I guess I should have known that if scrapbookers are using
digital tools to make layouts, then cardmakers probably are as well, but I
recently stumbled upon a whole new side of digi crafting: DIGITAL STAMPS! You know when you go to the craft store and
see all those adorable images of snowmen, and pumpkins, and little mice dressed
up in clothes, and you think I would love to be able to include that image in
some of my work. But…I DO NOT want that
huge 5x7 wood mounted stamp taking up the precious room in my crafting
space. I have more stuff in this place
than I have room for…maybe that’s hyperbole, but only a little bit. I’m constantly bursting out of my craft space
and into other areas of my house.
Many husbands would find that annoying, but not mine! He sees it as an opportunity! If I can’t manage to keep my hobby contained
in its space, how could he possibly be expected to keep his in his room. After all, he builds models, they’re not flat
like paper. At least it seems like
that’s his thought process because the few times when my craft supplies are
only where they belong, I find far less space marines invading areas of my
house that don’t belong to them. That’s
the reason that I was so happy to find cling stamps that take up so much less
space than wood-mounted stamps. The more
stuff I can cram into my craft storage cubes, the less space marines are on my
dining room table (and the less acrylic paint I find on Lilah’s clothes, but
that’s another story). So if I was happy
to learn about cling stamps, you can imagine how excited I was to find stamps
that took up no physical space at all.
I was so excited that I rushed right out and joined a design
team: Creative Knockouts. Creative
Knockouts is a challenge blog that gives readers a recipe each week for
designing a card. I’m the first
scrapbooker to become part of the team, and it’s going to be fun to try to
adapt recipes for a card to scrapbooking layouts. This week they gave me a nice, easy challenge
to start: use your favorite things! The sponsor for this week was Robyn’s
Fetish, a fabulous digital stamp designer with a really varied catalog of
images. I knew I was going to Disney
with my sister-in-law and my daughters.
When I think Disney, I think teacups, so I picked the English Tea Cup at
the top of the post.
Since the challenge was to use our favorite things, I went
right to one of my favorite digital designers, Peppermint Granberg of One
Little Bird Designs. Her Fairy Tale kit seemed
perfectly suited for the picture of our group in front of Cinderella Castle.
Continuing on the track of including my favorite things, I used brads, buttons,
frames, and flat stickers from the kit.
I love the way that the English Teacup ties the photo to the
journaling. What do you think?
Thanks for the stamp, Robyn’s Fetish! Head on over there to see what other goodies
that they have for sale.
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