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September Stamp
of the Month




Eureka! Stamps Needed:

  • Happy Harvest
  • Crow Balloon
  • Hay Sheaf
  • Scarecrow Balloon Holder
  • Small Sunflower

Other Materials Needed:

  • One piece 9"x8-1/2" pale yellow card stock, folded in half to form a card 8-1/2"x 4-1/2"
  • One piece 8-1/4"x4-1/4" yellow gingham patterned background paper(sample uses The Paper Patch)
  • One piece of 7-1/4"x3-1/4" orange card stock
  • One piece 7"x3" white card stock plus extra for stamping
  • Twine or string
  • Ranger ColorIt Pigment Ink in black & orange
  • Clear embossing powder
  • Ranger Adirondack Dye Ink in Denim and Bottle green
  • Black fine point pen
  • Foam Mounting Tape
  • Markers
  • Cloud stencil and sponge

Instructions:

Sponge clouds using the stencil, sponge and Denim ink pad onto the upper two-thirds of the 7"x3" white card stock. Sponge grass onto the bottom third using the Bottle Green ink.

Emboss the hay sheaf onto the sponged piece (on the lower right hand side) using black ink and clear powder. Color and set aside. On the extra white card stock, stamp two of the sunflower balloons, one crow, and one scarecrow. Color all with markers and cut out.

Emboss the words on the inside of the card using orange pigment ink and clear powder.

Layer the gingham paper, then the orange card stock, then the sponged white card stock to the front of the yellow card using glue. Use the fine point marker to draw stitching and dots around the edges of the gingham layer and the sponged layer.

Layer the balloons per the example (make sure to attach strings between layers of foam tape). Use foam tape to attach the scarecrow to the card per the example and layer the strings from the balloons behind his right hand.