Stamping & Scrapbooking
By Sara
Naumann
Maybe your first paper crafting passion was rubber stamping, then you were
introduced to scrapbooking. Or perhaps it was the other way around—you
loved scrapbooking, and wanted to apply different techniques to your layouts.
Whatever the case, you can combine stamping and scrapbooking with beautiful
results.
But wait—this isn’t about stamping an entire 12”x12”
background sheet of paper. This is about creating grown-up looks for your layouts
with stamped journaling, stamped embellishments or inked paper and accents.
Designer Shauna Berglund-Immel shares her tips and tricks for simply sophisticated
stamped pages.
Nature’s Beauty
Creating the background: I accented black and white photographs with
subtly patterned ephemera papers and rubber stamped leaf embellishments. These
ephemera papers come in sets for double-page spreads, so I tore and inked different
papers and combined them to make the background page. I kept with the stamped
style of the page by running an inkpad along the edges of these papers.
Stamping the leaves: I stamped the leaf images directly onto the matching
sheets of ephemera papers and cut them out with an X-acto® knife, then crinkled
and folded some of the leaves for a three-dimensional look. For each cluster
of leaves, I’ve glued the bottom leaf directly onto the page, with the
middle leaf glued at an angle. The smallest leaf is attached with foam mounting
tape for dimension.
Stamping with alphabet stamps: Alphabet stamps are so versatile! Use
them to stamp on ribbon, slide mounts and paper. You can mix and match upper
and lower case letters for a fun look. And no, the letters aren’t supposed
to be perfectly lined up—they have a fun, artsy look when they’re
slightly uneven.
Stamped embellishments: I placed ribbon across the page, tacked it
on either side of a slide mount covered in paper, then stamped journaling and
titles with alphabet stamps. A stamped bee image is framed within the slide
mount. I’ve also stamped little dragonfly images on the ribbon ties, accentuating
one of the photos.
Edging with an inkpad: I chose solid papers mats in coordinating colors
and inked the edges with black by running the edges of the photo mat along the
inkpad. This gives definition without requiring an additional black paper mat.
To make the folded corner: Cut a 3” square of green leaf paper
and adhere to the back of the top right corner of a 12” green leaf background
paper with letters border, gluing white side to white side. Ink the edges with
black, fold over and secure with brad. Then cut a 4” square of letters
paper, ink the edges with black and adhere to show behind folded corner.
Supplies:
Wishes & Dreams
Inking the background: Adding ink to your background paper is a great
way to give a layout the shabby chic or vintage look. By rubbing an inkpad directly
on the background paper, you can tie in a color scheme and add a lot of personality.
Just remember—the harder you press, the darker the ink will be, and the
newer the inkpad, the darker and wetter it will be.
Altering photo mats: Cut out rectangles from a coordinating piece
of color-blocked paper to create photo mats for this page. I crumpled them,
smoothed them out, then added ink to the creases for highlights. A thin white
mat with inked edges separates each photo from the large pink mat, giving the
look of a third mat—without the work or extra paper!
Altered journaling: I combined alphabet stamps and tape-style fragments
for my journaling. Don’t worry if the fragments aren’t in the right
tense; just use alphabet stamps to add the correct letters, as I did here. I
changed “dream” to “dreamed”—the addition of the
letters and the unevenness of the stamps give an artsy charm to the page.
Coordinating embellishments & stamps: I tied two small bows of
brown ribbon and added one to each of the photo mats, on opposite bottom corners.
This ties in with the color scheme and attracts attention to the most important
part of the page—the photos! I also added a quote stamp and a butterfly
to balance out the page elements.
Supplies:
Shauna Berglund-Immel is a scrapbook page designer whose work has been
published in magazines like Memory Makers, PaperKuts and Creating Keepsakes.
She’s the author of Shauna’s
Secrets of Scrapbooking form Hot Off The Press.
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