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Tutorial: How to turn dies into a background stamp with Carson Riutta

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Hello friends! Carson here, and I’m excited to share a fun technique with you that will stretch your supplies, save you time during the holidays, and help you personalize those Christmas cards. Today I’m going to show you how to turn your dies into a unique background stamp which you can stamp again and again to create any number of Christmas cards. This technique takes a little time on the front end, but saves you time when you are mass producing your holiday cards.

Pictured here are all the supplies you will need to recreate this card, however if you are simply creating your background stamp, you will need:

    ·Assorted dies (I used the Studio Calico Stars and Hand Drawn Stars)

    ·A die cut machine

    ·Adhesive backed fun foam (very inexpensive at the big box craft stores)

    ·And a large stamping block (you can also use a flat plastic piece for this if you don’t have a large block, perhaps a lid of some sort)

To create your stamp, you will need to:

    1. Repeatedly die-cut your chosen shapes from your foam, the color of the foam does not matter here, although a lighter color foam will make it easier to see how well the stamp is inked.

    2. Pull off the backing and adhere your die-cut shapes to your block until you are pleased with the pattern

    3. Ink it up and stamp

There you have it, you’ve created your own unique background stamp and you’re ready to stamp as many cards as you like, in as many colors as you like. I’m going to try this technique with a set of my snowflake dies as well!

Once my image was stamped in Mint Hint I thought the background needed a little more color to make the card really pop. I used the small star stamp from the Ornament stamp set and stamped with Flamingo ink across the card.

I them splattered a little black ink to add contrast and began building my ornament with a nesting circle die and the gorgeous ornament stamp set. The paper I used to create the ornament is a lovely pink pattern from the Brimfield Main Kit.

Once my ornament was cut and stamped, I added a die-cut Graphic Bow in black and stapled and length of black and white ribbon behind the ornament which I popped up on the card with more fun foam.

I hope you’ll try this technique with your own holiday cards. Happy Holiday Crafting!

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