If you are anything like me, you have some ink, stamps and coordinating dies lying around your craft space. It seems many scrapbookers are also card makers, and I am no exception. I have purchased many stamping supplies but to get the most value from my craft budget, my stamps have to do double duty.
I absolutely LOVE The Stamps of Life acrylic stamps and dies. What originally drew me to their products was I saw a booth at a Creating Keepsakes Convention, and their stamps and coordinating dies were so compatible with my scrapbooking style. I had two little boys at the time, and their fun happy feel drew me into the booth. I didn’t realize at the time, I was signed up to take a class with company founder and designer, Stephanie Bernard. I learned so much from her, and left that weekend signed up as a Stamps of Life Stamp Club member, and subsequently have joined their Die Hard club and Card Kit Club. All the layouts I will be showing you here were created with their products and I will link to the supplies I used.
Ice Cream Palace
I stamped and die cut these ice cream cones and they made the perfect embellishments for this layout showing my boys at the Ice Cream Palace in Give Kids the World Village. I did not add any journaling to this layout because it is in a vacation album, and I had already written quite a bit about our experiences. I just wanted a fun page to showcase these photos of the boys indulging in ice cream.(The ice cream is free and you can have it for breakfast - and as much as you want, all day long!)
This ice cream stamp is awesome - and I've used them many times on different layouts.
You Color My World
The crayons2stamp was one of the first stamp sets I bought from The Stamps of Life. They were the perfect embellishments for this rainbow layout of my kids when they decided to "tattoo" themselves with markers. To further emphasize the theme, I used various colored letter stickers to spell out COLOR in the title.
I wanted the look of crayons that had been dropped - so I actually dropped some crayons on my table to see how they would fall and then adhered my stamped images to my layout to recreate the look.
To see more layouts with stamped embellishments, check out part 2!
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