AEzine Challenge: Stamp Goodness
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This week the challenge is to embrace that wonderful imperfection inherent in using stamps. Sound like a big challenge? It is. If you are like me, sometimes it has to be laid out right in front of you for it to have any impact.
Here's a little more direction: create a layout that uses at least three different stamps - one geometric, one text, and one organic (swirl, artsy, etc.). If you make a mistake, work with it or leave it. Chances are, no one will ever notice except you - everyone else will see it as a totally cool artsy use of stamps. Embrace that!
Here's what I came up with:
I also wanted to show a little step by step on how I created the stamp clusters.
1. Select a couple stamps to play with for this project. Lines are from Fontwerks. Priceless and "A fun time was had by all" are from River City Rubber Works. You Are Here (which I didn't end up using this time) is from Stampers Anonymous. Siwrls are from Autumn Leaves. "What Made You Laugh Today" (not used)and the circle "Notes from Today" are all from Catslife Press.
2. Grab a scrap piece of thick patterned paper from your scrap box and use a large square punch to create three areas for your stamping.
3. Place the stencil you made with the square punch down onto your cardstock. Play with creating clusters of color and stamps within the squares. Inks used here are all Colorbox Fluid Chalk Cat's Eye Queues (love how these are stacked on top of one another).
Looking forward to seeing your creations with stamps!
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this is really nice and I love those stamps!!!!
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LOVE IT!!!!!
love my stamps :)
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awesome! that's what i mean, you just keep it all so fresh! tfs.
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ooooh. so cool & so simple. thnx for the continual inspiration. as always, awesome lo! i'm fairly new to the stamp world, but i'm enjoying them. once i got over my initial intimidation - it's really fun to play. thnx for keeping it fun!
http://www.twopeasinabucket.com/pg.asp?gallery=1&cmd=display&layout_id=1022679
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Ali, this page is so awesome! Thanks for your "how to". Love it!
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here's my entry...sorry its late:)
http://jenpaddackhyde.typepad.com/my_weblog/
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Thanks again, Ali. This one was fun -- I have heaps of stamps and love using them, so it was hard to choose! Here's mine:
http://9coacheswaiting.blogspot.com/2006/11/aezine-challenge-6.html
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Ali,
Again I had a great time taking up your challenge! Thanks for the inspiration. I'm going to take the challenge a bit further because I'm going to make more LO's about what our kitchen means to us. See http://www.twopeasinabucket.com/pg.asp?cmd=display&layout_id=1022271 for my LO.
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Another awesome layout Ali! I love it!!!
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Mine version is here
http://perfectmommydiary.blogspot.com/2006/11/one-stone-three-birds.html
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Awesome! I love it! I too can do this-I think! Thanks for the challenge Ali! Jane
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this was great fun. love playing with stamps!
http://saramcmartin.typepad.com/
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i love the step-by-step instructions and can't wait to play! and i meant to ask you about the large canvas you created - do you seal it with anything? i'm mod podge challenged and have some smaller canvases that i've yet to seal because i just have issues. was wondering what you use if anything?
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Absolutely fascinating! Thank you so very much for showing the process, as I would never in a million years have guessed how you made that look so good! Now I can do it too! Anytime you want to go into that much detail with pictures included would be fantastic!!!
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Now I am different from most- I have no trouble using stamps...its the actual scrapbooking that freaks me out! But here is my first challenge........
http://morningsunstudio.typepad.com/morning_sun_studio/
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Heres my layout challenge!http://www.twopeasinabucket.com/pg.asp?gallery=1&cmd=display&layout_id=1022968
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My entry to the AEzine challenge.....first one....be kind. this was fun
http://www.twopeasinabucket.com/pg.asp?gallery=1&cmd=display&layout_id=1022997
Cheers.
Karen
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Thank You Ali for answering my questions about the stamps. Here is My response to this week's challenge.
http://rondapalazzari.typepad.com/helpmeronda/2006/11/aezine_challeng.html
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Here's mine. I didn't like it at first but it's grown on me - Best of ALL I used that crowd stamp I bought several years ago and it's been in the stamp cupboard since it came home.
http://katajone.blogspot.com/2006/11/stamp-goodness-ali-es-ezine-challenge.html
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Hi Ali - This is a great challenge. I just went to catslife press and placed an order!!! Told them you MADE ME NEED some new stamps. Hope all is well. Kristi from Cropper Hopper
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