Faux Tile technique with vintage flair

 I love vintage things. They have a feel of beautiful, warm memories filled with love. I can imagine the worn picture that's been held and looked at many times, maybe even carried in a wallet. I can imagine the fond memories of a favorite toy. I can imagine the happy times remembered when you touch a length of lace that was worn on a special day. When I give my cards a vintage flair, I think of all these things and try to convey this in my card. Have you tried a vintage themed card?

Today's cards pair the vintage theme with a fun technique- faux tile. I love this technique because it takes your simple stamped card (stamps, inks, papers) up a notch and doesn't require any extra tools. It's a simple scoring technique that has a WOW result. 

For a vintage look, I like to use Very Vanilla or Basic Beige cardstock for my stamping layer. Stampin' Up!® offers a range of browns or colors with a brown tone to help with the vintage feel. I suggest Basic Beige, Crumb Cake, Pecan Pie, Early Espresso and Gray Granite. You could also throw in Wild Wheat (it's going to retire May 6th since it's an in-color). For a fun pop of color add a muted blue, pink or green color like Petal Pink, Balmy Blue or Soft Sea Foam.

You can use your favorite images and add in ribbons that match a neutral color scheme. For my pear card, I used watercolor pencils in Old Olive, Crushed Curry and Coastal Cabana to add color to my stamped outline images. 

The faux tile technique is scored lines at equal intervals on your cardstock layer. I use a 1" interval for a 5" x 4" piece. You can change this up and experiment based on your card layer size. After you score your layer, you stamp your images over the lines. Make sure your stamping on the side that the scored lines are indented and not raised. This leaves a white or colored line (depending on your cardstock color) and makes the image look divided like it is tiled. This is a simple technique that changes the look and feel of your card without any extra tools. You can do the scoring on your trimmer with a scoring blade or use the Simply Scored Scoring Tool by Stampin' Up!®.  Check out the Simply Scored Scoring tool in my online store. 

After you stamp your layer, you can add a greeting on a separate strip of cardstock or stamp directly into one of your squares. I like to use the same colored cardstock as my layer and then pop it up with dimensionals.  Stamp your inside layer (5 1/4" x 4") with a few images or greeting to finish off your card. 

For the sand dollar card, I stamped the stand dollars in Crumb Cake Classic ink onto a Basic Beige cardstock layer (5 1/4" x 4"). The star fish are stamped in Pecan Pie Classic ink. The sea glass is stamped in Basic Beige Classic ink for a tone-on-tone look. I added some splatters with Early Espresso Classic ink and the greeting is stamped in Early Espresso. "hello" is from the Citrus Blooms stamp set by Stampin' Up!®. The card base is Early Espresso cardstock. 

For the Penciled Pears card, I used a Basic Beige piece of cardstock (5" x 4"). I scored at 1" increments in both directions. So the 5" side was scored at 1, 2, 3 and 4. The 4" side was scored at 1, 2 and 3. Then I stamped the large pear image in Crumb Cake Classic ink. I colored the images (careful not to go down into the indent) with watercolor pencils in Old Olive, Crushed Curry and Coastal Cabana. I stamped the inside layer ( 5 1/4" x 4") with the group of 4 pears in Crumb Cake Classic ink. Then I colored those with the same pencils. "hello" is from the Citrus Blooms stamp set by Stampin' Up!®. 

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Here are some more cards I created using the faux tile technique. I love that you can use whatever images you want. 

Everyday You & Me stamp set

Under the Moon stamp set

Penciled Pear stamp set

Seaside Wishes stamp set

Enjoy this technique and take your simple stamped cards (one layer) to the next level. 

Up-close pic of the scored lines, stamping and coloring of my pears.

Thanks so much for stopping by my blog today. I hope you've enjoyed the faux tile technique and have some fresh inspiration to give it a try. Please leave any questions in the comments. 

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Enjoy!  ~ Beth