Making Cards - Ideas (part 6)

CraftyLouise

Glad people like my challenge lol!! If my new stamp arrives soon I'll have to join in with a "DT" card lol!!

mooomin

CraftyLouise wrote: »

Glad people like my challenge lol!! If my new stamp arrives soon I'll have to join in with a "DT" card lol!!

At some point this week I have to make two wedding cards and a baby card for orders, a DT card and my mum's retirement card - and I'm at Fat Club tomorrow then out for tea on Thursday. I haven't coloured up the wedding card images yet and have to find a digi for the baby card as they've asked for it to be bigger than my normal sized card so my LOTV baby stamps will be too small!

It's going to be a stressful craft week methinks...:eek:

paddingtondoo

Great challenge Crafty Louise - would be very surprised if your stamp isn't with you by Thursday latest

Fresian - have you tried Cuddly Buddly for your baby digi they have some really cute ones.

Will dig out another unused stamp from my small pile of Bunny Zoe sale purchases Deliberately not included link as would hate to lead anyone astray.......................

Mad-Frog

Marg :wave: by the way please keep me on the email, birthday list, I tried to send you an email but it failed for some reason

CraftyLouise Thanks for the challenge this will be easy for me as despite my sooper dooper IMac I still haven't worked out how to get my digi downloads from my download folder on to my printer without much cussing and swearing I have even got two books on the ruddy thing ! Maybe I shouldn't admit to being a bit of a thicko :eek:

Well, you can blame the 'good' weather on me and Mr Mad-Frog, we have tidied and de weeded the garden, planted lots of nice plants grown from seed as a lot of veg, painted the fence and garden furniture and block paved the front, haven't managed to enjoy any of it ever since:mad: The slugs however a doing a dandy job of destroying virtually everything I have planted :mad:

mooomin

Thanks Pads, I'll check them out tonight

Louise - there's a stamped card on my blog - the retirement one. You inspired me!!

Florenceem

I have loads of unmounted rubber stamps - the adhesive mounting foam is
really expensive. It is also a sticky old job cutting out the mounted
stamps. I thought I would try stamping them on a mouse mat for a cushion. I
took photos of my experiments!
First I cut out a rubber stamp - put DS tape on a block - stuck the stamp to
it and stamped onto paper on top of a mouse mat - hope you are following my
gist. The stamp came out really well - but I was not careful enough/the tape
was very sticky - tore my stamp a bit. However I restamped and whether it is
because I am blessed or it was a tree - works fine - phew!
Next - after some muted cursing - not swear words - just fiddle/bother - I
tried again. This time I cut out a small stamp - and looked in my adhesives
stash to see what I had to use. I found some Xyron - repositional glue tape
- meant to be for vellum + craft papers. This was not so sticky but held the
stamp in place - the image came out well. It was a lot easier to remove the
stamp from the block this time. I have cut some wax paper (recycling - U-
Mount backing sheets) - this will keep the sticky blocks dust free. I do
have quite a few blocks so can spare some to be used in this way.
What do you think plus any other ideas please?

dragonllew

Florenceem wrote: »

I have loads of unmounted rubber stamps - the adhesive mounting foam is
really expensive. It is also a sticky old job cutting out the mounted
stamps. I thought I would try stamping them on a mouse mat for a cushion. I
took photos of my experiments!
First I cut out a rubber stamp - put DS tape on a block - stuck the stamp to
it and stamped onto paper on top of a mouse mat - hope you are following my
gist. The stamp came out really well - but I was not careful enough/the tape
was very sticky - tore my stamp a bit. However I restamped and whether it is
because I am blessed or it was a tree - works fine - phew!
Next - after some muted cursing - not swear words - just fiddle/bother - I
tried again. This time I cut out a small stamp - and looked in my adhesives
stash to see what I had to use. I found some Xyron - repositional glue tape
- meant to be for vellum + craft papers. This was not so sticky but held the
stamp in place - the image came out well. It was a lot easier to remove the
stamp from the block this time. I have cut some wax paper (recycling - U-
Mount backing sheets) - this will keep the sticky blocks dust free. I do
have quite a few blocks so can spare some to be used in this way.
What do you think plus any other ideas please?

I use a pritt stick to stick my unmounted stamps to the acrylic block quick wipe of the stamp and the block with a babywipe gets rid of any sticky residue hth

Florenceem

dragonllew wrote: »

I use a pritt stick to stick my unmounted stamps to the acrylic block quick wipe of the stamp and the block with a babywipe gets rid of any sticky residue hth

Great idea thanks!

paddingtondoo

same as Dragon although my glue stick came in a pack of 4 from the pound shop

Louise - my challenge entry is on my you know where - I used 2 stamps just to be on the safe side :rotfl::rotfl:

Florenceem

paddingtondoo wrote: »

same as Dragon although my glue stick came in a pack of 4 from the pound shop

Louise - my challenge entry is on my you know where - I used 2 stamps just to be on the safe side :rotfl::rotfl:

My glue sticks are also from the £shop. Do you think it depends on the quality of the rubber stamps as to whether you get a good image using them without mounting foam?