4 Creative Ways to Use Outline Stamps

Hi friends, Carly here. I love dies and solid stamps but outline stamps have such a special place in my heart! They are so fun to create with, so versatile and they are absolutely what caused me to fall in love with cardmaking! Today I want to share four of my favorite, fail proof card designs for outline stamps!

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The first one is clean and simple! Stamp an image and sentiment(s) on a white card, leaving lots of white space. I like to place a the image in a few different positions on the card…front & center, bottom right corner and in a vertical strip on either side like the Jack ‘O Lantern treat bucket card.

The second design is to create a fun background by stamping the images all over a card front and then adding a die cut sentiment in the middle like the purple stamped background & orange “trick or treat” card.

The third design is what I like to call a “scene strip”! I like to mask a section of the card and ink blend (or a strip of colored cardstock works too). Then I stamp images that create a scene or background. After I add a stamped, die cut and colored image and a sentiment stamp.

Halloween Treat Buckets Stamps
Halloween Treat Buckets Dies
Boo Greetings Stamps
Trick or Treat Shadow Dies
Mini Ghosts Stamps
Mini Ghosts Dies
Stitched Windows 1 Dies (or Stitched Arches Dies)

And the last one that makes me tremendously happy is using stamped, colored and die cut images as shaker bits! They are so fun mixed with super chunky glitter, sequins or clay confetti!

 I hope you are inspired to try this technique!