NEW PaperArtsy Products {Fresco Chalk Acrylic Paints} July 2018

NEW PAPERARTSY PRODUCTS
12 new Fresco Chalk Paints
July 2018

Hi all, we are about to embark on another release of new products this week from 3 more designers. That kicks off tomorrow, first, let me share with you a new assortment of Fresco chalk paints.

These new paints were created by Miss PaperArtsy,  Courtney, and all were designed in pairs: light and dark. However, you will quickly see that all the pairs combine to make many more colourways, and each are fabulous!

We have been playing with these colours behind the scenes at PaperArtsy for a while now, as have our designers too, and all reports are excellent! Our stockists are ready to go with them in stock, so checkout the list at the foot of this post for more details!

As you can see below, Courtney and I made a series of simple backgrounds using the 2 shades to give you a sense of how they might look together, but of course, there are many more options when you start to create combinations. And wow are there a lot of potential combinations!

  New Fresco Paints

All our Fresco Paints are a matte effect, fast dry, indoor-outdoor, UV fast, low VOC, environmentally friendly, water based acrylic paint. They can be used on all surfaces: not just paper, card, wood and canvas, but also fabric, glass, leather, metal...and even terracotta!

Frescos do not require an undercoat such as gesso - these are a chalk paint, chalk is what gesso is made from, so you now have over 100 shades of gesso! Don't waste your creative time using gesso with these babies! Just crack on! 

See the blog side bar for  many ideas, but also search 'Fresco chalk acrylics' in the blog search and you will find many posts loaded with techniques and suggestions.

We love that Fresco paints are mostly very high coverage ie. fully opaque (that means only 1 coat required in many instances). Opaque colours are ideal for underneath layers in your journal pages, they are also ideal for contrast stenciling, and they are really nice to use for tinting gels and mediums as the are high coverage means just a few drops is all that is required.

Some of the brighter colours have a lower opacity, and are much more translucent. We love these for adding bright layers to an opaque bases, they are perfect for colouring in, and they are also perfect for colour mixing too.

Fresco Paints
Price: RRP £3.30 +VAT
Volume: 50ml

Seaglass (FF139)
A soft minty blue-green shade, opaque.

Pine Grove (FF143)
Beautful deep blue-green, opaque.

 

Koala (FF141)
a mid tone cool grey, opaque.

Eggshell (FF138)
the perfect neutral shade, opaque.

Twilight (FF147)
the deep blue of a rich tropical night sky, semi-opaque.

Surf's Up (FF146)
classic cool mid blue, opaque.

Mustard Pickle (FF148)

A gorgeous deep, rich yellow, translucent.

Lemon Meringue (FF142)

A soft pale lemon, opaque.

Mulled Wine (FF145)

deep purple toned shade of wine, opaque

Blah-Mange (FF140)

pretty, cool soft pink, but not too girlie! Opaque

Peach Nectar (FF144)

A peachy salmon shade of summer in a bottle, opaque.

Vintage Lace (FF18)

the popular pink toned neutral returns, one of our original frescos, opaque.

Project One: Leandra's Backgrounds - Fresco Combinations

Intro: Where to start, there are oh-so-many possibilities with 12 paints! I've made a bunch of quick card fronts...well to be honest, they haven't even made it to card front status yet, but they just need to be matted and layered.

The basic premise was to brayer, stencil or gel-print a masterboard background using 2-4 colours, then overstamp with Sara Naumann's new stamps released last month. This method is so fast, and always produces great results.

Let me roll through just a few of the possible colour options with these paints...

Pine Grove, Twilight, Sea Glass

Starting on Heavy Smoothy cardstock, brayering a dark base of both Twilight and Pine Grove, then brayering and stamping with Sea Glass and Chalk to soften. This creates a lovely underwater feel, cool and refreshing. The stamped images are from Sara Naumann sets 26, 27, 28 (released June 2018, see here) with background font from the Alison Bomber series.

  
Peach Nectar, Sea Glass, Lemon Meringue

The same method, but it does pay to mention that often when I brayer I use a mini gel plate as my palette. I will apply 3 tiny spots of paint, as small as possible (slightly smaller than those erasers that are mounted on top of a pencil) next to each other in a row with the lightest shade in the centre. Then I will brayer 2 colours the length of the plate, then move the brayer to blend out the 3rd spot, this creates a range of colours on the palette that are good to pick up and stamp with (see the striped image directly below ranging from light blue of Sea Glass through green-yellow where it merges with Lemon Meringue, then soft apricot and finally the much bolder Peach). I might them stamp with the gel plate, or use the paint from the brayer onto the card. (must do a FB live on this!)

All of this background (which also is a section of an A4 sheet) is a mix of gel printing, stamping, brayering. A smooch of Eggshell was rubbed in the spot where the stamping would go to make the quote pop a little. I'm loving the white space whihc are either a natural effect of gel printing, or created by stamping in 'chalk' colour paint, my go-to background softening method. Again, stamps are from Sara's new sets.

 Koala, Surf's Up, Mustard Pickle

The first sample I started with brayered Surf's Up, then stencilled with Sara's New stencil (PS102, see here) in the lovely grey Koala. A bit of stamping with some Seth Apter spots  and Mesh (ESA02) in Surf's Up and Chalk respectively and I had the basic very cool shade background as above.

 

So next I added the Mustard Pickle softly, stencilled in Chalk first through Kay Carley's stencil PS061, and then softly added Mustard Pickle on top, with a few Yellow splats flicked over too.

This sample has a little bit more of the Pickle stamped with the stamp I cannot stop using from Seth's Set  ESA08.

But, when you go full on Mustard Pickle, you get such gorgeous warm tones. As it is a translucent, It allows the blue to be seen through the yellow, suggesting a hint of green. Now if you added Mustard Pickle to any Wet blue paint, then you would create a new colour - sure to be a gorgeous green, but if you layer it onto dry paint, then you predominantly get the lovely rich shade of yellow, the colour we really wanted in a new paint!

Mulled Wine, Peach Nectar, Blah-Mange, Vintage Lace

Ok, so you are getting the idea of how well these paints mix, and I have only been using them in 3's!!! Here's my final play, but my goodness I really, really want to do this with yellows too to add some zing to this colourway!

So my confession is that Peach Nectar I thought would be the colour I use the least, and instead it is the colour I've used the most!! Go figure! Here it is stamped with Jofy62's geometric pattern which is so nice to use in backgrounds as you cover a lot of ground easily! The stencil is another of Sara's new releases (PS101, see here)
  

Project Two: Courtney's Canvases 

If any of you have taken a make and take with me at Ally Pally, or watched me demo, you will know that I mostly prefer paint and texture to stamping. I've always preferred an abstract style of art, so I decided to make a series of canvases with these colours that could be displayed together in a grouping (or the same concept could be applied onto one large canvas too i guess). But it was a nice way to explore the new paints, how they blend and layer, and the depth of tone.

On each canvas I started with positioning bits of ripped paper to establish a sort of structure, plus I also hate starting with a blank canvas, so this is my way of breaking that beginning "ahhh I don't know what to do" phase. I then added grunge paste with a palette knife to create my textured areas.

Seaglass, Pine Grove, Surfs Up, Twilight, Eggshell

I tend to use the textured areas as my focal points and I like to build up these places with layers of colour and to add depth.

Surf Up, Eggshell, Twilight

  

Seaglass, Surf's Up, Twilight, Blah-Mange, Mulled Wine

These paints all blend in together really well and as a lot of them are opaques they are easily buildable, when coming up with the ideas for colours that I felt were missing from the already vast paint collection. A blue that was deep and dark, but that would also be a good accent colour for touching up and highlighting the tips of texture areas. I specifically wanted Twilight to be translucent so that the colours underneath would complement the dark on top.

Blah-Mange, Mulled Wine, Twilight 

Peach Nectar, Surf's Up, Seaglass, Mulled Wine

I decided to stick with just three or four stencils to bring the canvases together, as I know that i would be differentiating each canvas by colour so I really  wanted to keep them connected using another method. I've never actually used stenciling in previous canvases that I have made and I now think that my other canvases are missing something! Always learning new things right?!

Peach Necter, Seaglass, Koala, Vintage Lace

Pinks and yellows are not my fave's to work with, but somehow when I was making the paint colours these appeared in my colour selections so I obviously had to try to work with them... I must admit I really struggled until I added blue to the canvases. Often a striking contrast is so important to make everything come together.

Mustard Pickle, Lemon Meringue, Surfs Up, Blah-Mange, Mulled Wine

It seems that I might have neglected the colours eggshell and koala, but after every canvas was made, prepped with paper and grunge paste, I base-painted over them with eggshell and then painted the textured areas with koala so i knew these areas would be my dark building areas.

I haven't done any painting probably since Version Scrap and it was a lot of fun to be able to have a play around with colours that are so flexible together! Plus I was 'kitten-sitting' this weekend and needed something to pass the time between feeding and cleaning the litter tray!! 

Hope you enjoy these paints! I think you will ... a lot!

Courtney

Leandra says: I know how much you love your Frescos, and we are fully stocked as are our retailers, so all these are available now. See the links below to find a stockist near you or perhaps an online supplier.

Please remember you can now join our new Facebook group PaperArtsy People, many of our stockists and designers are also members, so they are there to handle your questions and provide class information too.

Thanks for joining us tonight
Courtney and Leandra

New 2018 Products are only available from the approved PaperArtsy stockists listed below:

Australia

Art and Soul Studio, Burrum Heads, Queensland www.artandsoulstudio.com.au

Arts and Craft Supply, Frenchs Forest, NSW https://artsandcraftsupply.shop  
Auzz Trinkets and Crafts, Calamvale, Queensland https://atcraft.com.au/
Bella Paperie, Brendale, Queensland, www.bellapaperie.net.au
Crafters Cupboard, Berwick, Victoria www.crafterscupboard.com.au

Scrap Matrix, Port Elliot, South Australia http://scrapmatrix.com/

Time To Create, Modanville, NSW www.timetocreate.com.au

Austria

CP Marketingservices Gmbh, Wilhering, Upper Austria,office@cpmarketing.at

Belgium

Cart N Scrap Art, Antwerp, cartnscrap@gmail.com
Cotrain, Kontich, www.cotrain.be

Expression Hobby, Marcinelle www.expressionhobby.be

Canada

Scrapbook Centrale, Dollard Des Ormeaux, Quebec www.scrapbookcentrale.ca

Treasured Memories, Duncan,BC www.treasuredmemoriesscrapbooking.ca

Simply Scrapbooking, Prince George, BC https://www.facebook.com/simplyscrapbooking/

Czech Republic

Hurapapir, Brno https://www.hurapapir.cz/

Denmark

Hobbyboden Scrapworld Samso www.hobbyboden.dk

Papir Ulven, Lejre www.papirulven.dk
Three Scoops Design, Frederiksberg, www.threescoops.dk

Finland

Piia Takalo, Kittila, www.piiapaper.com/fi

France

Eirl Bancon Cartoscrap, Midi Pyrenees, https://www.cartoscrap.com/blog/
Horizon Creatif, Ste Jalle h.creatif@gmail.com
Katzelkraft, Ingwiller http://www.katzelkraft.fr/en/
Kerglaz, Basse Goulaine, https://www.kerglaz.com/  
Kerudoc Creation, St Yvi www.kerudoccreation.com
Quartier Serre Teston, Ste Jalle, hcreatif@gmail.com
Scrapo'naturel, Tourville La Riviere, www.scraponaturel.fr/livraison 

Toutencolle, Dun sur Avon www.toutencolle.fr

Germany

Paperbasics, Hessen, www.paperbasics.de
Stempelbar, Berlin, www.stempelbar.de
Stempeloase Munich, Munich www.stempeloase.de

Stempelfee Shop, Hilden www.stempelfee-shop.de
Stempellaedle, Stuttgart, www.stempellaedle.de/shop

Greece
Scraps N Pieces, Kallithea www.scrapsnpieces.gr

Italy

Immagine SAS di Rapaccini, Rome, www.immaginelab.com
Il Negozio Della Mamma Di Cle, Torino, clelia27@liberio.it
Marte Savona, Savona, www.martesavona.it

L'artistica Glo, Cinisello B (Mi), www.artisticaglo.it 
Piccole Passioni, Siena, www.piccolepassioni.it

 

Japan

Tiny Dots, Funabashi-shi, Chiba www.facebook.com/TinyDots

Netherlands

Creafine, Papendrecht www.creafine.nl

Creatotaal, Barendrecht, www.creatotaal.nl
De Hobbystudio, Genemuiden, www.dehobbystudio.com
Doe@ding,Spijkenisse https://doeading.nl/
Hobbidee Breda, Noord-Brabant, www.hobbidee-breda.nl
Hobbycompleet de Duif, Leeuwarden www.hobbycompleet.nl

Papillon Hobby, Hendrik Ido Ambacht www.papillon-hobby.nl
Scrap & Co, Klarenbeek www.scrap-co.nl

Scrapbookdepot, Uitgeest, www.scrapbookdepot.nl
Stampingcorner, Capelle Aan Den Ijssel www.stampingcorner.nl

The Stamping Cottage, Schaijk www.thestampingcottage.nl

New Zealand

Art of Craft, Papamoa, Bay of Plenty, www.artofcraft.co.nz

Norway

Hobbygarasjen, Kopervik, www.Hobbygarasjen.no
Hobbykunst, Rasta, www.hobbykunst-norge.no
Scrapbookengros AS, Kleppe www.hobbylageret.no

Spain

Arts & Crafts, Barcelona, pebdesign@hotmail.es
Cien por Cien Manualidades, S.L., Bizkaia, Catalunya,  www.100x100manualidades.es

Endulze & Crista S.L, Navarra, endulze@gmail.com
Ideas 10 Manualidades Y Scrapbook, Bilbao https://ideas10manualidades.com/

Marakiscrap, Tarragona, www.marakiscrap.com
MundoMint, Sabadell, Barcelona, www.mundomint.es
Scrap & Papers Experiences, Barcelona, Info@casonadequintana.com

Scraphouse S.L. Barcelona www.scraphouseshop.es

The Paradise Corner, Barcelona, www.facebook.com/theparadisecorner 

Endulze & Crista S.L., Pamplona, Navarra, www.endulze.com 

South Africa

Kcraft Imports Ltd, Centurion, www.kcraft.co.za
Stencil Art, Gauteng, www.stencil-art.co.za 

Sweden

Butik Elva, Staffanstorp, https://www.butikelva.se/
HC Design, Svedala, www.hcdesign.nu

Taiwan

Mandy's Cards, Taipei www.facebook.com/mandy.card

United Kingdom

A Trip Down Memory Lane, Ipswich, Suffolk, http://www.atripdownmemorylane.co.uk
Aldridge Crafts, Attleborough, Norfolk www.aldridgecrafts.co.uk

Amelia's Creative Crafts, Studley, Warwickshire  www.ameliascreativecrafts.co.uk

Art from the Heart, Harrogate, Yorkshire www.afth.co.uk

Bellacrafts, Eastleigh, hampshire www.bellacrafts.co.uk
Blade Rubber Stamps, London www.bladerubberstamps.co.uk

Clacton Art Craft Model Centre, Clacton on Sea,  Essex, http://www.clactoncrafts.co.uk/
Countryview Crafts, Potton, Bedfordshire www.countryviewcrafts.co.uk

Craft World Scotland, Glasgow www.craftworldonline.co.uk

Craft Your Art Out, Ballynahinch, County Down, craftyourartout@outlook.com
Crafty Snippets, Billingshurst West Sussex www.craftysnippets.co.uk

Crafts & Candlelight, Ipswich, Suffolk www.craftsandcandlelight.co.uk
Crafts @themalthouse, Herstmonceux,  East Sussex, http://www.coldfusionglass.co.uk/

Craftrange, Burnley, Lancs, https://www.craftrange.com/
Imagine, Design, Create, Seaton, Exeter http://imaginedesigncreate.co.uk/shoponline/

Kay Carley http://www.kaycarley.com
Keep on Crafting, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk www.keeponcrafting.co.uk

Kraft Crazy, Amesbury, Wiltshire https://www.facebook.com/KraftCrazy/
Lisa B Designs, Maidstone, Kent, http://www.lisabdesigns.co.uk/
Lets Create, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, http://www.letscreateartandcrafts.co.uk/
Loobie Crafts, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, www.loobicrafts.co.uk

Papermaze, Ipswich, Suffolk www.papermaze.co.uk
Paperstory, Norfolk www.paperstory.bigcartel.com
Poppycraft, Wallingford,  https://poppycraft.co.uk/

Rowan Tree Crafts, Carnforth, Lancashire www.rowantreecrafts.co.uk
Fave Rave, Stourbridge, West Midlands www.shabbychicstencils.co.uk
Scrapbook Magic, Mullion Helston, Cornwall, www.scrapbookmagic.co.uk
Scrapcosy, https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/Scrapcosy
Shed Load of Crafts, Enfield, Middlesex, www.shedloadofcrafts.com
Simply Crafts, Cardiff, www.simplycraft.com
Snazzy's, Swindon, Wiltshire. https://www.facebook.com/snazzystampingandscrapbooking/

Stampers Grove, Edinburgh, Scotland www.stampersgrove.co.uk
Stamps & Memories, Hungerford, Berkshire www.stampsandmemories.co.uk
Swanstitch, Deal, Kent www.facebook.com/swanstitch
That's Crafty, Romford, essex www.thatscrafty.co.uk

The Artistic Stamper Craft Store, Faversham, Kent www.theartisticstamper.com
The Craft Box, Barnsley, South Yorkshire www.thecraftbox.biz
The Craft Den, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire www.thecraftden.co.uk
The Craft Room, Newcastle-Under-Lyme, Staffs https://www.garnersgardencentre.co.uk/crafts/

The Craft Studio, St Austell, Cornwall https://www.facebook.com/thecraftstudio/
The Forget me not Kraft Kabin www.facebook.com/TheForgetMeNotKraftKabin

The Stamp Pad, Saddleworth, stamp-pad.blogspot.com
Whichcraft, Wallasey, Merseyside

USA

Artistic Studio Creations, Fayetteville, Georgia www.facebook.com/ASCbyCrystal

Artistree Workshops, Fulton, New York, www.facebook.com/artistreeworkshops

Clay with Me, Colorado www.facebook.com/Claywithmestudio

Creative Designs by Debbie Castle Rock, Colorado debbie.knight@centurylink.net
Creek Bank Creations, Indiana www.creekbankcreations.com

Ephemera Paducah, Paducah, Kentucky www.ephemerapaducah.com

Everything Scrapbook & Stamps, Lake Worth, Florida www.everythingscrapbook.com
Frantic Stamper, Oregon www.franticstamper.com
Golden Hills PaperCrafts, Fairfax Station, Virginia, https://www.goldenshillpapercrafts.com/

Guadalupe's Fun Rubber Stamps, Roswell, New Mexico www.santafe.com
Joggles, West Warwick, Rhode Island, www.joggles.com 

PaperCraft Clubhouse, Old Lyme, Connecticut, http://papercraftclubhouse.com/
Papere Parachute Art Design Co., Beaverton, Oregon www.paperparachute.com
Sherries's Stuff, Warrenton, Virginia, https://www.facebook.com/sherriesstuff.va/
Simon Says Stamp, Columbus, Ohio www. simonsaysstamp.com

Stamplistic, Cleveland, Ohio www.stamplistic.com

The ink Pad, New York, www.theinkpadnyc.com
The Queen's Ink Savage, Maryland www.queensink.com
Topflight Stamps, Irmo, South Carolina https://topflightstamps.com/

Seth Apter, New York www.sethapter.com

Stamp Fever, Orange, California www.stpstamp.com

Whim so Doodle, Saint Petersburg, Florida, http://whimsodoodle.com/ 

Vintage in KC, Shawnee, Kansas, http://vintageinkc.com/

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