Sunday Stampers Challenge Week 7

The theme for this week's Sunday Stampers challenge is Oriental - one of my faves. After a bit of head scratching I decided to 'alter' a jigsaw set. I painted the jigsaw pieces using Adirondack Dabber in Hazelnut.

I used a Whispers brush pen in dark blue to tint the edges of the pieces and to ink my stamps. I then stamped both sides of each piece using whole or part images from Woodware's "Oriental Ladies' collection".

All I had to do now was to thread some beads, bells and charms onto gold thread and add these together with a cream silk tassel to the book ring and my project was complete.

However I had stored away in the back of my brain (usually never to be seen again) the idea of making some Moos and Skinnies and decided to make a set of four Moos using the same set of stamps and here is the result.

I started cutting my 4 pieces out from an old beer mat. I covered one side of each using a sheet from an Art & Crafts Direct Oriental Bloc's, making sure that when they were set out the design matched. I cut out the pieces and then covered the other sides using a different sheet from the same block. I had to make sure that the backing papers matched when the pieces were turned over and this time I didn't cut the pieces out yet as I realised they would be easier to stamp a matching design in one sheet. I then stamped out my 'scene' using the Woodware Oriental Ladies stamps again using black StazOn.

I turned the whole thing over and stamped a different scene on the other side. I then cut my tiles out and inked the edges using a VersaMagic Chalk Ink in Jumbo Java. All that was left to do was add two small pieces of red ribbon and two coin charms. Another project completed and a happy crafter here. I will definately be making more Moo sets, they are fun.