Week #8 of Inspired Christmas Creations: RANDOM STAMPED PATTERNED PAPER TUTORIAL & giveaway!!

Hello friends!
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Thanks so much to all the wonderful Guest Designers last week!!  Our birthday month was made so much more Inspired by your beautiful creations!!   Occasionally we look to our customers to Guest Design for us so make sure you share what YOU create with Inspired Stamps on our Facebook page or here on our contests so we can see what you've done!!

TODAY I am sharing a Random Stamped Tutorial on creating your own beautiful wrapping papers and patterned papers for card-making and scrapbooking.   You will need inks; a large, medium, and small stamp; and plain paper (we used the brown packaging paper that comes on the large rolls which is intended to use to ship packages...I love Kraft paper and it's a thicker version!!).  I also used Spica markers from Copic and a stipple brush.

Step one:  I chose a large, medium, and small stamp from the ME AND MY HOUSE Inspired Stamps set:

Remember to work in a TRIANGLE fashion when 'random' stamping:  You will also want to get some images that stamp 'off' the paper:

I always start with the LARGE image.  Below I cut out 2 different size triangles so you could see better what I mean when I say to remember triangles.  You want to be stamping to make a triangle each time you place the stamp down:

After you have all the LARGE stamps down, stamp with your MEDIUM sized stamp, again thinking TRIANGLE:

You will have MORE of the smaller stamps than you do of the larger one.

I like to use white pigment ink on Kraft and these solid small churches fit perfectly as the SMALL stamp.   continue stamping until it looks good to you:

Don't worry about smudges (see the one I did for you by the church; you can use a white pen at the end to make a 'snowflake' to cover it---someone once said 'A mistake is an opportunity to embellish'...I live by it!!)

Here it is with the Spica blue colored in the church and snow was added with the Signo pen.

Here's a close up so you get a better idea bout the Spica colors...love them!  Wait to add the Signo White until your blue has a chance to dry or you'll get the blue snow like I did above.

If you have too much 'blank space' you can either add another image or my favorite is to stipple brush some color on:

Here's the finished piece and here it is wrapped on a present with a bow I got from Hobby Lobby:

Here's another one I did for you with FRUITFUL FLOURISHES and HIS LITTLE ONES: PRAYING GIRL:

I LOVE the Fruitful Flourishes set...swirls and phrases really add a lot to random stamping!!

Here this is wrapped up:

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Thanks so much for visiting us today!
Be the Blessing,
~Antoinette
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