New (to me) technique to craft with my photos

The touch of a child's hand...

Again, my love of photography joined with my love for papercrafts. The paper, stamps & embellishments all are from TAC (The Angel Company).

I took this photo of my niece with her mom. Not sure where my brother was during this - probably herding his 2 yr old son- LOL

Proud

I love photography! I have some photos exibited at a local gallery & have won ribbons at the county fair. I also love using my TAC stamps & doing papercrafts. This is a piece I put together and framed that joins a whole lot of "me".

A way to index unmounted stamps

This is the way Chelsea (spredbirds) taught me to index my TAC stamps.

SUPPLIES:
• The top from one of the cardboard photo storage boxes (it is very sturdy and not too deep).
• The rubber piece of the set to mount
• The Creative Cling of the set to mount
• Azure StazOn Ink – this color works really well because the rubber is the same color and doesn’t show any stain if there is a bit of residue.
• StazOn Ink Cleaner


INSTRUCTIONS:
• Place the box top upside down on your work surface. Peel the backing off the “cling” side of the Creative Cling, leaving the backing on the “super sticky” side. Lay the Creative Cling with the “cling” side up in one corner of the box top so it is snug against the corner.

• Lay the rubber, image side up, on your work surface. Tap the StazOn ink onto the images. Carefully pick it up, fit it against the same corner that the Creative Cling snugs into and lay it onto the cling so that the image stamps onto the cling. Smoosh down on it so that you get a good impression, but be careful it doesn’t shift around or you image will blur.

• Lift the rubber off the cling, flip it right side up, lay it on your work surface and clean the ink off the stamps. At this point I end up having to clean my fingers, too – LOL.

• After the ink has set up on the cling (some images take a little longer to dry then others), flip the cling over so the stamped images are face down and snug it into the other corner.

• Carefully peel the backing off the “super sticky” side. Pick up the rubber piece and without turning it, match it up to the corner and lay the rubber onto the cling.

• Now trim!