When I went to Ranger U last year to get certified to teach how to use Ranger products, it was with a very specific goal: I wanted more ideas for how to adapt these fun techniques for everyday scrapbooking in a modern mainstream style.
We usually see them used on tags, in vintage projects, on cards, or in art journals. We don’t see them used in scrapbooking all that often, which is too bad, since they’re so much fun! Plus…
- When you have leftovers and nothing to match with them, you can use techniques to make something to match your leftover scrapbook supplies.
- When you have a story you want to tell and none of your papers (or current trends) will do the trick, you can make something that will.
- You can make something totally unique!
Of all the technique-oriented products, I recommend Ranger for scrapbookers. Ranger has the best ones with the highest quality.
Here are 36 scrapbook pages with backgrounds I made from technique-based products such as Distress Inks and Stains, Perfect Pearls, spray mists, paint, stamps, stencils, and masks…
Stencils and Spray Mists
Stains, Inks, Masks, and Stamps
I have step-by-step video tutorials for many of these pages in the archives for Paperclipping Members. I’ll list them below their layouts. For the one above, Members can watch Paperclipping 201 – Organic Background Techniques.
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Spray Mists, Leftover Piece of a Chipboard Product as a Stencil, and Alpha Masks
Spray and Masks (on journaling)
Perfect Pearls and a Stamp
Video Tutorial: Paperclipping 193 – Perfect Pearls for Scrapbook Layouts
Perfect Pearls and a Stamp
Video Tutorial: Paperclipping 193 – Perfect Pearls for Scrapbook Layouts
Perfect Pearls and a Stamp
Video Tutorial: Paperclipping 193 – Perfect Pearls for Scrapbook Layouts
Paint, Distress Crackle Paint, and Glitter as a Frame
Distress Ink on Gloss-Printed Paper
Paperclipping 146 – Easy Altered Backgrounds
Spray Mists
Spray Mist on Gloss-Printed Paper
Paperclipping 146 – Easy Altered Backgrounds
Distress Ink on Gloss-Printed Paper
Paperclipping 146 – Easy Altered Backgrounds
Spray Mists, Embossing Powder, and a Stamp
Paint on a Dry Brush Over Old Flowers
Video Tutorial: 178 – Transform Old Products Into Ones You’ll Love
Paint, Puffy Paint, Spray Mist
Video Tutorial: 178 – Transform Old Products Into Ones You’ll Love
Paint
Distress Ink (foreground) and Spray Mist (background on bottom)
Distress Ink on Gloss-Printed Paper
Paperclipping 146 – Easy Altered Backgrounds
Spray Mist on Gloss-Printed Paper
Paperclipping 146 – Easy Altered Backgrounds
Gesso with Spray Mist
Video Tutorial: Papercilpping 142 – Scrapbooking with Everyday Items
Spray Mist, Stencil, and a Stamp
Spray Mist and Leaves Cut from a Starbucks Bag as a Stencil
Paint, an Old Comb, and Bubble Wrap
Spray Mist on Gloss-Printed Paper
Paperclipping 146 – Easy Altered Backgrounds
Paint on Raised-Dotted Cardstock
Paint and Distress Ink
Spray Ink with Flowers as Masks
Paint on a Dry Brush
Spray Mists with Scalloped Chipboard Mini-book Page as a Mask
Video Tutorial: Paperclipping 120 – Circular Anchor Flexible Template
Paint on a Dry Brush
Painted Frame
Paint and Stitching with a Mask
Ink with Cut-Out Circles as Masks
Paint and a Mask
Paint and Masks
Paint and a Mask
Video Tutorial: Paperclipping 27 – Using Masks and Paint
See how Distress Inks and paints and other products don’t need to be limited to vintage tags and art journals? You can make modern, bright, colorful scrapbook pages with these super fun techniques and supplies. Hopefully from these 36 scrapbook layouts you found a few ideas!
If you need some technique help, I have many tutorials in the Paperclipping Membership. Get info here.
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