3 Ways to Create Stamped Backgrounds for Cards

Hello, Amy Sheffer here today with some super fun stamped backgrounds you can create for your cards and other projects.

This first card shows one of my favorite ways to stamp a background, which is to repeatedly stamp a sentiment to create a pattern. This works with just one color of ink or a whole variety, depending on what look you’re going for. I wanted this card to have a cheery, happy feel, so I chose an assortment of bright primary colors.

You can see that I staggered the placement of the sentiments in a random way. Both the random placement and the bright colors work especially well for the whimsical, handwriting-style font. I trimmed down the sentiment strip, added a diecut border, and placed it onto an aqua gingham pattern from the Garden Harvest collection.

My last step was to add a few flower diecuts from the Rainbow Roux Pea Pod Parts and the word “sending,” which was done with a stamp from the All My Happy stamp set.

Supplies:
Jillibean Soup
Shaker Clear Stamps & Dies: Flower Thanks, All My Happy
Patterned Paper: Garden Harvest/Plant The Seeds
Pea Pod Parts: Rainbow Roux
Epoxy Sticker Sheet: Rainbow Roux

Other:  Altenew dye inks, white embossing powder, black card stock, Reverse Confetti Edgers dies.

For my next card, I pulled out various sizes of circle and flower stamps from different sets and stamped a cascading collage-style background. Often the smaller, sometimes overlooked, images from multiple sets can be combined in fun new ways!

I started by stamping the large circle outline image from the Spoonful of Soul stamp set in two shades of orange in an overlapping pattern, then filled in with the smaller circle and floral images from All My Happy, Balloon Party, Spoonful of Soul, and Succulents. The random pattern stamping is very freeing. There is no right placement - just have fun with it!

On more clean and simple designs, I especially love to add a little something for texture and interest. It doesn’t take much to elevate a card. Here I added just a touch of glossy accents to the centers of the green outline flowers, as well as a few yellow sequins.

The sentiment is built from a Smile diecut from the Rainbow Roux Pea Pod Parts collection plus a stamped “You Are Amazeballs” sentiment from Rainbow Roux.

Supplies:
Jillibean Soup
Clear Stamps: Spoonful of Soul, Rainbow Roux
Shaker Clear Stamps & Dies: All My Happy, Balloon Party, Succulents
Pea Pod Parts: Rainbow Roux
6x8 Paper Pad: All About Dots
Sequins: Oranges

Other:  Altenew dye inks, GinaK black amalgam ink, Ranger Glossy Accents.

 

My last card shows another favorite background idea, which is to create a brick pattern out of a label or other rectangle stamp.

Here, I’ve used a label image from Spoonful of Soul and stamped it in the same bright colors as the previous two cards. The rectangle makes it easy to line up just by eyeballing it. Because I knew I would be stamping my sentiment into one of the labels, I started with that particular impression and built my pattern from there. Once the stamping was finished, I went back in and filled the labels with a light watercolor wash of the same color.

I stamped the sentiment from Flower Thanks and accented with sequins and stamped flowers from the Jar Goodness stamp set.

Another current favorite for me is white splatter. I keep a little jar of Dr. Ph. Martin’s bleed proof white right on my work table. To use it, I water it down just a bit right in the lid, then load up my brush and tap it over the card project.

Supplies:
Jillibean Soup
Clear Stamps: Spoonful of Soul
Shaker Clear Stamps & Dies: Flower Thanks, Jar Goodness
Sequins: Greens

Other:  Altenew dye ink, GinaK black Amalgam ink, watercolor brush, Dr. Ph. Martin’s Bleed Proof White, Simon Says Stamp stitched rectangle die, lime green cardstock.

So glad you stopped by today, and I hope you’re inspired to stamp some fun backgrounds!

Comments

[Christine Kiehl]

Wonderful ideas for backgrounds~!

[Andre M.]

Thanks for sharing these fun ideas. Creating custom backgrounds is one of my fave techniques. Love the idea of using a label stamp to cover a background.