Stamps & Scraps: For the Love of Toile!

Posted by: Ally Cope | February 20th, 2012

Howdy all and happy Monday to everyone! I’m Ally and I’m your host for Stamps & Scraps!

This month I thought we’d explore the wonderful world of TOILE! Toile you say!?!? What is toile?

Toile was created in 1770 by textile manufacturer Christophe-Philippe Oberkampf in Jouy-en-Josas of France. It was originally known as “toile de Jouy,” in reference to the city in which it originated. In the fabric industry, toile refers to linen or cotton fabric printed with rustic country scenes—usually in one color or monochromatic tones—on a white background.

Now that you know what toile is, let’s create some toile of our very own!

For my layout below, I first took a piece of artist’s canvas paper and I stamped the cherry image from the Flourishes Peaches and Cherries stamp set all over the painted side of the linen canvas paper.
I then took a few shades of grey Copic markers from the Tonal Neutrals Collection and coloured some shading on my cherry images to give them a little bit more “pop power” on my page.

I carefully tore the edges off of the canvas paper to have them look frayed and worn. I mounted and sewed my toile paper to a piece of black cardstock and then mounted everything on a piece of light lavender paper.

Home Sweet Home

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supplies: stamps, Flourishes (Peaches and Cherries, Fanciful Flourishes); canvas paper, Fredrix; cardstock, Bazill; stickers, Crate Paper; snowflakes, Recollections; letter stickers, Cosmo Cricket; ink, Copic, Memento, Ranger; flowers, leaves, Prima; canvas pennants, large ribbon flowers, Maya Road; other, thread, twine, staples, gems, pins.