Fun on a rainy day - Decorating with Stamps

Today is a rainy day again, Autumn has arrived early in England this year. To cheer myself up I just watched Gene Kelly, singing and dancing in the rain, and I shared it on my Facebook page. Your heart just grows when you look at him, so happy and playful, splashing in the paddles like a kid :)

While waiting for the engineer from British Gas to arrive and repair our central heating, I have been keeping myself busy decorating using Stamps. I must admit, I love stamps and recently got two new sets which I used to decorate party invitations and labels. I also intend to make some stamps soon.

First I needed labels for my homemade plum jam so I bought some plain self-adhesive labels in the supermarket and begun stamping.

Here are the labels on the jars:

Another thing I wanted to do was to try out some ideas for the tags for my new handmade home accessories range, HATOME, which I am developing at the moment. To get myself started, I bought some luggage tags from Tesco, cut them to a smaller size and played with stamping them.

Happy stamping :)
Yolanta

Fun on a rainy day - Decorating with Stamps

How to make a Party Invitation card

Today I made a personalized Party Invitation Card using the card from the discounted box pack of flower cards.

The bookshop nearby is closing down and although this fact in itself is very sad (it happens so often nowadays), it brought with it some amazing shopping opportunities because now everything sells at 30% of the original price. So I bought a box of 30 flower cards for £2.99.

You can make any kind of personalized cards using this method, like Valentine Cards or Birthday cards. Because I am dreaming of Summer and the green garden, I made a Garden Party Invitation Card.

In order to make this invitation card I used my computer and printer and other things I had at home, like some rubber stamps and star stickers. Use whatever you have.

After deciding on the text of my invitation, I designed it on Mac and printed it on white paper (you can use the colored printing paper). I printed 2 pages: a title text to go on the front of the card and the invitation text to be inserted into the card (I measured the unfolded card and drew a slightly smaller rectangle on Mac in order to fit the text in the space available).

I made the title text using Adobe Illustrator software (by drawing the curved line, turning it into a text path and typing the title on it in Papyrus Regular typeface), but you can just create a straight text line in any typeface in Microsoft Word.

Then I cut the title text out of the printout. The shape of the cutout is up to you - try to use the shape which will complement the image on the front of the card, I used a roundish shape to complement the flowers. I put the title on the front of the card and decorated the front with bits of pink tissue, stamping some birds and tree images on top and adding 2 star stickers.

 

After cutting the text of the invitation along the rectangle lines, I attached it to the inside of the card with the glue (apply the glue in a few points to half of the card only, so it will close easily) and decorated it with some stamped birds, trees and star stickers.

My garden party invitation is ready. All I need is a bit of Summer.

Happy card making :)

Yolanta

How to make a Party Invitation card