Welcome to Stamps & Scraps! I’m your host… Ally!
One of my favourite colours of cardstock is “kraft“. It’s warm, neutral and inviting for stamps and ink. So I thought I share an easy way of incorporating kraft coloured paper into your scrapbook pages.
First I took a 5″x9″ piece of kraft cardstock, some Memento “Black Tuxedo” ink and one of my favourite Flourishes floral stamps, Sweet Nature. I began stamping my images in one corner of my cardstock and moved across the open space to ensure no large open unstamped spaces were left.
Once my stamping was complete, it looked like this…
Then I grabbed my Copic N10, “Neutral Grey No.10″ and filled in all the gaps between all of my stamped images.
Next I used my completed piece of kraft patterned paper in a layout.
We Are Family
by Allison Cope
Supplies: stamps, Flourishes (Sweet Nature, Lace Edges); die cut shapes, Flourishes Classic Keyhole die set; inks, Copic, Memento; tape, Bella Blvd.; patterned papers, stickers, BasicGrey; cardstock, Bazzill; tools, Klic N’Kut machine, sewing machine; gems, Doodlebug Designs; flowers, Prima; flowerbutton, Dress It Up; lace, Flourishes; other, thread.
Here are a few close ups of my layout details:
I stamped a single ranunculus flower onto a piece of matching coloured cardstock to use as an accent flower. Notice I also used the Flourishes Taylor-Made Classic Keyhole die to print my journaling and title on.
Here is a close up of the kraft patterned paper I created. As a final touch, I added some additional colour to some of the smaller blooms within the paper. I used the Copic colours, Copic V15: “Mallow” from the
Copic “Violet” collection and the Copic R05: “Salmon Red”. For the ornate lacy detail, I stamped one of the smaller ornate circles from the Flourishes
Lace Edges stamp sets.
I hope this layout inspires you to grab your kraft cardstock and create something special today! Don’t forget, this patterned paper technique is perfect for your cards too!
Happy stampin’!
Ally
