Hi there stampers! We have a bumper blog post for you today! The Creative Team have been very busy with the new Background Stamps and have lots of great projects to share with you! Today we are showing projects using the new Postage Stamps Background Stamp!
First, here's a series of cards from Liesbeth:
Details from Liesbeth:
I had lots of fun making some cards by using this wonderful (big!) Darkroom Door DDBS030 Postage Stamps stamp!
The 1st and 2nd card : I stamped with Adirondack Big & Juicy inkpads, blended the colours with a water brush and I stamped the imageswith StazOn ink Jet Black. Onto the Notre Dame and the Big Ben I used alittle bleach. Stamp sets I used for this two cards: DDRS073 London Vol. 1, DDRS074 London Vol. 2, DDRS052 Notre Dame, DDRS049 Tour Eiffel, DDRS029 Prague Vol. 1, DDRS090 Discover. I sponged the edges with black ink and matted the cards onto black cardstock.
For the 3rd and 4th card I cut out the Postage Stamp die by TimHoltz/Sizzix. I masked the edges and stamped the Postage Stampsbackground with black (3rd card) and Big & Juicy (4th card) ink.
I added an image from
Filmstrip London Vol.1 and 'Destiny' from
Wordstrip Prague Vol. 2.
The stamp 'Find your way' is a
DDRS090 Discover stamp.
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Next we have a project by Susie:
Details from Susie:
I love this thought that, 'Music is the outburst of the soul'. I love to sing and I especially love those moments when I really lose myself in the melody or lyrics of a song. I find myself all goose bumpy and emotional and lost in the wonder of it all. There's nothing like it! It's fun to sing with my beloved too and it's such an amazing way to connect with someone.
I've been having a lovely 'dress-making' time as I played around with the new Darkroom Door background stamp, Postage Stamps. I've simply stamped the background onto some white paper with pink ink, scrunched it up a bit and created the shape of a skirt. I scalloped the bottom edge of the skirt with scissors and added a little layer of lace underneath the skirt. Then I hand cut a torso shape to go with it, adding a swipe of ink around the edges of the skirt and bodice.
I've also used words and images from two of Darkroom Door's stamp sets to create the background : 'Chorus' and 'Champs Elysée'. Finally, I added some additional music inspired bits n bobs and a bit of lace complete the collage.
Now it's time to turn up the music and have a little sing-a-long! It's good for the soul!
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I started with cutting out two sets of the dies.
I stamped the postage stamp using a water resistant black ink onto the background. I added touches of color to the postage stamp using watercolor pencils and a waterbrush. I sponged the other pieces with black dye ink to get the edges and pieces to pop against the colorful background.
I added a few brass accents to the front.
I then decided to turn this into a gift bag. I didn't want to create the bag myself and had an "AHA" moment where I ran into the kitchen and pulled out a brown paper lunch bag.
The bag was a bit too long for my purposes so I trimmed it off to fit behind the suitcase without it showing.
The only other trick was to make it lay flat when it wasn't open. To do that I had to fold the bottom of the bag in half to put another crease in it so it would lay flat.
When you stand it up it looks like this:
To finish off my bag I decided to take some beautiful tissue paper I up-cycled with adding travel related words using the Journey Wordblock Stamp. I used black water resistant ink on the tissue paper.
Any good traveller has charms and mementos picked up along the way. I created a few Faux Metal charms to dangle on my suitcase. I started with applying versamark to white cardstock. I used a gold embossing powder. I heated it up and repeated until I had a nice thick coat of embossing powder. I applied Versamark ink to the the Postage mark from the New York Volume II set and heated up the embossed paper until it was liquid and set the stamp in the embossed surface. Let this cool off for a minute and the stamp will pop right out. I then cut out the shape. I also took my Journey Wordblock and did the same thing and cut out one of the words to make a longer shaped charm. I found the word Explore on the Venetian Wordstrip which was mounted on black cardstock and added to the charm collection.
Now I have a great gift bag to give someone who is going off on a Journey. My gift bag can be used for a graduation, retirement or any other journey in life.
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Great minds think alike as
Anna-Karin thought the Postage Stamps would be perfect for a suitacse too! Here's her project...
This is a really useful background stamp which can be used on a large variety of projects: cards, layouts, 3-D projects etc. My first thought when I saw it was of old suitcases covered with stamps or travel destinations stickers.
A suitcase needs a ticket and some luggage tags. The ticket was stamped with one of the sentiments from the
Nomad set, and the two small tags were inked and stamped with sentiments from
New York Vol. 1.
Background stamps don't only need to be used for backgrounds, I stamped the Postage Stamps again, on
Ranger's Specialty Stamping paper and coloured three of the stamps lightly with Distress Inks. They were cut out and placed underneath a die cut postage stamp frame. The postage stamp frames were inked first with
Brushed Pewter Distress Stain, but I wanted more colour and went over them again with
Barn Door Distress Stain, giving them a nice red metallic look.
I kept the back of the suitcase simple because I didn't want to cover up the background, and used only one framed postage stamp.
Here you can see the suitcase from the side. If you want to see a tutorial for another version of the suitcase, I made one
here.
The two small tags were tied to the handle. I love these types of small sentiment stamps, they are very useful.
On the inside, I stamped the gorgeous
Central Park photo stamp with Archival Jet Black and inked with
Old Paper,
Bundled Sage and
Gathered Twigs. I love how it looks like you are looking really far into the suitcase because of the perspective in this stamp. A little left-over bird on my desk flew into the suitcase too.
On the front flap, I stamped a stamp from the
Love Letters Vol. 2 set and some more sentiment stamps from New York Vol. 1. As you can see 'N.Y.C' is stamped twice, I forgot that the lower part of the suitcase would be covered up by the flap.
Inside the suitcase there is a small mini-book, which can be filled with travel memories and photos, or perhaps with quotes.
The pages are made from manila cardstock which was coloured with
Bundled Sage,
Antique Linen,
Frayed Burlap and
Brushed Pewter Distress Stain. When dry, I cut them into pages (7x8 cm) and stamped them with different background and photo stamps using Frayed Burlap ink. I also added some sentiments and more stamping with black ink. The back of each page was left blank, to give more space for writing or photos. All the edges were inked with Gathered Twigs.
I bound it with my Bind-it-All. This first stamp comes from
Venetian Vol. 1.
Supplies:
Darkroom Door products:
Other products:
Dies: Sizzix: Suitcase Bag, Tiny Tags & Tabs, Mini Tickets, Mini Bottle Cap & Stamp, Birds on a Wire
Embellishments: twine; ribbon
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Postage Stamps Background Stamp - Project Ideas
