One Stamp Set, Nine Ways!!!

Hello Pink and Main friends. It’s Donna here, and I’ve been super busy making cards using the wonderful Lanterns stamp set. With New Year just around the corner, I thought they would be a wonderful way to see out the year.

This layered stamp set has lanterns with floral designs that you stamp separately. I’ve taken advantage of this to make several floral cards as well as the lantern cards. Also, the matching dies work really well for sentiment strips, so they’ll make an appearance here too, in many different ways.

These first two cards, above and below, both use the lanterns as a whole and a fairly small colour palette. The lanterns were stamped all at once for all of the cards in this post, so that I could set up my stamp positioner once and stamp them all out.

I’ve made a video charting the process of designing and making multiple cards from one set. Hopefully it will be an inspiration to you to see what you can do with lots of different stamp sets so that you get the most from your precious stamps.

You can see the video here: https://youtu.be/EhzBPgQ1eJY

This next card uses heat embossing in white and gold as well as some gold thread to give a very clean and simple look. The background panel was cut out using a stitched rectangle die.

The next three cards all use the flower centres from the lanterns on their own. They make lovely background papers and also focal elements, even without the lanterns surrounding them!

This card below uses a window technique, and all of the design elements other than the sentiment are on the inside of the card. From the front, you only see one lantern, but when you open the card, there are three!

I wanted to make a card that showed the lanterns lighting up the night sky, so by adding some dark blue and black to the background panel, and using gold embossing, these lanterns are now shining into the dark.

Finally, I made a rainbow cascade of watercolour paints, before repeat stamping one of the flowers and heat embossing it in white. This card looks quite different to the rest, but was not hard to make.

I hope that you have been inspired to look closely at your stamps to see the possibilities, and that you’ll be encouraged to get out some stamps and have a play.

Until next time,

See you in 2021!!

Blessings,

Donna