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Sunday, 1 December 2013

Stamps. Stamps. Stamps - Confessions of a stampaholic.

Crafters have a lot of their own sweet, "guilty pleasure" addictions. One of mine is collecting and using all sorts of stamps. I could have millions of them and I can never get enough :) I'm a real sucker for all sorts of quirky and whimsical stamp designs and I find the Yellow Owl Workshop stamps to be so. They are good quality traditional wood block-mounted rubber stamps, each set being sold in an attractive box. Perhaps you remember this stamp set from one of my previous posts. And I've recently treated myself to these festive sets:

I love these simple geometric designs. It's the simplicity of the designs that captures my heart. The Christmas bauble is lovely but it is the bell I really really really wanted to have in my collection.

The mistletoe and the pine cone have also been long on my must-have list. I fancy making some Christmas cards with floral symbols of Christmas.

And this scenery building stamp set has been on my wish list for weeks. Finally it's mine! :)

I couldn't wait any longer and I had to have a go at this reindeer set:

I also added 2 extra stamps for this scenery - the curly Christmas tree is a stamp from The English Stamp Company and the wording comes from The Waltzing Mouse Stamps set - Nordic Winter.

The designs of these stamps are so simple, yet the stamping possibilities are unlimited. The colours, the arrangement, the intensity, the whole composition - it all depends on you. Let yourself get lost in the stamping fever :)

And a version with a small mistletoe stamp (also from The English Stamp Company)

Experimenting a bit, I used some textured watercolour cardstock for these impressions. I like how this paper absorbs the ink and how the stamped images overlap with each other.