Stacy Croninger - Digital Managing Editor
Hi friends,
It’s true confession time. Do your stamps take up one shelf or drawer? Two shelves or drawers? An entire wall? Well I’m right there with you – I have five clear shoe box style boxes (the big ones), a desktop drawer set with four drawers, two three-ring binders, and a stack that I haven’t found homes for yet (and yes, that stack falls over on a regular basis). But I LOVE my stamps, as I’m sure you do. And if we love them then we better start using them.
Which brings me to today’s challenge – stamping multiple ways with one stamp set. In honor of Stamp It! 3 Ways, I’ve created three tags that each uses the stamp set in a different way – as a background (Thanks tag – used a monochromatic color and then popped three pennants using orange), to create an accent (For You tag – pennants create the flower’s petals), and stamped on a different medium (Thanks tag – stamped pennants on canvas). Typically, when you have a challenge, the participants all use the same thing. But for today’s challenge, you can use any stamp set you want. Old, new, flowers, pets, whatever grabs your fancy. The only thing I ask is that you create three items using the stamp set in three different ways. If you want to use what I did, great! If you want to come up with your own, that works just as well.
Here are my three tags.
Here’s the stamp set I used from Unity Stamp Co. I used the two small pennants that are in the front to create the tags.
Okay, the time is now yours to gather your supplies and start creating. When you are done, post a link to your creation in a comment or post your image in our Flickr group.
Have so much fun creating!
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Cute tags and great use of one stamp set.
Great tags…love the little pendant stamps.
Fun challenge! I’m in!!!
Very cute tags and creative uses of one stamp set!
GREAT challenge. I’m always trying to think of different ways to use my supplies and it’s so easy to get stuck in a rut.
Thanks ladies!! Can’t wait to see what you create.
StacyC
Nice tags and post, Stacy. I’m trying to extend the use of my stamps, but don’t have the same “vision” as you pros do. I’d like to see more posts like this.
Very clever use of those stamps!
I love all of these ideas.I need to make a birthday card for my grandson-I’m going to try some of the inspiration I see here.
Love this reminder to stretch our stamps by using them in different ways. Off to rummage through my sets and come up with my own ideas!
Great tags and love the way you showed 3 different ways to use the same stamps!
Your tags look marvelous and so different! Well done!
Very creative tags! Love those little banners!
LOVE the sun!!!!!!!
going to take the survey now!
Awesome example of how you can use a set three ways! Love your flower, you could probably make a kite also! Great tags, that could easily be cards as well! Thanks for sharing.
Katie B.
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Love your cards! This was a fun challenge. My New Year’s Resolution is to post a card a day on my blog so I’ve got 3 posts for this. The first is http://madamewong.wordpress.com/2013/01/31/paper-crafts-connection-stamping-3-ways-1/
Here’s my second card. http://madamewong.wordpress.com/2013/02/01/paper-crafts-connection-stamping-3-ways-2
Here’s my third card – http://madamewong.wordpress.com/2013/02/02/paper-crafts-connection-stamping-3-ways-3
That’s so cool to see the stamps used so differently. I love the stamping on canvas–it’s great to see the texture.
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This was such a fun challenge! Here’s my link:
http://www.kathybydesign.com/paper-crafts-stamp-it-3-ways-challenge/
I’ll also link it in the Flickr group.
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cute tags! love the banners!