Outside of the Box Challenge And Lucky Me

I really had fun with this challenge. Sharon's challenge on No Time to Stamp was Thinking Outside of the Box. In other words, use a stamp in a way it was not intended.

This was really hard at first, but then I started looking at my stamps and trying to see the potential in them. When I pulled out All Natural, the pear was upside down, and I immediately saw an alien face in it.


I inked the pear stamp with VersaMark, then black ink and stamped it on pale green card stock. Then I embossed that with clear embossing powder.

Next I took a the leaf stamp from Basket of Blossoms and stamped it the same way for the eyes, then followed with clear embossing powder again. I used a black craft marker to fill in the eyes, leaving just a sliver unmarked, and drew in the nose and mouth. I let that dry then went over the areas I had just colored in with VersaMark and embossed those as well.

Lastly, I used water color pencils to give him a bit of shading around the edges. The shading doesn't show up well in the photo, but it adds a lot in person. The greeting I just printed out on orange card stock from my computer, because I didn't have anything that seemed appropriate.

This is the pear, stamp and colored the way you might expect it to be.

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