Hi everyone, It's Etsuko Noguchi from My favorite things with you today and I am very happy to have the opportunity to play with the stamps and stencils designed by Lin Brown.
Lin Brown's stamps are one of the older PaperArtsy collections now, but Lin was the first PaperArtsy designer I discovered when I first found PaperArtsy. Her love of nature is at the heart of her varied works and makes me happy. That is the main reason why I chose her work for this theme. With these designs today I decided to make a 'Tag Folio'.
For the stamps I used Lin Brown stamp sets 02, 31 (ELB02, ELB31), I chose a carved pattern and a set of leaves and marks, and for my favorite PaperArtsy Stencil by Lin Brown (PS001 and PS006) I chose bubbles and ferns. For the colours, blue was added to green and purple to differentiate the colours on the front and back of the Tag Folio. PaperArtsy Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylic - Bermuda, Slimed, Purple Majesty, Bougainvillea, Shutters and Southern Skies.
At first I tried a single print with leaves.
(A) Place a sheet of printer paper on top of the plate and rub firmly to remove all the paint around the leaves, remove the paper and the leaves.
(B) then A paper on the plate again and rub the paper. The leaf shape and veins are then printed on the white part of the paper.
Figure (C) shows a leaf that was removed and rubbed onto another piece of paper with paint on it.
Various prints were attempted before making the production.
Now it's time to introduce the paints for today's project Tag Folio. For the folio, I decided on the colours green and purple for the front and back and worked on them. And for the theme ‘Nature’ I collected the leaves that are currently in the garden and used them for Gel Printing.
I used PaperArtsy Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylic - Bermuda, Slimed, Purple Majesty, Bougainvillea, Shutters and Southern Skies.
It was decided that these two print papers would be pasted onto the back of the cards cut in the tag shape and used as a background for the folio.
Ranger's Texture Paste Crackle was used by PS006 stencil on the blue card that would form the cover, and when dry and cracked, Southern Skies and Little Black Dress were watered down and applied.
The cover layer was cut from leftover paper using a slide mount die and a small cluster was made in its pocket using an ELB02 stamps and inserted.
For the inner middle folio I used the same Ranger Texture Paste Crackle with Bubble Stencil PS001 and after it had dried I watered down and painted Purple Majesty and Little black dress
This tag has a cute tulip ELB02 slide pocket, which will be explained later.
The embellishments were made using printed paper that was not used for the background.
The tulip ELB02 image was attached to the vellum pocket as shown in the previous picture.
For folio I have created two lidded pockets, a tulip pocket and a memo. The covers of the pockets and memo are made of vellum paper so that the underlying printed pattern can be seen through. The ELB31 pattern stamps on the pocket lid paper with PaperArtsy Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylic - Snowflake, Slimed, Bermuda, Purple Majesty and Southern Skies to match the background colour.
A pocket of pattern paper and vellum paper only it was not enough, so a Scalloped image of ELB31 was embossed on the edges with blue and purple embossing powder using VersaMark.
The pretty floral pattern of ELB02 was then stamped in Snowflake on paper painted with Purple Majesty, bordered with a Signo White pen, cut and added on the lids.
Ephemera were made with Alison Bomber (Alison's tissue) and Scrapcosy's PT005 PaperArtsy Printed Tissue painted and placed in the pockets.
The resulting ephemeras and clusters fit into their own pockets.
The fourth side of the Folio foldover is blue and the ELB31 maple leaf motif is made in the same colour and rhinestones are added to both sides for decoration.
Light coloured paper from gel printing was used for notepaper. The ELB02 butterfly image was stamped on the first paper and allowed to show through the vellum paper.
I dyed the ribbon fabric and cheesecloth using blueberries which is the theme of this project another 'Nature'. A bright dark pink at first, but as it dried it changed to a brownish vintage-style pink.
Finally,the ribbon is stamped with the words THE BEAUTIFUL OF A GARDEN in ELB02 and Scallop in ELB31 using Ranger Archival Ink - Blue Violet.
This was the theme ‘Nature’ and the production process of Topic7 Gel Printing.
I hope you enjoy it?
The theme ‘Nature’ is all around us, Gel Printing is a technique that you may be familiar with as it has been introduced on the internet as single, double and ghost printing. Gel Printing is still a fun technique, such as using different colours, Mattint colours at the last stage, or spraying Infusions dissolved in water, which is a topic for another time!
I hope that you will make use of them too. I look forward to seeing you again!
Thank you so much for visiting here.
Etsuko xxx
What a fabulous post, and a treat to see Lin's stamps and stencils being used! Some of my favourites as well; going way back! Thanks Etsuko.
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