Ways To Use Leftover Designer Series Paper

If you've ever scrapbooked, or used double-sided paper on your cards, surely you've got odds and ends stashed somewhere in your craft room. I'd like to share with you one of many ideas gleaned from Splitcoast on how to make use of them; the technique is called paper piecing.

This technique is best done with open images. Stamp your image onto your cardstock. Stamp once more onto scrap d/s paper then cut out the parts you'd like to apply to your cardstock. Glue them on, and you're done.

For this card I used the Wonderful You set from the Spring & Summer Collection 2008, CASing another great example found here on Splitcoast.

Brayered Landscape

This ATC was created using a small brayer and 3 Classic inks: Summer Sun, Old Olive and Bordering Blue, and a sheet of scrap bond paper torn in 3 parts. I labelled these Sky, Mountains and Foothills.

First, I brayered Summer Sun over the whole ATC layer. Then I would use the mountain piece to mask the ATC while I brayer the foreground in olive Next, I laid the Sky piece over the top part of the ATC and the Foothills piece over where I brayered with the olive then brayer the open part with Bordering Blue; this would form the mountains.

Now with the sponging: I take a couple of sponges and ink them with Cameo Coral and Bashful Blue to add the blue sky at the top and, using my Mountain piece to mask the mountains, add a bit of a sunset.

Next comes the stamping. Using the Foothills piece as a mask I stamped the trees, only from the image of the trees and skyline from Noble Deer. Sometimes I would add the grass from the 3 deer image from the same set.

The bird and branches on the right of the image are Versamarked and embossed in black detail.