Stamping - Ecstasy Crafts Blog

Making your own background patterned paper.

There are so many ways you can make the most of your stamp sets and for today's blog I wanted to show you how to use any image in a stamp set to create a patterned background of your own. You'll create a one of a kind image that you can customize any way you like.

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Using apertures to create interesting backgrounds

I simply used three different nesting frame dies to create three different apertures for my cards.

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Precision Stamp Press

There is a new stamping platform to consider when your in the market for one. This new Precision Stamp Press created by Couture Creations has a different approach to the stamping platforms. The new design includes springs, so you can fit your clear stamps as well as your rubber stamps

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Agapanthus Stamp Card Follow Up

Stamping, stenciling and reverse stencil techniques.

Free Project

Scenic Stamp Card

Stamp and colour a beautiful scenic card using Idyllic Floral Scene stamps and the Stamping Buddy Pro from Nellie's Choice.

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National Scrapbook Day Celebration

Ecstasy Crafts was honoured to be part of Scrapbook Centrale's National Scrapbook Day weekend Crop Celebration. Natalie and her super team pulled together an incredible weekend event. Sold out weeks if not months in advance, "swag" bags to rival a Hollywood Red Carpet event, hundreds and hundreds of

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Pigment Ink vs. Dye Ink

When it comes to stamping there are so many choices out there for which inks (or other products) to use to best highlight your designs and get the effect you want. We have recently introduced two new inkpads that I'd like to compare side-by-side to help you decide what meets your needs.

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Stamping 101

When you first begin stamping you'll have to choose clear stamps that are not mounted or stamps that are already mounted on wood blocks. There are positive and negative to both so you'll have to decide which one you like when you begin stamping.

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The flip side of the coin ... the cards that teach us!

I think it is an experienced card maker to identify the level of complexity by looking at a card. I'm always up for a challenge!

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Stamping Perfection

...there is a little stamping platform from Leane Creatief that fits the bill for most of us. This device works with cling stamps and rubber backed cling stamps just perfectly...

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Scenes with stamps from Frog's Whiskers

Our friends at Frog's Whiskers practically spoon fed me a blog topic! I recieved an email from Frog's Whiskers this week with some lovely card samples attached. And it got me thinking, aside from the superior quality of their stamps, one aspect of their stamps that I find valuable, is