paper: pretty paper. true stories. {and scrapbooking classes with cupcakes.}: Remember, remember

I think the biggest reason I am loving Ali’s lifeart challenges is because I’m using relatively current photos that I want to scrap…not the several-months-in-advance calendar that we use whenever we are preparing things for print, workshops or display. Well, that and clicking on all the links that get left in Ali’s comments to see how so many different crafters interpreted one idea. There is much good in all that.

This time everybody’s using a minimum of three stamps: one geometric, one text and one organic. I used the circle of dots stamp by Fontwerks for my geometric, the ornate crown by Autumn Leaves for my organic, and a few with text: two postage style stamps from Blade Rubber and a Heidi Swapp rolling word stamp for ‘people’, ‘place’ and ‘things’.

I love layering stamps but it can get a bit messy if things don’t want to sit right. So sometimes I use masks to keep things from overlapping too much – especially if I stamping more than one stamp in the same colour ink. I stamped the circle of dots first and wrote the text inside.

Then I stamped the same thing on a post-it note {and I am in love with these post-it notes, yes!} and cut it out to cover what has already been stamped. Then I stamped on top of that to make another layer. I originally wanted the big crown to be subtle, so I used a shadow ink.

But it was too pale and although it could be seen on the left background, it faded away on the brighter colour of the other side of the layout. So it ended up in black after all. A few more masks and stamps and it looked like this, and I called it quits there. Masking can also be super cool if you use a dye based ink with a background image then pigment inks and embossing powders on images on top.

It wasn’t that we just decided to burn a bunch of stuff, and it wasn’t homecoming during football season or anything. We had a bonfire night party last weekend with fireworks and a bonfire and a Guy and everything. Plus three Americans and a pumpkin pie. We had a barbecue in the dark which was priceless. Good, good times.

And happy time making this…after I packed the first sixty kits for the UKS crop. More about that soon. Still need to pick up the envelopes to start posting those this week.

xlovesx

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