Shades of Love :: Stamped-Painted-Doodled & Lettered Gift Bag Tutorial

Shades of Love Gift Bags
by Jenny Doh
Featuring Little Miss Mason

Make small strokes onto brown paper bags using a small paintbrush and Sumi ink or India ink.
These are my favorites: Sumi ink by Yasutomo and Super Black India ink by Speedball.

Paint loose scribbles onto a book page with Montana Acrylic markers. Let dry.

Stamp image with dark ink onto the bookpage. I like the looseness the acrylic colors so that not the entire area that you are stamping is covered with color. This allows some of the unpainted book page to peek through.

Write text onto the painted and stamped book page.
Cut out the painted and stamped images. Adhere onto the painted bags. Add doodles with a white gel pen.
Enclose gift, fold top edge, secure with a wooden clothespin.

Stamped Love Shoes Tutorial by Cynthia Shaffer

Stamped Love Shoes Tutorial
by Cynthia Shaffer
{Featuring Live to Love and Little Miss Mason}

Stamp (Love to Live Clear stamps and Little Miss Mason stamps) heart, words and frame images onto a scrap piece of printed fabric using black Ancient Page ink.

Cut out around the image and paint with acrylic paints.

Iron on a small piece of Wonder Under to add stability.

Remove the paper backing of the Wonder Under and then iron the piece to a scrap of muslin and cut out around the shape.

Paint on a small amount of white glue around the outer edge to keep the piece from fraying

Using Black perle cotton, stitch the pieces to black cloth Mary Janes, using X's and French knots.

DIY Stamped Tags Sweet Treat Favors Tutorial by Jenny Doh

DIY Stamped Tags Sweet Treat Favors Tutorial
by Jenny Doh
{Featuring Little Miss Mason Stamps}

Stamp scallped oval with red inkpad onto shipping tags.

Hand letter sentiments into the ovals and color with colored pencils.

Stamp circles with a pencil eraser, using a yellow pigment-based inkpad.

Use washi tape to adhere small packets of necco wafers or other sweet treats. Cut strips of muslin fabric and tie them to the top of the tags.

Vintage Snapshot Ornaments :: by Melody Nunez

Vintage Snapshot Ornaments
by Melody M. Nuñez
Featuring Little Miss Mason Stamps

These vintage snapshot ornaments can be used in many different ways.  Consider hanging them on a Christmas tree, a found wooden branch, or around the necks of vintage glass bottles.  They’d make lovely tags, and could even be hung from the “branches” of a family tree you paint on the wall!

Begin by printing or copying the black and white images you’d like to use.  I printed digital copies onto regular copy paper with my home printer.  Crop the images into a square shape.  Mine vary slightly in size, but are 2 ¼” x 2 ¼” on average. 

Glue the cropped image onto a thin piece of chipboard or a thick piece of cardstock that you’ve trimmed to the same size as the photo, using a glue stick to adhere the two pieces. 

Slide black photo corners onto each corner of your image – the front should lay on top of the image, and the back should lie on top of the chipboard or cardstock piece you attached to the photo.  Affix the back piece of each photo corner to the chipboard or cardstock with glue or a glue dot, ensuring they don’t shift or fall off. 

Trim a piece of white cardstock to the same size as your photo.  Stamp the cardstock with a frame image from the Little Miss Mason stamp set, choosing a frame of appropriate size and shape.  Use an alphabet letter stamp to add information about the photo inside the frame, like the person’s name, date, or the occasion.  You can also write the information in, if you’d like.  Set this stamped piece aside. 

To make the hanger, attach the two ends of a piece of narrow black ribbon to the back of the photo/chipboard piece, using double stick tape.  The ribbon should be centered, and should extend down at least ½” from the top edge. 

Finish the ornament by attaching the stamped piece of cardstock to the beribboned photo piece.  The back of the photo piece should be attached to the back of the stamped cardstock, sandwiching the ribbon in between. 

Please note: If you’re using digital copies of black and white/sepia photos and you have photo editing software like Photoshop, your images will look more uniform if you desaturate the images before printing them.  If you copy paper photos, you’ll get better results if you color copy them, though they’re black and white.

Korean Love Gift Bag Tutorial :: by Jenny Doh

Korean Love Gift Bag
{Featuring Little Miss Mason Stamps}
by Jenny Doh

Stamp mason jar onto a brown paper bag using a black inkpad.

Stamp label onto lined paper with red inkpad. Cut out. Write Korean characters for "love" onto the label.

Cut triangles from the lined paper and doodle hearts onto them. Cut scallops along the top edge of the bag and fold. Adhere the label and triangles onto the bag and add more doodles.

Little Miss Mason Ideas by Rachel Emilie Jackson

Ideas for using your Little Miss Mason stamps

by Rachel Emilie Jackson

{Featuring Little Miss Mason stamps}

Fill a small jar with ready-stamped and cut out labels and keep it close at hand. Stamp labels of different sizes on leftover papers and lightweight card from other projects.

Keep the jar in easy reach of ribbons, twine and other small trims. Make gift-wrapping hassle-free with unique, dainty tags for your parcels.

Combine with message stamps (Everyday Expressions) or write your own sentiments and run the labels through a Xyron. Use them as seals for home-baked gifts or packed lunches.

Combine delicate punch designs with the labels to make outstanding tags for special gifts.

Stamp small patterns (Ordinary Sparkling Embellishments) on paper first, before stamping with labels. Cut them out to make pretty envelope seals for your festive mail. Alternatively, stamp the labels on patterned paper for bolder seal designs.

Labels are also great for trapping elements to a card. Here, dried flowers are held in place with a stamped label for bearing some found text.

Little Miss Mason stamps found here.

Little Miss Mason Holiday Ornaments by Melody M. Nuñez

Little Miss Mason Holiday Ornaments

by Melody M. Nuñez

{Featuring Little Miss Mason Stamps}

This project is fun to make, doesn't require many supplies, and can be altered to suit different holidays or occasions. Hearts for Valentines? Shamrocks for St. Patrick's Day? Pumpkins for Halloween? The choice is yours! Consider decorating a small tree with these ornaments, stringing them on a garland, or using them as gift tags on extra-special gifts.

Start by stamping the Mason jar image onto watercolor paper with permanent black ink. Draw or stamp the contents of the jar, and then embellish as desired. I drew a pine tree, candy canes, and gift boxes with a black pen and then added color with Caran d'Ache water-soluble crayons using a fine-tipped paintbrush. (Markers, gel pens, or colored pencils would be an excellent alternative if they're not what you have on hand.) I also used metallic gel pens to accent the tree ornaments and the gift box ornament.

Once you're satisfied with the look of your ornaments, trim the excess paper from around the stamped edge of the Mason jar and attach a small piece of wire to the top back of the ornament to form a hanger. Hang or attach to your gift package and enjoy!

Find Little Miss Mason stamps here.

Free Motion Quilting Tutorial :: Stamped & Water-Colored Ornaments

Stamped & Water-Colored Ornaments by Jenny Doh

{Featuring Little Miss Mason Stamps}

Stamp image onto muslin.

Layer with batting and backing fabric and free motion quilt, changing top thread color for lid, jar, and label. (An alternative to free motion quilting is to hand embroider using embroidery thread and hand needle.) Cut stitched portion out.

Apply a bit of color with watercolor pencil onto a wet paintbrush and apply the color onto the stitched piece.

TIP: If at any time too much color goes on, just add more water to the stitched piece to dilute the color.

Use a pin to poke holes at either side of the lid portion and attach a wire.

Use the ornaments to adorn bottles, holiday tree, doorknobs, or gift packages.

Find Little Miss Mason stamps here.

Art Saves Grid Collage by Melody M. Nuñez

Art Saves Grid Collage

by Melody M. Nuñez

{Featuring Art Saves Rubber Stamps & Little Miss Mason Rubber Stamps}

Punch or cut nine squares of off-white cardstock. Use black metallic rub-ons to lightly accent the edges of each square. Use these squares and add materials that appeal to you to fill in your grid. Featured in this collage from upper left corner to lower right corner:

1. A square stamp from Little Miss Mason stamped in black, filled with a square of red onion skin and a small, silver punched heart

2. A shell

3. A cancelled postage stamp

4. A square of fabric with a small pressed flower affixed to the center

5. Art Saves stamp embellished with a silver gel pen and colored pencils

6. Vintage photo

7. A small silver key

8. A square of vintage sheet music

9. A label stamp from Little Miss Mason, filled with a vintage button

Arrange the squares to your satisfaction, and attach to the background (e.g, pressboard, matboard, etc.) using Terrifically Tacky Tape or other adhesive. "Frame" your collage with masking tape, and affix buttons to the four corners.

Find Art Saves rubber stamps here.

Find Little Miss Mason rubber stamps here.

Transparent Treasures

Transparent Treasures

by Cynthia Shaffer

{Featuring Little Miss Mason stamps}

With black StazOn inkpad, stamp image of mason jar onto a piece of transparency. Trim. Cut another piece of transparency into a rectangular shape. Lay the stamped and trimmed transparency onto the rectangular piece of transparency and machine stitch around the image of the jar but leave the top portion unstitched. (Don't worry about stitching precisely on the jar line. A bit of imperfection adds character to the finished piece.) Encase this stamped transparent pocket with buttons, bits of ephemera.

Sky's the limit in terms of what sort of treasures you elect to encase into the stamped transparent pocket. You can also consider using the stitched pocket with other embellishments to adorn a journal.

Find Little Miss Mason stamps here.