Tuesday, May 31, 2011

About Amazing Creations Stamps – getting the best out of your Stamps!

You will discover that a large majority of Border, Strip Borders, Square Frames, Corners, Writing and Picture stamps have been designed and sized so they fit inside each other, allowing you to create stories and easy, quick layouts without any effort. This allows you to create many, many different designs with only a few stamps.
You will find throughout our catalogue, square picture and message stamps, that fit inside the square border stamps. If the picture stamp you’d like to combine with your border stamp is too big, cut it down to the right size or use doubled sided foam tape, to place it over the top of the border.
Borders have been left empty so you can choose a different message or picture stamp each time you use it. There is a rectangular range of borders in which long greetings can fit inside with two or three lines depending on the height of writing. All writing is similar so you can mix and match your phrases and always be able to say the right thing for whatever event is happening in your life.
The long strip borders are great to create an edge, your own backgrounds or a border the exact size you want. Simply mask the end or selectively ink the stamp using pens or an ink pad.
The strip border stamps are long enough to go right off the edge of a standard sized card. This was designed for greater diversity of the stamp.
Use the bow on the border stamps its design goes with, or make a present using a strip border and a square of coloured paper, make a bouquet of flowers using the flowers from the long stemmed flower range.
Corner stamps are extremely versatile stamps to have. Not only for classy cards and memory albums, also make squares with them or backgrounds or even borders by stamin them with their longest side following a straight line.
The L shaped corner can be stamped twice to make a small square. Stamp it four times with the longer tips touching and you have a star shape in the middle. Use these to create a border or as a background by randomly stamping card.

Friday, May 13, 2011

How to Have a Really Great Stamp Collection #3

3. GREETINGS
Essential stamps if you are making cards! It’s good to get a few general sayings that can be used in lots of different occasions. I try to get writing that goes together so I can mix and match them and so get more mileage out of my stamps. This is not as important as the first two points about greetings, but try to compliment them with your theme stamps.
Most importantly – enjoy and have fun stamping!

How to Have a Really Great Stamp Collection #2

2. BACKGROUNDS STAMPS
Background stamps can be small or large. Great to fill spaces (cover mistakes) and create backgrounds or textures. Includes border stamps, stars, insects, flowers, clouds, snow, etc. The ones you need depend on your “theme” stamps, and it makes it easier if they complement each other. I also include border stamps in this group.

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

How to Have a Really Great Stamp Collection #1

Being a stamp addict myself, here are some thoughts on having a really great stamp collection.

You need a good variety, not a lot, but a good spread to cover most occasions.

Look at the stamps you already have, and divide them into three groups: -

1. THEME STAMPS

These are picture stamps. If you have a love of something, maybe teddies, geckos, butterflies ... use this as it means a lot to you and you will be able to create even greater things than you thought possible.