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Stamps & Scraps ~ Faux Tile!

Posted by: Ally Cope | January 23rd, 2012

Happy 2012 everyone! It’s that time again… it’s time for “Stamps & Scraps“. I’m Ally and today we’ll be talking about making a faux tile embellishment using your stamps and scraps.

Let’s begin…

First off, I cut a series of different sized circles out of Flourishes Classic White Cardstock. Then I grabbed two stamps; the daisy heart from the Hearts and Flowers stamp collection and the heart flourish from the Fanciful Flourishes set.

Using two tones of blue ink, I stamped each circle with a pattern.

Before gluing my circles down, I inked their edges. Then I adhered them down within the outline of a heart I cut out using my Klic N’Kut die cutting machine. I backed it with a Fancy Pants filter paper shape.

Here’s my fully “tiled” heart. Next I took a bit of antique ink and distressed the tops of my circles to tone down the white a bit. I carefully applied some Ranger Crackle Accents liquid to only the areas between my circles.

Here’s the layout I attached my faux tiled heart to:

2012

Photo by Heidi Brand.
supplies: stamps, cardstock, Flourishes; cream & black cardstock, Bazzill; patterned paper, Crate Paper, BasicGrey, Jillibean Soup; inks, Memento, Ranger; edge punch, Fiskars; pins, Maya Road, Making Memories, Little Yellow Bicycle; flowers, Prima; gems, KaiserCraft; brads, BasicGrey; tape, Smash, Ranger; phrase stickers, Cosmo Cricket; die cutting machine,lock and key, Tim Holtz; ribbon, Offray; other, thread, twine.

Here’s a final close up of the tiled heart. Can you see the crackle medium between the circles? Cool!!

For my journaling tag, I designed and cut out a tag using Flourishes Classic Ivory Cardstock. Then I applied some details using the Fanciful Flourishes stamp set.

I hope you too have an amazing 2012! I hope you too will try the technique. So grab those stamps and some scraps and getting creating!

Happy 2012!

~ Ally ~

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Stamps & Scraps — Dear Santa….

Posted by: Ally Cope | December 19th, 2011

Welcome to Stamps & Scraps for December! I’m Ally and I’ll be your “Creative Elf” for today!

Since we only have a few days left until Christmas I thought in honor of the holiday season I would show you a fun holiday inspired layout this month.

For my layout this month, I took some fun pictures of my son writing his letter to Santa Claus and I knew I had to scrap them… and fast! So I leafed through my many beautiful holiday Flourishes stamps and off course… who should appear?? But good ol’ St. Nick from the “Joy is in the Air” stamp collection!

I stamped good ol’ St. Nick using tuxedo black Memento ink on my Classic White Fourishes cardstock and coloured him with my Copic Markers. I then stamped one globe image on the white cardstock and a second one on a scrap piece of clear plastic using black Staz-On ink and I had the makings of a cute little Santa snow globe!

And here is my final holiday inspired creation…

Dear Santa

Supplies: stamps, cardstock, Flourishes; patterned papers, die cut shapes, brad, My Mind’s Eye; ink, Memento, Copic, Staz-On, Ranger; die cut oval, Spellbinder’s; glitter, Ranger; other, thread, clear plastic.

Here are a few close ups to show you some of my layout details:

I stamped that beautiful pine bough from the “All That Glitters” stamp set on to Flourishes Classic Ivory cardstock and the “Dear Santa” sentiment is from the “Sentimental Christmas” set too.

I even added a few “nontraditional” elements to add depth and dimension! See those banners? That shape is from the “Birthday Pennants” stamp set! Yup… not even a holiday stamp set! Amazing what some glitter and the right colour of ink can do!!

Here’s a close up the final snow globe. I added some fun Stickles to make the snow in the image sparkle!

I hope the next time you take a look at your stamps, you’ll remember that they’re not just for card making but all kinds of other uses too! I hope I’ve inspired you today!

Wishing you and yours a very happy holiday season!

~ Ally ~

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Using Sketches!

Posted by: Ally Cope | November 21st, 2011

Howdy all! Welcome to this month’s edition of Stamps & Scraps!

I’m Ally and this month I want to talk a little bit about using sketches and your stamps. I’d have to say that sketches have to be one of the best pieces of inspiration to get me scrapping. A sketch gives you a starting point… a design… maybe even a colour scheme or a pattern to use to get your creative juices flowing.

Here’s a sketch I designed especially for you today!

Here’s the page I created being inspired by my sketch.

Let It Snow

Click to enlarge.

Here’s how I incorporated stamping into my layout today.

First of all, I took some of my simple die cut shapes like this plain green circle and added some stamp details. I took some brown ink and the small cluster of mini snowflakes from the Warm Winter Wishes stamp set and stamped on the green background. Then I took some red ink and stamped on the “stay warm!” sentiment too! A touch of glitter and you have a fabulous new embelly for your layout!

To incorporate the snowflake theme into my title, I took the mini cluster of snowflakes stamp again and stamped all over my three dimensional alphabets too! The stamping just adds a little touch of whimsy and interest.

Who couldn’t resist this adorable little snowman?… also from the Warm Winter Wishes stamp set. I stamped him on some Flourishes Classic White Cardstock, inked him up with a variety of colour coordinating Copic Markers and a touch of glitter. Now you have a cute little fellow to add to your layout… and so simple and easy to make it match all your patterned papers.

And again… mittens are a must when it comes to snow! So I stamped a pair of warm woolly mittens to add as an embellishment to my snowy inspired layout. These mittens are also found on the Warm Winter Wishes stamp collection.

Did you notice the pink circle too? I again took a simple stamp and made this simple die cut shape my own!

Thank for joining me again this month. I hope I’ve inspired you to grab those stamps and include them on your next layout creation.

Happy stamping,
Ally.

supplies: stamps, Flourishes (Warm Winter Wishes); patterned papers, die cuts, Jillibean Soup; cardstock, Flourishes Classic White Cardstock, Bazzill; inks, Copic, Ranger, Memento; glitter, Martha Stewart; alphabet stickers, American Crafts, October Afternoon; felt snowflakes, Making Memories; brads, paper lace, BasicGrey; other, pins, thread.

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Introducing a new Flourishes Feature!

Posted by: Ally Cope | September 19th, 2011

Happy Monday everyone! Today is a special day! We’re going to start a new feature for Flourishes this month all about stamping and scrapbooking…

Welcome to…

Every third Monday each month I am going to challenge you to break out those stamps and incorporate them into a layout.

This month’s challenge is to create a layout around a September theme that is important to you! Maybe your youngest child had his first day of school. Maybe your oldest grandchild is off to college for the first time. Maybe you have a special birthday to celebrate.

For me, one of the most signification things that happened this month was my 6 year old son starting Grade 1. It’s not too much of a transition as far as the length of time at school but more of getting used to a new environment and a new teacher.

First Day
by Allison Cope

The first step in designing my layout was finding some amazing stamps that would incorporate my theme of “school” and Flourishes has a wonderful selection to choose from!

So I grabbed the apples from the Apple of my Eye set. I stamped the large, prominent apple from the large image on Flourishes Classic White Cardstock, coloured it with Copic markers and fussy cut it out.

Next I grabbed the image of the pens, pencils, scissors and marker from the Mix n’ Mugs set. Once again I stamped on cardstock and coloured in the image using Copic markers. I then created a fun layered pop up circle for the supplies to take center stage on.

I also wanted to add a few autumn touches seeing as the leaves in the valley have just begun to change colour. I grabbed the beautiful retired Autumn Flourishes stamp set. I used it to add the beautiful flourishes and the “Autumn” word along the bottom of my layout.

A few more Autumn themed touches…

And for one finally subtle touch, I added a few subtly stamped trees from the Forest of Trees stamp set. I used two subtle green Memento inks to achieve this soft layout detail.

If you look closely at the September calendar, I also stamped a clock image right over top of the calendar. I used the large clock image from the Moments in Time stamp set.

So come and join along with me this month and create a layout using stamps all about an important event for September. If you’d like to showcase some of the layouts you’ve created this month using Flourishes stamps, simply leave a comment here on this post so that we can come by and check them out!