Sept 2025 - With 3 Things - Dreams Card {by Liesbeth Fidder-de Vos}

Hi friends, 

It's Liesbeth here with you, welcome to this new round of 'With Three Things´!

Every time, three members of our PaperArtsy Blogging team receive the exact same set of supplies. This time: a stamp set, a stencil and some Fresco Paint. Exiting!

We have no clue what PaperArtsy HQ is going to send, the whole idea of this challenge is to do something crafty in our personal style with these 3 items. We can incorporate other PA products into the mix if we feel it is necessary.

So let's take a look at what I received from PA HQ :

When I opened my package I was very happy to find this beautiful combination: PaperArtsy stamp set ELB34 and stencil PS002, both designed by Lin Brown. The two PaperArtsy Fresco paints are Rusty and Kiwi Gold. So nice! I immediately started thinking of possibilities....

And I came up with this big (A5) card ....let's take a closer look.

To create the card, I started with a piece of PaperArtsy Smoothy Heavyweight cardstock (almost A5: 14,4 x 20,5 cm) I tore a strip of masking paper in two pieces and masked the upper piece of the card with one of them, as shown here. I used the two paints the way they are and for a bit more contrast I also mixed both of them with a few drops of black and white ( PaperArtsy Fresco paints Little Black Dress and Snowflake) so I ended up with 4 colours.

Using small sponges I painted the first strip with the 4 paints. The mix with the black paint became very dark green, so I used that one in moderation. With one of the stamps I built up the background. I used Tsukineko StazOn - Saddle Brown, Mustard and Olive Green.

I removed the masking paper and covered the painted strip with the other half of the masking paper, and another torn masking paper a bit lower...to make the second area. 

I hope the picture below makes sense:

And so on.. Painting and stamping strip by strip, every time another stamp...I used them all!

Sometimes some white remained visible...I like it!

When al the painting and stamping was done I connected everything by using the stencil PS002  and the two Fresco paints Kiwi Gold and Rusty.

Using the white PaperArtsy Fresco paint Snowflake and the stencil, I sponged the large branch.

Onto a separate piece of paper I stamped the text and the hinges with dark brown StazOn ink (Timber brown), cut them out and sponged them a bit with Saddle brown (StazOn).

I glued the card onto an A5 white cardstock (a double A4)

I punched holes in the hinges, added some small brads and glued the hinges and text onto the card. I also outlined the white branch with a black fineliner.

This was so much fun! I love the images and the warm feel of the colour combination! And of course, I can´t wait to see what the others come up with! I will be fun to see how different three projects with the same Three Things can be!

Hope we inspired you with this!

Have a wonderful, creative time!

LiesbethXX

 

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