Be a Pineapple

I love this sentiment and I love postage dies, so it was a marriage made in heaven to put them together. I am playing along with Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: Use your favorite technique. I love die cutting and make mostly die cut cards these days. Here's a peek...

All I did was die cut patterned papers with my postage collage die, then cut the rectangles with my paper cutter just inside the stitched line on each of the postage "stamps." 

I die cut a postage collage out of white cardstock and adhered the patterned paper rectangles to the same-size stamps. I like the look of each stamp having a white border/frame like real postage stamps. 

I didn't have a postage stamp the size of my sentiment or it would have been stamped inside one as well. Then I cut apart the stamps from the one-piece collage and arranged them on my card front. I popped up the sentiment, which I matted with gold cardstock.

Products I used:

Waffle Flower - Postage Collage die

Bossy Joscie - Stamp

Patterned paper scraps (some with gold accents)

Simon Says Stamp - Intense black ink pad

I enjoy masking off postage dies and ink blending, stamping, adding die cuts or patterned paper in the postage "stamps." What a fun  and popular concept that was started not that long ago!

The post office should ask current cardmakers to design their stamps...there are so many great designs out there and I know Waffle Flower is planning more.

See you soon,

Carol