Just Wanted to Say: Love You Tons!
Hello! May Flaum here to share some ideas for stamping with the cute new Dear Lizzy stamp set! A basic heart is always a welcome stamp in my collection and I had some fun with it making both a card and a scrapbook page.
Now I know I could have simply stamped with it – but I thought I’d pull out some UTEE and make myself a seal. Doing this is really easy – especially if you have a meltart pot!
Steps:
1. Heat some clear UTEE and a little white UTEE in the pot. Pour out into a circle (it’s ok if it isn’t perfect!) and squirt with perfect pearls in pearl to add some pearlized color to it.
2. Set the stamp on the center of the hot UTEE and leave it for a few minutes. Once it starts to cool, you should be able to lift the stamp right off. This works best with a simple design.
3. If you’d like to color it, you can use paint or other liquid mediums. If it won’t set, just use a heat tool for a moment which will warm up the UTEE and help the color soak in and set.
It can be a lot of fun – and using a non-stick craft mat you can make a lot of these at once then save them for future cards and projects.
Speaking of cards – I made this one with my heart seal.
I paired the heart and chevron stamp set with some distress ink, a Simon stamp set, and in a few minutes I had this card. Such fun!
The rest of the how-to for the card is:
- Cut a strip of white cardstock on the ends so that it is like a banner. Then coat with liquid adhesive and distress glitter.
- Stamp a square of cardstock with the chevron stamp and tear the edges.
- Use distress stain on a piece of 4×5 cardstock, leaving the edges white.
- Adhere that stamped square, the glittered banner, and the seal to the 4×5 cardstock.
- To finish the card, stamp the ‘just wanted to say’ and ‘love you tons’ stamps on cardstock and add them to your card.
I had so much fun making this card – I decided to keep the glitter and stamps out, and make a layout!
First day of school definitely deserves a layout – and combined with some more Simon exclusive stamps and my big #1 stamp (Tim Holtz) I knew I could make a layout where stamps were the star – and only embellishment needed!
First I took a 4×6 and 4×3 photo, some cardstock, and my main stamps and made a plan.
Some notes on how-to for my page:
- I stamped (with picked raspberry distress ink + gold paint) multiple hearts and cut them out.
- I used pink ink (Memento Luxe) + gold paint for the small hearts (from Simon stamp set).
- I used Heidi Swapp gold mist flicked onto the background paper.
- I stamped the #1, embossed it with clear powder, and while still hot I coated with distress glitter.
The layout is finished off with black stitching, and some computer printed journaling on thick white cardstock. Simple – and my stamps were my embellishments which I love!
I had a lot of fun being a part of this celebration here at Simon! Please do pop by my blog today for a post featuring more of the new Simon exclusive stamps.
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Thanks for the demonstration using UTEE. What a cool idea.
Great idea for the UTEE, wonderful layout too!
Great technique. I’ve done similar but without the melting pot. The melting pot would make it ssssooooooooo much easier. Rebecca is a cutie!
Always unique projects, May! Thanks for sharing!
Nice Project!!
Very kewl Heart with the Utee love the way it turned out
This is adorable! Loved the LO!
Cool technique! Thanks for the tutorial!
This is gorgeous! Love the way that heart turned out!
The LO is a beauty and to usee utee yo make a seal is greet!
neat technique thanks for the tutorial! ~God bless~
Awesome idea, thanks sooo much for the tut and all the inspiration here again today.
Beautiful projects…I’ll have to try out some UTEE when I get a chance. Thanks for sharing!
I’ve never tried this
Thanks for sharing!
Both fabulous projects – love your little utee medallion!
Great projects with this heart stamp. I like your use of UTEE.
This is such a fun idea! very unique! and lovely layout! Thanks for sharing!
Beautiful! I love the utee hearts – must try that
awesome stamp seal. love what you did with it.
By the way yesterday I was unable to post a comment for some reason. kept hitting the older comments all the way to the end and then went clear through to the beginning of the new ones.
never had that problem here before. just thought I’d whine alittle. haha
Beautiful projects! I love the UTEE use with the heart stamp, it looks so great! Thank you for sharing! I would also like to thank Stephanie, SSS and Tim Holtz for the great gift I just won, the Creative Chemistry 102 Class !!! Thank you all so much!!!
love the utee seal! beautiful!
Such a fun idea and fabulous UTEE heart seal! May. Love the delightful colors of the layout, too. :)
Wow! Fabulous. How unique.
Very sweet LO.
totally fabulous..
Fun card.. lots of whimsy!
I’ve never used utee before, but this is right up my alley! Thank you!
What a great card and LO!
That is just adorable ! Love the tute ! :) thanks so much !
Neat ideas!
Love the way you made that pretty seal. Great LO
That heart, paired with the glitter banner — beautiful! Lovely layout, as well.
So cool and clever! And wow that distress glitter looks fab!!
I really like the heart seal that May created!
May always has the best ideas! Love Miss Rebecca’s layout.
Oh dear, I’ve been on the fence, but now I think I “need” a melting pot!
I love UTEE! So glad to see it in a Stamptember project!
very clever and cute
Just wanted to say : awesome technique! So many shapes can be used for the seal. TFS!
beautiful creations…i love the layout!! =)
This is so sweet! Love the seal!
This is so sweet. Love the Utee seal. Thanks so much.
Great idea! Thanks
for all the instructions.
Carla from Utah
That layout was so fabulous but I’m really digging that Utee seal! Tfs!
very fun!
Sandra ltb
I’ve never used UTEE before. Something I’ll definitely be looking into. Thanks for sharing.
looks like fun thanks for sharing…
thanks for sharing this with us today
lovely tutorial thank you
Fabulous projects! I haven’t made anything with UTEE in ages – must get mine out and put it to work.