Sweet Stamp Shop: Pucker Up Layout

The Challenge

Free Digi-Stamp

Hello scrappy friends, I have another post to share with you today. Sweet Stamp Shop is hosting a new weekly challenge over the course of the next four weeks, starting every Thursday morning. You could win some of your own sweet stamps or even a guest designer spot. This week's challenge is to make any project using paper piecing, and you don't even have to use Sweet Stamp Shop stamps to participate. Just load your entry using Flickr to join in the fun.

I used the free digital stamp file from the blog for my layout. For more information about the challenge, or to download the free digi-stamps, please see today's post on Sweet Stamp Shop's blog.


The Reveal
I really liked the lemon/lime digi-stamp and wanted to paper piece it in two colors, but thought it would be too tedious to X-Acto knife out all those internal segments, especially since I needed 16 limes.

I imported the file into Silhouette Studio Designer Edition and created a cut file for the rind and the segments. It only works on with Silhouette Design Studio and is not a general SVG file. If you would like to cut some cute limes or lemons with your Cameo, here is the file:

Downloadable Silhouette Cut File: Sweet Tart Lemon

I ended up not actually stamping anything for a stamp challenge, but I have to go as the project leads. 

The Photo

I wanted to accentuate the green in the limes so I printed my photos in black and white. Then in the largest photo, I highlighted just the green in the trees. If you have Photoshop and want a tutorial on this technique, this tutorial is the one I used. This is actually the first time I tried this technique, I just googled highlighting one color in a photo, and read over the results. 

Green Highlight

The Supplies

Digital Stamp: Sweet Stamp Shop (Sweet Tart)

Software: Silhouette Studio, Photoshop

Digital Cutter: Silhouette Cameo

Cardstock: Bazzill

Patterned Paper: Imaginisce

Die Cut: Imaginisce

Sticker: Imaginisce

Photo Paper: Red River Paper (Polar Pearl Metallic)

Pen: Pentel

Miscellaneous: Buttons

We would love it if you joined in any of the four challenges in the upcoming weeks. If you like stamping or paper piecing, then show us your stuff here. 

Since I used so many limes in my layout, I decided to enter it Moxie Fab World's repetition challenge.

This layout was also featured in the last issue of ScrapStreet MiniMag.

Thanks for stoppin' by,