Tutorial | Cirque Layout from Start to Finish with Ginny Hughes

When I saw the Little Things stamp set I fell in love with it; I really liked the outline flower stamp. I wanted to keep the focus on the stamp illustration, so I chose to use only one color per flower. I felt like it showed off the stamped image the best.

I started by stamping the image onto watercolor paper.

I used only 1 watercolor per flower.

I also added some gold spraypaint to add some more detail and dimension to the flowers. I placed the watercolor paper into my very used paint/mist box. I randomly dropped paint onto the paper. I chose to do this before I cut the stamped images out for ease.

I then fussy cut the flowers out. My style lends itself to a messy cut, but if you prefer things neater it just takes a little while longer.

Some of the images I popped up off the page for added dimension. Since I tend to sew a lot on my pages, I will run the embellishment through the sewing machine before I add the Foam Tab Circles. It still gives it the stitched look with the added dimension.

I just played around with the placement of the flowers, I wanted a very organic look, nothing too perfect. Before I glued anything down I realized that I wanted some more color, so I dropped some blue ink on the flowers. I then used the Inky Black ink pad to add the smaller detail stamps to the flowers.

I then used the Sentiment strips from the Cirque Scrapbook kit to add some journaling to the page to finish it off. I don't often use stamps as the main focus for a page, so this was fun for me. I got to be a little more creative than usual. I hope it pushed me to try out more stamping techniques.

Supplies: High Wire scrapbook kit; Ringmaster scrapbook kit; Cirque Scrapbook kit; watercolor paper; This to That Foam Tab Circles; Color Theory Inky Black ink pad; Tim Holtz Tiny Attacher; Little Things stamp set

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13 comments

  1. MichelleWedertz says…
    02/17/2015

    Such a beautiful layout!

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  2. kathyv says…
    02/17/2015

    Loved this Ginny! What did you use for the blue ink? I love the look and color of it.

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  3. juliee says…
    02/17/2015

    Love the look you got with the spray paint. But I'm not sure how you did it. Can we get a tutorial for that?

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  4. 1Djc says…
    02/17/2015

    Lovely!

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  5. jamiewaters says…
    02/17/2015

    Amazing

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  6. maggie_massey says…
    02/17/2015

    just beautiful, Ginny! I love how you used the spray paint...

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  7. toribissell says…
    02/17/2015

    BEAUTIFUL that doesn't even encompass how awesome and stunning I think this is.

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  8. ginny says…
    02/17/2015

    @juliee it is super easy, i just spray the paint into the top and then turn it over and let it drop onto the paper. and it dries so fast!!!!

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  9. ginny says…
    02/17/2015

    @kathyv it is Speedball acrylic ink in Teal Green, it is the kind that is used for pens & calligraphy I believe.

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  10. JilC says…
    02/17/2015

    Just awesome, Ginny. I love the photo, too.

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  11. ohanalei says…
    02/18/2015

    Love how you used the flowers to draw attention to your photo. Great technique, great layout.

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  12. spagirl says…
    02/18/2015

    such talent!!! lovely layout!

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  13. welobellie says…
    02/24/2015

    So great, Ginny!

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