Wednesday, 15 May 2024

Campin' Stampin' Kit

 


Hi Stampin' Friend!

We just returned home from a short (4 days, 3 nights) camping trip. I put together a little campin' Stampin' kit to take along in the RV and thought I'd show you what I took, what I made, and give you a tip I learned.


Everything you see in this photo was packed neatly into the tote as you can see in the first picture above.

I chose 3 stamp sets with some word and image stamps. Two were photopolymer stamps and one was "cling" or red rubber stamps that mount on acrylic blocks. The stamp types makes a difference which I will talk about later in my tip.

I pulled out every Stampin' Up! Stampin' Write Marker that I own, so I would have a wide variety of ink colors to use. I included an assortment of Designer Series Papers, an assortment of colored cardstock selected to coordinate with the patterned papers, some pieces cut to 8 1/2 by 5 1/2 inches and pre-scored for card bases, and others in smaller sizes to use for layers. There were also some white cardstock pieces to stamp on.

For tools, I included a couple of acrylic blocks, paper snips, a craft tweezer, small paper trimmer, liquid glue, Tombow Mono adhesive, Stampin' Dimensionals, a painters pad for cleaning the stamps and some scratch paper to protect the table.

Yes, it all fits in that tote bag as you see!


And here are the cards I assembled. You can see that most of them do not have stamped sentiments yet. This brings me to the tip I want to share with you:

Stampin' Write Markers have a water-based ink that corresponds to the ink in Stampin' Up! ink pads. The markers can be used to apply color to stamps, instead of using an ink pad.  

HOWEVER, my experience is that the photopolymer stamps do not hold the ink the same as the red rubber stamps do. The cards in my picture which have stamped sentiments used the red rubber stamps. When I colored with the markers on the photopolymer (clear) stamps, the ink was all blotchy and the stamped image was not good enough to use on a card.

The next time I take a Campin' Stampin' Kit along, I will only take stamps made of the red rubber.

Oh, and here's a bonus tip for you: when you get a kit from Paper Pumpkin or Stampin' Up's Kits Collection, they are packaged in the cardboard boxes you can see in the photos. Those boxes are great for packing stamping supplies and many other things you may want to take along. And when not in use, they fold flat for easy storage.  Just another useful feature of our kits!

The next time you are camping or traveling on vacation, consider taking a stampin' kit along for some extra fun.

Here is a photo of what I made on our first camping trip this season.


Happy Stampin' and Campin'!










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