Project of the Day: Graffiti-effect stamping

by Julie Kirk

Hi there.

Last week I was lucky enought to attend a workshop with the inspirational art journaler Dina Wakley and over on my blog all last week, I shared the work I made while I was there.

Dina's style uses lots of spray inking and stencilling and I decided to create a similar feel for my project today, using my Banana Frog stamps. And here's the outcome of my experiments:

 

To create my own unique backing paper I began with an old sheet of white and silver foiled 12x12 and spray-inked on to it, through various cheap alphabet stencils from a stationary shop:

 
Once that had dried I took the Teen [Tiny] alphabet set and inked up the WHOLE SET of alphas without removing the individual stamps from the backing sheet:

 
 I then carefully lifted up the entire inked-up sheet and pressed it firmly down onto my backing paper:

 

I repeated this step over and over, randomly covering the entire sheet of 12x12 with my 'graffiti' style alphas:

This recreated and added to the effect of a stencilled backing:

Sometimes I stamped upside down too:

 
The date was the only element I didn't leave to random stamping!

I added extra detail by spraying through some mesh I had in my stash:

 
So, inspired by Dina Wakley's techniques and Banana Frog stamps I made the perfect backing paper to suit the photo in my layout - a photo showing the fabulous curry we ate while seated around a graffitied metal picnic table at our local Asian festival in the park this summer!
  
 If you'd like to see the rest of my Dina-flavoured works drop by and see them on my blog.

And don't forget to check out the bargains in the Banana Frog sale where many sets have reduced by between 20% and 70%!

I'll be back next month with another project of the day but, until then, you know where to find me.

Julie :) 

Comments

[Andrea - Wales, UK]

Thanks for sharing this technique it is gorgeous.

xx

[Linda]

Hello, love this page new to this can you let me know what style this is and where can I learn more on how to blogs online classes ect. Thank you,
Linda

[summer]

European leaders are putting off northface until next month a decision on paying the northface jacket next batch of emergency loans to Greece.

Friday's announcement follows talks among the north face central bankers, the northface finance ministers and others in Wroclaw, Poland.

The next $11 billion installment of northface outlet Greece's first bailout package depends on north face coats a review of that nation's finances. The payment had been scheduled for womens north face the end of this month.

Greece mens north face is deeply in debt and one of the the north face jackets 17 nations that use the euro currency. Greece's fellow eurozone members down jacket have put together two bailout packages, contingent on Athens cutting expenses north face and raising revenue. Eurozone leaders have been debating when and how to rescue the troubled economy north face jacket with more loans.
U.S.Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told north face jackets other top financial officials the north face sale at the Poland meeting that political wrangling was making the situation worse. Analysts say Geithner's rare north face outlet presence at the European talks is a sign of increasing U.S. concern about the global impact of the north face jacket northface outlet the northface eurozone debt crisis.