Our focus at the Crafty Maven Getaways this month is stamps!

Tuesdae here for the design team!  I thought I would pull out stamps from Cheeky Studio and Heidi Swapp and used black Archival Ink to stamp on Close to my Heart smooth 12×12 white cardstock.  It stamped beautifully.  I thought if I stamped solid black images and outlined images that would yield a good balance on my layout and allow me to add color to the outlined images so I could control colors. 

Previous to stamping I did prepare another 12×12 white cardstock with gesso and allowed it to dry.  I wanted to get messy with some Shimmerz Paints!  Once dry, I used the packaging technique to apply 3 colors of Vibez in Princess, Pop Art Pink and Glorious Day.  I did not use those colors for the painting of the stamped images.  For that I used Artist Loft watercolors.  I like the mix of shimmery ink and chalky watercolor to add depth of color.

I trimmed down the background cardstock and gutted a piece of 12×12 Cheeky Studio Autumn Beauty #8 paper and used it behind the white cardstock to create a frame.  I also grabbed some scrap papers from my scrap bin and backed my two photos, then, proceeded to add my stamped images in three clusters around the photos and paint on them as I stuck them down.

I finished up with a label from Cheeky Studio’s November kit exclusive cut aparts from the Autumn Beauty collection and some cork embellishments and ephemera from that same kit.  A few splashes on additional paint around the page tied everything together to look cohesive.   I think the final layout turned out beautiful!  You can see the Youtube Scrapbook Process video on the Crafty Maven Getaway Channel  HERE 

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Happy Scrapping!
Tuesdae Hubbard