Don’t you just love Merry-go-Rounds? when I first designed this Carousel Horse digital stamp I had a clean horse and that’s it but I am a stamper from way back and I love the collage look rubber stamps so I thought “hey, why not make a funky collage style digital stamp?” So I did and it is available in the Lindsay’s Stamp Stuff Shop:
The carousel stamp set and the Shabby houndstooth paper pack are both on sale at MyGrafico and available instantly!
Here is a look a the Carousel Horse mini set. I know everyone does not like collage style stamps so I also have a clean version of the horse and frame included:
On sale for 1.99
Now lets see what the fabulous Junior DT has been up to this week:
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Happy Monday folks! Nothing softens the blow of a Monday like a freebie. There was a challenge over at Oriental Stamp Art last week to make a tea themed card and this weeks challenge is to include a dragon in your card design so I decided to combine both challenges in one and share the template with you:
Stamps: About Art Accents, Paper: K&Co, Template: Lindsay Weirich (download below)Same stamps different paper!See, I did use a dragon 😉
And one more for you retro fans…
Stamps Crafty Secrets, Paper: K&Co
I added chunky glitter to the sugar cubes to make them look..well, sugary 🙂
You can cut this card with your Cricut Machine if you have SCAL software.
*Note: I just found out that there is a coupon code to save 10% off SCAL! Enter this code during checkout if you buy it:3847758 it is good through 5/26/2009!
Want more freebies? Then sign up for my “what’s Digital Stamping” yahoo group and get a new free digital stamp every week! Have a great day and happy crafting!
I popped in to JoAnns Fabric Store the other day with a couple of coupons burning a hole in my pocket and what should I see but the Cricut Deep Cut blade and housing and packs of the Cricut Stamp Sheets. Since JoAnn lets you use coupons an cricut accessories (not the machines and cartridges) AND they will let you use multiple coupons I grabbed both to try! Here are my results, the birdcage and chandelier were made with the Cricut Stamp sheets.
Credits: Software: SCAL, Font: DB Ladybird, Die Cutter and Stamp sheets: Cricut, Bird and Butterfly stamps: InkadinkadoThis is what the stamp looks like when it clings to the block.
I have wanted to try the stamp material for a while but reviews of the product weren’t great and I hadn’t bothered to get the deep cut blade yet also because the reviews were lukewarm but I gave it a shot and I am one happy cricuteer…is that even a word? For my trail I used a new deep cut blade and deep cut blade housing (the blue one), a fairly newish mat, and a 6″x6″ sheet of stamp film and Scal software( one sale 10% off with this code: 1266018 until 4/12/09) but you could use Design Studio. I recommend the software so you can arrange it and pack as many images as you can fit in the 6″x6″ space and so you don’t make errors and waste the pricey film. BTW the price of a 2 pack of 6″x6″ stamp film is $10 but you can use your coupon at JoAnns or shop around on-line for a good deal. Here is what to do. Firmly press the film to the mat, put it in the stickiest area of the mat, if you have a brand new mat use that. As an extra precaution I taped along the edge with masking tape. Put the blue blade housing with a deep cut blade set at 4.5 in the machine and load the mat. Set the pressure to high (#4) Arrange the images to cut in your software and click cut. for best results don’t cut anything with too much detail or lines thinner than 1/8″ or the stamp will be too flimsy. Solid or silhouette images work best. See how many images I got from one 6″x6″ sheet. They are stamped on a 8 1/2″x11″ paper for reference.
All this was cut from a 6"x6" sheet. You can really pack in the images!
Take care when removing the images from the mat. Keep a pair of sharp fine tip scissors handy in case you need to make a snip here or there as I did with the chandelier stamp. The film is also available as a kit with clear blocks which is a good deal if you need the acrylic stamp blocks but if you have some already I would just get the stamp sheets. One disadvantage of the sheets is that they are very thin, be careful not to get ink on the block when inking up your stamp and keep a tissue handy to wipe away and rogue ink on the block before stamping.
Another tip, make sure you preview you image before you cut, if any part of the image looks too thin you can fix it now, for example the boy icon and robot dingbats had no neck so I welded a rectangle on so it could cut in one piece.
Bottom Line: I love this, I just grabbed another pack of the stamp sheets this morning (yes, with a coupon 😉 ) and I can’t wait to make more lovely stamps!
BTW If anyone knows whos blog I downloaded the beautiful chandelier SVG from please leave a comment so I can credit her. The bircadge come from DB Ladybird (scrapnfonts.com) and the boy, girl, flower and robot are from the free font Efon. Thanks for stopping by and happy crafting!
We interrupt your regular scheduled blog post for a great deal! I just got an email form Craft Edge (The folks that make Sure Cuts a Lot software) and they are offering 10% off the software with this code: 1266018 If you have been waiting to get SCAL now is the time. You can use SCAL to cut any font you want plus SVG files with you Cricut die cutting machine. The coupon will expire on April 13th. I’ll be back in a few hours with a craft but I had to share the coupon before I forgot. Happy crafting!
