Hi folks! Kelly here, excited to share a card made with the adorable
Reading Buddies
set! I actually made this card during the first release, but wanted to
hold off sharing it so I could devote some time to discuss stamp
selection when it comes to building a background.
This
Reading Buddies
set has some adorable images, like the cute critters carrying books, as
well as a sweet scene of a girl reading with her forest friends. Any of
these images are great to feature on a card. After you've played around
with these on a couple of cards, however, I'd recommend taking a look
at the secondary images, like the pile of books. I thought stamping the
books in a pattern would make a fun background.
And, you get a completely different look to stretch your supplies!
Whenever
I make a background like this, I try to figure out what the overall
shape of the image is. In this case, the pile of books with the one book
on its end is essentially a large rectangle.
To help illustrate this I've drawn rectangles over the books below ...
I
first stamped the "rectangle" of books vertically in the upper left
corner, then rotated it 90 degrees to stamp horizontally in the top
middle, and finally rotated it back to stamp the books vertically in the
upper right corner. With that row completed, I can move on to stamp the
second row, only this time I stamped the image horizontally,
vertically, and horizontally across the card. This fills in the gaps
left from the top row.
I
repeated that stamping for the bottom half of the card to complete the
background. To color the books I picked several copic markers in cool
tones and rotated them to balance out the colors. Colored pencils would
work as well for all the thin lines. I also grabbed a few shades of
cream to color the book pages.
And just like that,
your background is completed! With the sentiment and the background of
books, I think this card would be perfect to send someone in your book
club, or a friend who enjoys reading.
Hope you enjoyed
this little tip on building your own backgrounds, as well as picking out
a secondary stamp, to get an entirely new look from your stamp sets!
Thanks so much for stopping by!
-Kelly
