We’ve just received notification of shipping so we’ve popped these stamps up for preorder. Fingers and toes are crossed that they will be here late next week. I’m rather excited! I like new toys!
I love Ballerina Hilda:
I think I could have some fun colouring in Doraline Bundled Up too!
Which ones are your favourites?
Did you see the stamp challenge in a recent Cardmaking, Stamping & Papercraft magazine? We sponsored the challenge and the magazine sent Lily From the Heart to some very talented card makers to see what they would come up with.
Thanks to Jane Clark, Carole Janson, Alisa Tilsner and Annette Hanigan for their fabulous work.
This card is by Jane Clark:
I love the way that Jane added lace to Lily’s skirt.
For this month, I got the A La Tarte to play with…and along with the beautiful bright papers and great felt flowers, was this cute little Sarah Kay stamp. Just perfect for some cards!
I love to make sets of cards and this is probably the best idea for creating several cards easily – - - copy your own cards!! I started with the ‘wish’ card. I think pretty much copied the card with different colouring and papers.
So next time you create a card, or even a page that you particularly like, treat it like a sketch and try making multiples of the same design.
Philippa gave me some Prima felt stems to do a product showcase with. As these are something I had never played with before it was a challenge to try and do something different with the three that were in the pack.
After a visit to the Prima gallery for some inspiration I got to work on two of the stems.
For the first one I wanted to shabby it up a bit so I stuck it onto some scrap card and then smeared it with a light coat of texture paste followed by a swipe with a pine cone ink pad before peeling it of the scrap card and adding to a layout with a few sprays from a Prima vine.
The stark green colour of the original stem didn’t go with this shabby style layout.
For the next one I used it as it was layered with the remaining part of the Prima vine that I cut up.
and by using cream based papers, a music sheet and masking tape I managed to get a shabby look to my layout without altering the stem.
Have you had a play with any of the Prima felt stems yet. I would love some other ideas for the last one I have to play with.
