Something Saturday - Reverse Stamping

 Hi there Creators

I thought I'd do a spot of reverse stamping this week, there's a really lovely stamp set: Elegantly Said, that has this cute little die that looks like 1/2 a butterfly, so if you know how to reverse stamp you can create the butterfly quite easily.  In the video I show creating the pink butterflies, I've then added the Pool Party Butterflies and the large flourish in the corners is also reverse stamped for the upper corner.  check out what I used here:  What Heather used

This next card uses the Boughs & Blossoms stamp set, the leaves only go in one direction and as it's not a photopolymer set I can't bend them in the other direction, so reverse stamping allows me to get them to wave their way across the page (they'd make a pretty good wreath I reckon if you kept stamping them round!)  check out what I used for this card here: What Heather Used

 Anyway, nitty gritty, how do you do this?  Easy peasy, stamp your main image 1/2 strength onto your base card (ie stamp off once before stamping on your card), this will give you a lighter image which will match your reverse stamped image.

Then take a piece of Cellophane, make sure your stamp is well inked and stamp really carefully onto the cellophane (make sure it doesn't move as you stamp or it will smudge the image)

Then turn the cellophane over and rub it down onto the card where you want the image to go, Voila reverse stamped image!

Check out my video here:

I hope this inspires you to create

God Bless love

Heather xox

Card Class for October

 Hi there,

All going well we should be having this class on 6th October in my classroom, I've based the class around the Beauty of the Earth Designer Series Paper, and as there's quite a bit of stamping involved it is an in-person class, however there will be a new postal class coming soon (stay tuned....)

Anyway here are the cards, and at the bottom I'll add links which show you exactly what I've used for each card:

This first one I wanted to show both sides of the designer paper, as it's so pretty! then I've used the Enjoy the moment stamp set to stamp the seed pods (haven't used this set much)

The second card I've gone with the Daisy Lane Stamp set and matching Medium Daisy Punch (again a stamp set I haven't used in a while!)

3rd card is such a wintry pattern (and of course being English, wintry patterns remind me of Christmas....)  So these 3 trees and saying come from Perfectly Plaid stamp set and the matching Pine Tree Punch.

Last but not least I've teamed up the paper this time with the Elegantly Said bundle (stamps and punch)  you'll notice the punched saying is shorter than the punch itself, just cut your card stock to 4.5cm (which is the width of the punch), and you can feed it in through the punch opening - check out the photos below the card

of course this way you can also create double ended pieces of any length like this (which is kind of cool!)

Ooo it opens up all sorts of possibilities with your punches doesn't it?

Ok so what have I used on each card?  click on the "what Heather used" links below to check it out:

I hope these inspire you to create

God Bless love

Heather xox

Card 1: What Heather Used

Card 2 What Heather Used

Card 3: What Heather Used

Card 4: What Heather Used