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Friday, 17 April 2026

Cards and Tags with EGL {by Liesbeth Fidder-de Vos}

Hello everyone, Liesbeth here with you today.

As soon as I saw this lovely stamp set, I knew I wanted to make some cards this time. The small squares are little paintings in themselves, and they look so beautiful in the grid, without adding much extras. Sleek and clean, perfect!

I used two of the wonderful PaperArtsy Eclectica stamps by Gwen Lafleur: EGL24 and EGL16 .(A great font in a perfect size..and more!) For my techniques I searched for a series of bright colours and I ended up with PaperArtsy Fresco acrylic paints London Bus, Banana, Slimed, Caribbean Sea, Glass Blue, Berry Nice and Lily the Pink. As a surface I chose the PaperArtsy Smooth card, heavyweight. I love the thickness of it, for my tiny squares

Using the thick smooth cardstock and the paints, I made several backgrounds in different ways. I just played, it was so much fun and later on I decided how exactly I was going to use them

It creates a wonderful effect when you use a natural sponge for dabbing the paint

I did this sponge technique with all seven chosen colours paints and created a very colourful marble-like background

I also created some background papers using Leandra's amazing brayer technique. See HERE everything about how she does it

And another one: with a small round applicator I ,turned' three colours of Fresco paint onto the surface

The final one was just painting a kind of rainbow, small stripes applied with a paintbrush

I stamped some of them, and a white paper, with the squares and ticket from stamp set EGL24 wth black waterproof ink. I used Tsukineko StazOn-Jet Black.. At this stage I still don't know exactly how I'm going to use them, but it really inspires me already!

To create a bit more interest I heat-embossed some of the small squares with golden embossing powder. I used the three bigger square stamps for it. (EGL24)

After that I cut out every little square :-)

Time to create some cards. As you can see I used the grid stamp just the way it is...I think it's nice to let the tiny square ,paintings' be the focal point and let them shine. So I just glued them onto the stamped grid

I finished this card with layers of white, purple and brayered cardstock. I stamped the beautiful circle from EGL16 onto the brayered paper with yellow ink (Versafine Clair)

Another card: Here I use the painted purple/pink circle background, again with some gold embossed squares. This time I stamped the grid stamp onto one of my brayered backgrounds instead of white

This applies to every card: I sponge all the sides of the small squares with black ink, so that no white is visible anymore at the cutting edges

Here I used the rainbow-painted cardsstock, the small grid stamp and the three bigger squares from PaperArtsy EGL24. I stamped the grid three times onto a white card

The size of the letters from stamp set EGL16 is really perfect for the squares of the 3-compartment grid stamp! I stamped the word ART with three matching colours of Versafine Clair and decorated the cut out squares with a golden gel pen

This card was a bit to clean so I decided to decorate the letters and the grid with the golden gel pen.

These were the techniques I used for all of the cards, I'd love to show you the finished cards and some extra ideas here down below

25 tiny miniature paintings!

And again! I also love the fact that the small squares are not completely equal and straight. A very natural look

I love the effect of the rainbow striped card, how the colours blend

A detail of the rainbow card

Some small tags, a mix of the backgrounds and the techniques I did. For the ,Hug-tag' I used black ink and a white gel pen.

Who knows more nice three-letter words?? :-) Someones name will be nice too....Tom, Liz...

For this card I just mixed up the rainbow strips and added three times the nice ticket stamp. I cut it a bit smaller to let it fit perfectly. The letter background of this card is made with one of my brayered backgrounds. I stamped it randomly with some of the letters from EGL16 and yellow and red ink

A closer look

The Art Card

Some other details to show you how nice and detailed this beautiful stamps are

PaperArtsy EGL16 and EGL24 are great to create all kinds of backgrounds of course, but for this cards I tried to show them just the way they are.

I loved to create this blogpost and I hope I inspired you, have fun!

Have a wonderful day,

LiesbethXX

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Wednesday, 15 April 2026

ATC's in Series with Seth Apter stamps {by Floss Nicholls}

Hello everyone, Floss here with you today...

Would you believe, of all the years that I have been creating mixed media...or art in general even, that I have never made a batch of ATC's?! Today I changed that and made some in a series using Seth Apter rubber stamps.

The first thing I did was mark out my paper and added washi tape to give me a grid which left me with a clean white 3mm border all round the ATC card. I used a standard playing card size. I then used a palette knife to add PaperArtsy Seaglass acrylic to areas of the grid.

Closely followed by gesso onto some areas over and clear of the Seagrass and let that dry before sprinkling infusions onto newly wetted areas...

I worked it with a large watercolour brush to spread the colour...and leave puddles.

I used one of the stamps from the Seth Apter set ESA49 to stamp text to cover more than one ATC card so that only parts of the stamp were visible on a few of the cards.

I did the same kind of positioning with the circles stamp from the Seth Apter set ESA50, but instead of using ink, I painted the stamp with PaperArtsy's Blood Orange Acrylic to bring some contrast colour in.

And again using the feather leaf shape stamp using ESA49 and Pine Grove Fresco Finish Acrylic.

The long thin shape worked beautifully across two cards as well as the length of one card...it really did not matter that it went over the taped borders as I would be peeling them off at the end.

I used opaque vanilla WOW embossing powder for extra details. I used parts of the rubber stamp cross as well as whole crosses from the Seth Apter set ESA49 on the cards. I heat set the powder making sure all the powder had melted.

I felt like some of the embossed words needed something more...

and so I decided to use my palette knife to smear PaperArtsy Fresco Finish Squid Ink Acrylic over them...

I thought this made the words 'pop' a little more.

Once all the embossing and stamping was completed I was able to remove the washi tape...some of which I would keep for another project as it had some great textures on it!

I really liked how using the tape separated and spaced the design elements leaving a crisp edge which is very unlike me. I usually favour ripped or overspill edges!

Rather than using a guillotine or paper strimmer I decided to rip the borders against a metal rule. I tested which way to rip first so that I had the 'cleaner rip edge' I found that pulling the card image part worked best for my preferred outcome.

After I had separated the cards, I rounded the corners, edged finished them and finally added some of the 'squiggly lines' from stamp set ESA49 and embossed them using Opaque vanilla Wow embossing powder.