Hi everyone – Vicki here today with another fun Teacher’s Lounge project to inspire you!

Here is my finished card:

You can follow the tutorial and make this for yourself (or someone else )

Step 1 – using Spellbinder’s Classic Square cutters, cut your first frame.

Step 2 – again, using Classic Squares,. cut a smaller frame

Step 3 – with scissors, cut a square piece of felt a little bigger then your smaller frame.

Step 4 – adhere all together as shown. (I used glue)

Step 5 – using letter dies, cut out the letter you desire, adhere to the felt. You can then adhere it to a card base, or make an ABC project like this:

I used a $1 store napkin holder and covered the outside with this. I am using it for mail that needs a response; either a bill or in my son’s case, a Thank You letters needed for money received for graduating!

I hope you try this project — I am thrilled with the end results and I am sure you will be too.

Thanks for stopping by!

Hi all!  Amber here from The Country Scrapper.  This month Stamp School is focusing on men in our lives with Father’s Day coming up in June.  Today I want to share an easy to make book mark that would make any Dad proud.

First off decide what colors you want to use.  I decided on Pop Tone Card Stock Sour Apple and Orange Fizz.  Cut your card stock to the size you’d like your book marker to be or use an old book mark as a template.

Next I stamped the Sour Apple card stock with a stamp.  I used “Dad’s Tools” to stamp hammers on my card stock using Hot Fudge Ink.

Layer your card stock and use a hole punch to make a hole at the top of your book mark.

Add a sentiment to your book mark.  I used “Men In My Life” stamp set to stamp “Dad” on a strip of card stock.  I then adhered it to a piece of patterned paper.  Last but not least, decide on ribbon, twine, or anything you’d like to thread thru the hole at the top of the book mark.

This would be great addition to a  book for Father’s Day.

Hi Everyone -Lisa here today with the Geometry Class sketch.

Here is my card using Stamp School’s Men in My Life.

My card is a pretty simple one to re-create. I started with a Sour Apple card base. I cut a piece of Sno Cone cardstock to 4 x 5 1/4 and then diecut the Memory Box Leaf Canopy die. That way you can see the Sour Apple layer through the diecut. I used my Ink Blending Tool along with some Sno Cone ink, and went around the edges of the Sno Cone piece. Next, I cut the Memory Box Twiggy Tree out of Hot Fudge cardstock.

I stamped the sentiment from Men in My Life using Hot Fudge ink. I then took a small brush tip marker from Faber-Castel and put a little dark green in every leaf.

This is a sketch challenge, so I hope you join in and play! Be sure to link your creation with Inlinkz at the bottom of this post. I would love to see your creations~ Remember, there is a random WINNER at the end of the month for some great goodies!

Hello everyone!  Rochelle here!  I don’t know about you but, Mother’s Day has always been a favorite holiday of mine.  So much so, I’ve made a plethora of different cards.  I plan to be ready for the holiday next year!  I’ve got extras!  I want to share a country themed Mother’s Day card with you.  I used Whip Cream cardstock as a base and distressed the edges with Tim Hotlz’s Antique Linen Distress Ink.  I applied my floral panel and another blue chevron pattern on top of that.  Then, I added a Wild Cherry banner.  Do you ever use the negative space of your die cuts?  Well, I do and that’s where that butterfly that’s on top of the chevron paper comes from.  The sentiment is from the Women in my Life.

Hello! Samantha here to kick of another great week at stamp school.  Today, I have this fabulous color combination for you to try out:

Click here to see the original photo.

So, today’s colors are Snow Cone, Lemon Drop, and Wild Cherry.  I LOVE this perfectly pretty photo and color combination, but just to show you it can be done in a manly way, too, I created this Father’s Day card.

We’re adding a submission form below this post. Make up your card and post it on your blog (with a link to our blog of course *wink*). Submit your card by adding it below. Make sure to post it to the actual blog post and not just your general blog address. You have until 11:58 on the last day of the month to upload any challenge entries.

We will randomly choose a winner from each month’s submissions to win a prize package from Stamp School. I can’t wait to see how you use this color combo!

Hi guys!  Amber here from The Country Scrapper to share a fun card I made using the latest Stamp School products.  I love the banner trend that has swept crafting.  For today’s post I combined my love of banners and Stamp School to make a special card.  May is all about the men in your life.  From the new stamps to our latest Pop Tone colors, Stamp School has plenty of “guy power” this month.

Check out my card:

For this card I started off by stamping my sentiment onto Orange Fizz card stock.  I stamped my ties separately on Sweet Tooth card stock.  I then cut out the ties and colored them using Copics.  Now back to my card, I layered the Orange Fizz card stock onto Pink Lemonade card stock.  I then shaped twine into a banner and adhered it to my card stock.  I placed  the ties onto my twine.  Lastly I added a strip of patterned paper and used Stickles for shine.

Thanks for joining us today at Stamp School.  If you’ve made a banner lately leave the link in comments.  We’d love to see your creation!

Hello everyone!  Rochelle here.  I want to share a card with you that I made for Mother’s Day.  Did you know that it’s three days away?  Seems like it got here very quick this year!  Well, luckily this year we’ve got Stamp School Stamps, Pop Tone Cardstock and Pop Tone Ink!

Clean and Simple is my favorite style so, I decided to make a quick Mother’s Day card.  I made my cardbase from kraft cardstock.  Then, I used a strip of Orange fizz, Tangy Orange and Bubblegum cardstock and adhered it to the cardbase.

Using a floral stamp from the Flowers for Mom stamp set and Versamark ink created a pattern on the strips of cardstock.  You still have time to create a Mother’s Day master piece.

Hi Everyone – Vicki here today with the Geometry Class sketch.

Here is my card using Stamp School’s Christian Sympathy and Natural Landscape.

To achieve this look, I made a template the same size as my card, and cut out a circle.

Using Pop Tone Lemon Drop and Pop Tone Orange Fizz, I sponged inside of the template. Then, I stamped my tree.

Taking a post it, I taped it down and sponged on licorice for the ground.
I made my banner and popped up the image with pop dots, and my card is complete~

This is a sketch challenge, so I hope you join in and play! Be sure to link your creation with Inlinkz at the bottom of this post. I would love to see your creations~ Remember, there is a random WINNER at the end of the month for some great goodies!

Hello! Samantha here with you today. I the look of lots of nesting dies layered up to create a frame for a stamped image. However, getting that look can sometimes get a bit expensive. I own a few nesting dies, but sometimes the shape just isn’t right for my image, and I don’t always want to go out and buy a die that will work. In those cases, I’ve found that pieces of patterned paper with journaling cards printed on them can give you the same layered/framed effect.  Here’s the piece of paper I used to create the frame for my stamped image on my card today:

And here’s my card:

I really love the briefcase from Dad’s Tools, so I chose that image for my main piece. To bring the briefcase even more into focus, I stamped it on a wood grain paper, cut it out, and adhered it with foam dimensional adhesive to the center of the card.

Thanks for stopping by Stamp School today!

Good Monday everyone! Lisa here today. Today, I’m sharing an Art Room color scheme with you. I was looking for some interesting color combinations on our Pinterest board, and fell in love with these SHOES! Aren’t they so very pretty! Now, I have to tell you, I wouldn’t be caught dead wearing these, because I am pretty sure I’d end up with a broken ankle or leg if I tried to leave the house with something like these, but they sure are PRETTY!

My card today is for those Moms who like to golf. Usually when you see a golf cart on a card, it’s for a man…not today!

I started with my Razzleberry base, and cut a Grape Jelly card front to 4 x 5 1/4. Then I took my Dusty Concord Distress Markers to stamp my larger flower image from Flowers for Mom. You’ll see I stamped the second generation stamp to get a little shadow and depth to my flowers around the golf cart. I also took my Picket Fence Distress marker to get the white around some flower petals.

I stamped the golf cart from Dad’s Tools in the flowers directly on the card. Then I stamped it onto my Blue Raspberry cardstock and adhered the top and the cart to the card.

 Last, I used my Spellbinders Labels 22 die and traced it with my Dusty Concord marker. I stamped the sentiment in Black Licorice ink. The sentiment is from Women in My Life.

I hope this gives you an idea to take those typical manly images and maybe girly them up!

We’re adding a submission form below this post. Make your card and post it on your blog (with a link to our blog of course). Submit your card by adding it below. Make sure to post it to the actual blog post and not just your general blog address. You have until 11:58 on the last day of the month to upload any challenge entries.

We will randomly choose a winner from each month’s submissions to win a prize package from Stamp School.

Every month Stamp School host multiple Art Room (color) Challenges and Geometry Class (sketch) Challenges. At the end of the month we count up all the entries (1 entry for every card you submit) and randomly choose a winner. March’s challenge winner is:

Karen M. who played along with the April 9th Art Room Challenge.

You can click here to see Karen’s beautiful card.

Karen, please send an e-mail to Lisa@stampschool.com and let her know you’re the April Challenge Winner to claim your prize.

Thank you to everyone who took the time to create cards and share them with us. We love to ooh and aah over your creativity. You can find the current challenges for May by clicking on the “Current Challenges” tab on the left hand side of the blog.

Happy Stamping!

Hi everyone!  Do you use an Exacto knife or a craft knife?  If not, you should because it’s very helpful when you need to cut spaces where scissors can’t go.

When using a craft knife you want to be careful to make small cuts and take your time.  Typically, the blades are really sharp.

First, stamp and color your image.  You don’t have to worry about the ink bleeding because the image will be cut out.

When using your craft knife, make sure to cut on the outside of the lines of your image. You don’t want to cut into your image.

Don’t worry about cutting out intricate details of your image.  You can always stamp the image directly on to your project to include the details of the image.

Here is a tip, when cutting out an image, color the outter edges to prevent the white core of the paper showing through.

Hello! Samantha from Taylor Stamped here with you today. I don’t know about you, but I can never seem to have enough good stamps sets for the men in my life, so I am so excited to have this month’s sets, Men In My Life and Dad’s Tools. My favorite thing about these stamps sets, is that the word “Dad” from Men In My Life fits perfectly onto a number of images from Dad’s Tools (the couch, the briefcase, the card had, the wheelbarrow, and the phone). For my card today, I used the phone from Dad’s Tools with the word “Dad” from Men In My Life stamped on the display:

That extra “Dad” stamped on the image just makes the card feel more customized to me!   I also changed things up a bit by using the negative part of a die cut image to frame my stamped image.  It’s a simple but sweet way to say, “Happy Father’s Day!”.

Hi all!  Amber here to teach this week’s Geometry Class.  I have a new sketch for you to play with, hope you enjoy it as  much as I did.

This month Stamp School has awesome new releases, perfect for those of us who struggle with masculine cards (I’m pointing at myself!).  I had so much fun using Dad’s Tool’s and Men In My Life stamp sets.  Here’s my take on the sketch:

For this card I started by stamping the golf bag onto a piece of card stock and coloring it.  I literally built my card around this one stamp.  I added patterned paper and layered these onto my base card stock.  I added the corrugated frame around my golf bag and stamped my sentiment onto a die cut.  I finished my card by adding my ribbon to top the card off.  I also used Stickles around my die cut for extra shine.

We’re adding a submission form below this post. Make up your card and post it on your blog (with a link to our blog). Submit your card by adding it below. Make sure to post it to the actual blog post and not just your general blog address. You have until 11:58 on the last day of the month to upload any challenge entries.  We will randomly choose a winner from each month’s submissions to win a prize package from Stamp School.

Enjoy!!!

Copics:  R27,  R29,   RV 29

Hi everyone – Vicki here! Today’s Study is just a card with an easy technique.

I used an embossing folder for my background panel. Once embossed, I took my ink stamp pad and swiped it against to embossed portion to add some color. I love the effect this gives a background.

I also used the gorgeous new Tangy Orange felt for my 2 banners, along with both the new releases this month, The Men in My Life, and Dad’s Tools.

Need a couple of fabulous masculine stamp sets! They are available now, just click the bottom photo and it puts you ready to order!

Thanks for stopping by~

STAMPS: The Men in My Life, Dad’s Tools

Copic Markers:  R12, YR02, YR07

This is our final post for May’s new products! On Mayl 1, our new products go live including 2 stamp sets, 4 beautiful colors of cardstock, inks, and felt!

This month we are adding some fun, bright summery colors. Pink Lemonade, Lemon Drop, Tangy Orange, and Orange Fizz. With these 4 colors, we now carry all 24 colors of Poptone cardstock, their matching ink, and we have matched 100% wool felt to their cardstock as well!

For my last this release, I made a pretty simple card using our ink pads. You may have seen Tim Holtz demonstrate a technique called “Wrinkle Free Distress”. Well, today’s card uses that technique, only it’s using a piece of Watercolor paper and Stamp School’s dye ink.

I started with a piece of Watercolor Paper cut to 4 x 5 1/4. I took my Tangy Orange, Orange Fizz, and Lemon Drop ink pads and pressed the ink pads onto my Craft Sheet. I sprayed the puddle of ink with water, then I drug my watercolor paper through the inks. You can see where some inks stayed in place, and where others ran and mixed with the other colors. I ran my paper through the puddles about 3-4 times until I was happy with the results.

I let the paper dry and then used my Ink Blending Tool with Hot Fudge ink and went around the edges. I used Black Licorice ink for my sentiment, and 3 mini brads in Chestnut. I adhered my card front to my Orange Fizz card base.

Stamp School Cardstock – Orange Fizz
Stamp School Ink – Black Licorice, Orange Fizz, Tangy Orange, Lemon Drop
Stamp School Stamps – Men in My Life

Welcome to Release Week at Stamp School! The last 3 days of each month, you will be treated to some beautiful creations by our Faculty here at Stamp School! Each month, we release 2 stamps per month. The first part of 2012 we will be releasing 4 colors of Poptone cardstock and matching inks until we stock all of their 24 colors. We also will be releasing 100% wool felt along with the cardstock each month.

Our Faculty will post their projects on their personal blogs (which we will link you to at the end of each post) and then during the month, they will post tips, tutorials, inspiration, ideas here on the Stamp School blog. If you want to be kept up to date on what is going on here at Stamp School, you can keep track of us a number of ways:

1) Our website and blog. You can subscribe to our blog feed, simply by clicking over on the Subscribe button to the left. You will then get a daily email of what is posted here on the site.
2) Our Facebook Page. Like our Facebook Page for exclusive content, contests, and chatting about our favorite hobby!
3) Email Newsletter. You can sign up for our Newsletter by clicking on the Join our Newsletter button to the left.

OK, so now that you know how to keep up to date, let me show you what’s going on this month!

Today’s card uses one of my favorite sayings about Dads! Inside the card, I finished the sentiment…to be a Dad.

For today’s card, I started with a piece of Bella Blvd pattern paper. I stamped the chair onto the stripe and fussy cut it out. Then I used my Copic markers to add a little shadow to the cushions.

I stamped 3 other chairs on the card and used a grey colored pencil on the small pieces I envisioned to be wood. I added the sentiment in Black Licorice ink, and added the row of remotes using the Orange Fizz ink from this month.

Check out what the Design Team has done today!

Rochelle

Vicki

Amber

Stamp School Cardstock – Orange Fizz
Stamp school Inks – Orange Fizz, Black Licorice
Stamp School Stamps – Dad’s Tools, Men in My Life

Welcome to Release Week at Stamp School! The last 3 days of each month, you will be treated to some beautiful creations by our Faculty here at Stamp School! Each month, we release 2 stamps per month. The first part of 2012 we will be releasing 4 colors of Poptone cardstock and matching inks until we stock all of their 24 colors. We also will be releasing 100% wool felt along with the cardstock each month.

Our Faculty will post their projects on their personal blogs (which we will link you to at the end of each post) and then during the month, they will post tips, tutorials, inspiration, ideas here on the Stamp School blog. If you want to be kept up to date on what is going on here at Stamp School, you can keep track of us a number of ways:

1) Our website and blog. You can subscribe to our blog feed, simply by clicking over on the Subscribe button to the left. You will then get a daily email of what is posted here on the site.
2) Our Facebook Page. Like our Facebook Page for exclusive content, contests, and chatting about our favorite hobby!
3) Email Newsletter. You can sign up for our Newsletter by clicking on the Join our Newsletter button to the left.

OK, so now that you know how to keep up to date, let me show you what’s going on this month!

Today’s card is another example of making my own background/pattern paper. Last month, I confessed that this is not one of my strong points, but I’m getting a little better at it.

This time I used 2 images and 2 ink colors. The hard hat is stamped in a new color, Tangy Orange. I stamped it in full strength, and then stamped it again without inking it up. Hopefully, that gives a little depth to the card. I inked the hammer in another new color, Orange Fizz.

Next, I diecut a label from Sweet Tooth. I then took my ink blending tool, and inked around the edges with Orange Fizz and drew that color all the way across the cardstock so it’s a lighter orange color. Around the outermost edges, I used a little bit of Tangy Orange on my ink blending tool.

The sentiment is from our new set called “Men in My Life”. It is a follow up to last month’s “Women In My Life” and has a few sentiments for the inside of your cards as well as all of the names for the men.

I layered my diecut label on two smaller labels that I cut from Hot Fudge felt. I used 4 CandiDots in Gold Texture to finish out my card by tucking them behind the corners of my diecut.

Check out what the Design Team has done today!

Rochelle created a fun Father’s Day card with another cool image from the Dad’s Tools set, a vintage briefcase.

Vicki is showing off the golf cart image from the Dad’s Tools set, and created a scene any golfer would love!

Amber made an awesome card with the golf cart too! I love the little extra she added to her card.

Stamp School Cardstock – Orange Fizz, Tangy Orange, Sweet Tooth
Stamp school Inks – Orange Fizz, Tangy Orange
Stamp School Stamps – Dad’s Tools, Men in My Life

Welcome to our second sneak peek of May’s stamps! I love this one…my Dad holds a special place in my heart, and I am so very excited to be able to make him some cards for Father’s Day, or his birthday or any other occasion to tell him how much he means to me!

It’s time for the start of our May countdown…This month, we are featuring Dad!!

For our May release, we are bringing you two stamp sets. The first set as shown here is a great image set for all the men you love. There is some sports, some leisure, and some work related images in this set.