Have you checked out the Tags Tags Tags stamp set and coordinating dies on page 56 of Stampin’ Up!’s Holiday Catalog?
This stamp set and the coordinating dies are quite interesting. In the stamp set you can see that there are 3 Halloween tags, 3 Valentine tags and 3 Christmas tags. Each holiday has one of each different shape die. Now look at the die itself. The dies are connected. The stamps are also connected. The three Halloween images are all on one stamp! (As are the Valentine and Christmas stamps). This makes it easy to stamp and cut the multiple images.
The card above is one I designed for my Fall & Halloween Card Buffet. As you can see, I only used one of the Halloween tags on my card. Since it was the tag on one of the ends of the stamp I was able to only ink it up so as not to waste paper…although I probably could have come up with a use for other images.
For this card I needed to only stamp the word “Halloween” from the tag on a strip of Terracotta Tile cardstock. I tried using the Basic Black Stampin’ Write Marker but it didn’t cover very well on the photopolymer stamp and I also had a hard time getting just the word I wanted inked up. Sticky Notes to the rescue! I used four sticky notes, one on each side of the word, to cover up the areas of the stamp I didn’t want to ink up. I then inked up the stamp, sticky notes and all, in my Memento Tuxedo Black ink. The next step was to remove the sticky notes from the stamp, huff on the stamp (your breath will re-wet the ink), and then I stamped the image on my strip of Terracotta Tile cardstock. The important thing is to remember to remove the sticky notes or you’ll have a big mess when you stamp. Ha!
I backed the tag with a 1 1/2″ circle of Basic Black cardstock before adhering the tag to the front of my card.
The hardest part of this card was making the little strip of Terracotta Tile cardstpck and stamping on it. This is a pretty simple card since the only stamping on it is the little tag. Easy Peasy with the cute images in the Monster Bash Designer Series Paper!
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