World Of Michael Trent: Technique Junkies | September New Stamp Release

Sunday, September 1, 2024

Technique Junkies | September New Stamp Release | Halloween Pyramid Card

Hello everyone and welcome to the September 2024 New Stamp Release with Technique Junkies. This month there are 14 new stamps to whet your appetite - 4 new background stamps, Halloween stamps, animals, and 2 sentiment sets perfect for birthdays and family scrapbooking.

All the new stamps in the release are 15% off through Sunday, September 8th and, if you use my code - TJ10Michael - you can take 10% off everything else on the website.

If you love and want ALL the new stamps, grab the Gotta Have It All Bundle, for only $95.48 - a savings of $31.82 (25% off) of the retail price - $127.30. It's a great deal and it's like getting a few stamps for free.

To help celebrate the new release, I made a really cool Halloween "pyramid" card using 2 of the new stamps - Halloween Background and Halloween Paintstroke. If you have never made a pyramid card, you might become addicted to making them.

You will need some sort of nesting dies - rectangle, square, even circle dies. If you do not own any of these dies, you can just cut them to size with a ruler and knife or a papercutter. To make this card I used Stitched Rectangle Set 1 Dies from Pink & Main. This is my go-to stitched rectangle set because the largest die is the same size as an A2 card.

If you want to recreate this card or make one like it, this is what I did:

I stamped Halloween Background on white cardstock and colored it in using a variety of markers including some Neon Sharpie markers. Then I die-cut it using the largest die from Stitched Rectangle Set 1 Dies.

This rectangle die set comes with 8 dies. I adhered 4 of the dies to my colored image and die-cut them. I used the smallest die, and then every other die in size. You want some space between each layer. You will end up with 4 pieces.

I made a top-folding A2 card using black cardstock and adhered the largest piece to it. It will cover your whole card front.

I layered the next piece on a piece of black cardstock measuring 3 3/8" x 4 5/8". You want just a smidgen of a border. Then I adhered that to a piece of black fun foam and then to the card front.
Then the next piece on a piece of black cardstock, 2 3/8" x 3 5/8", then to a piece of black fun foam, and then to the card front.
For the last piece, I layered it on a piece of black cardstock, 1 3/8" x 2 5/8", then a piece of black fun foam, then to the card front.

Here you can see the different layers showing in a pyramid form.

For the inside, I die-cut a piece of white cardstock using a 4" x 5.25" stitched rectangle die and stamped Halloween Paintstroke in the lower right corner, then I adhered it to the inside of the card.