The segment was short, but there was quite a variety of inventive items we pulled from the Shoebox today.
Clouds!! I had the best time stamping all those clouds that just sort of happened before my very eyes (figure A). These were all made possible by PrintWorks which is a rubber stamp company, but this time, I used a sponge for the stamp, a pad of ink, and a clear plastic stencil. Stamp around the stencil with the sponge and you have clouds! The ink is blue, so you actually stamp the sky, and the unstamped white area of the paper is the cloud. Fascinating. Made for, of course, whom else but all you memory album fans out there. The clouds make a great background for many of your photos, especially baby pictures.
Next out of the Shoebox was a personal item that I felt compelled to show you. It was a thank you note from Sandi Genovese of Ellison Crafts, who had been a guest on our show some time ago. Sandi had showed us the darling pop-up of clapping hands as a memory album page idea, but this time she used the same colorful die-cuts in a thank-you card (figure B). made from a piece of black paper (tag board weight) with several accordion folds in the middle. A number of cut-outs of hands were glued to the folds so that when you opened the folded-over black card, all the hands popped up. A REALLY clever concept.
. . . And then there were the Campbell Soup Kids (figure C). They have now made it to rubber stamps, where I have no doubt that their popularity will be renewed. For a whole generation or two or three, this will be a case of nostalgia, and for a brand-new generation, they will be the new kids on the block. The Stamp Affair company has come out with an entire line of these pudgy cuties engaged in all manner of activities...not just cooking soup and looking cute. Naturally, there is also a rubber stamp portraying a can of soup.
Then, to round out our quick trip into the miscellany today, there was a letter from viewer Heather Stewart of Palm Springs, Fla. Heather practices paper recycling in grand style. First of all, she used a throwaway flier for her stationery, folding it in quarters so that none of the printing on the printed side showed. She wrote her letter on the inside and decorated the outside front and back with a wild potpourri of colored paper pieces, also from throwaways. Then, she cut various shapes using decorative blade scissors, and she decorated the envelope to match (figure D). Labor-intensive, but surely a good re-use of junk mail.
Resources Campbell Soup Kids rubber stamps
Contact Stamp Affair for a local distributor.
Stamp Affair
Lake Villa, IL
Phone: 847-265-3330
Email:
stampaffair2@hotmail.com
URL:
www.stampaffair.com
paper edgers - Fiskars
Fiskars
Website:
www.fiskars.com
templates - PrintWorks Collection
PrintWorks Collection Inc.
Website:
www.printworkscollection.com
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