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
Such a beautiful layout!
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Loved this Ginny! What did you use for the blue ink? I love the look and color of it.
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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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Lovely!
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Amazing
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just beautiful, Ginny! I love how you used the spray paint...
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BEAUTIFUL that doesn't even encompass how awesome and stunning I think this is.
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@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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@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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Just awesome, Ginny. I love the photo, too.
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Love how you used the flowers to draw attention to your photo. Great technique, great layout.
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such talent!!! lovely layout!
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So great, Ginny!
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