Club Scrap Technique for Febuary

 For Febuary I chose the Faux Postage technique.

Great for Valentine cards, but you can use it on

any other card too. It is an old and loved

technique and there are many tutorials out there.

Here is mine:

Supplies:

besides stamps, ink

and your favourite color material

you need:

a faux postage template

(click on mine and save to your pc)

or make your own in word

cutting knife,

pencil,

ruler

transparent paper

(click and save to your computer)

Resize it to how you want to use it.

You can use one or more

stamps for your card.

 Place transparen paper on top of the

stamp template and mark with a pencil 

how many stamps you want to use

and cut out these windows.

Put your stamplate underneath the windows.

It is handy to fasten this with masking tape

or celotape to keep it from moving around.

You can stamp with any color ink.

I stamp with black, because I want to color

it when finished.You do not have to

stamp within the wondow. The transparent paper

will make sure you only see the stamped images

inside the stamp lines.

 With a sponge and some light brown ink

the stamps are colored around the images.

Then I take my copic markers and color the images.

 This is how the stamps now look, when you take them

from underneathe your template. You can add a postage number

if you want or other postage items.

If you have a postage scissor, you can cut around the stamps

to make them even look more real. I also added some ink around the 

border with a sponge. Now you are ready to use the stamps for your card.

Stamps I have used

are all by Club Scrap

Let me count the way 2006

  Fizz 2007

Valentine's 2008

Paper Club Scrap Navajo January 2012

Have a creative day!