Do you ever feel creative block? And you just can’t seem to get excited about a project? Then watching a video may be just the thing for you. Creative Interactive Stamping and More presented by Stamps by Judith is such a video.
Even if you’re not a stamper, there are so many great ideas shown here that it is valuable tool to have. I got so excited watching it I had to stop and go make some cards before I finished watching the video. And the best thing about a video is the STOP feature, which allows you to pause and look at something as long as you want to. You can also hit rewind, or reverse, and watch a technique over and over until you get it.
Juudith Kleinschmidt is the creative genius behind stamps by Judith. She does the largest part of the video, and is joined by her daughter Heather in the later parts. I met them at a Stamp Show and they are as delightful in person as the artwork they create. Having this video is almost as good as having them come to my studio and show me all their great techniques!
The video is divided into 11 segments, with multiple ideas in each one. Judith shows how to get lots and lots of mileage out of a single stamp, and how to think “outside the box” with the tools you have. Almost all of the designs shown feature “sticks and stubbies”. Sticks are small wooden dowels (about as big around as a pencil} with a tiny rubber stamp on the end. “ Stubbies “are slightly larger. At first look, you may think
“ What am I going to do with a little tiny flower?”
Then Judith starts stamping, and makes bouquets, wreathes, borders, frames, etc, etc, etc with that little tiny flower. She teaches lots of design tricks, such as using a gray watercolor marker to make your black image jump off the page. I was amazed at how easily she changed the whole emotion expressed in a design just by the way she drew a line with the black marker. With a rainbow inkpad, a fine line black marker, and a few stamps, she brings her paper to life and inspires you to do the same. The designs are so cute and happy that you tend to think-it can’t be that easy. But I tried it and it is!! With the right tools and this video, you will be making cards, bookmarks, scrapbook pages and more so fast your head will spin. Judith also has lots of little tricks about using markers, masking, repeating and other design ideas you can use with your own images even if you don’t stamp.
Judith and Heather don’t limit themselves to stamps. They also show projects with Crystal Lacquer, buttons, ribbons, and other embellishments. They also have lots of little tricks about using markers, masking, repeating and other design ideas you can use with your own images even if you don’t stamp.
Following techniques I learned from this video, I was able to decorate the front of this blank board book in about 10 minutes.
But beware- if you’re not a stamper, this video will probably convert you. If you are a stamper, you’re going to want to add all the stamps used to your collection!
