StampOwl's Studio: Stamps U Love

Thursday, March 8, 2018

Hooray! It's Your Day

Hi Crafty Friends,

It's challenge time with my friends over on the CCEE Stampers challenge blog. Our challenge hostess for the month, Vicky Gould continues to issue the challenges.

This week Vicky has challenged us to play around with techniques using Die Cut Words. Two suggestions to use were Camouflaging Die Cuts and 3D Word Dies.

I created a birthday card using an image from Stamps U Love ... I can never make enough boy/male cards.

I decided to use the Camouflaging Die Cuts technique for my card today, aka the Eclipse Technique. I almost threw this card out as when I first made it I layered the birthday sentiment using white die cut letters underneath the decorated die cut pieces which made it harder to see the completed sentiment. However after creating another card (which I am now using for next week's challenge) I decided to remove the white layers and replace it with black die cut letters which defines the sentiment a little better.

I kept the inside fairly simple, but I still wanted something special inside, so I used the mechanism from the Katherine Label Pop-up Card die set to create a pop-up for the sentiment.

Don't forget to check out the CCEE Stampers blog (goes live 12 AM EST) to see the rest of the creations the CCEE Stampers created this week. You can also see more details of their creations on their individual blogs:

Vicky Gould
Kelly McKown-Santi

Supplies:

Stamps: Childhood Memories Sent with Love - StampsULove; LJD Birthday Greetings - MFT Stamps`

Paper: White; Black; Blue; Just For Men Paper Pad - Marianne Design

Dies: Katherine Label Pop-up - Karen Burniston; Wonderful Words Birthday - Papertrey Ink; Words Set 1 - Celebration; Wonky Rectangles - Simon Says Stamp

Other: Black Ink; Broken China Distress Oxide; Earth & Sky Stencil; Copics

Saturday, November 22, 2014

World Hello Day

Hello everyone,

It’s challenge time with the “Crazies” over on the Crazy 4 Challenges blog. This week I continue to issue the challenges.

Yesterday was World Hello Day … So for our challenge this week let’s create a card that says “Hello”. Bonus points if your card shows some way that we can say Hello … e.g. by using speech bubbles on your card, using a phone stamp/die; using letters/envelopes on your card; Image of someone sending or delivering mail; saying Hello is different languages etc.

I am still trying to use as many of the Christmas stamps and dies I have purchased this year and I am running out of time LOL … my friends say I can’t do it .. but I will give it a go, I have until the end of December after all.

For my card I created a Spiral Circle Pull Card using the die set designed by Karen Burniston for Elizabeth Craft Designs.

When I was going through my Christmas stash I have on my table, I was excited to see this stamp set with the cute little girl posting a letter/Christmas card. I cut the girl away from the mail box … restamped the mailbox so the letter which normally is overlapping the mailbox was removed, and also stamped the girl again this time mirror imaging her so I could attach her to the back of the one on the front.

For the right hand side of the card the snow drift is included in the stamps … for the left hand side I used Karen Burniston’s Outdoor Edges die set.

I got so engrossed creating this card that I almost forgot the challenge which was to include the word Hello … so I added a die cut “HELLO” to the spiral.

Don't forget to check out the rest of the “Crazies” cards over on the Crazy 4 Challenges blog and also their individual blogs for more details.

Tanya Adams (November Guest Designer)