Stamped Paper Piecing (Using Patterned Paper)

Hi and welcome everyone, I'm Jennifer McGuire and I'm so grateful you're here so today is one of those videos where I went a little overboard and made too many cards so it's a longer video but I hope See it. because I share a lot of tips for

using

patterned

paper

to make

patterned

paper

pieces, so this is a great way to use scraps, any scraps, especially pattern papers. I know many of us hoard pattern papers and use them very infrequently, so by

using

them with your stamps you get a new life out of the papers and your stamps, so I have some tips for you on how to make pattern papers. pattern works for

stamped

images.

Some different tips and many cards to share the best part that you can use. These techniques work with any pattern or stamp paper, making it a great way to expand your products for my cards. I will use 6x6 pattern papers. The reason I do this is that I find that smaller patterns on 6x6 papers are better for cards. but you can use twelve by twelve if that's what you have. I usually use my twelve by twelve pattern papers to make my own envelopes and I will link a video here that describes that now the 6x6 pattern papers I like the most are from Sunny.

Studios bee designs grass fawn my favorite things and a few others, but you'll see those are the brands I use the most today. I just like that they offer subtle tone-on-tone patterns like the one you see here, so it's something you can stamp and wear without it being too distracting. By the way, another fun line is Doodlebug and I'll link all of them below so today I'll try to make a few different types of patterned paper examples for you to see. ways to use them along with your pattern These days I use a lot of patterned papers from Sunny Studio, the reason is that these are double sided and there are many tone on tone patterns so this seems to be one that I look for a lot and there are many options different, different colors available, even the ones with multi-color patterns, the other side is tone on tone, so you have that option too.

I also really like the patterned paper pack from Sunny Studio that has all light grays and I will use that too. in today's video, you'll see a little later, today's technique is to stamp your pattern on the paper and then cut it out and attach it to your card. It's a fun alternative to coloring. Coloring is something that makes me very anxious and I'm not very good at it, so this is a great way to add color to your card, but you only use pattern papers. Here is my first example and you can see that all the stamping is done on pattern paper, so for this I used the Friendship Floral Heart Stamp Set from the Keepsake Box.

This is a 6 by 8 stamp set with a large floral heart image that I will use on some of my cards and then you can see the smaller floral image on the left that I will use. In some of my other cards I also use some of the good feelings. I chose this image because it has those large flowers so you can see the pattern and images that are easy to cut out. I went through my pattern paper collection and just grabbed a few different ones that I could use to make several cards, so I'll end up making 5 cards with this first round of stamping.

These two here are from Lawn Fawn and I thought they would be fun papers with multicolored patterns. which I could use for the large flower images using my Misti embossing tool. I am stamping these images with the two new black obsidian inks. This is a pigment ink that will allow me to add clear embossing powder so that I have a raised black image. I really want to make sure I get a solid dark black image that will help further define the edges of this pattern paper by adding that heat embossing, the light heat embossing will make it even darker and make it stand out. that little bit of shine and dimension, this is something that I think really makes a big difference when you're stamping pattern paper.

I want to save the extra pattern paper on the side here, so I'm going to cut those strips because You can use them on a scrapbook card and I'll link a video that talks about how to create cards using your scraps, so now I'm going to use my scissors to cut the big flower in this image, so I will have these paper patterns. large flowers I enjoy complicated cuts. I think it doesn't take long, it doesn't have to be perfect at all, and it's very untherapeutic, so I went ahead and cut out each flower from this pattern paper.

I also highlighted the same print with black heat. images on some other pattern papers, but these are a little more tone on tone, so we have this light green stripe, then I have a darker green polka dot, and then I have this peach plaid so you can use any scraps you may have. From the peach square images I'm going to cut out those little berries. If you want to save time you can use a marker, gemstones, Nuvo drops or something to color those berries, but I thought it would be fun to use the pattern. paper now, I cut out this big floral heart from the darker green pattern paper that has some dots on it, it wasn't dark enough so one of the things you can do to change your pattern papers or tone them down is to mute them. a little is to ink them.

I use my Pink and Maine Amma Crush organ to easily apply some green ink to this and make it a little darker. Now it's time to make our paper piercing. I'm going to use liquid glue in peace. In all the different pieces that we cut out now here you see me gluing some leaves. I had the same images heat embossed on a lighter green striped pattern paper and cut out some of the larger leaves, you can choose whatever you like. piece now I'm just gluing them to this darker green patterned paper heart that we created. I'm using foam adhesive to add the flowers on top as well and these are the ones we created from that plaid fawn pattern paper so you can We're just going to go ahead and put all these pieces together, it's so much fun, it's like putting together a puzzle and the best part is that this doesn't even have to be perfect, you just want to add a little color here and there.

I made some berries on the peach and made the main flowers large. Before you know it, you'll have your image in distance like you see here, and I actually have that little flower cluster as well from the same stamp set now at this point. I didn't find my flowers stood out enough, they looked faded to me, so one of the things you can do with your pattern paper images is add a little ink to the edges. I just started using this. i crafter mini blending brush look at this, they look like little sponge brushes but the tips are actually a brush like the blending brushes we love so much but they are smaller, you can hold them with your finger or you can hold them like a pencil.

You just clip them all together and you can see how they stack up nicely and are easy to store in there. It comes with all of these together in one set so you can have one for each color so you don't have to clean up in between. Having the smaller brush is perfect for getting into the nooks and crannies of these small images. I started by using the mini blending brush to add Hero Arts Yellow Butter Stick Ink to the tips so you can see me doing that here, but I decided that's just it. a little bit too orange so I decided to add a little bit of pale tomato ink to that as well and it's got a little bit of a peach red S to it so I end up with kind of an orange tint.

Now you can use sponges to paint. This is definitely why I recently started using this because I discovered that my painting sponges had sort of an expiration date. I used them a lot and hard and they would lift up on the end and in fact I just replaced them all. mine, but I found that it worked really well, it was my favorite find at the creative Asian craft fair and I found that it works perfect for getting into little nooks and crannies with a little bit of ink blending, which is why you see me using this today.

I also like how they stack, it makes it easy to use so on some of the flowers I just did the pale tomato ink so it has a little bit of peach to it so I have this little bit of color right on the outside edges and you can look how it defines the edges of those flowers more and makes them stand out more, so if you have a pattern paper that is very busy you can give it a little more definition by inking just the edges or if it is too busy you can just ink the whole thing to mute it a little bit when you choose the color you want now here's another example I made.

I have like a dark green wood pattern paper in the background, then I have a green plaid for the leaves that I added and here is a yellow floral paper with fawn flowers, it's white with yellow flowers, this was one that It really made a big difference by adding a little yellow ink to the edges. I'll show a comparison here, you can see this one that I inked and here's a flower that I haven't inked and see how the one that's inked stands out a little more, just adds a little more color to the project. I think it makes a big difference to add that ink to the edges and again you can use whatever.

You may have an inking tool, so when I made this piece of paper, most of it was glued flat, but I popped the flowers to give it some dimension, so make sure you get some out of your paper pool to make it stand out a little. Now here is my third. For example, using this image, this time my flowers are on this peach gingham paper, so it's peach and white, and I thought it would be really helpful to add that pale tomato ink to the edges. You will see a difference between the two flowers. I finish here. above and the one on the left I didn't ink and you can see how it really defines the edges and makes it stand out much more against the background.

We have a lot of patterns here, so it's nice to have that definition to do it all. stand out in all these floral images. I didn't use cardstock, I just used patterned paper and lots of scraps, okay, so let's go ahead and put some of these cards together. Here I am using my custom expressions rectangle masking template to help me. Center my sentiment, the template has guidelines for an a2 card so I am lining up the guidelines that are embossed on the template with the outside edge of the card and that creates a smaller window in the center where I can center my sentiment and make sure getting a perfect center location is much easier than looking at it with the naked eye, the way this note card is a white card that measures four and a quarter by five and a half and I have a light gray patterned paper from Sunny Studios over it.

So you can see behind the flower there is a soft gray patterned paper. The Sunny Studios Soft Gray Pattern Paper Pack is my favorite and I use it a lot in this video. You can see I also added some iridescent gemstones from Lucy's cards into some of the berries. in the background just to give a little dimension and a little shine to the sentiments on these cards. I just dug through my stash and looked for an outfit where I hadn't worn a particular sentiment of something I thought was really special. and the first is from this set of Concord and ninth stamps.

I really like that message and I thought it was great for this card because of the way I

stamped

my matching envelope and that image is from this closed and love bee stamp set and I actually stamped all of today's envelopes using this set. I like games like this with greetings that are perfect for our envelopes. We spend a lot of time with our cards, so it's nice to make the envelopes special, too. Here is the other card I made with the yellow flowers. On this one I made a soft gray floral print paper behind it and that's again from that light gray paper pack from Sunny Studios.

You can see it there and then I stamped all the hugs diagonally across the heart and that ended up being my favorite. Of the three you can also see those iridescent gemstones and how they add some dimension and sparkle. This time I had the heart shifted to the left just to change the layout when I make multiple cards with the same images. I like to change the design a little to something different now the sentiment comes from this here for you flower stamp set that has a lot of very special feelings for someone who needs encouragement, like having you in my heart, all the hugs I could ever wish for to be able to be there. and I keep you in my prayers, so my third example of a patterned paper heart is this one.

The background is a gray and white patterned paper from Lawn Fawn and you can see how I have subtle patterned papers for the leaves, but then that fun peach and white. one for the flowers, so it's fun to mix and match different things if you want to be bold with a bolder patterned paper. I think inking the edges helps. Now the sentiment on this one is from Concord and the 9th stamp set so happy that I've used it in a video before, but really any scent would work great with this image. I also have thesmaller flowers I created with my leftover pieces and kept this car design simple for these, as a background I use the bee fluttering hearts die cuts. now there is the fluttering hearts dye that is on my left hand and on my right hand are the fluttering hearts.

Pierce died, they can be used separately or together, just layer them, so I made white cardstock with both and layered them on my note card and look at that fun background here, you can see the punched hearts inside the open hearts and now it's a great background for my flowers. I die cut a square yellow patterned paper and then stamped it with you in mind and I soaked it with black cardstock and then added flour with some gemstones in the center. This design here is a great way to use small pieces of paper with any floral image or any image that has a large open space so you can see the pattern here is my yellow version and I did the exact same thing, same background, same feeling which is from the keepsake box floral heart stamp set and the same light yellow polka dot pattern paper, so for these cards.

I did heat stamping on a bunch of different pattern papers and took them in a container with some scissors and went upstairs and while my kids did their homework, I just made all my complicated cuts and then came back downstairs to assemble. them, it's a great way to make many cards at once. Well, my next example has a lot less cutting and shows that you can even use patterned papers for cute bug cards and surprisingly, I think this is my favorite of all the cards today. for this one I use them, my favorite things, birthday bud stamp set.

I just received this and couldn't wait to use it. I thought the elephant and bunny would be perfect for using patterned paper again. You want to use an image that shows enough of the pattern, so you don't want anything too small and detailed, so I went over my cutouts again. These are fawn pattern papers and I am stamping them with black pigment ink and sometimes I like to stamp them twice to make sure. It's a super dark solid black and once I've stamped it, I go ahead and use my ultra fine clear stamping powder, which will darken it even more and give it that high shine dimension.

Here I am stamping the elephant on blue pattern paper. I'll cut out the hat from there, then I'll stamp the bunny onto pink striped pattern paper and cut out the flowers, so basically you stamp the different images onto different patterned papers and cut out different elements to put this together. It's that gray paper pack from Sunny Studios and I thought it would be perfect for our bunny, it just has subtle little polka dots on it, okay, so now it's time to do some complicated cutting and I'm just going to cut different parts of the images out of the different papers. of pattern, you can see how the pattern papers all go together, but you'd be surprised that they don't have to be the perfect match, you can make them work together very easily and even ink them if you want, here I have a white background that I cut out with that bee fluttering around punched hearts die I thought it would be a fun background.

I'm stamping my little elephant and bunny exactly where I want them on my card with that black ink and then I'm going to add my clear embossing powder, it doesn't really matter how well I'm stamping these stamps into the texture, it doesn't matter, this is actually just a guide so we can wallpaper our pattern papers on top since I have so many different patterns here. On these small pieces I think it's important to ink the edges last time I used color to do this, usually when I make paper pieces with pattern papers I just ink the outside edge only using a small blending brush like this one or a sponge to paint and a little.

Hero Arts Soft Granite Ink, which is a nice light gray color, so basically it's kind of creating a shadow around the edges and it doesn't matter what color the pattern on the paper is, the light gray works with him, so any light gray ink would work for you. Add that ink directly to the edges and see how it gives nice definition to each of the different pattern papers. I like that the Crafter mini blending brush set actually has one for grey, so it's perfect for this, okay, now's the time to do it. our little puzzle let's put together all our pattern papers.

I have my little flowers that I cut on top of the bunny and there we have our cute little picture. I added some yellow pearls to the center of the flowers. the bunny and on top of the elephant's hat, I added our little white piece there with all the images on a piece of blue patterned paper and then I added it to a white note card where I have a piece of gray patterned paper. on it and that's from the Sunny Studios gray paper pack. There you can see all the little details, we have the little dotted hearts in the background, we have our different patterned papers, we did the inking on the edge to give that definition and I'm just crazy about using pattern papers for images like this, it was very fun and a great way to use up small scraps now that the sentiment is from this Concord, a ninth set of small labeling stamps.

I just cut out the sentiment so I could stack the words. you are happy on top of each other and I stamped it directly on the background. I had so much fun making that last cheesy card that I thought I'd make another one this time. I chose very simple images again because we want it to be that way. easy to cut out and these are one of my favorite things, let's put the stamp set together. This game has been sitting on my desk waiting to be played for some time now. I thought the pictures were super cute once again.

I looked in my scrap drawer and found some pieces of pattern paper, the bottom one is grass fawn and the top one I think is bee. I am once again. I heat emboss the print onto my black print to make it stand out even more. I will cut one of the cacti from this patterned paper here, but I need to stamp it on another patterned paper to cut out the other one and decided to use this bolder floral patterned paper from Lawn Fawn. It's hard to see the image here, but I'll share another trick with you. to give it some definition so you can actually see the image at the end of our card, now it's time to do our complicated cut again.

I chose images that would be very easy to crop now, if you don't like cropping you can use them. a coordination, but you would definitely have that white border. I think it's better to do the complicated cutting now this time instead of inking the edges. I thought I would show you another option and that is to use a light gray marker to go around the edge. outside edge of your image, so here I am using Copic markers in c2 and c4, but you can use any light gray marker or even a colored pencil to do this and so you can see how it gives nice definition to the outside of your stamped image basically. you're just creating some shadows to make it stand out even more.

Adding this little gray marker doesn't take much time but it makes a big difference. Well, I took the same image and heat etched it black over a blue pattern. paper that is very subtle, it is like a fawn speckled pattern paper and my feeling is also there. I'm using my mini blending brush to add some turquoise navy ink, like a cloud around our stamped image, it will make it pop. even more and to draw attention, so after adding the inking we can make our paper right on top, sorry my head is getting in the way here, but for this example I glued everything flat on top of our background.

I didn't use any. foam tape, but you could if you wanted the dimension after assembly. I added this blue piece with white cardstock. I want it to look like I'm tying a jute bow around the top. This is my favorite way to do it. I think it gives better results. I simply wrap the jute around the front and tape the ends to the back. Then we'll add a bow to the front a little later, but first I want to add some dimension behind this piece, so I cut out a piece. of white craft foam to make it a little bit smaller and I'm gluing it to the back and then I'm going to glue this to our card.

I have a white card here with some gray polka dot pattern paper, it's actually heart pattern paper from Sunny Studio. and I'm going to put a dot of liquid adhesive on the jute that we've wrapped around the front and I'm going to stick a bow right there so it looks like we wrapped it and tied a bow, but this way we can get our bow perfect so the eyes of my image will stand out even more on the pattern paper. I used my black polish pen just to make them a little bit and add that shine and dimension that you can see.

I also stamped three little hearts. and we cut them out and added them to our background and added a little yellow pearl to the center of the flower so you can see the different pattern papers that we mixed and matched, but because we gave it a little bit of definition with the gray pen and stuff. blue ink in the background, everything stands out nicely and it's a great way to use your scraps to paper stitch a stamped image, okay my last few examples are actually a large set of cards, this is how I actually make the cards in real life. a bunch of them at once, they will all go to all the teachers at a local school, so I decided to make a bunch of them at once, I put a lot of time and care into them and used my patterned paper

piecing

technique on them, like this which for this one I used the Honeybee Bright Day stamp set.

This is another one I really wanted to use. I think it's a great game with fun feelings and you have the crayon line and the pencil line and the cool thing is. They are very easy to cut out to do this paper binding technique, so I went through my pattern papers and grabbed a bunch of subtle pattern papers in a rainbow of colors, most of these are studio sunny pattern papers, but I think there are some. The honey bee and fawn are here too, so just take what you have. You could even stamp your own tone-on-tone papers if you don't have pattern papers.

If you like to color, you can definitely color the pencils, but I really like doing this fun paper piece technique, so that's how I made all of these cards. I lined up the pencil image and the crayon image right against the side of my pattern paper so I could use the rest on the right when I'm done with something else, so I'm going to stamp this with that new obsidian black pigment ink from the altar and then erase it in Boston like I did before and I'll do this on all the different pattern papers that I showed you, I think there. it was thirteen different pattern papers, I would emboss one and add the embossing powder and set it aside, I would emboss another one, add the embossing powder and set it aside and then heat a bunch of them at once, this just makes make the process faster when If you're making a lot of cards, you want to save that time now.

I also heat-etched the pencil image onto wood paper. This is like a light birch wood paper and I thought it would be fun if the pencil part was done with this now. I made the crown here. I didn't need to make that image in this. I ended up just heat stamping the pencils onto several pieces of wood paper so I could store the piece of paper along with the pattern paper and then I went and cut them all out, it doesn't take long, it's just four quick cuts on each one. I like to do this. I took it upstairs and watched a couple of documentaries while I was making it and I find it very calming to make the crayons. easy, you just cut them out of the pattern paper for the colored pencils.

I increased it a little because that's just what I tend to do. First I cut out my pencil from wood, then I cut out my pencil from pattern paper and cut off the tip. of pattern paper and things like that. I don't know what it's called, the barrel of the pattern paper and I glue them to my piece of wood, so it took me a little while to do it with all those colored pencils, but I had With the help of Lila, I was able to finish them all to make a lot of cards so you can see it really doesn't take that long so I put all my pencils together and I have all my crayons and I actually just kept them sorted in a little ice cube tray.

I found it was an easy way to do it. At first I was using plastic bags that I could recycle to protect some cards later, but then I ended up switching to the small ice cube tray. I thought it was very useful to do it now that I have a lot of crayons and a lot of pencils to make a lot of cards and I guess now is when everyone thinks I've lost my mind for doing all this, but I enjoy it, okay? here I am stamping on a light gray pattern paper the pencils along the bottom edge.

I stamped it with a very light gray ink because I just use it as a guide to stick my paper pencils on top and then I move them down to the bottom of my Misti and I stamp a sentiment with the black ink and then I erase it withheat, I like to add two different images in the haze, one above and one below, it saves me a lot of time when I'm massing. -Producing because I can stamp on the top and then stamp on the bottom after doing that on a bunch of different papers with subtle gray patterns it's time to add our adhesive behind if you want to save time you can just use regular liquid adhesive. or tape runner but I tend to overdo it so I'm using foam tape so I cut the foam tape to be a little narrow and then cut it into a very quick point on the end to fit behind each of the crayons and then I went and added all my crayons, you can see how they hang off the edge, but once I have them all lined up I can go back and trim off the excess, so I made a little rainbow at the bottom, here we can trim the excess . hanging from the bottom, excuse me, that black print on the back, you can ignore it, it was a change of plans that I made and now we can stick this on a white note card, this gray piece that I cut out to measure a little less than four inches. tall by five and a half so you can see a little white border at the top and bottom when we add it to a four and a quarter by five and a half inch note card in the crayons.

I did some glitter accents on the tips of the crayons just to give it a little sparkle and I added a black marker to the stripe on the crayon wrappers so you can see the entire card, it has the glitter on the tip of the crown and all the different colored patterned papers on each of the crayons, this one I think is definitely worth the effort and I hope the teachers like them. I assembled the pencil cards exactly the same way, I just added them on strips of foam tape and put a little bit of glitter accents right on the tip of the pencil so you can see that woody paper with a little bit of glitter on the tip and the fun papers with colorful patterns and by the way on some of the cards I used a different sentiment that says you add color to my world so I would have some to give to friends.

I hope the variety of cards I shared with you today demonstrate that you can use your scrap pattern paper with different stamped images to make paper pieces and breathe new life into your product, so I hope you give them a try. It's a try, I have to finish all those teacher cards with Lila now, so I better get going, but I wanted to mention that I have my supplies in the YouTube description below and I have links to a couple more videos that talk a little about using patterned paper cutouts on your cards, thanks. Thank you very much for spending this time here with me today.

I hope you enjoyed it and see you soon.