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Paperclipping 137 – Using Handmade Backgrounds

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In this tutorial, you’ll see:

  • How to get ideas for handmade backgrounds
  • Design principles that make it all work together
  • Examples of handmade backgrounds

Also, if you’re not subscribed to the free version of Paperclipping in iTunes, here’s a link that will take you there.

With so many layouts appearing in this episode, I’ll only post the four new ones here but you can see the three that I’ve featured in previous episodes here, here, and here.

He Makes Me Laugh

12×12 layout
heI_makes_me_laugh
Journaling written to my husband reads: She said, “I can stick my tongue up my nose. Watch…” So I watched, and she totally did it. I was in partial shock but I kept a smile on my face. And that’s when you leaned into my neck and said — fairly loudly — “I’m glad you can’t do that.” And you made me laugh. Hard. Just like you always do.

Fiskars Border Punch: Apron Lace

Rhonda & Kelly

8.5×11 layout
rhonda_&_kelly
Journaling reads: Loved that you did it your own way…a simple wedding with family and your closest friends out in nature. Loved Larry’s talk about having someone to come home to. Loved watching your beautiful happy faces.

Blue Prima Medicci Flower

My Mom

12×12 layout
my_mom
Journaling directed to my mom reads: This is how I see you in most of my memories as a kid. I actually have hazier visuals from an even younger time when I was two to four years old and we lived in Arizona. At that young age I remember big hands reaching down to me. Big to my small size. Safe hands dropping down from huge heights to pick me up or to give me a gumball from the high closet shelf. I remember how you were so tall, towering over me. And when you held me I was high above the floor.

I remember sitting on your lap in church and playing with the necklace around your neck, your hair an amber shade, long and wavy down the sides.

A few years later we moved to the house where Dad took this picture of you…you standing in our backyard on Lucinda Dr. in Whittier, CA. My memories are a little less hazy at this time with a little more perspective. Your face is a lot more clear, your hands less dominant. I remember you just like this picture. A naturally beautiful mommy.

Suede Glimmer Mist * Sage Glimmer Mist * Time Metal Word Stick * Felt Letters

In Flight

12×12 layout
in_flight
Journaling reads: You four girls backstage, being young beautiful ballerinas, playing together while you wait your turn. You girls danced together–grew together and performed together–for at least three years (was it more than that?). You all stuck it out with two hard teachers from Russia and did a fab job shining on stage.

S.W.A.K. Glimmer Mist * Tiger Lilly Glimmer Mist * Bird Glimmer Screen (mask from Flights Of Fancy set) * Bling Flourish * In Flight Stamp * Winged Heart Journal Block * Little Bird Chipboard: Tattered Angels Nature Glimmer Chips

Episodes On How To Use Art Mediums

Paperclipping Members who want help with the actual techniques of of using paint, Glimmer Mist, and masks can watch these episodes in the archives…

58 – Glimmer Mist
106 – Mix Your Own Paint Colors
27 – Using Masks And Paint

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  • This layout and blog makes my heart explode with joy and desire. I want to create so much more than the time I have in my life. The space in my rooms need to be reorganized to include both of my daughters so they too can create like this. Oh, these are glorious!
  • Wow, thank you, Susan! :)
  • Beautiful handwriting Noell! Wow, I wish I could write like that. The backgrounds are gorgeous. I just got 3 bottles of glimmer mist from Scrapbook.com but have no idea how to use it. I know some things I can do with it, but I'll definitely be buying a membership so I can learn how to use it, among many other things. Loving the podcasts and so glad I got turned on to your web site recently. Thanks!
  • Abslutely AMAZING work Noel! You are and artist and sooo talented! You have an ease about you when you put pages together and I wish I could find that! These demos have inspired me to try my own backgrounds!!!

    Thankyou for your wonderful work and it is very appreciated by me!! xx
  • tchrtiff
    What a good episode! I love that bird mask you use on the flight layout. My only suggestion is to slow down the parts where you put the layout together. I understand you speed it up for time but it's a little too fast, slow it down just a bit so we have time to see what you're doing. Thanks and keep up the great work!
  • Debra
    Great video, Noell! Thanks!
  • Iraida
    Loved this episode! TFS!
  • mari schmaltz
    I wish you had actually showed creating the background paper on the video ... not putting a page layout together using the completed piece of paper ... I know how to make layouts ... I would have liked to see how you painted, spritzed, etc ...
  • Hi, Mari. We have done a number of episodes like that already (Members can find them in the archives, but I linked to those at the end of the blog post for this episode). I like to really break things down and dig deep (the art technique, the underlying design principles, tips for those less advanced, plus lots of examples) and that would all be way too much to cover in one episode.

    In past episodes I showed how to get the color variations in the paint, how to create your own masks, etc. Today's episode was to help people to get comfortable making them without a specific layout in mind and then to see how they come together into a page the same way a typical page does. If you would like to see more and get access to the archives, you're welcome find out how a membership works on this page: http://www.paperclipping.com/membership

    :)
  • scrapycandy
    I really like painting my backgrounds...must be why I prefer paper over digital too. I think creating for me is more than visual...I just hope scrapping doesn't go completely digital. Thanks for the great ideas!
  • I can imagine maybe some people thought artists would stop painting once
    they invented the camera. I am very confident that scrapbooking will not go
    completely digital because there will always be people like us who like the
    hands on process and the true-to-life texture and 3-dimensionality. :)
  • I totally agree with that!!
    I just can't understand the whole digital thing. I like hybrid, I mean, using computers for journaling, editing pics, printing out journaling spots, etc but I couldn't do a LO completely digital, where would I find the fun without messing up my hands??
  • I totally agree - there will always be decorative stuff in the shops - and people that love to get their hands messy can. And I love that, too! I just discovered digi-scrapping before any else scrapbooking and for it just takes so less room (living together with just 2 rooms explains my space-problem). And it is much cheaper.

    But so many tips can be transphered to any paper-crafty thing, ...or digi. :o) Thats why I love paperclipping.
  • I like to use these techniques in busy papers. Since I have too many pieces of patterned paper in my stash, I've never really thought of creating my own, but I've seen how good it looks when using masks either with paint or glimmer mist to distress or just make less busy a piece of pp.

    Love your LOs :)

    P.S. Finally, my Internet has let me watch the episode till the end :) and just love it. Now, my iTunes is working...
  • I think this is very very beautiful! To make own designs just gives so much more of your creativity into the pages. I also could imagine to use a mask that has punches/cutted wholes in it so with different colors and different shapes you could create a patterned paper - endless possibilities in mind - never used any of it because I am all into digital *haha* - but still love your show and get so much ideas out of it!!

    Can you tell me where we can eMail you for ideas and critics??


    Hugs,
    Tabea
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