Here is last night’s hostess club layout! It was alot of fun to make and I love all the sea creatures.
Recipe:
STAMP SETS: Sea Street By the Tide
By the Seashore What’s Your Type?
CARD STOCK: Maritime DSP Real Red
Night of Navy Whisper White
Gold Foil
INK: Real Red Night of Navy
Coastal Cabana Baked Brown Sugar
Soft Suede
ACCESSORIES: Circle Framelits Big Shot
Window Sheet Wiggley Eyes
Candy Dots (White) (I had to substitute pearls)
Stamp-a-ma-jig Ruler
Dimensionals Sticky Strip
Punches for Anchor: 1” Circle
1/2” Circle Word Window
2-1/2” Circle Pennant Punch
I have lots of tips so I’ll start at the “tiptop”!
TIP: For the “AHOY MATE” I practiced with the stamp set and only used 2 colors. I made a sample on Coastal Cabana to look at while I did the real thing! I went “full strength”, inking up the stamp and stamping a letter and decided I liked the more subtle look you get when you stamp off first. To do this, load the stamp up with ink (look at inked side to make sure all is covered) then stamp on scrap paper, then on project.
I also used this stamping off technique on the background. some I stamped off, some I didn’t. It gives the background deminsion!
TIP: I used the stamp-a-ma-jig for the rope. Practice this too before stamping your project. I made little mistakes where the seashells are. Something I heard at a crop: mistakes are excuses for embellishments!
TIP: When I cut the window sheet, I used a “shim”, I put a couple pieces of cardstock under the clear cutting boards to add pressure. Depending on your Big Shot, and material you are using to
cut out as well as type of die cutting tool you may want to try this.
TIP: For the “porthole”, I cut 2 circle framelits at the same time. And even though I was using the magnetic plate, I still used my painters tape to ensure they didn’t move.
Now for the anchor, here are the punches I used:
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| TIP: When you need to punch out something that needs to be centered, always punch the inside first, then you can center the larger punch. |
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| TIP: I traced the crescent shape to use as a guide when using the large circle punch. |
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| TIP: In order to be able to hold on to the punched shape, I used a sticky note. |
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| TIP: For the small triangles on the sides of the anchors crescent. |
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| All the pieces–the long bar is 3/8″ x 2-1/2″. |
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| Finished!
I hope you find these tips helpful!
Happy stampin’,
~Laura
P.S. My blog doesn’t always cooperate-thus the uneven look it some-
times has:( |
