Not Your Ordinary Title

Title work can sometimes be a challenging page element.  Finding  just the right words to convery the sentiment of the page is the first hurdle.  Trying to display it on the page in an interesting manner is the next one.  While I won’t profess to hold all the secrets to great title work, I will share a few pages I have made where I jazzed up a regular title by mixing stamps with pre-made letters and embellishments.

This first example is a simple mix of fonts.  Since my title occupies a good size, I decided to use a variety of fonts to make it more pleasing.  I stamped the word, “chasing” using the “Casual Upper” set and then used a mix of chipboard and letter stickers in a larger size for the word “bubbles”.  Notice the circle of patterned paper under the chipboard letter ‘b’.  It is a subtle addition but really serves to add another interesting element in the title.  The circle also plays off the bubble theme in addition to tying in the red used in the first part of the title.

In this next example, my title follows the flight trail of a bird.  A simple stamped heart from the “He Says, She Says” set is added to the trail and raised with foam squares.  It breaks up the trail of mini letters and gives the eye a place to rest.

In the last example, I used a stamped heart as a layer underneath a title of mixed fonts and textures.  If you look closely at the word “you”, you will see the heart topped with a button and then the letters on top of that.  The letter ‘u’ is even laced around the button holes.

There are several stamps from the “Border Lines” set used on this page.

So there you have three different examples on how to use stamps to jazz up an ordinary title.  I would love see different ways you have used stamps in your title work.

Until next time,

Tracey