I've been playing around with letter stamps and distress inks, and am so excited about the beautiful, simple, customized titles I have been able to create for my scrapbook pages.  I love using thickers for titles, but they can be expensive to purchase and limiting because they only have a finite number of each letter per sheet.  By purchasing a few stamp sets in different fonts and sizes, I have been able to create titles for two pages in a size, font, and colour that suited each layout.  I feel that this two toned, ombré lettering looks so beautiful, and I certainly believe this is a technique that will appear again and again in my scrapbook.

To create your own hand stamped titles, you only need a few simple supplies: An alphabet stamp set, ink, and some cardstock.  I used two shades of Tim Holt's Distress Ink to create my letters.  A medium pink colour called Tattered Rose and a more red shade called Festive Berries.  I mounted each stamp on my clear block, inked up the bottom edge with the darker colour, then inked the top with the lighter colour, overlapping the darker colour, then stamped the letter onto a sheet of white cardstock.  I repeated the process and stamped a second time, using the clear stamp to line up the image.  Then, I fussy cut each letter out with scissors.  I found this process really simple and quick to do, and the results definitely worth the effort.