Hello March!
I say it each and every month,
but seriously, where is the time going? And this February was longer than
normal!
Thank you to all who participated in February’s INSPIRED BY THE SEASONS
CHALLENGE. It seems that Winter was the favourite season to scrapbook, with Summer
close behind and then an even spread between Spring and Autumn. As always, the
K+ Facebook Community page is looking fabulous!
Now, onto the March challenge.
DIY STAMPS!
This month we want you to be inspired to create your own DIY Stamps! When
I think of DIY stamps, I can’t help but think of our own Louise Nelson with her
amazing stamps carved out of erasers. You can use household items, like toilet
rolls, lids or literally anything else you can find around the home. You can
create stamps out of fruit or vegetables, like we did at school...who remembers
stamping with your own hand carved potato stamps? The possibilities are endless,
as you'll see from the Design Team.
How will you create your own DIY stamp?
As always, the graphics were created by our very talented Amanda Hall.
DIY Stamps Challenge.
The Kraft Plus Design Team
I created a fun birthday layout. My DIY stamps, were
lids and a tea strainer.
When I first saw this
challenge, I had so many ideas running around my head. When it came to doing
the challenge, I had forgotten my ideas, oops.
So on this layout, I have stamped using large bubble wrap, and varying sized paper tubes from paper rolls, glad wrap etc. Obviously the easist style of stamping when not using a stamp, lol. But it all worked well with the bubble theme.
So on this layout, I have stamped using large bubble wrap, and varying sized paper tubes from paper rolls, glad wrap etc. Obviously the easist style of stamping when not using a stamp, lol. But it all worked well with the bubble theme.
I will admit I was a bit daunted by the challenge this month. Stamps are
not something I use a whole lot of and making my own is something I rarely do.
After a hunt through the house I now have a bunch of fun things to stamp with
(not all used on this LO).
On this LO I stuck with some of the circular shapes I found. I used both ends of the lid from my laundry powder, the end of a wine cork (I have a few of them floating around) and the end of a battery. I love how they create texture on the background without overwhelming it.
On this LO I stuck with some of the circular shapes I found. I used both ends of the lid from my laundry powder, the end of a wine cork (I have a few of them floating around) and the end of a battery. I love how they create texture on the background without overwhelming it.
Firstly I drew my
flowers, leaves & circles on thick box cardboard. Then I traced the
illustrations as best I could with my hot glue gun. Allowed the resulting
images to dry hard. Then used them as stamps.
I have to confess, I cheated with this one...while I did
use DIY stamps, they are not stamps created by me! I was a little time poor and
why DIY when you have a fabulous friend who has a whole box of her own DIY
stamps LOL! Thank you so much Ronnie. This talented friend has created her own foam
stamps, made out of craft foam attached to foam mat blocks, the hardest thing was picking just one! As I had my gel plate out, I used
it to get an even coating on the stamp, then stamped on my layout. I also used a toilet roll and paint to create the pink circles. My
own DIY stamps will continue to sit on the ‘to do’ list...one day.
I’m not creative or patient enough to create my own
stamps. But hey! The lateral thinking skills kicked in for this challenge... so
I used a scrunched up paper bag behind the photo for texture. The edge scallops
were stamped with both an egg cup base & washi tape roll!
Hi Here is my layout for DIY Stamps. I have used a very simple handmade
stamp by sticking a ripped piece of corrigated cardboard onto a little
container and stamped on my page by dipping the stamp into white gesso.. I then
splashed and dabbed some water color paint onto the back ground to create the
foundation for my layout.. TFL!
“Say cheers”- This month’s challenge really got me
thinking! The idea was to create a page using DIY stamps. What a great idea
this was! This allows you to roam your house and see what objects you can use
on your project. For the large black circles, I used the roll from a sticky
tape dispenser. And the white lines was the ending of a used up bank card. And
lastly for the small circles, I used bubble wrap! To add texture I used gold
modelling paste with the @kinderkreations.au stencil in Tri Nitro. Then placed
a @CharmsCreations Denim, lime and teal arrow behind the title. Do look forward
to seeing what you come up with this challenge. Thank you,Amy
I used bubble wrap and a make up sponge to make my own stamps for this
layout.
I made my own background stamp, using rubber off cuts, from my bought stamps. I cut them into squares and rectangles, then glued to a piece of plastic sheet. I stamped, then embossed with some mixed media, glitter powder.
Lastly, we have cards by Louise using her fabulous DIY
stamps. Louise likes to keep to a simple style, leaving them ready to add a sentiment at a
later date.
Guest Designer
Please welcome for
this month...
Victoria King
I love how Victoria used a celery head to stamp her flower images...too clever!
I’m a Kiwi and have been living in Australia for 21
years, I am passionate about dancing tango and travel, so I try to combine the
2 as often as possible and have managed to dance in many beautiful places. I
discovered Kraft + about a year ago, but I always seemed to finish my layout
after the end of the month, so haven’t actually posted much, but have loved
having the inspiration the boards give us.
Each month we are on the lookout for eye-catching
projects for potential Guest Designers to join us. There is nothing extra you
need to do, just share your layout or project in the Kraft+ Community Facebook
page. We hope you all embrace the opportunity.
We welcome all kinds of Kraft
entries for our challenges, from a traditional layout, cards, digital layouts,
art journal and tags etc., just please remember that it is all about the Kraft, so we want to see Kraft as the base or
‘hero’ of your creation.
You can share your K+ creations
with us on our
We no longer have the ‘linky’ tool
on the blog, but would still love to see your creations. Anyone who is not on
Facebook, can email us their creations and if you have a blog, a link to that
so we can still visit.
Our email is kraftplusaust@outlook.com
That's it for the March
challenge. I do hope you enjoy it and find time for this month’s challenge.
We can't wait to see what you
all come up with :-)
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