Layering Stamps to Create a Background

I hope you all had a great weekend! Last week, I noticed I have a lot of stamps in my digiscrap stash that I’ve never used. I finally decided to pull some out and use them for a background. In this case, I grabbed the stamped mess {hexagon} stamps.

I already had a photo in mind, but I wasn’t quite sure how I wanted to scrap it. So, I just pulled up a blank page and decided to have fun with the stamp. I started by putting one of the hexagon stamps on a gray background.

Next, I wanted to fill in the hexagons with one of the dominant colors from my photo. I found a paper from here. there that I really liked and used that to clip to the hexagon layer. (Clipping a paper to a .png is one of my quick tricks. I’ll be doing that for the next several layers.)

I decided to layer another hexagon stamp on top and resize it a bit. Then I moved it over the first hexagon layer.

I selected another color I wanted to highlight in the photo and clipped another paper – from today - to the second hexagon layer.

I decided one more hexagon layer would be perfect for the background.

And this time, I chose a pink paper – from watercolor canvas – to clip to the third hexagon layer.

With all the hexagons, the photo just didn’t seem right as a rectangle. So I decided to frame the photo with another stamp – this oval frame stamp is from stamped mess {today}. I resized the stamp so that it framed the photo just how I wanted.

Since I didn’t want the excess portion of the photo (i.e. the corners), I decided to create an oval mask. With the ellipse tool, I created an oval to fit inside the frame.

With the oval the correct size, I moved the photo layer above the oval and clipped it.

Perfect! The last part to this layout was to go ahead and add a title, journaling, and some elements. Here are the final results:

CREDITS
Papers: today, watercolor canvas, here.there. (Studio 68)
Elements: border madness {cozy fall}, stamped mess {hexagons}, stamped mess {today}, amici, the list and paint your story challenge 1 freebie (Studio 68)
Fonts: Wish I Were Taller (title); Traveling Typewriter (journaling, date)

You might have noticed I had a different border in the screenshots. I wasn’t happy with the way it looked, so I changed it. I also swapped out the background to white since the colors popped a bit more. And, I also reduced the opacity of the frame so it was softer.

I hope this inspires you to try using stamps a bit more on your layouts!

Art Journaling

I did some art journal pages the past weeks, sometimes you need to get things out of your system, easiest way is to express them through art.

As there were some things going on in my life, that made me pretty uncomfortable, like there was this huge conspiracy against me. Then some thoughts if things were meant to be this way or that you just have to take matters into your own hands to change it all up.

something fishy

caught up

step up

true love

faith

the finer details

All supplies from SBG

(Tangie Baxter, Maya, Miss Vivi, Christina Renee, Dawn Inskip)

A few pages of my dumpling

My little niece is growing up so fast! In a few weeks she’ll turn 2 years!
She has grown into this little diva and loves clothes, purses, shoes and Dora LOL

miss fancy pants

little red dress

sunshine

jump.jump.jump.

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cheeky

All supplies from SBG
(Julia Makotinsky, Tangie Baxter, Boutique Cute Doll, Miki Ferkul, Studio Mixes)