We are coming up to the mad week in September with a whole bunch of close family birthdays in the one week. I have a stack of cards I've made but none suitable for my niece who will be 7. So, I used a cute Sarah Kay design and coloured it with Copics. (Yes..I'm still trying to get control over the pens!). I cut the finished picture to a rectangle then used the corner rounding punch on my envelope board to round off the corners. the die is from Spellbinders. The flower is a hand made dampened scrunched flower using a tutorial at Such a Pretty Mess and the heart sticks are die cut. The die has a whole bunch of the sticks on the one die.
I'm a hopeless stamper - my stamps always seem to be blotchy and/or blurred, in the wrong spot or slightly skewed/off centre/not quite straight. My solution? Stamp on to scrap paper and use a light box to trace the design onto the final surface using a fine (0.2) pen. If my surface is card and I can't see through it to trace, I trace it on to printer paper, scan the tracing, then print it onto the card.
Stamping and tracing also has the advantage of being able to eliminate parts of the design that you don't want. Some stamps come with "shading" on them which I don't always like, and sometimes I want parts of the stamps in different colours. Modifying this design for instance, I could leave off the flowers on the dress or the checks on the pocket. Or I could have made a plain bow in the girl's hair instead of a flowered one.
Another advantage with stamping, tracing and scanning is that you can combine designs and line up multiple stampings easily. You can also change the size of the stamp which is really useful and makes your stamps a whole lot more versatile. You pay good money for a decent quality stamp...make it work for you!
The only thing you mustn't do is share or sell your scans as that is an infringement of copyright. Stamping, tracing and scanning should be for your personal use only as the design is still copyrighted to the original owner of the artwork.
I'm a hopeless stamper - my stamps always seem to be blotchy and/or blurred, in the wrong spot or slightly skewed/off centre/not quite straight. My solution? Stamp on to scrap paper and use a light box to trace the design onto the final surface using a fine (0.2) pen. If my surface is card and I can't see through it to trace, I trace it on to printer paper, scan the tracing, then print it onto the card.
Stamping and tracing also has the advantage of being able to eliminate parts of the design that you don't want. Some stamps come with "shading" on them which I don't always like, and sometimes I want parts of the stamps in different colours. Modifying this design for instance, I could leave off the flowers on the dress or the checks on the pocket. Or I could have made a plain bow in the girl's hair instead of a flowered one.
Another advantage with stamping, tracing and scanning is that you can combine designs and line up multiple stampings easily. You can also change the size of the stamp which is really useful and makes your stamps a whole lot more versatile. You pay good money for a decent quality stamp...make it work for you!
The only thing you mustn't do is share or sell your scans as that is an infringement of copyright. Stamping, tracing and scanning should be for your personal use only as the design is still copyrighted to the original owner of the artwork.
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