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A
tip passed on to me I now pass on to you - complete instructions on
How to Get 10 Trading
Cards
from One 8.5 x 11" sheet of Cardstock, or is it Nine?
In
these first three pictures, you'll see three different stamps made from rubber
scraps. Mine were obtained from what was left after cutting and mounting
Stampin Up images. These are great because they already have adhesive on
them. I just mounted the pieces randomly on an old wooden baby block
I happened to have on hand. |
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Here
I had two corner scraps -- one thick and one very thin. I put them
very close to each other on Velcro. I use a Halos acrylic block to
get the impression. Here it's "inked" with bleach. |
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I
have kept numerous scrap wooden blocks from one of my husband's construction
projects. It sure came in handy here! Sorry about the line across the
photo. Don't know what went wrong digitally. ;-(
 Here's a great tip I picked up at
Cloud 9. You
know how sometimes you want to ink up a stamp by putting it face up and the
ink pad face down? The ink pad is hard to hold on to, right? Well
they have this thing you can buy. I forget what it's called, but even
better than that thing, take some heavy duty velcro loop and put two 1.25"
strips on the bottom of the ink pad. Then take a small wood block that will
fit in between the ridges of the ink pad bottom and apply velcro hook to
the block.
Voila . . . Instant ink pad holder! |
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Calendar
I did using some wonderful FREEWARE created by Phil at
www.red-castle.com
Thank you, Judi Kauffman,
for making me a calendar RAK. I didn't know this program was out
there!
Also at red-castle,
FREEWARE that prints TAGS for Tag
Art
and a FREEWARE
Postoid program! |
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This
one incorporates a fantastic FONT called "Sumdumgoi". Some of my other
favorite fonts are African (in the jungle card above), Angelica, Aquarium,
Night Sky, LaFigura, Blue Moon, Killigraphy, Killigraphy Bold and Alpine.
All of these can be downloaded from
Hunnybee
Free-Bee Fonts and installed on to your computer. They are great
for printing on paper and adhereing to your cards and books. |
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Here
I'm going to attempt recovering -- layering over a standard composition
book. |
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Made Shadow Stamps in various sizes made from FUN FOAM, cut with deckle edge
scissors and put on velcro hook or attached with double stick tape (as on
large wood). One thing to keep in mind though, you MUST be careful how you
store your FUN FOAM shadow images. They can easily acquire impressions
(dots or nicks) deep within them if you set things on top of them for any
length of time. I'm storing mine in a small ziplock bag ON TOP of things.
There may be a thicker fun foam that won't get those impressions, but
I haven't checked that possibility yet. This was a large piece
given to me by NORMA, pictured above!
The
other side of that wood block has a large piece of velcro hook glued to it.
I can use several velcro images all over the block at once, placing
them where ever I want, because the hook covers the block entirely. I
made another block like this recently because I was trading an image - already
on velcro - to someone who has no HALOS. I went to the fabric shop
and got industrial strength self adhesive velcro in TWO 2" wide strips. I
put the two strips side by side so that it's a 4" wide block.
Then I remembered I
had a bunch of other different *baby* blocks available. So I took that
velcro hook and put it on both ends of the cylinder and square block. I
also put hook on the red rectangular block. I can then easily use many
images quickly and easily. Used in conjunction with my regular
set of acrylic blocks, it's nice to have these EXTRAS. I can leave some images
on a block because I use them all the time -- or I can just enjoy the convenience
of using lots of images without having to constantly remove and replace each
and every time I turn around. |
 Yesterday, I made a shadow stamp from the Stamping Up Fun Frames
set. I don't like to have a lot of blank rubber in a frame. I
cut it out carefully with a blade and then I cut around that with deckle
scissors. I then mounted it on a wood block I happened to have -- instant
shadow stamp just the right size for lots of images. You can't tell from
looking at it, but it makes a great shadow impression. |
Photocopy
- don't hand trace:
If you have a template for a box and want to make many of them, try photocopying
the outline of the box directly onto cardstock instead of tracing each and
every one. Too bad *MY* copier isn't working! Guess I'll be making
a trip to Office Max so I can COPY the outline for ALL THOSE Valentine Candy
Boxes I hope to make this year. |
