PaperArtsy: With 3 Things: Deconstructed Bags and Tag Cards for Christmas {by Nikki Acton}

Thursday 17 October 2024

With 3 Things: Deconstructed Bags and Tag Cards for Christmas {by Nikki Acton}

Hi friends, it's Nikki (a2a.craft) with you for another With 3 Things post.

This feature on the PaperArtsy Blog is where 3 bloggers are sent 3 items in the post. We have no clue what PaperArtsy HQ is going to send us, there might be a slight variation but generally 2 of the 3 things will be identical for each of the 3 contributors in this cycle.

I was sent a large paper gift bag and tags as my substrate, PaperArtsy Fresco Acrylics in Copper (FF120) and Chantilly (FF215), along with PaperArtsy stencil PS439 and PaperArtsy stamp set JOFY137 - both from JOFY's recent Christmas release.

I have made a Christmas gift bag and some Christmas cards.... let's take a look.

I was a little overwhelmed with the size of the gift bag I received so decided to deconstruct it to make smaller ones.

So first of all I carefully opened up the large bag to see how it was constructed and then created a template for a smaller version.

Having cut the correct size paper from the larger bag I decorated it using the squares on stencil PS439. As I used alternate colours I created a little mask so that I could sponge each square quickly without having to worry about paint going in the wrong square!

These two colours look great on the brown paper of the bag. The Copper has a slight shimmer to it.

Once the paint was fully dry I carefully scored the paper as per my template and reconstructed by bag - I used one handle from the original bag and made two smaller ones.

Now for my tags - which ended up as cards! I started with my gel plate, just 'messing around' and seeing what happened. I introduced a third colour - PaperArtsy Fresco Acrylic in Weathered Copper (FF196) - to add some green for a good old Christmas colour palette.

You may see above how the Copper paint looks slightly different on white card to manilla - and also turns more pink if mixed with Chantilly.

I love these randomly created prints - just building layers using the Gel plate.

I stamped the images from JOFY137 onto both plain card and prints and started building up my tags.

I have paper pieced some elements, and added a little extra paint to others.

I decided to add my tags to cards - so used the little star stamp on the stamp set to add a bit of interest to the card base before adding the tags along with a little bow.