Thank you to everyone who participated in this weeks challenge – making your own stamps. You couldn’t help but be inspired by all these very different and very fabulous ideas.
Who says stamps are expensive? Anthea Peterson created this fabulous layout using an old pizza box! She writes: I have used cardboard from a pizza box. I cut a square off the box, ripped away at the sides a little to reveal the corrugated bit in-between and then applied some paint, thicker in some parts more then others, I then got stamping. I have used two different colours in paint to add a little tone. I also mainly stamped around the photos and paper to frame them.
We loved how innovative Chantelle Huizenga was, creating colour and texture. She writes: I've used some foam flower stickers to create a stamp - with the foam stickers as pictured, I've run them through an embossing die to create some texture. I've then removed the adhesive back and stuck them onto a stamping block - also as pictured. Then I've simply used ink and stamped onto my scrapbook LO to create an interesting BG.
Heidi Barclay delighted us when she turned to the kitchen to create an interesting texture. She writes I have used a kitchen GOLDIE LOCKS [is that a Kiwi term? Aussies, we think it’s a kitchen scourer!] and added some shocking pink paint onto the Goldie Locks and then stamped all over the patterned paper, I wanted to add some more pink to bring out the pink flowers on the patterned paper.
Leeann Pearce has come up with a very cool solution for all those odd leftover chipboard letters. She writes: This week I thought I would use what I had in my scrap room and so I decided to create a large background stamp using leftover chipboard letters. Here’s how I made my background stamp. Grab a heap of odd letters and numbers mix it up so you have lots of different sizes and fonts. I used helmar’s decoupage and painted a semi large piece of chipboard. Then place the letters randomly all over. Allow the decoupage and chipboard pieces to dry. Then simple choose a colour and apply plenty of paint then just turn you piece over and stamp the background of some cardstock. The result is a shabby image - which I likey!
You certainly don’t have to venture far to make your own.
Livia Andrade made herself an oversized stamp out of corrugated cardboard for this stunning layout. She writes:for this make it yourself I use a strip of cardboard with ink to stamp the background.
Finally, Sharmaine Kruijver has come up with a number of different techniques to wow us – how cool is the doily idea! She writes: For this challenge I made 3 stamps. The first 2 were made using a cork. The great thing about using corks, to make stamps, is that 1. You can use both ends and 2. If you make a mistake or change your mind you can simply cut it off and start over. I made my circle stamps using both the negative and the positive space. To make the circle(s) I took a pen/texta lid and pushed it into the cork. Then it was a simple case of removing the excess cork from around or inside the circle. What I love about using a cork is that the texture lines from the cork give effect to the stamped image. The third stamp was made by simply placing a doily onto an acrylic block, attaching it with some double sided tape. I then brushed it with some paint and stamped and what is great is that I now have a yellow doily all ready for another layout! I used all my stamps on the background page for my layout about the ‘yellow’ team that our girls are in at school, hence the monochrome page.
Thanks for the inspiration to create