Sometimes I see a stamp set and my brain goes immediately to a place other than what they were “built” for – and while it’s sometimes a weird place, I think you might like today’s cards! Here’s what they’re supposed to look like – and there’s a set of dies so you can cut out each critter:
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But I went another way, using *just* the shadow solid stamps! And cotton balls. And qtips! Check it out:
The panda is so sweet – stamp the ears and eye spots, apply white pigment ink with a cotton ball, then re-stamp the eye spots. If you do the re-stamping while the white ink is wet you get a “grey” color so drawing the eyes on works well. OOOH I just thought of something else – tiny GOOGLIE EYES! 🙂
The kitties can be customized to match your kitty or your recipient’s! Make spots, or use the colors of the real cat’s fur.
And then there’s pups! Don’t forget to give them a collar with a qtip.
Bunnies were soo fun to play around with – ears up or ears down!
This little guy belongs in a cartoon!
Flip the ears down, and it becomes a flop-eared bunny!
I hope this gave you some bonus ideas to use along with the ‘regular’ intent of stamping with shadow stamps and the die set!
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A great idea Sandy and what a stunning critters, I love them all!
Thank you so much for the inspiration, stay safe and have a wonderful day.
Those are so cute!! So fluffy! I had a white bunny with floppy black ears when I was younger–it would be cute to use this technique like that! TFS!!
Oh my goodness they are too cute…You have such great ideas…I just love them all, and can’t wait to make them, great kids birthday cards
Thank you
these are so so cute!!!
Oh my goodness, Sandy! Too cute!
These are adorable sandy I especially love the droopy eared rabbit so so sweet all of them. Thanks for continually giving us inspiration and encouragement. Stay safe. I am actually looking at some of my other stamps now to see if I could do this technique too- but I still want this set too.
Love this cute idea!
These cards with the animal faces are SO CUTE! Thank you for the video showing how you made them. They are all adorable and I’m ready to play with cotton balls and q-tips now!
Super cute Sandy!!! You are sooo creative and I love all the different ways you think to use stamps and dies.
Your ideas are always so adorable. You should absolutely do a Vienna pup (on the side) just for the fun of doing it. Come on, you know you want to. ;-D. Thank you again for sharing your LIGHT and talents so generously.
These cutie pies look fuzzy and happy! I love to see what you’re creating!
So fun a must try 🙂
Adorable, Sandy. Thanks for sharing this. I do admit that my first thought is that you don’t even need a stamp set. My 9 year old grand daughter would love this and would be easily capable of adding the ears and face detail with marker or colored pencils. Can’t wait to try it with her.
Great cards
So cute!! What a perfect thing to see first thing in the morning! Love them!
+*Your cards are absolutely adorable. Love the critters.
Sorry. My dog ran across the keyboard. I thought I had corrected it all.
So adorable!
OMG! SO FREAKING ADORABLE!
This looks so easy – and FUN! My brain immediately went to Christmas, because I want to get started making that kind of cards really soon. These guys would be so cute peeking out from behind a Christmas tree, or a big present… As you said – there are just so many things a gal could do! Love the “cotton ball technique” – ooh – a good one for kids, too!