Stamping Tips and Tricks

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Hi Stamping Friends,

Today I thought I would share a few tips with you instead of a project. After all, one can never have too many tips. Don't you agree? 😉

1)  Do you need a little bling on your project, but you don't have any gems in the right color? Use your Stampin’ Blends™ to color any of your clear or frosted gem embellishments to the perfect color to match your project!    

2)  A plastic spoon is a very handy tool to include with your stamping supplies in case your ink pads are too juicy for your Distinktive™ stamps to give you a good detailed image.  All you do is use the edge of the spoon to gently push the ink over to the side of the ink pad. Your image may be lighter, but you will get all the beautiful detail built into the distinktive™ stamps. Then afterward, just use your spoon to push the ink back to the center of the pad.              Distinktive™ Stamp List on pg 114 of the Annual Catalog.                                                                                                                                                                                                    3)  Get more use from your sentiment stamps! Many sentiment stamps can be used to create a different message with a bit of masking. It’s really quite simple, just arrange your stamps on the block, then place a piece of tape over the part of the stamp/s you don’t want to use. You can use washi tape, clear tape, blue painter’s tape or any other kind of tape that has a low-tack. Ink up your stamp, remove the tape and stamp your image.                                                                                                                                                                               

4)  Easy Scoring on your card bases --  Whenever you use Thick cardstock      (Whisper White or Very Vanilla) or when your card base is 4 ¼”  x 11″, you can be sure you have a clean fold in your card if you use the Simply Scored Scoring Tool, and then fold with the “mountain”  or raised side of the score to the inside of your card. Burnishing the fold with a bone folder will make it nice and crisp.                                                                                                                                                                                If you have any tips or tricks that you'd like to share, please leave them in the comments below. Have a great day and thanks for stopping by!

Susan                                                                                                                               

                                       

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  1. DelSeptember 30, 2020 at 1:30 PM

    Thank you for sharing all these tips, I deffinately will try number 2.

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  2. Susan HarwoodOctober 1, 2020 at 6:17 PM

    You're welcome Del. Happy I was able to provide some useful info. ;-D

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