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pow! alphabet stamps

Donna never really learnt the art of stamping and has always admired those that have! It takes a certain level of creativity to combine the skills of papercrafting and stamping, in her opinion.  For Donna, this was a challenge, but one that she was keen to take. After ordering a selection of alphabet stamps, inks and paints and after hours of experimenting she decided that sometimes the best techniques are just using the product in the simplest way!! Here Donna has combined several alphabet stamps to create a mixed font title and date. To emphasize the title itself, she has messily hand-drawn around the stamped word 'home'. The result is slightly 'arty' and almost free-style in nature.

Now that Donna has taken the first step in her stamping journey, you'll be sure to see more ink on her future layouts!

 

 

Whether you stamp directly on your project or on to cardstock and cut out, alphabet stamps are an easy way to say what you want on your project! This bookmark is another one of Nic's favourite projects. Pink Paislee Vintage Pop alpha stamps on Pink Paislee papers, paired with Heidi Swapp Chandelier Crystals (and a pair of her hubby's pliers!) make this a quick and effective project.

 

 

  

This is a layout you may have seen before as it is one of Nic Howard's favourites. Nic had this layout on her wall next to her desk for a few months when she decided to add more to it! To add some extra bright pop to her layout Nic pulled out her Pink Paislee Vintage Pop alphas and stamped them on Aussie Scrap Source white cardstock. She then cut around them and adhered them to her layout.

The white balances against the high contrast photos beautifully while Pink Paislee, Sassafras Lass and SEI papers collectively make a fabulous background combination.

 

   

Mel used the Fontwerks George Outline Stamps to create an eye catching title for her Christmas layout. The alphas were inked with black ink, stamped onto the page and coloured in with a selection of Heidi Swapp pencils.

 

 

 

Technique Tuesday's Provence alphabet stamps are truly one of Suz's all time favourites - you may have noticed them on several layouts recently.  She loves the roundness of the font and the detail of the flourish within each letter.  One of the greatest beauties of alphabet stamps over chipboard or sticker alphabets (apart from the fact that you can use them over and over again and they never run out!) is their versatility - you may not have a set of alphas that perfectly co-ordinate with your layout, but you can make a stamped title any colour you like.

Here Suz has stamped on white cardstock with an olivey-green inkpad, and embossed each letter with Holographic Embossing Powder, which seemed to Suz to suit a layout about the infamous midsummer music festival held in England each year.

 

 

 

Stamping on transparencies gives you the freedom to place the transparency anywhere on your layout, to decide what works with your design. Here Steph used the Technique Tuesday Calamity Jane alpha stamps and stamped them onto a Hambly transparency. You need to make sure that your transparency is secured on your desk top because things can become very slippery during the stamping process. Steph used Staz On Permanent Ink, so the image would not bleed or fade once stamped.

 

Suz and Steph have both used beautiful Technique Tuesday alphas, and we thought we'd focus on their amazing range of alphabet stamps in a special gallery.  We thank Eileen Collins of Technique Tuesday and her design team for allowing us to share some many stunning layouts with you.  The name of the stamp font is listed underneath each layout for quick reference.

 

     

Eileen Collins - Big Timber Meadow Upper & Lower Case

 

 

 

Boulder Slopes Capitals

 

 

 

Main Street Capital Letters Large & Extra Large

 

 

 

Savannah Capital & Lowercase

 

 

 

Picadilly Capitals Medium & Large

 

 

 

Picadilly Capitals Medium & Large

Main Street Lowercase

 

 

 

 

French Quarter - Capitals and Lowercase

 

 

 

 

Broadway Capitals & Lowercase

 

 

 

 

Paris Nights Lowercase

 

 

 

 

Big Timber Lowercase

Big Timber Line Capitals & Lowercase

 

 

 

Provence Capitals Extra Large

Provence Lowercase Letters Large

 

 

 

Williamsburg Capitals and Lowercase Extra Large

Williamsburg Alphabet Small

weekend inspiration: inque boutique

For Steph, Inque Boutique was all about their stamps. She loved the idea that she could finally get the chance to play with their beautiful images. Steph used a number of mediums to create this layout, for example the lace frame stamped on the bottom right hand corner of the photograph is layered with pigment ink, glimmermist and paint. By combining all these products Steph was able to achieve a variegated colour combination which added interest to the page.

She used the same technique for the Inque Boutique butterflies, but this time touched them up with Twinkling H2O’s. For the crown, and scroll stamps, simple white paint was applied with a paintbrush, created a 3D effect once stamped. This way the ink looks thin and thick in places throughout the image. The final stamp she used was the “Walt Disney Quote” which she stamped with a Versa Cube Ink and added detail with a green marker pen.

Suz used the Cabana range of papers from the 6x6" paper pad to create this bright beach layout.  She loved the huge sun in the Inqueboard pack, and used a different patterned paper for  each ray, accenting the joins with some golden Heidi bling.  The felt embellishments added texture and a splash of strong colour.

The Out of this World range are fantastic boy papers - perfect colours, perfect background designs, perfect for quick layouts where you don't have to think about whether they'll work together.  Suz layered different colours and patterns from their 6x6 paper pad to create a fast and easy background for her son's first time on roller skates.  The wave chipboard created the perfect spot for a title.

Out of this World papers are just too cute !! so Carole decided to create this very cute little door hanger for her son's room. She created a transparency (Acetate) circle stuck to to the back of the door hanger so she could 3D some cute little spaceships onto.

Chris created an accent to suit the theme of her layout from the Inque Boutique chipboard pieces. She covered the house shape with the Memoirs papers and inked the edges. She then inked the other shapes using Raspberry and Brown Versa Color ink pads.

Chris cut flowers, circles and strips from the Always in Bloom papers to create this simply pretty layout of her daughter and best friend. Perfect colours for a little girls layout.

Mel's daughter always seems to be in her own little morning bubble first thing of a day. The Always In Rounds chipboard circles were perfect to cut up and emulate bubbles on the layout. For a really quick and beautiful embellishment, Mel added an Always In Bloom large felt flower to her layout.

Two of the lovely girls from the Inque Boutique Design Team have allowed us to borrow their creations to inspire you all. First, using the Memoirs range of papers and felt sheets, Sherry Wright created this gorgeous layout. And hasn't she distressed the edges beautifully!? Thank you so much for sharing Sherry!

   

And secondly Betsy Veldman, also from the Inque Boutique Design team thrills us with this fabulous and fun summer layout using Cabana Collection. We love how Betsy has combined the felt and chipboard into her layout.

A big thankyou again to Betsy for sharing another layout with us for this post - Ruffle Bum. Betsy has used some beautiful Inque stamps to create a series of accents for the page .... and that's certainly a cute bottom to scrapbook :)

     

And using both a mix of Cabana and Isn't it Romantic collections Betsy has delighted us again with this sweet and pretty layout of a very special birthday girl! Many thanks for sharing your work with us Betsy.

pow! inque boutique morsels

   

This week we celebrate the versatility and fun of Inque Boutique's Morsels.  These are the kind of stamp you'd find yourself turning to all the time, as you can build up so many different looks with the same stamps.    There's anywhere from 16 to 44 tiny stamps which fit in a box the size of a CD case, and the idea of them is to layer them using different colours and techniques to create a myriad of looks. 

They come in a large range of themes from Seasons to Garden to Vintage, and you can combine a multitude of them to create borders or frames on your layout, or use a few and repeat the image as Carole has done - there really is no end to how you can use them. 

Enjoy browsing through and seeing what our design team has come up with using them.

Carole found the little morsels really beautiful to work with, they are only tiny but make gorgeous craft items and gifts like this window box frame.

Carole used the little Morsels Autumn range by inking the little stamps (leaves) and stamping a heap of leaves onto cardstock. She then cut them out, and using some foam balls and foam trees for a base and a little double sided tape or glue, she stuck them onto each foam ball or tree individually, starting from the bottom, and ended at the top. It did take a little while but the effect really is quite stunning.

   

Suz made beautiful use of the Inque Boutique Morsels Springtime Collection in a few different ways.  She painted, inked and then stamped on the Scenic Route Berkeley Chipboard Alphas - beautiful chunky alphas such as these are just perfect for carrying small stamped designers. 

Suz also created a floral border for the corner and side of her photo by laying and clustering the stamps.  She kept her stamping to a limited colour palette so that it tied in with the rest of the layout, but the beauty of being able to stamp tiny individual images is that you can pick up colours from your photo and repeat and reflect them in your border.

Nicole Finlsyon has used the Morsel stamps from the Garden Elements range to create embellishments. Combined with stamps from Pink Paislee, Nic has brought the theme of garden into her layout with ease. To add her colour, Nicole used Inque Boutique markers from the Vintage collection combined with Stazon Ink. Nicole was really impressed with the tiny acrylic blocks that are included in the Morsels packs as it makes them so easy to use.

Jaimie purposely chose the Morsel Vintage stamps and combined them with the Theresa Collins Journal it range to make this very cute and sentimental little shadow box frame of her parents in 1966. The Morsel stamps were stamped onto the Journal It paper and then cut out, mounted on double sided foam tape and then attached as clusters on the project. Jaimie says that the Vintage morsels are very versatile and can be used in many ways on limitless projects, layouts or cards.

      

Carole made this fun little cards with left over papers, and the Little Morsel Autumn Stamps worked really well for this.  She used the Dual-Tip Blendable Markers to get the correct colour scheme for the pumpkin etc., by drawing with the pen carefully onto the stamp, and then stamped onto cardstock.

As she does, Carole cut out each individual stamped element, and stuck a small piece of foam tape to the back of each piece, and then added a few embellishments to finish, and a bow.  Just something cute and fun, and a great way to experiment.

 

Jaimie used the vintage range of Inique Morsel stamps for her LO - these tiny stamps were the perfect size to create a subtle border on her page with out overwhelming her LO. Jaimie used Tim Holtz inks to stamp the images in various colours onto her page.

 

Chris stamped the Spring Morsel flower stamps using black Stazon ink onto different coloured pieces of the 'In Bloom' papers. Chris then used a circle punch to punch out each of the flowers.

 

Chris used black Stazon ink to stamp many of the Spring morsel stamps onto a piece of white cardstock. She then coloured them in using the Inque Boutique blendable markers. Chris used the same techinque for creating the bird in the nest, but this time cut around the image and then placed it onto her card. Chris created the nest by stamping the same foliage stamp multiple times.

Chris stamped the morsel leaf stamp in a circle onto white cardstock, she then stamped 2 different morsel flower stamps onto a seperate piece of white cardstock and cut them out. She then adhered them to overlap the leaves. Chris used Raspberry, Violet and Fresh green versa color ink pads.   

Chris has used Inque Boutique 'In Bloom' papers to create all of her cards. She paper pieced this very simple house design and used the Spring morsel stamps to create some grass and bushes around the house. She stamped the images using black Stazon ink and then coloured the images with Inque Boutique blender markers.

Finlly - Chris created this little sample card of some of the techniques that can be used with the morsel stamps - using Inque Markers, blenders, Stazon Ink, VersaColor ink and water coloured pencils.   Click to see larger.