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Multiple Uses for Stamps

It'll Be Okay

This is the main image from the Pure Innocence set "My Umbrella". I wanted to show a couple of other ways to use the stamp, since I like to get a lot of mileage out of everything I own, if possible.

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Above shows a way to ink up just the boots and place them strategically on some patterned paper.  Here they are on a card:

Cute Boots Tag

In the next example, I inked up only the umbrella:

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to make this:

WT WelcomeFor the umbrella handle, I wrapped some ribbon around a glass-head pin and tied a little bow.  The glossy dots are "faux dewdrops" - I punched some paper with a small circle punch and covered them with glossy accents...

You can also selectively mask and ink a background stamp to get a single image:

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Wild Rose CASE

 

Or bend a photopolymer stamp on the block to get a new look:

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Take the squiggly line from the above set and stamp it multiple times

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and have something entirely different!

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 Here are a couple of other ideas:

Here, the little bee stamp was used to make the snowflake.

An acorn makes a fine stand-in for an elf just by adding some facial features...

If you want to get REALLY radical, I transformed a Halloween damask design into a "Beauty and the Beast"-type creature:

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