Hello Everyone,
Di here again. I hope you're all enjoying our Stamp a Memory Site and that you're overflowing with ideas for your own Stampin' Up! pages because of what you have seen here. That is why we are here, after all.
Today I have something you don't see from me very often and that is a girls layout. With my two boys you would be absolutely right in assuming that the majority of my layouts are going to be boy based. However, my sister-in-law gave me this lovely photo of my beautiful niece Alicia so I took it as a wonderful opportunity to do a girls layout and I've had a fantastic time making it.
Spotlight on technique: Creating patterned letters with stamps & ink
I have created the name "alicia" on my layout in a way you may not have seen before or perhaps have seen but not tried yet yourselves. It's a way of making your own patterned alphabet letters, (which you can cut out and stick to your page), using stamps and ink.
What to do: Choose a stamp, for your background, that has good coverage and stamp as many images as you have letters in your title, with the ink of your choice, onto Whisper White card stock. Try to use a stamp that is big enough to fit your alphabet stamps inside so that you don't have a broken pattern within your letter when you cut it out. In this case I have used one of the hearts from the NEW Sumer Mini set called 'I {Heart} Hearts'. I have stamped it six times in Pixie Pink ink onto my white cardstock. I have then taken the 'Jumbo Outline Alphabet' and inked the letters for 'alicia' in Old Olive ink and over-stamped them onto the heart patterns. Then with a fine pair of craft scissors I have cut out the letters and stuck them onto my layout using the two-way glue pen. It's a wonderful way to make co-ordinating paper if you would like an alternative to covering chipboard in ink or Designer Series Paper.
Product List for this layout:
Stamp Sets: I {Heart} Hearts & Jumbo Outline Alphabet.
Ink Colors: Pixie Pink & Old Olive.
Designer Series Paper (DSP): Dotted pink paper from the 'Petal Party - Simply Scrappin Set' and the NEW 'Tall Tales' paper from the Summer Mini. I cut sections of it out to do the clouds, the hot air balloon and the hills with the birds on them.
Embellishments:Felt Flowers from both the 'Flower Fusion' & 'Flower Fusion Too' tin sets, Rhinestone brads in pink and blue from both the 'Circle Fire' & Circle Ice' packs, chipboard from both the 'Loads of Letters' & 'Timeless Time' packs which I have covered in 'Crystal Effects' and sprinkled with 'Fine Supernova Olive Glitter' to create the SWEET part of the title. I've then finished off with some distressing and some stitching on the sewing machine in pink thread around the edges.
Tools: Sanding Blocks (to refine edges of chipboard before decorating), fine craft scissors, two-way glue pen & Pop-Up Glue dots (to attach flowers).
If you have any questions about this layout or anything Stampin' up then please drop us a line.
Until next time - Di Gill xox
That's really sweet Di! Love how you have put it all together - it's like art!
Posted by: Claire Daly | 17 December 2009 at 01:58 PM