see the nice shadow added by coloring the back black)

I Hope you enjoyed this tag inspiration!! I had so much fun making this piece and I know that I will have to use this Awesome stamp for some more super fun projects!!

Blast from the past!

I always love a good challenge, and when I was given this elegant flower stamp

I must admit I was scared! haha It was outside my comfort zone as I usually do projects that have alot of humour in them and when I looked at this stamp I thought "well what's funny about that??" haha  BUT.... it made me think outside the box and sometimes going out of your comfort zone is a good thing!!

For my first ATC I used plain white cardstock and then inked it up using green and blue inks

(I used a circle stencil for the blue dots!) and then I stamped the elegant flower with orange ink and stamped it onto the card

and then I sat and stared at it.  For a while.  And then I wanted to see some big black crows hanging overhead so I used the birds on a wire large stamp

with bold black ink

and then I outlined some of the circles in black, added some Hambly clear transparency and the word "crow" using die cuts and here is the finished ATC

Not so scary after all right? haha  I made one more ATC using the now not so scary elegant flower stamp and the one way stamp and here it is

I had alot of fun making these and thinking outside the box and I hope you enjoyed my "blast from the past" stamp and that it got you thinking outside the box as well!  Until next time,

Glenda

"I'm a hopeless romantic" card

Just a little introduction here folks! For the next couple of weeks we'll be revisiting our Blast From The Past series where we share projects showcasing some of our older (but still gooder!) stamps. We've been in business since 1991 and have over 19,000 DIFFERENT rubber stamps in our line. With so much hype over new ones, sometimes we like to revisit some of our original images and help revive their life. Our business is unique in never (almost never) retiring images, and our deeply etched, high quality pink rubber lasts FOREVER. So sit back and enjoy a walk down memory lane starting with mellpellmell as she takes over the rest of today's post:

Hi, here is  Maria Potapovich (mellpellmell) with you today!

I'd like to show you my simple card for a man in love))))

If you've never seen it before, let me introduce him  to you - Naked Archer 2 1/2 x 2 3/4

But look at his hands now!))) Hi is really in love)))

 I hope you enjoyed my simple card,

 Maria <3