Tape Stamping

Every month Club Scrap challenges us with a different crafting technique. For February's technique Roni shares with us how to stamp with tape. Who knew there were so many ways!?

I'm always up for a new, fun challenge.  Here I'm using the new Crewel & Unusual Greetings to Go kit.  This kit has three sets of cards with two of them having some fun folds.  They are difficult to photograph, so they do look a little bit "off".  

I started off by stacking my two purple panels on top of each other, as they would on the card. Inked up my painters tape with white ink and then stamped the tape on the panels. Re-ink the tape and stamp three rows. 

   

Decorated with included ribbon and tags, 

This next card I taped off one section that I was going to use for my sentiment and stamped around it. 

I even went a little further and stamped many heart images in watermark ink, using post-it notes to mask the stamped images and created different stamped layers. 

I then colored the images using my Pan Pastels 

Adhered red ribbon to one side of the gate fold and three red heart brads randomly. Stamp sentiment. 

I did a similar technique for the last card. I taped the outside edges of the panel and stamped the inside section. I first splattered some Color Bursts and stamped a background dotted image. Removed the tape and stamped my three flowers. Stamped right gate fold with border. Adhered tag and ribbon. 

You should give tape a try in your next stamping project!

 Don't forget to share your creation and link up with us over at Club Scrap for a gift certificate!

Happy Valentine's Day!

Happy Valentine's Day!

 

 

Club Scrap digital papers, stitching, embellishments. Dream Big Designs brush.

 



Creating Digital Layouts to Share

Over at Club Scrap on the forum we have a digital page swap. These are better known as QDDLs (Quick Drop Digital Layouts). Everyone in the swap creates a digital scrapbooking page using components from that month's digital kit, leaving an open area for the participants to put their own photos. 

So, here's an example of a page I created for the Crewel & Unusual page swap. 

I hope I can explain this simply. I'm gonna assume you have some Photoshop knowledge. I use Photoshop Elements 8.  I know that Photoshop is up to like 14 or something but I don't need the latest and greatest.  This is the way I do my pages, I know there are other ways to create as well. 

1.  Create a new 12x12 blank file with transparent background.

2. Add papers, overlays, frames, borders or whatever is moving you at the time. 

     a. I used red paper for background.

     b. Added 2 outside squares from overlay.

     c. Used the "love" stitching.

     d. Added more flowers to balance.

     e. Decided where my photo would go and used a stitched frame.

   

3.To create the open space for the photo:

     a. Use the rectangular marquee tool.  Hold the shift button down while creating your shape to get a square. Hold the shift and space bar down simultaneously to position your square where you want it and release. You should have a marching ants square where your photo will go. 

4. Select the background paper layer and hit CTRL X to cut out the selection.

5. Merge visible layers.  At this point you should have one layer with your entire layout on it. There should still be the lightly checkered (transparent) background where a photo will go.

6. Save as a .png file. This will keep the photo section transparent and allow you to drop in a photo behind the layout. If you save as a jpg the open space will become solid and you'll have to place your photo on top. In this case, the stitching and part of the title would be covered by your photo. 

Congratulations! You've created a QDDL!  All you have to do is drop a photo in behind the layout. You can adjust the photo layer to anyway you'd like. Club Scrap has some excellent digital tutorials to include: QDDLs, beginning Photoshop Elements, template tutorials, extractions and more.

Here are some of my other blog postings using QDDLs. The Botanicals blog post actually uses the layouts I received in the swap.

Navigation

National Park

Botanicals 

Consider joining our swap!  You don't have to be an expert. We'll answer any questions we can over in the digital forum.

Can You Case it? Gelli Plates

Happy Friday! 



I have this pile of backgrounds and panels sitting on my craft table...they're just begging me to be used. This week's Can You Case It? challenge would be perfect to use up some panels.  Here I used two tags that were created with gelli plates at Club Scrap Retreat in 2014...yes...2014.  I'm ashamed. The colors work well with the new Crewel & Unusual kit and I just love this quote! The background is splattered with Color Bursts.

 

Club Scrap papers, stamps, stencils and ribbon. Unknown wooden arrow. 

Love Knots

Love Knots remix is a perfect way to document your loved ones and/or moments. This collection can be customized by adding your own colors.  The artwork can be colored using watercolors, colored pencils or markers to match the colors of a wedding. 

I don't have any weddings to attend soon and none to scrap.  However, I couldn't resist the paper, especially the silver metallic paper. I wanted to give you a few examples of cards I made with the border strips and cut apart tags included in the kit. 

The first card uses an included border strip and square tag  I had some silver scraps that I used as accents. I can't waste any of that paper! The pink flower really makes the card eye catching. This classy card will be entered into the Cupcake Inspirations #346 challenge. 

 Club Scrap papers, tag and stamps. Prima flower and pearl embellishment.

I spritzed this next card with watered down white acrylic paint to give it a little bit more interest. Once again a border strip was used (see they're not just for pages), punched some flowers out of my silver paper scraps and added bling. 

This last card I colored the background images in with gold marker. I used a craft knife to cut out the center square of the tag, making it a frame. Stamped a sentiment and adhered to the back of the frame. 

I hope I gave you some inspiration to use a kit and it's goodies for cards as well as layouts. 

Retro Sketches Crewel

My Crewel & Unusual kit finally arrived! I'm loving the color combinations. I have to admit, I actually had to google crewel. I've got lots in store for this kit..so stay tuned. The Greetings to Go kit has fun folding cards. 

Retro Sketches #201 was a perfect match for this kit. The different papers and printed wooden buttons were a great match!  I did emboss one strip with the honeycomb pattern and inked for some dimension.

Club Scrap papers, button, stamp and fibers.  Sizzix embossing folder. 

White on White

Less is more is celebrating it's 5th birthday!

 

In honor of their 5th year challenging crafters, this week's challenge is to create a card using white on white.  This was a fun challenge for me because it pushed me out of my comfort zone. I like color.  White on white screams wedding to me. The challenge is...there are a lot of different "whites" out there! I saw this quilt pattern on Pinterest and wanted to duplicate it but I don't have one of those fancy score boards that you can measure and score accurately.  My board is old school with one score bar in the center. So I had to create the pattern with a ruler and pencil first, then score.

 

 

 

It looks labor intensive but it actually moves along quickly.  Once I had the pattern scored I added little button brads to give it some charm. Die cut title swirl, stamp sentiment, add lace and flower and you're done. I love, love, love the finished card.  Now...someone needs to get married!

 

 Club Scrap papers, stamp, ribbon and flower. Recollections brads. Spellbinder die.