Stampin' Pals: Mrs Moo And Her Crew!

Friday 12 July 2019

Mrs Moo And Her Crew!

A friend came to craft with me this week and I let her pick which stamp set we inked up. I was slightly surprised (but pleased) when she chose 'Over The Moon.' This is one of those stamp sets that I can't really envision as a class stamp - but feel free to let me know if I'm wrong! I've ordered it purely on a whim for its cuteness, ...and the grass, oh...and maybe because it seems to match 'This Little Piggy' which came onto my shelf for the same reason.

For our first card we turned to Pinterest and CASE-d (copy and selectively edit) a card by Kylie Page, an Australian whose blog is www.stampersworkshop.com
She had made a cowhide background using a couple of little stamps from Love What You Do, and it looks so realistic. I haven't changed very much about her card because it was perfect to begin with, but we do seem to have a slightly different style of colouring.

Next was an exercise in post-it note masking to create a herd of cows. As I was creating this, I thought about my young grandson who went through a stage about a year ago, where my backyard was his farm, and we were always having to close imaginary gates to keep the imaginary animals (cows or ponies, as he fancied on a particular day) under control. Maybe I should send him this card!!!

Finally, I had to try out another card I'd spied by Gail O'Neil, where she has this dreaming cow and flying pig over. Apart from that, the cards are different. I have tried to colour the grass 'a la' Paula Dobson, who made a video tutorial you too can watch on youtube. It was a lovely ' find' when I noticed the cloud stamp in This Little Piggy.

"You Make Me Happy" is attached to this piggy stamp and suited the card I had in mind, so I didn't bother to mask it. "Hello Friend" is from Well Said, a huge set of words and also can be bundled with word dies. The pig holding a daisy and the cow also bearing a flower, face in the same direction. I wanted them to be facing each other (as friends would) and used a little trick to mirror the image. Because my stamps for This Little Piggy are wood mount, I couldn't do much about him, but my Over The Moon stamps are of course cling mount.

By placing the stamp you want to mirror onto the Stamparatus and using a silicone craft sheet to stamp onto you can very easily achieve a mirror image. Next place the piece of card in position and stamp down again, which adds pressure onto the ink stamped earlier. This way you have the identical image stamped onto both sides of the card.

This would be an ideal technique to die cut and have a two-sided image. Probably worth doing if you were making a box card which might be viewed form multiple sides. Let me know if you like cows or pigs on cards. Would you be offended if you received one?

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