Shapes - Stamping with Friends Blog Hop

This hop with the Stamping with Friends group was a little bit left field for me.  😁

Our theme is "Shapes".  Where do you start?  Firstly to choose a shape - do I want to use squares or circles, stars, triangles...... hmmmmm.

I had used these cute turtles from the Sea Turtle stamp set for another project so thought that would be a good place to start. They are almost circles - so lets go with circles.

I kept this card quite simple and love the end result, so I'm now in the process of creating lots more to gift and to sell in my reception/office.  Why not? Everyone who comes to stay for a holiday at our resort love our turtles - I'm hoping enough to take a card or two home with them 🐢🐢🐢

It all started with a circle cut from basic White Cardstock using the 2 3/8 circle punch.  To add a little life to it, I just drew some dots and dashes with the Basic Black Stampin' Write Marker.  

Pretty simple huh. 

Make sure when you are using the stamps, you have the right sized block to work with 😂😂  I did only stamp the smaller turtle with this one and swapped to a larger one for the big turtle - but he was much bigger than I expected, so I will keep him for another card. 

Now to stamp these little guys,you can use an ink pad or, like these ones, use the black stampin' write marker to colour the stamp, give it a little "huff and puff" and then stamp away.  I've used the pool party stamp pad for the block turtle to add some colour. 

Use your snips to fussy cut around the turtles and they are ready to go.

So I've stamped the sentiment in on the white circle in Crumb Cake ink and then used Crumb Cake, Copper Clay and Pool Party to stamp various sizes of circles on a piece of white cardstock cut to 14 x 10.5 cm. I also added a couple of star fish and another turtle to give it more of a beachy feel.  Stamp off first so the colours are more muted and softer.

I wrapped the Natural Wavy Trim around the card front and attached it with the Stampin Seal (doesn't it look like a bit of rope - fits perfectly with the theme).  I've attached the white card front to a piece of Pool Party Cardstock cut at 21 x 14.9 cm and scored at 10.5cm.

Use dimentionals to pop up the sentiment and I have glued the turtles to the front of the sentiment with Multipurpose glue and added a dimensional under the shell to add height as well.  I added a couple of Iridescent Adhesive Backed Discs (coming soon) to complete the card.

I hope you like this very simple card.  Make sure you pop over to my FB page and share your creations if you give it a go.  I'd love to see them.

Hop on over to the nxt bolg now and see what other "shape" cards the talented group have created.

 

These are the supplies I have used to create this card.  You can select any or all of them to add to your shopping cart if you would like to shop with me.

Product List

Pool Party A4 Card Stock

[124391]

$17.50

Basic White A4 Cardstock

[159228]

$18.50

Crumb Cake Classic Stampin' Pad

[147116]

$15.75

Pool Party Classic Stampin' Pad

[147107]

$15.75

Copper Clay Classic Stampin' Pad

[161647]

$15.75

Basic Black Stampin' Write Marker

[162481]

$6.25

Color & Contour Photopolymer Stamp Set

[154994]

$37.00

Cheerful Daisies Photopolymer Stamp Set (English)

[161290]

$44.00

Sea Turtle Photopolymer Stamp Set

[160500]

$37.00

2 3/8" (6 Cm) Circle Punch

[161354]

$39.00

Natural 1/4" (6.4 Mm) Wavy Trim

[161517]

$12.25

Paper Snips

[103579]

$19.25

Stampin' Seal

[152813]

$14.00

Stampin' Dimensionals

[104430]

$7.50

Multipurpose Liquid Glue

[110755]

$9.75

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I would love to help you with your creative discoveries.

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Cheers
Deb