This is Just a Phase with Cheiron

Hi there crafty friends! It's Cheiron here with a quick and easy card using the Moon Magic stampset. I love the moon phases in this set and thought it would be fun to create a background with them. To create this card I prepped a panel of Dark Navy card stock with an embossing magic pouch. Then I stamped the moon image repeatedly on the panel and embossed it with Gold embossing powder. I made sure to vary the placement of the full moon as I stamped the image.

Once the background was completed, I stamped the sentiment onto a small strip of card stock and embossed it. I also wanted to have a "moon" shape on my card, so I cut one of the circles from the Circular dies, pressed it into embossing ink and embossed it in gold and added both the moon and the strip on top of it with foam tape. 

This is such a fun and easy card to make and a great way to stretch stamps you already have in your collection.  I hope to make a few more of these (maybe in different colors) using the rest of the phrases in the set. I hope this inspires you to make some Moon Magic of your own!


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Rainbow repeat stamping!

Hello everyone, Mayuri here...

Welcome to my first post for Neat & Tangled as a DT member ;-). I wanted to share some cards I made using the Simple Christmas stamp set, which actually has quite a few generic images and sentiments. This meant I could experiment a little, so I grabbed a rainbow selection of Distress Inks and the semi-circular wreath image to begin stamping a pattern. Here's the end result:

I drew a few guidelines on a square panel of white cardstock and stamped the half-wreath twice in each colour to create complete wreaths. I did this along all the guidelines, leaving me with one whole circular pattern image - cool, huh?!

I find this kind of repeat stamping therapeutic - you could create a bunch of cards like this using the same principal. (Quick tip: have a piece of scrap paper next to you, so you can stamp off a couple of times in between each colour change, rather than cleaning the stamp - this works great if you're using Distress Inks!).

Then, I went in with the little leaf image and stamped where the lines were intersecting and with the small berry image around the outside.

For the sentiment, I stamped 'warm' and 'wishes' onto a piece of vellum in black ink, sprinkled with clear embossing powder and heat set. I wrapped the vellum strip around the white panel and foam mounted to my card base. I couldn't resist adding a couple of sequins too... Here's another version of the card using one of the other sentiments from the same set:

I think repeat stamping a simple image can lead to so many possibilities with endless colourways - works well using just one colour or the rainbow of colours!

Thanks for stopping by - hope this post shows how versatile any stamp set can be!

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