Make it simple Monday Leaf Collection

 Hello and welcome to the start of my week's posts. If you're new here my name's Cary and I'm 1 half of 2 Big Girls Crafting. This week I'll be sharing inspiration using just 1 stamp ... well 1 stamp and some sentiment stamps actually 🤣. The one stamp is a large background stamp called Leaf Collection.  

Now this beautiful stamp is a big one for sure! Measuring 11.5cm x 14.5cm ( 4½" x 5⅝") it is great for all those backgrounds! But as you'll see this week it's not one that has to stay in the background! 

So lets start with the basics. How do you stamp such a large stamp! Now some of you have mentioned before that large stamps, especially ones like the Leaf Collection which is a cling mount,  are particularly tricky to stamp. The easiest was is perhaps with a stamp positioning tool but what do you do if you don't have one?

Well in this short video I'll share 3 easy ways to get you eager to get those background stamps out of your stash and onto your projects. 

Hopefully you can now stamp with this gorgeous stamp. And if you don't already have it in your stash by the end of the week hopefully the inspiration shared will make you want it 😉🤣

So what did I do with the backgrounds I stamped? Well I stamped 2 more! The colour palette is inspired by autumn ( fall for our friends over the pond 🍂🍁). The colours are daffodil delight ( yellow) , crushed curry (deep yellow), wild wheat (greeny yellow), pumpkin pie (orange) and finally cajun craze (terracotta) .

Once all the panels are stamped trim then to the same size 10cm x 14.4cm ( 5" x 5") Next cut them all into strips measuring 3cm x 14.4cm ( 1" x 5") making sure to keep them in pattern order.

Then lay them out so that they follow the correct pattern order but change to colour order to creat 5 different patterns. 

You can either cut cardstock mats to adhere them to or adhere them directly onto your card base.

Once on your card base create simple sentiments and adhere them to the card front. 

You can mix it up by making your cardbases landscape, portrait, top folding. 

All together this makes a fun set of cards that are perfect to gift to someone. 

Pop by tomorrow for more fun with this fantastic stamp. 😀