Stamping "hints & tips" to get the most from our stamps - Cleverprints Tribal Collection
Recently I did a Facebook Live where the focus was looking at our stamps with fresh eyes by changing both colour & composition plus ignoring the collections name! The stamp collection I worked with is from a company called Cleverprints & their collection called "Tribal".
Here's an overview of the projects I made during the Facebook Live. You can find loads more details further down in this post.
Overview
Sometimes we get in a "funk" with our stamps & feel that they have done as much as they can for us, so then we neglect them. For this live, I want to show that by changing colour or the mediums we used, the stamps took on a whole new vibe. Also, if we took away the stamp packaging and then just looked at the stamps without being influenced by the packaging or collections name, suddenly we could see beyond the obvious.
I'm as guilty as the next person of doing this and really should do this more often too ...! Okay enough waffle but what did I actually do - see below.
Link to the Facebook Live - which is now uploaded to my YouTube channel - can be found at the bottom of this post.
No Beauty Shines
For this card, I have chosen elements from different stamp sets from the Cleverprints Tribal Collection which had specific names: Tribal Luck, Tribal Blooms, All Seeing, Wings & Arrows. By changing up their colours & bringing in brighter colours, suddenly the stamps used no longer have a tribal vibe.
I wanted to go for a real eclectic floral look with this card but also embrace the "white space" - something I personally really struggle with. Side note (lol) .... I'm actually working on a cream card but you get what I mean š By colouring up each element in bright floral colours, I think (fingers crossed), I've changed the whole vibe.
Happy, Happy, Happy
This is another card, where all the things I discussed in the card above, I put in to practice. The tribal mask & flowers have again been coloured brightly, layered on to tags this time & a few die cuts added for extra detail.
Again, I deliberately chose stamp sets from the Cleverprints Tribal Collection that have tribal names: Tribal Blooms, Tribal Luck, All Seeing, Thinking Tribal but again went for a bright colour palate rather than colours the stamp set names might have influenced me to use.
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