Tutorial: Making your Own Patterned Paper in Photoshop with Digital Stamps!

Hey Hey Scrappy people! Today I’m bringing to you my 3rd installment in the “WHAT THE HECK CAN I DO WITH DIGITAL STAMPS?!” tutorial series and today I’m going to show you how to make your own patterned paper using digital stamps!

Skills learned include:

  • Sampling colors from product with the eyedropper

  • Recoloring with the paint bucket tool without distorting

  • Resizing without distorting

  • Creating simple patterns

Here is the layout I created using the background paper created in this tutorial:

I used the My Person digital stamps to create the patterned paper

And a closer-up look at the pattern:

Video Tutorial

Step By Step Instructions

  1. Create a new blank canvas in photoshop the size of the paper you would like. I created a canvas for a full-size life crafted layout at 8.25”x5” at 300 dpi

  2. Flood fill the background with the background color of your choice using the paint bucket tool.

  3. Choose which stamp(s) you would like to make your background with and drag and drop those onto your canvas.

  4. To match your stamp to the product you’re using, drag and drop one of the multicolored stickers or papers onto your canvas to sample.

  5. Using your paint bucket tool, hold down alt and click on the color you would like to sample. This will add it to your most recent swatches at the top of your swatches panel. Repeat with all colors you would like to sample

  6. To permanently add that color to your swatches, double click on the foreground color on your toolbar, then click “add to swatches” in the dialogue box.

  7. Hold down shift while resizing to constrain proportions.

  8. Making sure your stamp layer is rasterized, then click the “lock transparency” icon at the top of your layers palette to make sure that when you flood fill the stamp, it doesn’t add pixels to the image, making it look “rough” around the edges.

  9. Using your paint bucket tool and making sure “contiguous” is unchecked if you would like to fill in the entire stamp with your color, choose the color you would lie to use from your swatches palette and click on the stamp to change color.

  10. Alternatively, you can add a “color overlay” layer style to change the color of the stamp.

  11. Duplicate the stamp as many times as you need for as many different colors as you’re wanting to use, then you can begin to build your pattern.

  12. If you want your stamps to be aligned and evenly spaced, the “distribute” functions that pop up in the top toolbar when you have more than one layer selected can be used to evenly space and align your stamps.

  13. Once you have a pattern you like, merge and trim if necessary, then print!

TutorialsTraci ReedMy PersonComment