Aimee's Stamp Krewe: February 2021

Saturday, February 27, 2021

Birthday Newspaper Card

Newsflash! Only one more day to get Approaching Perfection and Darling Donkey free with any $50 purchase from my Stampin' Up! online store. Sale-A-Bration ends Sunday at midnight, oh no!

This easy card was made with lots of fun stamping from multiple sets. Approaching Perfection is perfect for this humorous, newspaper-cover style card, but you can mix in any of your favorite sets to customize the "stories" to be whatever you need!

I used post-it notes to mask the donkey and chicken before I stamped them. After everything was stamped, I drew in some simple lines using a black pen and a ruler.

The Make A Difference stamp set has an amazing alphabet that I used to stamp out the "Vol 1" - you could stamp a birthdate, year or other favorite phrase.

Finally, I sponged around the edges and across the paper to add a little grunge to help achieve the newspaper look.

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Color Blocking with Dandy Garden

Happy happy Saturday! Today's post is part of the DOstamperStars Color Block blog hop. Color blocking is where you stamp your image or images on multiple coordinating pieces of cardstock in the same location, then use your trimmer or dies to create "blocks" of color and design that you can mix and match to create a series of cards.

I used the Dragonfly Wishes stamp set from the Dandy Garden Suite and heat embossed with white embossing powder on neutral colors of cardstock to achieve this look. I was able to repeat the stamping pattern using the stamparatus tool and die cut with the stitched rectangles. To finish it off, I punched a few dragonflies in Basic White and added them to the card.

Because the card front was going to be very busy with the stamping and blocking, I wanted to keep my color palette very neutral and went with coordinating natural colors from the suite.