ideas for spring & summer: Impress Rubber Stamps

ideas for spring & summer

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Daisy Invitation

This daisy invitation will set the tone for a fun garden shower. Make a glassine pocket from a 2" x 2" glassine envelope by cutting off the flap and then using a small circle punch to make a half circle notch. Print the folded invitation on your computer and then fold so only the words "you're invited" will show through the glassine pocket.

Circle Flowers

Use two sizes of circle punches to make these vellum flowers. Add pastel rhinestones to the center for a nice contrast to the simple circle shapes. The leaves were handcut and then glued with our new glue stick. It works great when you want to glue vellum flat to a card and not have any glue show. For the circle flowers, we used a dot of crafter's pick as we wanted the vellum to stick out a bit from the card. We also used it for the rhinestones.

Items used:
Crafter's Glue	$4.75

Butterflies in the grass

Cut a rectangle out of a piece of scratch paper so you can mask this card. Use your daubers to create the sky and draw in a few dashed lines with a fine tip pen to suggest the movement of your butterflies. Pink and orange are popular colors this season. At Impress we've been using Brilliance stamp pads called pearlescent orange and pearlescent coral a lot and we're loving the combination.

Items used:
Brilliance Ink	$8.25
4875C - thank you kindly rubber stamp	$6.75
Sponge Daubers	$5.00
4974D - grass	$3.00
Fineliner Pen Set	$27.99

GRAD Card

Items used:
4937B - grad cap rubber stamp	$5.75
Initials	$5.00

Graduation Box

Make a keepsake box for your favorite graduate. For this box we glued four 3 1/4" white envelopes together to make a line of envelopes to tuck money, personal notes and photos into. Here's how to glue the envelopes together: lay down the first envelope and have the flap open. Wet that flap and then lay the body of the second envelope down right next to the first one over the moistened flap. That glues those two together. Then wet the second envelope's flap and keep adding envelopes until your line of envelopes is as long as you want it. This is a fun technique to use with any size envelope.

Items used:
Tassels	$2.50

Clutch Purse Invitation

This fun invitation is sure to draw attention. Notice the beaded center on the flower. It's a nice touch. Click here to download the shape of the purse when open. Cut the pattern out and then fold into thirds to make your own purse card. This could make a fun card for Mom too!

Items used:
Micro Beads	$9.25
Peel N Stick	$3.75

Vellum Butterfly

A total of six punched out butterflies were used to make this card. The three clear vellum shapes were layered over the butterflies punched out of the blue and polka dot paper.

Butterflies on Fence

I love the use of striped paper for the fence on this card. It's not the paper used here but the striped paper in the cosmopolitan paper packs would look great on a card like this. Simply cut one edge of a small rectangle with a pinking scissors and you have a picket fence! The butterflies are made with the butterfly square punch.

Pinwheel Card

The pink and yellow combination used here just looks like spring. To make the pinwheel, start with a 2 inch square piece of vellum. Mark the center of the square and then cut in from each of the four corners to within about 1/4" of the center dot. Fold in one point at each corner to the center until you have a pinwheel. Use a mini brad to attach to the card.

Items used:
Mini Brads	$3.00

Graduation Card

Items used:
4949B - hats off to you rubber stamp	$5.75
4937B - grad cap rubber stamp	$5.75

Initially Yours

Items used:
1/8 Inch Eyelets	$3.25
4814F - 2 line stripe rubber stamp	$9.75
EK Circle Punch	$14.00
Impress Alphabet	$75.00

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