As someone always 
so inspired by Jennifer McGuire’s videos, I had to try her technique with making single layer cards. After stamping the focal image, you need to mask it, then stamp the sentiment repeatedly using different colors. By stamping and then masking the focal image, you can get almost the same look as if you had die cut the focal image and placed it on top. But it’s just one layer, uses less card stock and costs no extra to mail them
Here are a couple I started with:
The first card was the Party Panda, from this year’s Sale-a-bration catalog. He was easy to cut out and mask. Then, using my Stamparatus, I inked up the sentiment from the Perennial Birthday stamp set with several different ink colors. I was able to make several on thick white card stock in minutes.
The second card uses a retired stamp set, called Best Thoughts. I pulled this set out because I already had a mask cut out for the flower. So, once I stamped the flower on the thick white card stock, and set my mask in place, it was just a matter of lining up the sentiment in my Stamparatus and inking away.
I find these to be quick, easy and inexpensive cards to make, and will be the perfect project for a small class to teaching how to use a stamp positioning tool.