Easy Layout Backgrounds with Stencils

It’s typography week in the Pazzles Craft Room. Each day this week the Design Team will inspire you with projects based around numbers and letters. We hope you pick up a new technique or find something that you can’t wait to try out yourself!

Hello crafty friends, Melinda here with you today sharing a fun set of layouts using something we all have…FONTS. With so many free font sites and options, you can really express your creative style!
Here are the layouts I created:

To start with I used my Pazzles software and created the word background. I cut it out on some black cardstock. I popped all the letters out and made sure to edit letters like “a” and “o” so that they wouldn’t have any pieces “falling out” of the template. I then used the template as a mask on the first layout (Circa 1975) and sponged some chocolate ink on the pink cardstock. I loved that it gave it a vintage look. I then took a flower stamp and the same chocolate ink and inked around the layout. I matted that onto a kraft cardstock base that also had a pretty piece of patterned paper. I used my sewing machine to stitch around the pink paper with some black thread. I then used a couple of files from the Craft Room to create the flourished photo corners. I cut those out of black cardstock. I added some ribbon from May Arts and a couple of chipboard embellishments I had in my stash and all done. It wasn’t too hard to do, and I let the wording of the template and the photo take center stage.

For the second layout, I decided to use the same word background template I had created. I chose some fun graphic style paper from the DCWV Homeroom Stack for the dotted paper as well as the yellow graphic paper. I used the very same template. Because it was in black the ink from the previous project did not stain the paper and it was good to go. I then found the cute Heart House file in the Craft Room and welded it to the title I created. I added a couple of accents and a quick banner cut, and all done. Another pretty easy and fun layout!
I have included the files for both the word stencil layout and the photo corners that I created. They are free to download below.

Click here for the Flourish Corners cutting files in WPC
Click here for the Flourish Corners cutting files in AI and SVG

Click here for the Word Background Stencil cutting files in WPC
Click here for the Word Background Stencil cutting files in AI and SVG

~Melin