Carol Quance {Special 10th Birthday} Project ...

Well just when you thought you'd seen the last of her...just one more thing from Carol tonight. We've commissioned her to do a birthday project with Lin's new set of Eclectica stamps, which fits in really well, as you have probably already noticied, she has been using Lin's stamps most of the week! here she is...

"Well last night was supposed to be my last project until everything changed to celebrate 10 years of PaperArtsy (woo hoo!) so here I am again and I’ve had the fab opportunity to play with Lin’s new stamps".

 

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Just recently I’ve been trying to improve my drawing (dream on!) and I thought it would be good to have a little pot to keep my pens/pencils in.  I saw this wooden pot recently and thought it was perfect.

I painted it with Guacamole on the outside and Tinned Peas on the inside. 

Using Lin’s new plate of stamps ELB04, I dabbed the leaves with a mixture of green shades

and stamped them onto black card. 

I carried on doing this with a variety of images from the plate. 

Note that when I cut them out, I left a dark border.  I just like the way this makes the images stand out.

Lin introduced me to stamping the images with script and it certainly gives them a lift.

To add some dimension to the flowers, I snipped the petals open towards the centre and then rolled them with a wooden skewer.

 I glued a small embellishment to the centre to finish.

Now back to the box. I thought it looked rather plain so stamped one of the mini script stamps, MN62 all over it with Nougat.

For more interest, I lightly swiped the edges with Pansy.

Here are the colours used in the project.

So time to arrange all my flowers on the box. I always take ages with this, moving all the different pieces about until I’m happy with the arrangement.  Each face of the box is slightly different.

with different leaf ....

and flower shapes.

As a final quirky finish, I painted up a wooden stirrer and one of the Tando Creative flourishes. The flourish edges were stamped in black with the same Mini 62 script and I added a swipe of Nougat round the edges.

The words are also from ELB01. 

So this really is my final project for PaperArtsy. In honour of PaperArtsy’s tenth birthday Leandra has given me 2 sets of Lin Brown’s new stamps to give away, so hop over to my blog and leave a comment there for a chance to win.  (http://alcoholinky.blogspot.co.uk/)

Can I also say thanks to everyone for their lovely comments, it’s really meant a lot to me and so has seeing my work being reproduced and inspiring people. If you ever get the chance to be a Guest Designer do not refuse!  Congrats to Mr & Mrs PaperArtsy on 10 years of fab products for us to “go make art” with!

Leandra Says:This is a beautiful idea. Working with Frescos onto black card certainly highlights how opaque the paints are, when you mix opaque and translucent and then print the image you get such beautiful results and variation like you have down the stalk, and on the flower heads. It's a perfect pencil pot!

Gillian Says: Such a beautiful project Carol, love the effect of stamping onto black cardstock with the Fresco Paints.

Here on the PaperArtsy Blog, we are giving away 3 sets of Lin's new stamps. Just leave a comment below, and you may get lucky!

Don't forget that if you want to join Carol in this week's challenge, then please why not have a go re-creating, or twisting-any-idea Carol has presented this week, and link your creativity here. Winners get to choose an A5 stamp set from PaperArtsy of their choice. We love to see our our designers inspire you!