Papertrey September Blog Hop Challenge

Well I missed the August Blog Hop, but I wasn't about to miss this month's!  The challenge for this month was to demonstrate a technique that you have learned from other stampers.  When I first started stamping, I didn't do any layering of stamps.  From various stampers suggestions, I started to experiment with layering my stamps.  Here is a card that I quickly prepared this morning before the kids got up that shows this!

I used two different background strips from PTI's Polka Dot Basics II, the smaller stamped in Dark Chocolate ink and the larger dots in Terracotta Tile on Harvest Gold cardstock.  I added a 2" strip of Harvest Gold to the middle of the card.  I used my eCraft to cut out the leaf in Orange Zest (stamped in Background Basics: Retro using Fresh Snow) and the circle in Dark Chocolate cardstock. Both shapes are from the Fundamentals 1 SD Design Card. I also used Fillable Frames #8 die to cut out a piece of Terracotta Tile cardstock, and stamped the Fillable Frames #8 frame in Fresh Snow.  The sentiment is from Fillable Frames #7 and is stamped in Dark Chocolate.  This overlapping of background stamps also works great with Versamark ink as your 1st stamp layer with a colored stamp on top, it is a much more subtle approach to the same technique.

Thanks for stopping by and I can't wait to see what everyone else comes up with!