Stamp Lifting is Legal

I just spent the morning working on the cards for the Ivy Lane cardmaking kit. Boy, I love those kits. It's all right there . . . everything you need at your fingertips, directions on step by step how to create 3 different beautiful cards. And enough in the kit to create 5 of each card. Wow! I love that.

This is one of the cards I created and probably my favorite, although they are all stunning and oh, so easy to create. It was while I was finishing up one of each of the cards (I like to do it that way, get the first ones done and then copy the rest. I call it stamp lifting) when I remembered a birthday coming up. Whoa, Nellie. Now what?

I looked through my birthday stamp collection and found an oldie but goodie, with the saying "A little birdie told me . . . ." But then what. And I had an AH HA moment.

I'd just stamp lift my card I just finished and use the birdie set instead of the set that came with the kit. Voila! Presto . . . here's my card:

You can see, it's the same design, same colors, same everything except it's not a generic card, it's a birthday card for a dear friend. And it took seconds to make AND everything was already out. I love stamp lifting!

What have you stamp lifted today?

Stamp Lifting

I'm sure I'm not alone when I say sometimes I just can't think of a thing to make. My Stamp Studio is full of gadgets, gizmos, pretty paper, and . . . well, lots of stamps. So how can it be that I'm sitting here just staring at all my fun stash?

I've discovered a secret though. If I stamp lift a card (copy a great card idea) or use one of the fun stamping and scrapbooking kits from Close To My Heart . . . presto, I'm creative again!

This card was made using the beautiful new Claire paper (Close To My Heart, of course). The card is located on page 124 in the Spring/Summer catalog. I didn't happen to have the paper they used for the card (it's For Always) but it was a snap to convert the paper into my Claire packet of paper. I also didn't have any of the cool embellishments (that really neat ribbon or black buttons) but I did have Baker's Twine and shiny sparkles. Presto!

Now I'm ready to make more. I love the Word balloons (one of the stamp sets that comes bundled with the Artiste Cricut cartridge bundle so maybe I'll make some more hello, thank you, and you make me smile cards.

I'm so lucky to have so many great things to use. If you are having a tough time getting creative inspiration go find something to stamp lift. Our Spring/Summer catalog has lots of great cards and scrapbook page ideas. Also, feel free to stamp lift from the cards posted on my blog. That's what I'm here for.

Enjoy!