A few words from Leandra
Raquel's engineering mind comes to the fore within this release. Particularly her layered stencil at the foot of this post. I love her dimensional cards that heavily use Grunge past to make touchy-feely backgrounds where infusions and inks often help to highlight the texture. The 'Arts and Crafts' style of patterns abound in the strawberry plate, offering a lot of repeat pattern opportunity to build up backgrounds with ease. Finally mushrooms, always a popular element, and these clusters are perfect on a scrapbook layout or journal page!
Raquel says: With this new release you'll be transported to the countryside and forest, where strawberries, their flowers and plants, along with wild mushrooms are abundant.
A mix of vintage style and a smidge of Art Nouveau, reminiscent of the Arts and Crafts design movement founder, William Morris, influenced this series.
Beautiful, elaborate patterns within both the stamps and the stencils, are useful for either repetitive patterns or layered ones. Add to that gorgeous focal images and thoughtful sentiments; plus you know how much I enjoy ribbons and embellishments on my cards and art journals, so those too are not forgotten.
You will find these designs also work for scrapbooking spreads or any other mixed media projects of your choice.
It's a packed release. All elements are hand-drawn and hand-written by me, designed to give you numerous options and variety within your creative exploration. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did creating it.
Price: RRP €23.00 +VAT
Size:5" x 6" (13 x16.5cm)
All stamps are individually trimmed onto cling foam, with a laminated storage/index sheet.
Scrapcosy Set 53 (ESC53)
The perfect stamp set with many elements to create botanical patterns in different sizes and styles and to use them as focal points or as embellishments depending on the project you want to make: scrapbooking spreads, cards, ATCs, bookmarks, and more.
I'm using this to create plenty of bespoke scrapbooking papers. It's a fantastic gift for crafty friends or yourself!
Pair this set with ESC30 to create beautiful postage stamps with each element and to add more background details to your pages and projects.
Home Sweet Home
The square strawberry design on its own may not seem too much, but when repeated to create a tiled wall it really brings joy. Leaving the empty gap for the sentiment really makes it pop effortlessly.
You could make a larger format and change the position of the sentiment somewhere else, or perhaps create a window in that space for a shaker card, where little fussy cut strawberries and flowers can be shaken.
Mini scrapbooking paper collection
I have plenty more scrapbooking papers and backgrounds in my mind to make, so here's a sample of a few designs you can add to your hand-made paper collection. I had lots of fun and playtime with these patterns.
This design is similar to the very first sample you saw, but here I've rotated the tile to make sure the strawberries point to the same place. In that way, every group of 4 tiles seem to make a bigger tile themselves.
This next paper was inspired by patchwork fabrics, where the pattern repeats creating a continuous design. I would love to repeat this same pattern while also changing the colours of the palette, so the strawberries could be blue, and the stamping ink brown, allowing the entire plant to blend into the background. That way a focal image or a picture layered on top would stand out more.
Here I used the big flower, but the same pattern could be achieved with the smaller one or when combining both. Those 2 options will be next on my to-do list for this paper collection.
Scrapcosy Set 54 (ESC54)
The ideal stamp set for gift givers. Personalise a preserve jar full of jam or crafty goodies for your crafty friends, while using the thoughtful sentiments to decorate the label. Tartan stripes allow you to edit plain fabric to cover the lid of the jar, plus a stamp for handmade ribbons.
Of course these designs are also perfect for tags or cards. The big flower will make a beautiful focal point that you can decorate with the leaves: fussy cut both of them (one or more) and arrange them into a card or create an art journal page.
Pair this set with ESC14 (tea set collection) to create beautiful flower bouquets and to create tea party themed projects. This new stamp set offers the 'strawberry jam' experience that high tea with scones and cream demands.
Made for You
I created this stamp set with this sample in mind, where I've combined many of the things that I love: preserves, vintage labels, fabric and ribbons.
I used the 2 tartan stripes to create this gorgeous fabric, that covers the lid beautifully. I could have combined black stripes with red stripes and it would have also looked amazing.
Instead of a strawberry preserve I decided to store ribbons and some fairy lights that would make this gift even more special. I would love to receive those goodies in such a lovely container. What would you store instead?
If you wanted to gift a homemade strawberry preserve, then instead of decorating the back with the big flower and the leaves as I did, you could add the empty label and either add the ingredients or some handwritten words for the receiver of that delicacy.
Thank You Berry Much
I love the countryside look you can get by creating a tartan background and combining it with the strawberry plant. I cut the rubber tamp to separate the 2 tartan stripes, in that way I could stamp easily in different colours and positions. If you don't dare to cut the rubber, you can still carefully add 2 different colours of ink on each stripe.
I really like this colour combination! And the ribbon with the strawberries and flowers, which I didn't want to cover too much, so I decided to split the sentiment in 2 parts and show it as if it is coming from underneath.
Scrapcosy Set 55 (ESC55)
I love mushrooms! With this stamp set I wanted to give you not only some specimens but also beautiful compositions that can either become focal points or backgrounds.
The mushrooms can be fussy cut and rearranged so the composition gains volume and much more interest, creating the feeling of a tiny forest scene.
Imagine adding the squirrel from ESC25 or other mushroom species from ESC26 and ESC05 to your composition.
It is nice how these new stamp sets will work really well together with some of my older stamps to provide you expanded creative opportunities.
Tiny Forest
I'm in love with this sample! It really looks like a close up picture from a tiny and beautiful forest, full of life and colours.
I paired it with the stencil PS491 that you will see shortly after. They work really well together. And to give dimension to the sample, I used the separate stamps of both mushrooms which match the sizes of the collage.
If you cut the tops of the mushrooms and stick them on top of foam adhesive or just leftover stacked cards you will create that 3D feeling where some are in the front and others in the back.
Mushroom Tower
I designed this stamp so it could decorate the edges of a page, stamping half on one side and half on the other, but I must admit that the entire tower looks so nice that it really deserved to be a focal too.
To 'ground' the tower, I just added the sentiment and decorated it with 2 of the leaves, which by the way would be great to use for a background pattern too. That's also on my to do list!
The background was created with the stencil PS493 that you'll see below. To add a 3D feeling to the mushrooms, I stamped 3 versions of the tower and stacked them in pieces. It was like making a puzzle and when I secured the final piece, I was so happy with the result!
Beautiful Memories
I had an extra pair of mushrooms that I didn't use in the other 2 samples, so I quickly put together a couple of mini-cards using as well the leaves from stencil PS493. Here's one of these tiny samples.
And here is the other one. I love how the leaves from PS493 ground the mushrooms
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Price: RRP €5.64 + VAT
Regular Size: 6.5" x 7" (16 x 18cm)
Robust 250 micron mylar designed to offer longevity, deep texture and easy clean up
PaperArtsy Stencil 491 (PS491) by Scrapcosy
A beautiful background in 2 sizes and styles, so you can repeat them to cover entire pages with both designs. So useful background for many projects.
I had in mind the ability to simulate modernist walls where the top half is stencilled paint motifs (using this stencil) and the bottom section is a tiled wall, which can be replicated by stamping some of the images of ESC53. Both sections of the wall could be divided by a stripe border stamp from that same set to replicate the wood moulding. In my village there are plenty of modernist houses and they often have this 2-section style of walls; I love them. And my first sample is just about that
Modernist Wall
This is a special sample for me, since it is part of the essence of this release: recreating a modernist wall, with stencils and a William Morris / Art Nouveau vibe. Next time I would probably change the position of the sentiment which I really wasn't sure where to place it. I didn't want to cover any part of my wall. Maybe next time, I'll make the wall bigger (larger piece of paper) and place it as if it was a framed picture hanging from it.
Thank You
I'm a fan of grunge paste and with this stencil you don't need too many more elements to get an elaborated and luxurious project. I just added the label from ESC54 and this time I stamped the 'thank you berry much' sentiment. With the ribbon on both sides of the label (or even without it) it looks fantastic.
I used a heavy dose of Lady Bug Mattint in all this release to colour the strawberries. And for the leaves I used Olive Tree Infusions mixed with Satin Glaze, to get a darker colour of green. For the grunge paste background I used Green Man Infusions and some 'Just Walnut' crystals.
Tiny forest
You've already seen this sample, just sharing an extra picture so you can appreciate the background a bit more and the colour gradient shifting from the blue of Green Man to the brown of Just Walnut. I love this colour combination.
And so you can compare both sizes of the pattern, here's a picture with both samples
This layering stencil allows you to build a 3-colour strawberry plant which can either be a background pattern or a main focal point.
First place a layer of leaves (green paint or ink), then a layer of strawberries (in red paint or ink) and finally a layer of flowers and strawberry seeds (in white or yellow paint and/or grunge paste). You can leave it as is or add some details with pens for a more finished look.
Strawberry sentiments
Although you can use this stencil to create a nice background for a card, it looks so nice on its own that it deserves being the focal image of it as well, so I created 3 different cards using it, 2 very similar and the other one much clean and simple. I'll show you how to make the one on the left in the live event at PaperArtsy Facebook group, so you can craft along with me.
Sweet Little Treat
This card is really quick to start, you'll end with the stencil part really quickly. And then it takes more time to give the final touches so the stencilled image gets elevated to something more, adding shadows, highlight and the background will make it pop up a lot and become alive. If you want to learn to do this, join me live on the 15th of December on the PaperArtsy People Facebook group.
Thank You Berry Much
A similar card can be made, just by changing the order of the steps, first layer being the background. You get a more muted project, which can be ideal if you're going for a more vintage look.
Made For You
And if you prefer a more clean and simple look, just leave a white background and pair the sentiment and the frame to a colour already used. I chose red, for a more lively finish, but green would also look charming. In this case instead of ink I went for grunge paste on step 3, to give it some more interest and volume, since in this one I didn't want to use the pens.
PaperArtsy Stencil 493 (PS493) by Scrapcosy
A great stencil to create either 3D patterns with grunge paste sprinkled with infusions or flat backgrounds with ink.
Create the perfect base layer for a simple card with a focal image on top, like mushrooms or flowers to finish. Use the bigger leaves for a more dramatic impact or fussy cut them after being stencilled so they can be added to a bouquet or a cluster.
This stencil would be perfect to create a Forest Album or Travel Journal on that theme. The cover could be the one in the middle and inside you could make pages inspired by the 3 samples you've already seen in this post, displayed around it.
The 3 leaves look great when fussy cut and inked darker, they are a nice focal for a cover or a beautiful decorative element for any other interior page.
The stencil pattern can be repeated all over a larger page, so if you want a larger cover, just replace it and continue stencilling as you need.
I had lots of fun and lots of playtime during the creation of all the samples. I find these stamps are so versatile and offer so many possibilities, that I could spend many crafty sessions with them without running out of ideas.
I hope you found inspiration today and if you get your hands on these products, I would love to see what you do with them, so make sure you tag me on social media, so I don't miss it and I can repost it for others to enjoy as well.
And as always, a HUGE thank you to the PaperArtsy crew for making these stamps and making all this creativity possible!
Craftalong/ Demo in PaperArtsy People
And if you want to join me at the Live event on 15th December evening in the PaperArtsy People Facebook group and craftalong with me, this is the list of supplies you'll need to create this stencil card with me.
I will take you step by step through how to use this new stencil (PS492) to layer up the design for maimim impact.
SUPPLIES
- Stencil PS492
- Infusions for the background: I used Green Man
- Inks, I used Distress Oxide Inks, which are more opaque than dye inks. You could use other pigment inks you have in these colours:
- Green colour, for the leaves - I'll use Distress Rustic Wilderness
- Red colour, for the strawberries - I'll use Distress Fired Brick
- Yellow or cream colour, for the flowers and dots - I'll use Distress Antique Linen
- Distress Vintage Photo ink, to add a vintage touch
- Black ball pen or fineliner
- White gel pen
- A couple of round brushes, one small and one medium
- Sponge dauber or something to apply the inks through the stencil
- Mixed media paper: I'm using Smoothy Heavy Cardstock, by PaperArtsy
- If you want to stamp a sentiment, pick any small stamp. I used one from ESC54
- Water and a jar or a little cup to mix colours
- Craft surface - I'm using the craft mat by PaperArtsy
- Heat tool is optional, if you want to make sure layers dry faster
- Scissors or a paper cutter
- Some masking tape, optional, to make life easier...
Hope you can join me or catch the replay!
See you soon, Raquel.
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