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.
After seeing this gorgeous paper pieced and stamped card
that Philippa shared with us here on the blog a while back I was inspired to try and do one of my own with the newest addition to my stampavie collection Lucy and kitty and my #1 Sentiment set from Rachelle Anne Miller.
This was the first time I have attempted to do this with an image so detailed. It was a little tricky but I got there in the end.
Here are the steps I took to complete my image.
Step one
Decide on what parts of the image you want to paper piece and stamp it onto a watercolour paper base and then onto some pattern paper scraps. I am sure that like me you will all have a heap of them floating around in your stash.
Step two
Colour in the parts of the image that will not be paper pieced. Pop in here for tips on water colouring and colouring with inks.
Step three
Cut out the parts of the image that are going to be paper pieced and then arrange over the stamped image.
I found out the hard way that I need to buy myself a glue pen. My trusty DST just wasn’t going to do the job here. Lucky for me I had some dimensional magic on hand.
Step four
All done and now I had a cute little image to add onto a card. One that I ended up having to hide from Asher as she so wanted to claim it.
I would love to see some more paper pieced Stampavie images so if you have had a play around with doing so please leave a comment here with a link and I’ll check them out.
