Photo Tutorial: Creating a Doily Banner/Bunting

As promised, here is the photo tutorial for this layout I highlighted on Friday.

  The doily banner was created with a stamped image.

Here's how I made them. The stamp was a circular doily design.

Then I used these products to color my images:

This was the first time I had used the Tattered Angels Glimmer Glaze and I really liked the overall look!

It is very shimmery with flakes of glitter in it too, and the overall consistency was just like a glaze and it turned out very shiny. I used a paint brush to apply it to my stamped images, or you could use a cotton ball.

I did let the glaze dry a little bit and then I wiped off the image with a baby wipe to remove the glaze color from my embossed images. Here's what the orange and blue colors looked like when finished.

To create the red doily, I used an inkpad directly onto the cardstock.

Once I finished coloring my images, I coated the images with the chandelier clear glaze. This left them all quite sparkly and gave them all a glazed appearance.

Once they were completely dry, I cut them out with sharp scissors. Then I took each circle doily and lined it up on my paper trimmer so it was centered with a point on the top and bottom that lined up with the cutting groove. This gave me a straight cut with evenly shaped half circles.

For the next step on my layout, I added a punched medallion in red cardstock on top of each half circle doily.

To create this look, I used this punch to cut the medallion border, then used my scissors to trim out several single medallion shapes from the long strip.

On my layout, I layered the stamped doilies and the cut medallions along with some buttons all in a row under my photos. Under the red medallions, I used some crochet lace for more texture.

In the picture above, you can see a narrow strip of red plaid paper. This was also created using a stamp and the same red ink I used for my red doilies. I just lined the stamp up along some white cardstock until I had the images stamped for the entire desired length, then I trimmed around the images and inked the paper edges with some grey ink to distress it a bit.

This plaid paper was used under the photos as a thin strip and again above the photos in a larger piece. I wrote the main quote onto this thin strip and then added the rest of my journaling to the kraft paper background.

I love how the results turned out and the ways I was able to incorporate stamping in my layout!