Hey
there, everyone! It’s Missy here with you today. I was so excited to
be asked to work with MME’s decorative tapes for this assignment. I
just love combining
them with paint and stamps to create a fun and unique background.
For
this layout, I decided to scrap a few photos from a spring photo shoot I
had with my youngest daughter a few years ago. I put her in a sundress
hoping for some cute girly photos. What
I wound up with was a lot of pictures of her with her legs in the air,
flashing everyone her bloomers! Lesson learned…Paige isn’t the
dress-wearing type…haha! The pictures turned out so cute, and they
really show her feisty yet adorable personality.
I
used the Cut & Paste Charm collection for this page. I
liked that the colors aren’t really girly, yet you can still use them
for a feminine page. I started
with the Charm “Sweet” Spin Paper and added lots of watered down acrylic
paints. Then, I began adding lots of tapes. I used the tapes from the
Charm collection as well as some from the Adorbs and Presh lines and
some from the stand-alone tape sets.
Supplies:Cut
& Paste Charm “Sweet” Spin Paper, Cut & Paste Presh Tape, Cut
& Paste Charm Tape, Cut & Paste Adorbs Tape, Decorative Tape
Sets Blue & Yellow, Emerald & Blue,
Charm “Sweet” Treat Paper, Charm “Carefree” Chipboard Stickers, Charm
“Sweet” 4x6 Journal Card, Charm “Carefree” 4x6 Journal Card, Charm “Hey
You” Decorative Stamps, Collectable Stamps, Find Your Wings & Fly –
Up & Away Decorative Stamps, Cut & Paste Flair
“Snapshots” Decorative Stamps, Cut & Paste Charm “Smile” Enamel
Dots, Charm “Smile” Decorative Brads, Charm “Sweet” Bits & Pieces,
Charm “Carefree” Label Stickers, Charm “Sweet” Tiny Word Stickers.
Misc—Acrylic Paints, October Afternoon Mini Market Letter
Stickers, Making Memories Letter Stickers.
I
love this woodgrain stamp. I started adding in different MME stamps
all over the place to add interest and give the look of dimension. I
also enjoy using hemp cord on my layouts.
Layering
washi tape together is a great way to add pops of color, patterns or
designs to your pages. I love how well these coordinate together. Here
you can see
an arrow stamp and an enamel dot.
Another
angle on the paint and stamps. One of my favorite things about
combining tape, paint and stamps is that you can’t really mess things
up. It’s supposed to
be messy and random, so even if you make a mistake, you can fix it
easily.
Tapes
can also be a good background for your title. If your background is
busy, use some tape behind your stickers to break it up and make it
stand out. Don’t you
just love this striped tape? It’s so bold and bright…one of my
favorites, for sure!
Another
tip about creating a background like this is that it’s great if you
don’t have a lot of patterned papers left. The only patterned paper I
used was the background.
The rest of the layout is bits and pieces from the collection. I used
the Journal Cards, Bits & Pieces, Label Stickers…you’d be surprised
what you can make without patterned paper.
I hope this inspires you to pull out your tapes and try something fun and challenging!
Have a great day!
