2024 Topic 6 : Scrapcosy - Mash Up Tags {by Autumn Clark}

Hi everyone!  It's Autumn Clark from SewPaperPaint with you today and I am ever so excited to have the chance to play with stamps for the Scrapcosy topic, as you all know how much I adore Raquel and her incredible designs!  I chose to do a Mash Up post to show how beautifully Scrapcosy stamps pair with Gwen Lafleur stamps.  Both designers have a beautiful illustrative style, Raquel with a more true vintage aesthetic and Gwen leaning toward a more bohemian vibe.  Nevertheless, the styles of illustration pair beautifully.  My task was made simple, minus the decision on which two stamp sets to marry...

My favorite part of this process was creating my own ephemera from each stamp.  I just love how these images can be personalized in any color palette, but ultimately I chose to work in an autumnal scheme, because  fall is almost upon us and is most beautiful in the foothills of South Carolina.

I was away from home, so I thought what better time to do a post featuring very few products.  I picked a trio of Distress Ink Pads, one bottle of PaperArtsy Fresco Chalk Acrylic (Heavy Cream) and just two stamp sets, Scrapcosy stamp set 26 (ESC26) and Gwen Lafleur stamp set 19 (EGL19).

I started by getting inky!  I dipped a pair of Bristol panels into Distress Inks in Fired Brick, Rusty Hinge and Vintage Photo, repeating the process until I was happy with the color.  

I don't know about you, but sometimes just diving in with color seems the best way to kickstart my mojo.  Next, I stamped my focal imagery then played around with composition using the actual red rubber stamps as puzzle pieces to determine my layout.  

Then I started coloring my focal images to coordinate with my inky backgrounds and began stamping the backgrounds in various colors.

 

At this point, I was still contemplating our quarterly theme of "Hidden" and decided it would be a lot of fun to let some of these very rich colors and image outlines become hidden or subdued in the background.  

I grabbed a bottle of Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylic in Heavy Cream and brayered lightly over the center of each panel.  I just love how the Distress Inks rose to the surface, as shown in the mushroom definition on the left, and the black permanent ink stamping receded, as shown with the birds.  This instantly gave the tags a more vintage vibe.

I decided this patch of "free space" would be a great spot to add some journaling.  So to carry on with the Hidden Theme, I attached my focal images to smaller inky tags and adhered them with masking tape hinges to the larger tags.  It was a great space to incorporate additional stamping.

I used the Scrapcosy text stamps to highlight each mini tag.  The collage elements remind me of gathering nature's treasures on a stroll through the forest.

I made one tag flip to the left and the other flip to the right.  Do check out the PaperArtsy Instagram page for a reel of these tags in action...

I decided the shadowy birds needed a little oomph, so I fussy cut another colored bird and layered it over to complete the collage I was going for, with the smaller bird facing the "mama bird". 

I am looking forward to adding personal writing on these spaces in the future.

I hope you've enjoyed this Mash Up of Scrapcosy and Gwen Lafleur stamps!  Perhaps you're thinking of the sets you own and how they can be combined.  I would love to see what you come up with!  xx, Autumn

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