Stampin’ Up Ideas
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Both brand new and experienced stampers can find themselves in need of Stampin’ Up ideas. Sometimes staring at your art supplies just doesn’t inspire your creative muse. Luckily, a few hours viewing other people’s work will usually stimulate your own artistic vision.
A Few Stampin’ Up Ideas to Share with Friends
Often the best way to coax ideas to flow is by spending time with friends that are also creating projects. By talking about your ideas and watching what others are doing, you may be inspired to create your magnum opus. A stamping get-together may be just what you need.
Host A Workshop
Stampin’ Up has demonstrators that you can contact to host a workshop in your home. Invite your friends and spend an afternoon learning new techniques and viewing stamps that you may not have known about.
A great way to make your workshop unique is by having it as part of a tea. The theme could be stamping, and the décor and events should involve stamping in some way. This would also be a great idea for showers. Imagine a workshop that focuses on baby projects or where a bride to be learns how to make a special memory album.
Spending a day visiting with friends and seeing their projects will get your own creative juices flowing. Besides, it is fun!
A Stamping Bee
Remember the quilting bees that our great-grandmothers used to attend? Women spent hours quilting and talking. Have a Stampin’ Up bee and invite your friends to bring their projects to work on at your home. Spend the afternoon chatting and exchanging ideas. Serve refreshments and snacks to keep things flowing. You may find it becomes a monthly or even a weekly event!
Stamp with Your Kids
Watching small children throw their entire beings into creative pursuits is inspiring for even the most calloused creator. When you find yourself in need of ideas, invite your children for a few hours of uncontrolled creativity. Teach them how to rubber stamp with a brief demonstration. Provide all the materials they need, some cookies and a pitcher of Kool-Aid for a relaxing afternoon of memory making.
Stampin’ Up Online
If you work better alone, there are still a lot of things that you can do to feed your creative self. Browsing blogs written by stampers, and viewing their images, can help you to reach your own creative pinnacle. Check out these Stampin’ Up ideas:
Projects
- Handmade Cards
- Mirkwood Designs Templates
- Address Book
- Daily Planner
- Gratitude Journal
- Idea File
- Prayer Journal
- Recipe Cards
Just Do It
You may be hesitant to make that first stamp or the first paper cut for fear of making a mistake. The best thing to do is to follow your vision and begin creating something. See where it takes you. The worst thing that can happen is that you don’t like the result and have to begin again.
Take these Stampin' Up ideas and use them as the seeds for your own ideas. Remember, art is about having a great time. It's not about creating perfection.
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