{Spotlight Project} Shirley Uses Joyful Word Stamps for Holiday Card Backgrounds!

I love the grungy text stamps in the Joyful set and wanted to make a background with them. I had already diecut an oval from a piece of card, with the intention of using it for sketch #22, but I ended up making a different card, so it was waiting to be used on something else.

I secured the oval back into place with washi tape on the reverse, then placed the text stamps onto a long acrylic block, making sure the text block was wider than the card panel, and stamped the whole of the panel, offsetting each section slightly. I also stamped several stockings onto card and cut them out roughly, just to separate them.

You could easily stamp a plain piece of card then die-cut it afterwards, it's just that I already had the two pieces lying around.

You end up with two usable panels. I coloured in some of the stockings with Distress Inks (ended up going with green for both cards). And here's the card I made with the oval.

Stamps Shirley used in today's project:

Joyful is the current set in the STAMPlorations bi-monthly stamp club! Join the club and get this set shipped to you for free wherever you are in the world! Read more about our stamp club here. We've got lots of perks, including a free 4" by 6" stamp set every 3rd shipment. We'll be adding a few more perks pretty soon, which means the club price will go up...but current club members are locked in at just $21 every two months!


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