Thursday, May 28, 2020

USA!


I'm back today with another very clean and simple, flat-for-mailing patriotic card.  Red, white, and blue cards always look so striking!


Gold mirror card stock and gold delicata ink make even a simple card elegant!  The arrangement of the stars and the designer paper draws the eye toward the USA stamped near the bottom.  These are the new star dies from our latest release.  The cool thing is that there are stamps that coordinate with them, too!


Here's the inside...equally clean and simple but still pretty!  This is a very quick and easy card to make and would be a good one for making multiples assembly-line-style.

Be sure to visit the Stamp Simply blog for more ideas with the Old Glory bundle!

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Thursday, May 21, 2020

My American Hero



Our Stamp Simply team is excited for the release of a new patriotic stamp and die set that coordinates with an existing stamp set to make an amazing trio!  Presenting Old Glory, its coordinating Patriotic Stars and Stripes dies, alongside our original set, Patriotic Sentiments.  These items, which mix and match effortlessly, are all available individually or bundled for your convenience.


The flag/map die can be used with its coordinating stamp or as a stand alone die of the United States.  The 2 largest stars in the die set fit the 2 largest stars in Patriotic Sentiments.  The smallest star in the die set fits the small star in Old Glory.  The stars can also be used as stand alone dies.


The American flag looks beautifully dimensional when colored with Copic markers.  I added some clear Wink of Stella to its entirety, with a little tiny bit of gold Wink of Stella along the flag's folds.  (It seems that since we live in Florida I couldn't help but color the entire state one color!  ðŸ˜‰  Oopsie!)


These days, there are plenty of American heroes for whom this card would be appropriate!  This one is relatively flat for ease of mailing so it could go anywhere!


Be sure to visit the Stamp Simply blog for more ideas on how to use these awesome sets!

Here are the supplies I used for today's project:
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Thursday, May 14, 2020

Color Your World!


If you've visited recently you might remember that our sweet baby great niece was born just a few weeks ago.  This is a gift for her big brother using stamps and supplies from Stamp Simply!  I sometimes wonder if older siblings feel a bit left out while the new baby is getting all kinds of attention, so this is just a little something to make him feel special and maybe to give him something quiet to do while his baby sister is sleeping!  Since right now I can't be there to stamp with him in person, this is the next best thing!


I used our new Stick People set, and you may be wondering why I cut all their little heads off!  As we have been playing with these fun sets, our design team members have all agreed that it's easier to add hair (and a bit more realistic looking, too) when that line across the top is not stamped, unless, of course, you intend for them to be truly bald (and sometimes, you do)! 


It's really easy to stamp them this way.  Just use a stamp positioner, and align a piece of thin copy paper as a mask before inking the stamp.  You can use this same method to combine words of various sentiments to make different phrases as well.  For instance, the "Me" was stamped by masking the rest of "Me(rry Christmas)" in the very same way, as was the "My Friends" (combining My Family and Best Friends).  


Since the primary marker set in this gift bundle did not include a flesh-toned marker, I opted to give big brother a little bit of a head start by coloring their faces, blushing their cheeks, and sponging/coloring in some background to ground the figures.  He can use his new markers to color their hair and clothing, and if he wants to, maybe with help he can even use some scissors to cut and paste them onto a card.  

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Thursday, May 7, 2020

Hugs from Grandma!


We are premiering a brand new bundle of sets this week at Stamp Simply and they are SO much fun to play with!  From the first moment I saw them this idea took shape, and I'm so excited to share it!


Not long ago I started spinning a combination of alpaca, Merino wool, and Corriedale wool on one of my Turkish spindles. Immediately when I saw the adult female of this stamp set, I just knew I had to use some of that wool to make her a grandma!


So I took a little tuft of fiber, folded it in half, tied it into a knot, and voila!  Grandma's bun!


I gave her little bangs a trim and tucked the loose ends of fiber on the sides of her face behind a fussy cut-out of her face and torso. The front of the card has a small floral print that looks a lot like fabric a grandma would wear, so her clothing is also fussy-cut and paper-pieced.

Oval dies form a frame that reveals the white of the mat underneath the floral print, which is where grandma's entire figure was stamped, then the fussy cut part glued right onto it, hiding the ends of the wool.  I love that the oval frame made a little edge that draws even more attention to her bun.  The little alphabet letter names of her grandchildren are strung on burlap string that dangles from a tulle bow tied around the fold of the card.  You can see just a peek of them in the above photo.


Inside, there's a simple I ❤️ U which was inked with black and red distress markers.  Lots of room to write a message or even stamp another figure, maybe of Grandpa!

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