Stampscapes Photo Stamping

I taught class yesterday at Inspiration Station in Ovid, MI and here are my class samples.  I call these Photoscapes; scenes stamped on actual photos.

I like to use photo paper from Staples; the Photo Plus brand, although you most certainly can use your normal glossy card stock.  What I like best about the Photo Plus paper is that you do not need to seal your work with an acrylic glossy spray.  Inks don't fade on this paper.  But it is not good for ordinary scenic stamp as you can not blend color on it at all.  So only for the Photoscapes technique.

I stamp my images with Marvy Matchables black ink.  It is easy to clean up with a baby wipe and you get nice crisp stamped images.

These cards were great fun to make and are perfect for "guy" cards, although everyone seems to enjoy them.  All of the stamps are from Stampscapes Rubber Stamps.  Each card is 4.25 x 5.5 inches. 

Old Mill at Sunset.

I was invited to be a guest designer this week at Crafty Cardmakers challenge blog and the challenge is Masculine cards.  I think scenic cards make perfect 'guy cards"

This is a sunset I took over my house, I flipped it so the blue of the sky is down and the setting sun is on top.  I printed the image onto Staples Photo Plus paper with my inkjet printer.  Then I stamped the scene using Marvy Matchables black ink.  I added color to the mill and grass with Tombow markers.  All stamps are from Stampscapes Rubber Stamps.  Finished size is 5 x 7.

Here is what the photo looks like before stamping,  You can see it is a setting sun on the horizon but doesn't it look wonderful flipped over?  Photoscapes are great fun and very quick cards to do.

Won't you visit Crafty Cardmakers to see what the design team has created and join to in on the fun?

More Photoscapes

Here are a couple a photoscapes I created for my swap partner on my Yahoo Stampscapes II group.  I printed these lovely skies onto Staples Photo Plus glossy paper and then stamped the images by Stampscapes Rubber Stamps with my Marvy Matchables black ink. 

I added a little color to the cabin with a Tombow marker and colored the rocks with dye inks and a Colorbox Stylus tool. 

On this one, I added just a hint of color to the land and bushes on either side.  Photoscpapes are a lot of fun and really quick to do.  I find I look at the sky more often and take lots of pictures of clouds and sunsets.

Photoscapes with Stampscapes rubber stamps

Here are the scenes I will be teaching in my next class.  Check the right sidebar for class listings.

These are sky photos that are printed onto glossy paper and then stamped upon.  I did add some color on two of them.

Northern Lights Photoscape with Stampscapes Rubber Stamps

Here is a very quick and easy Stampscapes card from my Friday class.  It has a big WOW factor!  This one was for Elaine.  She sent me a link to a very cool Northern Lights photo wondering if we could recreate it.


I found this photo of Northern Lights using Google Images search.  I sized it to an A2 then printed it onto my glossy card stock.

Then using Marvy Matchables black in, I created a hill using 251C Sedge Filler  Next came the pines, all 3 of the pines stamps I used; the single large, the double pine and the pine framing the scene, come from the same Nature Sheet 1.  Add 229A Doe and 008A Buck and I was done.  Be sure to put the buck further back to maintain proper perspective.  Total time to create the card was less than 10 minutes.

Barnegat Light photoscape

I grew up in Barnegat, New Jersey, across the bay from Barnegat Light. I love this lighthouse and have made the climb to the top many times.

Using a photo of a sky over my home in Michigan, I printed it onto glossy paper from the Paper Cut. After heat setting the ink, I stamped my images using Marvy Matchables black ink.

The lighthouse is from Stampendous, I did not ink up the foliage on the bottom of the stamp or the clouds around it. The rest of the stamps are from Stampscapes. I heat set it again. I then added color with my Tombow markers and used a white gel pen on the base of the lighthouse.

I have not been home to NJ in years and really miss this sight.

Still Waters photoscape

This is another photoscape that I submitted to RSM but they were not interested in using it.

I began by printing a rainbow sky photo on glossy card stock. I heat set the ink before stamping.

Using Marvy Matchables black ink, I stamped my scene and heat set it again. All stamps are from Sutter Stamps.

Then using Tombow markers, I added color to the banks, the rocks and the fallen logs. Photoscapes are quite easy to do and make quite a scenic statement.

Sutter Winter Photoscape

It has been a while since I have created a Photoscape but I was inspired by some art I saw recently on one of my Yahoo groups.

I printed this beautiful winter scene onto my glossy card stock from The Paper Cut.

Then using Memento Tuxedo black ink I added the cabin, the path, the tree in the foreground and the fence. I added some color to these using my Tombow markers. For snowy accents, I used my white glaze pen.

The last step was to add the birds and the pine branches in the upper right corner. I stamped the branches first with black ink, then over stamped them with Brilliance Moonlight white ink.

The pine branch is from Stampscapes, the remainder of the stamps are from Sutter.