Stamps for scrapping

Hello - Dolly here.

I wonder how many of you are like me. I have a lot of stamps. Seriously – a lot of stamps. And all too often I seem to keep my stamps for card-making rather than for scrapping. And it is plain silly. Stamps are one of the most versatile tools we have and can be used over and over again in different guises.

Here are just a few examples for you to get those mojos out of their winter hibernation and get you scrapping some more of that never ending pile of prints.

Use those flourish stamps to act as vines and stems to ‘hold’ flowers for your page.

 

And on the same page I used a little flower stamp as a decorative dot over a letter i.

You can make the stamps work for their living by using them with different colour inks to stamp patterns on plain letters that are either die cuts or letters cut from plain cardstock.

 

Use stamps to make a customised patterned paper as in the page with the embossed snowflakes that adds pattern and texture.  

 You can stamp repeated images in different shades and tones on cardstock scraps and cut them out to use as embellishments such as the leaves on the page below. The titles were also made with assorted stamps as well. 

 
One of the ways I love to use the stamps is to create a frame round a picture as in these two pages.

 


 
And if you use a white ink to stamp on dark card I think it makes a really dramatic statement. The lettering and the journalling block were stamped with white ink. And the journalling block stamps are a really good idea. How many times do you want to add spot journalling to a page. With a journalling stamp you can make it in any colour to match your page perfectly.

So - my challenge for you all is rummage around in your stamps and use them to make your scrapbook pages.

Comments

[Anne]

Great ideas, fabulous LOs :-)
Anne x

[Eleanor]

You never fail to amaze me with the standard of your layouts, always so inspiring.
xx