Heartfelt Inkspiration

This birthday card from the recent Stamp Review Crew blog hop is pretty simple (as you can tell from the product list below), except perhaps for the aligning of the stamps (two of them) along the curve! And yet, that’s part of this card’s charm, I think.

Have you ever intentionally curved photopolymer stamps? It sometimes happens unintentionally when new stampers are affixing a photopolymer stamp to a block. I learned how to do it like this:

• Peel the stamp off the window sheet or stamp case. This may stretch it out of shape.
• Put the stamp face down (i.e., flat side up) on your Grid Paper.
• Let the stamp “relax” (returning to its original shape)
• Press the acrylic block against it.

If you hold the stamp in your fingers to put it on a block, I have found chances are much greater that you will accidentally change its shape.

As with my other Amazing Phrasing card earlier this week, I placed the stamps in a curve on a big block (H), then adjusted them as necessary.

No, your eyes do not deceive you: there is shading in the corner of the So Saffron layer, in order to suggest the sun.

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Amazing Phrasing Photopolymer Stamp Set (English) [159930] $0.00

So Saffron Classic Stampin' Pad [147109] $8.00

Night Of Navy Classic Stampin' Pad [147110] $8.00

Basic White 8 1/2" X 11" Thick Cardstock [159229] $8.75

So Saffron 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [105118] $9.25

Rings Of Love 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Designer Series Paper [159939] $0.00

Basic Borders Dies [155558] $29.00

Blending Brushes [153611] $12.50

I mailed this card shortly after the Stamp Review Crew’s July-August 2022 Sale-A-Bration blog hop, so I must rely on my imperfect memory to provide a description! I hope I will not omit important info.

As I wrote for the hop, I took advantage of the flexibility of photopolymer to shape the words along the Sweet Sorbet edge that I had cut with the Basic Border dies. I “bent” the stamp at an angle, then compared it to the edge, adjusting the angle as necessary.

After I heat-embossed the words, I decided the Sweet Sorbet panel was too plain and could benefit from some texture. Running it through a folder at this point was pretty risky, and indeed the embossing did crack just a tiny bit, but not enough to be horrible. (At least, I didn’t hear from the recipient of this card that she was insulted by its quality!)

See? You don’t even notice the minor cracking!

The little stitched tag is from the Happy Forest die set, but instead of threading the ribbon and/or twine through the tag’s hole, I trimmed off the top of the tag and slipped it under the knot. But that was after I fussy cut and adhered those teeny, tiny butterflies!

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Amazing Phrasing Photopolymer Stamp Set (English) [159930] $0.00

Versamark Pad [102283] $9.50

Sweet Sorbet Classic Stampin' Pad [159216] $8.00

Basic White 8 1/2" X 11" Thick Cardstock [159229] $8.75

Rings Of Love 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Designer Series Paper [159939] $0.00

Sweet Sorbet 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock [159268] $9.25

Basic White 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock [159276] $10.25

Basic Borders Dies [155558] $29.00

Basics Embossing Powders [155554] $18.00

Heat Tool (Us And Canada) [129053] $30.00

Painted Texture 3 D Embossing Folder [154317] $9.00

Whisper White 1/4" (6.4 Mm) Crinkled Seam Binding Ribbon [151326] $7.50

2022–2024 In Color Baker's Twine Pack [159195] $15.00

Happy Forest Dies [158951] $30.00