Jane's Doodles Challenge #3: Love

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Ah l’amour. Anybody remember Pepe Le Pew; the french skunk always on the look out for love from Looney tunes. Usually things didn’t end well since he was chasing after a cat who wanted nothing to do with the stinky skunk. Well for Jane’s Doodles Challenge #3 theme of love I choose to use Stinks stamp set and dies. These guys are so adorable and definitely the love thing is going to work out for these two, unlike for Pepe Le Pew.

The idea for this shaker card came from a tutorial I saw a while back where Jennifer McGuire used a large stamp image and co-ordinating die to create a shaker window. Here is a link to her stamped shaker tutorial. I kinda took it a step further and decided to create a small scene with the stamp set and then use all of the co-ordinating dies to cut out the shaker window

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Get the look:

  • I started by die cutting 2 identical size pieces of cardstock. In my case they were 3 3/4”x5”. 

  • Since we are creating a shaker card, we need to stamp the scene out twice. Once to create the image for colouring and a second to die cut the shaker window.  

  • I laid Jane’s Doodle Stinks stamps out, how I wanted the scene to look, in my Misty stamping tool. Since I want the scene to be identical on both pieces of card it is useful to use a stamp positioning tool. I stamped once on one piece of cut card, then swapped out the card and stamped on the second piece of cut card. 

  • My scene required a little bit of masking. The key to masking is to stamp the things you want in the front first, mask them, then stamp the other critters and things that will be behind. Once you’ve done it a few times it really does become easy.

  • TIP: If you own the dies to the stamp set they can be quite useful for creating masks versus cutting out masks. Even though die cut masks leave a little gap with the stamped image it is usually very small and simple to just fill in with a marker pen. 

  • Once you have your two scene cards go ahead and colour one with whatever media you happen to be using and die cut the other. 

  • Before I started building my card I added a few hearts to die cut panel with some shimmer pen and gloss overtop. Added the sentiment to the front panel. 

  • Now we can build the shaker. First add acetate to the die cut opening, then either use foam tape or die cut some craft foam to back your die cut shaker card. 

  • Because we started with the exact same card size it is easy to add your shaker bling, add glue, line up two pieces of card and glue together. 

  • I layered the shaker on some red cardstock then finally mounted it on a white card base. 

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Challenge Details:

The theme for Jane’s Doodle Challenge #3 is Love. The perfect theme for February. You have until Feb 18th at 11pm CET to enter the challenge. Be sure to stop by Jane’s Doodles Challenge Website to see some amazing inspiration from the rest of the design team and details about the challenge.

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Jane’s Doodles - Stinks stamp and die