Stash Busting with Ann - Stamps

Are you like me and a lover of stamps?

I have so many and whilst I love them all I often find they lie unused in a draw so for this stash busting (though more using than busting!) I'd like to see you dig out your stamps and use them on a page - either to stamp and cut out accents to use on your page, or stamp direct;y onto the page - or indeed, as I have done in the example below, start with your stamps and make them the focal point of your layout design.

In this layout I have

- stamped directly on to the page with black ink

- stamped on white card with coloured ink and cut out

- stamped with black ink on white card and cut out

- stamped with black ink onto coloured card and paper and cut out

I then layered up the elements and placed them over the stamped background and once happy with the placement stuck them down.

To finish the page I added a title and some bee accents from Bramblefox and interdispersed my journaling amoung the hexagons to drag the eye around the page.

I look forward to seeing your stamped layouts fill up the gallery and indeed why not reach for them this weekend when you contemplate some of our challenges too.

Time for a Change

Hi there - Karen here with a quick little post on how I changed some of the papers and elements for this months gallery.

Firstly, for my Jubilee Cupcakes layout,

 

 I cut all the cups and saucers from the Graphic 45  Kraft Reflections - Tea for Two and layerd them onto my page .

 

I felt it needed more more colour and so took inspiration from the Union flag and coloured the cups and saucers blue and red with water colour pencils.

I found that the paper took the colour really well and I was able to blend the colours out with a water brush.

For the Beach Baby page

 

I only had black letters in the size I wanted to use

and these looked too stark against the muted colours of the page.  I stamped them with white ink

and a text stamp similar to these ones

and this had the effect of toning down the black and making them blend in with the feel of the page more.

So there you have it - don't always settle for what the manufacturers give you, mix it up a bit to make it your own!