PaperArtsy Blog release of my new stamps!

  Hi there everyone , welcome back to my blog which I have badly neglected of late  I do have a reason ,  I have had major surgery which took a while to recover from and I have not felt well enough to work on the blog . However I am back now and it is a very special day to come back as the lovely people from PaperArtsy are releasing lots of new goodies , with lots of informative stuff , on their blogsite tonight . I consider myself very fortunate to have four new sets of stamps which have been made by PaperArtsy and which are being revealed tonight . I thought that  I would show some of the pictures of the samples that I have made ,  on the blog tonight . I am only going to show the pictures because the instructions that go with the pictures are on the PaperArtsy website and do not need repeating here .

The pictures are set out showing how each
sample was made in a sequence of four or five

pictures . The final picture is the finished project .
This first project is from stamp plate EEB05.

This piece of work is from EB06 .

This creation is made using stamps from EEB04.

Finally this item is made using stamps from EEB03 .I hope you enjoy the pictures and the finished designs and if you are interested to know more please visit the PaperArtsy website .   

I hope to be back soon to share some more pieces of artwork with you .

Blue Flowers and Bird House

Hi there , I want to show you this plaque because it is a mixture of stamping and painting . The background flowers are simply stamped onto the painted plaque in two colours before the main flowers were stamped . I have used PaperArtsy stamps for this design . Once the ink is dry I used PaperArtsy Grunge Paste to paint on the flowers to create texture on the petals . This has to be left to dry before the next stage .
Once the grunge paste was dry I painted the flowers with various shades of blue and added the highlights by dry brushing white paint over the raised areas . The centers of the flowers were created by adding dots of the grunge paste . When the rest of the painting was dry I rubbed Treasure Gold over the dots to make them stand out .
It's fun to mix techniques like this using ideas from different areas of the craft and art world .

Fairy Mannequin

I found this mannequin in a shop that sells things at reduced prices . It looked very sad  - it's clothes were horrible . So I removed all of the original coverings and painted the stand dark blue and the body turquoise .So much better !

I then spent a long time cutting out lots of flowers from various scrapbooking papers . It's amazing how many flowers I needed . These were then stuck onto the body of the mannequin , overlapping each other to make it look like a flower garden . I decorated the front and the back so that it looks pretty from all angles .

The seed beads were stuck on in random patches to add to the design .Around the neck is a piece of lace and more seed beads .

The wings were made from wire wrapped in ribbon and then covered in tulle . I also used the tulle to tie a bow at the base of the wings .

I think that this mannequin looks much better that it did when I originally found it and I enjoyed decorating it so much that I have gone on to decorate other mannequins in different ways .

Green Circle Frame

Hi there everyone , I'm back with a taste of my latest work with my new stamps from PaperArtsy . If you want to see the complete project and instructions then hop over to www. paperartsy.co.uk  and have a look . You will also find all manner of wonderful projects by other designers on the blog .
This picture shows a small piece of the finished work which is a circular plaque decorated with Christmas baubles . I know it's not Christmas yet but sometimes it's nice to started early !

The central background of the plaque was painted with Guacamole fresco finish paint . The embossed design was stamped on tissue first to be sure of the position of the stamped images .

Here you can see part of the outer frame which has
painted and then covered with crackle medium .

This photo shows how the frame has been stamped and embossed with a stamp from Lin Brown's new stamps and one of my stamps . The images were embossed in gold and dark green embossing powder .

There are three bauble stamps in the range and here they have been stamped onto patterned paper before cutting out each bauble .

When the whole piece has been assembled , adding some chains for the baubles , it makes a lovely Christmas home décor piece .

 

The picture below shows a close up of part of the plaque . I hope you have enjoyed seeing this -- I'll be back soon .

Marbled Background Treasure Boxes

My projects today on the PaperArtsy Blog are a pair of treasure boxes with marbled backgrounds .The whole project and instructions are on that blog so I won't repeat everything here . The two boxes were painted with the same autumnal colours however one is a deeper colour than the other . The picture below shows the finished darker box .

Both of the boxes have been stamped with images from my stamps . The images have been embossed to create a background effect .

Two of the fairies from the stamp sets have been stamped and coloured with similar autumnal shades before adhering them to the boxes .

Below are a few pictures of the two finished boxes .

As they say , 'That's all for now folks ' , back soon.

 

Project Drape

Welcome back . This week I am showing three projects that I have created using my new stamps which are made by PaperArtsy . The three projects will be shown in full on the PaperArtsy blog so hop over there if you want to see everything .

The picture below shows a small part of the whole project.

This project started life as a wooden plaque and a piece of fabric ! The fabric was stiffened and stuck to wood with any one of a number of mediums (I used Jo Sonjas Fabric medium - but slightly diluted PVA glue would work as well ).The fabric was pleated and shaped while it was wet and left to dry .

When the fabric was dry , the leaf design was stenciled on using Grunge Paste ( PaperArtsy ) . Small half pearls were stuck on and also lace around the edge of the fabric . The whole piece was then painted to achieve a uniform colour .

The plaque was coloured by spraying on diluted paint and then the raised areas were dry brushed with white paint to make them stand out .

The picture below shows three of the fairies from my stamp sets which have been coloured and then adhered within these flower shapes ( I think they are Prima mechanicals but I foolishly threw away the wrapper ) .

Finally the fairy images were adhered to the plaque to create the project shown in the picture below .

I hope that you have enjoyed seeing the finished work and I will be back soon .

Lace and Flowers

 

 

 

Hello again , finally I'm back with another post ! I thought that I would share a painted project with you today . This is a large flat box and the picture shows the lid . The box itself is quite shallow but is a lovely size to store notes and similar treasures .
The center of the lid is painted with lots of layers of colour slowly building up to the pale highlights .The corners are painted with fine lines and bots in a warm white to create a lacey effect . This is a lovely decorative painting technique and can be used as an addition to a design or as the complete design .

Here is a close up of the central panel which shows how the multiple thin glazes blend to create depth in the painting .
I have always loved painting and have been a decorative painter for many years . I find that this translates easily into stamping projects because everything I have learnt about painting backgrounds and colour theory is just as appropriate to stamping .
I hope you liked this little taste of one of the type of things I like to do . See you all soon.