Stamping Hints & Tips

I have many crafting books and one of them I was looking at recently gave me some different ideas that I hadn't thought of for rubber stamping. Here are some of the ideas for all you stampers out there!:

* Stamp butterfly, heart and animal stamps onto patterned paper and cut out (Great if you're not so good at colouring in!):

* Stamp onto buttons with small image stamps. I had a go at this today with these clock and star designs:

(These could be used as embellishments maybe with some ribbon for scrapbooking)

* You can stamp onto fabrics (use PVA glue to stop fraying) or Felt to put your images on cards.

* Another one I tried today, enlarging your stamped images using your scanner and computer:


(Image came from a 'Inkadinkado' birthday stamp set)

It is my older son's 10th birthday on Monday (WOW!) and we have a family tradition of putting posters all around the house of the birthday boy or girl. Some of the posters have pictures of the birthday person when they were younger and some are just general 'Happy Birthday' posters like this.

I will need to do some more birthday preparations tomorrow, hope the weather improves!

This picture is of my boys sledging yesterday (bringing a bit of colour to their cheeks!)