Monday challenge ~ Use a stamp ~ By Jayne Loughlin

Hiya 

I am a great fan of collecting Acrylic stamps but I do not use them enough ! I have made my Nephew a Birthday card seeing it’s his Birthday Wednesday.  It is so easy to do using a Everywhere Punch. I would hate to line these circles and cut them using any other tool.

Items needed: Everywhere Punch Circle, Boundary water Border Punch, Trimmer, Patterned paper, card, Adhesive, Alpha stickers, Birthday Cake Stamps, Ink, Stamp block, Pens, Foam pads, Scissors

Instructions: Cut a piece of patterned paper to cover your card blank, Also cut a piece of paper 3.5″ x the width of your card (mine is a 6″ x 6″ card) See below..

Punch the red smaller piece in the middle using the Circle Everywhere Punch, Line line up using the clear piece on the Punch to help you. Punch Semi Circles out of the ends. Now punch the long edges using the Boundary Water border Punch Your piece should look like this below ( I apologise about the lighting on the photo its all done at night) …

Add foam pads to the back of the piece above and put to one side.

Now Stamp an image using Fiskars Birthday Stamps (I used the Birthday stamp set)

Now Colour in the image and Trim just a bit bigger than 2″ x 2″ Square. I lent my daughter my Promarkers so I couldn’t use them today EEEK !

Glue the Coloured in cake piece onto the middle of your card base that you covered earlier.

Place the Punched piece that has Foam pads onto the card lining up the Circle over the cake (See Below)… The ends can be trimmed a little if needed.  Add Alphabet if liked and the card is finished.