Julie and Co.

Hello! Alexa here, but only for a handful of words, because I'd like to present to you our Guest for today, the multi-faceted and multi-talented Julie Kirk. Creative scrapbooker, witty and entertaining writer of stories, and mixed media art-journaller, Julie blogs, makes, designs and writes for magazines, and I'm delighted to hand over to her for today's It's a Creative World inspiration. So without more ado, step forward, Julie and Co.!
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Hi there.  How are things in your creative world today? As I’m new here, I’ve brought a few friends along with me, for company. They’re a sweet bunch really, once you get to know them:

They were all created by putting a simple, old, masking and stamping technique to a fun new use. So allow me to share with you my step-by-step ‘Stamped Photo-booth Fun’ tutorial so you can try it out too.

Begin by selecting two or more character stamps. They don’t have to be from the same set [the owl and the dinosaur are from two different brands] just choose the most interesting combination of characters from your existing stamps or the ones most appropriate to the recipient of the card or the theme of the scrapbook page. Start with Step 1 (below, right) ...


... then continue with steps 2 and 3.


Next, steps 4 and 5:


Follow with steps 6 and 7:

Think about having your characters change places; hide behind one another; drop in from above or the side … even wander out of frame! Now use your colouring-method-of-choice [I used ProMarkers] to breathe life into your photo-booth posers.  Then you can age them to give the effect of some well-loved photos which have been carried around in a wallet for the last 20 years! (Steps 9 and 10 below).

What you do with them once you’re finished is up to you. I decided to cut mine into individual images to fit them on to greetings cards (below, right):

Similarly they’d look great kept as a strip and placed down a long thin card or bookmark and they’d make perfect little framed gifts too if you tailored them to suit a particular couple, family or group of friends. And of course … they make a unique addition to a layout:

If you hop over to my blog http://notesonpaper.blogspot.com/  you can see more of this zebra + bluebird combo who make up a key feature on a 12x12 scrapbook page. 

If you try out any ‘Stamped Photo-booth fun’ of your own, I’d love to see what you make. Just give me a nudge at my blog http://notesonpaper.blogspot.com/   or via Twitter http://twitter.com/#!/notesonpaper and I’ll pop over to see you and your take on my tutorial.

 Thanks for reading my post today and a big thank you to It’s a Creative World for having me … and my photo-booth friends visit for the day.

 Happy creating everyone!
Julie.

 

 

 

 
 

 

Comments

[Lynne V]

Great tips, thanks for sharing Julie. I have a couple of cards to make so will try this out.

[alexa]

These look like lots of fun, with many applications! Like that hiding behind technique. Just need some stamps now. :)

[ali]

wowvers
very very swish

[Carmen]

Love this technique Julie - for some reason I thought it would be way more fiddly than that!

[Kirsty]

Genius idea (not that this should surprise me...) - and you really do have the best, most random collection of stamps, lovely lady.

:)

[Jennifer Grace]

Have found my way here from Julie's blog, these look so fabulous I'm going to have to try this technique out asap! And now I have an excuse to buy more stamps! x

[Amanda]

Love that idea Julie and they make very stylish cards. I need to go and check my stamps now :)

[Debbie Roberts]

Fab idea, I love the effect, thanks for the really clear instructions. x

[Claireliz]

They are fab Julie, Thanks so much for being our guest on IACW today :D
C
xx