Cutting apart your clear stamps is an easy, versatile, and safe way of adding more options to your stamping projects. Erin Lincoln's here this week to give you a few pointers when it comes to choosing good canidates when it comes to performing a little microtip surgery to your beloved supplies. It's not as scary as it sounds…trust us.
Here are some still shots of today's project.
If you are joining along this week, here are the details concerning the Make It Monday Challenge.
–A new Make It Monday Challenge will go up every Monday morning at 9am EST.
–Create a project utilizing your take on the challenge. Your project must use at least one Papertrey product and utilize a stamp you have cut apart.
–Post your project on your blog, in your gallery or on any other photo-hosting site (such as photobucket or flickr).
–-Add your project to our —>InLinkz List HERE<—
–You will have until 7am, Monday, September 17th, to add your link to the list to be eligible to win. And you can enter as many times as you like.
–We will be tweeting and posting on our Facebook page every night (between 5-9pm EST) highlighting a Featured Project. These tweets/Facebook postings will just be a shout-out regarding projects that caught our eye.
–One randomly selected winner will be chosen from ALL the entries on Monday, September 17th, after 7am. The winner will be posted here on this blog post, on Twitter and Facebook. The randomly selected winner will get a $25 PTI gift certificate to spend however they like!
Good luck to everyone and we look forward to seeing your projects!
EDITED TO ADD RANDOMLY SELECTED WINNER:
Congratulations SentSue! You have been randomly selected to receive a $25 PTI gift certificate to spend however you choose! Please send a note to customer service with the email address you would like the gift certificate sent to. And thank you to EVERYONE who played along with this week's challenge!
Very Cute love it….. I like to cute apart stamps and use them in different ways too….
Love the card. I have never cut apart my stamps but now I may give it a try to achieve a totally different look. Thanks for the great idea.
Love the card! I too cut stamps apart when I need to. At first I felt bad about cutting them but as you said, I just fit them back together when I want it whole again.
Very cute card! I’m always cutting my stamps apart! Have not regretted it!
Super cute card.
I love cutting my stamps apart, and when I dot it, I feel like I get more for my money! LOL
This is the first time I ever cut my stamps— a little scarey at first thanks for walking me through.
Have a great week.
Great job! I have cut my stamps before but never cut apart a word! Thanks for the tip!
Very nice tut. I cut my stamps all the time. They go so much farther that way…hugs
I love your cute “you”! Combined with that gingham paper and doilie it’s the sweetest thank you ever! I’m sure the families of your daughter’s friends know about her new sibling and will be thrilled to get this hand-crafted thank you whenever it happens to arrive! TFS!
Great video and card!
When I cut my stamps, I always make it a curved or S-cut, or one that has a little jagged or squared off section in the cut line; the stamp itself dictates which. That way the pieces fit back together exactly like a puzzle. My first cutting of a stamp was a straight line which made it hard to get exactly lined up later when I wanted to use the whole stamp.
Great video and cute card! I would never have thought to use a ladybug instead of an “o”- you are SO creative, Erin!
Great idea with the button stamp. I am always shying away from those sets because I don’t want to send the buttons through the mail. I will be taking another look. THANKS!
Such a great idea! I always learn so much from all of you. Thanks…I’m off to give it a try!
It’s been ages since I watched a MIM video. Boy, do I feel inspired to dust off my supplies and give them a go! Thanks for that. 🙂
I know what I want for my Holiday Cards. Can’t wait.
Not sure my post went through… so sorry if this is a duplicate!
I LOVED this video. Thank you so much for the great ideas!!! Your card is ADORABLE!!!
It’s a chilly morning here in Ohio…and I can almost feel the approach of Christmas! What a wonderful release! I’m getting in the mood! lol
I love the Loop de Loop border die. Just what I need to trim my Christmas cards!
Wow! It is indeed a very adorable card.
I love the shades that you pick. Nice post.
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What a lovely series of x’mas theme products, I can almost smell the winter air !
Great card designs and inspirations too !
Good job on the video, Erin! It turned out to be perfect timing for a card I made yesterday so I cut my first PTI stamp. I appreciate how you made that happen!!
That snowglobe set is just about the cutest thing I’ve ever seen! I love the border die too.