Woolly Wobblers
Last week, our godson, Rowan, celebrated his 5 th birthday. I don’t have many stamps specifically for children so I had to get creative with what I had. Rowan’s Mum keeps a flock of Icelandic sheep and I have a sheep stamp set. Sorted! I wasn’t sure how many sheep I would need but guessed it’d be quite a few. To get some colour on the fleeces quickly, I opted to spray a sheet of damp watercolour paper with Distress Spray Stains. This next stage is a quicker way of stamping and die-cutting if you’re going to be doing a lot of the same image. I die-cut the shape as many times as I could from the inky panel. To make a frame for the stamping, I die-cut the sheep from a piece of scrap card. After securing the frame in my MISTI, I positioned the sheep stamp in the aperture and picked it up with the door of the stamp positioner. One-by-one, the die-cuts were popped into the aperture and the sheep stamped. To give the sheep a bit more chara...