This month's
Little Claire club stamp is a fabulous bike set, which is very versatile due to the individual stamps it contains.
You not only get the bike, but also two sentiments and stamps for four items that can be placed into the basket or be used separately: a bunch of flowers, a baguette, a bottle of wine (but it could also be juice) and a wee dog.
Putting the items into the basket is possible via a simple masking technique:
* Stamp the bike twice - once onto your cardstock and a second time onto a sticky note (the sticky area should be at the back of the top section of the bike).
* Cut out the bike on the sticky note. But you do not need to cut out the entire image. I have, for example, just cut along the basket and the top line of the bike which was sufficient for my purpose. Why should we make ourselves more work than necessary?
* But the sticky note mask directly onto the image on your cardstock. The sticky section on the back ensures that it will not move around.
* Now stamp the items that you want to place into the basket. When you remove the mask you will see that the items are 'peeking' out of the basket and have not impacted on the image of the basket and the bike itself.
I know that I will use this stamp set for many cards and hope that you will enjoy it just as much.
And in case you wonder what the embellishments on the second card are: I recycle natural cork from bottles of wine or sparkling wine by cutting them into slices and using them on cards. It just requires a bit of care, as a sharp knife is needed. So instead of trying to get as many slices as possible out of a cork I always prefer to dispose of the last bit and to keep my fingers safe.
