Lots of you have been buying the Art Journaling with Terri Sproul stamp set from Sin City Stamps to use on your journal pages. Here’s another way to use one of the stamps from that set. It’s a simple card to send to your favorite student!
Adding text to a card can be a real challenge. It’s nice when you have a stamp that says exactly what you want to say, but that doesn’t always happen. I have a stamp set that lets me spell out my text, but that limits me to one typeface and size. If you don’t trust your own lettering, a good solution is to print your text using word processing software. It’s easy and there are limitless options for typeface and size.
What if you want your text superimposed over your stamp? It would look pretty funny to have the ruled page stamp over the text in this case, so I needed to print the text on top of the stamp. Here’s an easy way to line up your stamp and your text without buying a new tool.
Print the text on a plain sheet of paper. I measured the stamp image and set margins so that my text could not exceed the width I wanted.
Use that sheet as a guide for stamping. Cut away the portion of the page where the text appears. My image was rectangular, so I used a ruler to mark my cutting lines. But you don’t have to do that. You can just trace around your image and cut!
Stamp your image, matching the edge of the image to the line you cut. (This one is black, but in the end, I decided to redo it with green ink to match my patterned paper.)
When it dries, print your text onto the same sheet. Now your text is on top of your stamped image!
For this card, I scored and folded an 8.5 x 11 inch piece of cardstock. Then I cut a piece of patterned paper just a little smaller than my card and adhered it to the card with double sided tape. I prepared my stamped image as described above, and cut it with a paper trimmer. I inked the edges of the small rectangle and the edges of the card with Antique Linen Distress Ink, then adhered the rectangle to the card with double sided tape. And that was it!
This stamp can be used for any phrase you want! All the stamps in this set have multiple uses, making it a great bargain. And right now you can get it, and everything at Sin City Stamps, for 20% off for the rest of the month! Just enter the code nautical20 at checkout.
Plus, Sin City Stamps is giving away $1,000 worth of stamps (ten $100 prizes). Go here to find out how to enter to win!
Starshine Wishes,
Karen
