Wall hanging with Scrapcosy stamps {by Liesbeth Fidder de Vos}

Hello everyone, Liesbeth here! 

This year on the blog, we have free reign to do a deep dive into a PaperArtsy product ranges of our choosing. For this post I have been exploring some of Raquel's PaperArtsy Scrapcosy products. A wonderful stamp set, a belonging stencil and some Scrapcosy printed tissue paper.

I decorated a wall hanging with it and I love to show you how I made it!

I am actually quite happy with the result! The stamps are perfect for what I had in mind. Now the wallhanging hangs in our kitchen :-)

My starting point was a ready-made wall hanging, consisting of three 15 x 15 centimetres panels, covered with nature pictures that I didn't like.

The stamp set I used is one of my favourites: Eclectica (Scrapcosy)15 (ESC15) and I used PaperArtsy stencil PS105 by Scrapcosy and some pieces of Scrapcosy printed tissue PT05

As I love to work with the three colours yellow, pink and blue (I often do) and I love Mattints I chose PaperArtsy Mattint Dragonfly, The Pink and the new Acid.

My plan was to cover the pictures of the wall hanging with stamped cards and to create a nice frame around them. So first I made the cards. I cut three pieces of  PaperArtsy Smoothy Regular white cardstock 12 x 12 cm, and coloured them with blending tools and Distress inks. I used Wild Honey, Picked Raspberry and Mermaid Lagoon, as I always do :-)

Using Tsukineko StazOn Jet black I stamped the different stamps (ESC15) onto the cards and some pieces, like the flowers at the tea cup, on a seperate piece of cardstock. At this stage I didn't know yet what I was going to use. I also cut masks for the tea cup and the postmark stamp.

I masked the two big stamped images and used the stencil PS105 with a blending tool and Distress Ink Chipped Sapphire. After splashing some water drops, wiping them up I accentuated the spots with a white gel pen to create ,stars'. I also used the gel pen for the text and for some other accents. Using watered down bleach, I bleached the images where necessary to let them pop out. I sponged the edges of the cards with black ink and made shadows around the images with charcoal. The card with the text was still a bit empty so I cut some of the stamped lace, coloured it and created a frame at two corners as shown.

Here you can see the bleaching and the charcoal shadows. The cards are ready!

Time for the wall hanging itself and how to put it all together!

It's all about the edges, the center will be covered. First I sanded the edges a bit, because it was glossy paper, and covered the edges with a few layers of gesso. I decided to do some crackling and I searched for the perfect background colour for it, I came up with a mix of PaperArtsy Fresco paints Twilight and Blueberry. Perfect, exactly the colour I was looking for! I painted the edges with the mix...two layers was enough.

One of my favourite PaperArtsy products is the Crackle Glaze! By far the best there is, it always works perfect and you can dry it with a heat gun, so quick and easy! I applied a layer of Crackle Glaze on the edges onto the blue paint and dried it, and painted the top layer with the opaque white Fresco paint Snowflake. Immediately the crackles appear. Magical!

Oops...there's some white on the ropes as well ;-) I will paint them black again later on.

A little bit of decoration on the crackled frames. I tore some small pieces of texts out of the printed tissue  and glued it onto the crackles with Matte Glaze (my perfect gel medium, I use it for everything!!) here and there with a soft brush. 

After drying I painted the crackled frames with the three Mattints Dragonfly, The Pink and Acid. For every board a different colour.

Very carefully I painted the sides of the boards with Fresco paint Little Black Dress and a small  sponge. It provides a nice finish.

I cut out the butterfly and lots of flowers I stamped before, and painted everything with the three colours of Mattints: Dragonfly, The Pink and Acid. I used a very small brush for this.

The finishing touch: I matted the cards on pink, blue and yellow cardstock and glued them onto the boards of the wall hanging. I added the little flowers and butterfly at the images.

The colourful wall hanging is ready!

Yellow..

Pink...

The entire piece..

and Blue!

In the following photos you can see some more details:

It was so much fun to create this wall hanging! I love the combination of the paints, crackles and Mattints. And of course the wonderful Scrapcosy tea themed stamps! Hope I inspired you, have fun!

Liesbeth XX

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