Stampers Anonymous Stamp Storage

Hello Everyone, Jennie here, and today I am sharing my second project of the month. 

Back in February 2014 I made some book covers for the storage of my Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous stamps and they have been so successful I thought I would make another set to house my ever expanding collection! 

I have used some of the new Distress Ink Spray Stain colours (Cracked Pistachio and Mermaid Lagoon) and the fabulous Perspective Stamps.

I started with some heavy greyboard and applied some texture paste through the Gothic and Typo Layering Stencils. I then added various die cuts, tissue tape and tissue wrap to create a small collage along with some mesh and when it had all stuck down well I gave it all a coat of gesso

Once the Gesso had dried it was then time for the fun part! I sprayed colours onto the boards but also plenty of water and kept mopping up with a kitchen towel in order to get more muted tones. I used the following Distress Spray Stains:

Cracked Pistachio

Wild Honey

Mermaid Lagoon

Vitnage Photo

I wanted to add some stamping but there was far too much texture on the boards so I stamped butterflies and some quotes onto tissue paper with Arcival Black Ink. Once these were added I had to try and get the two boards to look reasonably alike in tone so I used a little Black Soot Distress Ink around the edges to tone everything down, along with some Black Soot and Picket Fence Splatters.

As a final touch I die cut the brackets from the Hardware Findings die from what was left of the grey board, but coloured and texturised (is that a word ???) them with Black Soot Distress Paint and Antiquities Frosted Crystal Powder.

And here is the finished book which houses seven stamp sets with these 2" book rings. However, I still had some stamp sets left over (hmmmm …….. ) so I made another set of covers in exactly the same way but this time using Mermaid Lagoon and Vintage Photo.

I am very pleased to say that my stamp storage is now very well organised and I even have room for a couple of more stamp sets ……….. let's go shopping!

Thank you for joining me today. 

Jennie

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Ranger Texture Paste	Tim Holtz Layering Stencil Gothic	Tim Holtz Layering Stencil - Cargo	Tim Holtz Idea-Ology Tissue Tape Laboratorie
Tim Holtz Idea-ology tissue wrap - Postale	Sissix Bigz Die Texture Fade - Layered Butterfly	Ranger Dina Wakley Media - White Gesso	Ranger Distress Spray Stain - Wild Honey
Tim Holtz Distress Spray Stain - Vintage Photo	Tim Holtz Distress Spray Stain - Cracked Pistachio	Tim Holtz Distress Spray Stain - Mermaid Lagoon	Tim Holtz Stamps - Perspective
Distress ink pad - Black soot	Ranger Distress Spray Stain Picket Fence	Tim Holtz Bigz - Hardware findings	Tim Holtz Distress paint dabber - Black soot
Versamark Watermark stamp pad	Ranger Frosted Crystal embossing powder

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