Scrapbook Global Blog Hop - Stencil Texture Background - August 2024

This month I am the guest designer for the
Stencils/Texture Backgrounds Scrapbooking Global Blog Hop.

I am so happy to have been chosen and I hope you love my project. Please check out the other blog hoppers to see how they have interpreted the theme this month.  And please please please comment on everyone's blogs to help our work be see on the internet.

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This is one of my favourite ways to scrapbook. Taking multiple inks, stamp sets and papers to add texture to my layouts. You can be a little more artistic and you have lots of fun messing with ink, stamps and paper.

Before I start any layout I choose my photos. The mat and paper layers that they will sit on. I then draw a faint pencil line around, so I don’t waste any stamping behind.

I choose whether I want to surround the photo with a circle pattern, or have one corner or both corner, you can even just do one or both sides. There are many different ways to structure your pattern, the only rule is to make sure you leave some white space for the eye to rest on.  I then get all my supplies together, so I don't take a break looking for anything while I'm creating.

Now that I have decided to do two opposite corners, I stamp the Enduring Beauty large stamp top right and bottom left. I colour them with blending brush, without using the masks to give it a water colour effect.

I take the masks and using shimmery white embossing paste I add the detail to the large flowers and leaves using the masks. Using a drop of ink refill I colour the embossing paste for the leaf details.

Now the stamping begins. I choose a pale ink colour for the background. I choose crumb cake and stamp off for most of the background layer. I then choose one green and two main colours one darker than the other.

I use the colour charts to help me match my colours, but you don’t have too. You want to choose several stamp sets that include leaves flowers and background grunge. I choose the ones listed at the bottom of my blog.

When stamping, don’t worry about stamping over the other stamps. Start with your lightest colour and end with your darkest colour as a highlight. I have also used the green in and a blending brush to add another layer of texture to the pages.

Stampin’ Write Markers were used to add some "dotage" in multiple colours over the page without the photo.

The paper layers under the photos have ripped inked edges. I have inked the outer layer in the highlight colour, so they stands out. I have also stamp some texture on to the designer series paper.

I’ve added the photo and paper layers using dimensionals to add height and another texture. Finally adding plenty of gems to make the final layouts pop and some sentiments, which I darkened and coloured with a blending brush.

If you are not sure how to do this sort of stamping. Go and visit Ruth Trice Magness at Artful Stampin https://www.facebook.com/artfulstampin. Ruth's channel and Facebook page is where I learnt to do this technique. I love her early and later work. There are lots of YouTube videos for you to watch on her channel too https://www.youtube.com/@artfulstampinwithruth

I have used the following supplies, which can be ordered from my online store at https://cazhurst.stampinup.net

159231 12 x 12 Basic White Cardstock
121686 Early Expresso Cardstock
163802 Petunia Pop Cardstock
163372 Unbound Beauty 12 x 12 Designer Series Paper
163761 Saying Something Ephemera Pack
162670 Enduring Beauty Stamp Set
162672 Enduring Beauty Dies
162673 Enduring Beauty Decorative Masks
163514 Layer of Beauty Stamp Set
162687 Of Art and Texture
161277 Layering Leaves
160476 Queen Bee
163811 Petunia Pop Ink
163800 Peach Pie Ink
121685 Crumb Cake Ink
147095 Granny Apple Green Ink
163829 2024-2026 Stampin’ Write Markers
145645 Shimmery White Embossing Paste
142808 Palette Knives
127853 Silicon Craft Sheet
147163 Granny Apple Green Ink Refill
163319 Adhesive-Backed Pearl Trio

Now you can go and look at others in the blog hop using the links below.