A note from Leandra ...
We have a small and perfectly formed release from Lynne of 2 stamps, and they are absolute delightful! As you will discover, love is in the air .... Hummmm that tune to yourself as you find out the inspiration behind these designs ....
Design Notes
HEART Collection by Lynne Perrella
For me, romance never goes out of style. I’m a proponent of that song lyric by The Pretenders: “When love walks in the room – Everybody stand up!”.
When I designed this NEW collection for PaperArtsy, I had tender-hearted lyrics swirling in my head; and naturally I thought of love letters tied with ribbons, lovely bouquets of flowers, and heart motifs on absolutely everything.
Illustrations with a contemporary style were perfect for this theme, and the characters trade fond glances and romantic secrets.
Hearts: They’re not just for Valentine’s Day! I love to include lavish patterns into my designs and there is nothing quite like some romantic squiggles with a dip pen. The loops of mythic hand writing are a perfect mate for the decorative scrolls and flourishes in these detailed drawings……..and a Queen of Hearts is fully costumed in a regal gown, ruffled collar, and crown. Her sceptre is festooned with cascading ribbons, and is decorated with (what else?) love notes. (and she has a King of Hearts too – an artsy fellow wrapped in his cozy sitting room attire, perhaps ready to pen some billet doux?)
Bouquets are lovely, regardless of season – and this cunning floral tribute is wrapped in intriguing paper, ready to present with “love”.
I pulled out some of my own family photos for these tabletop tableaus, and here is my beautiful Mom dressed for a party. She loved flowers – receiving them, and growing them.
Toy theaters are an enduring fascination with me – and they evoke romantic melodramas, winter nights-at-home, and layers of drapery details and tassels. A romantic face takes center stage, ready to narrate the tale.
Try stamping the image, cut away the face portion, and use the highly-decorative stage as a border, or gift tag, or book plate. Or, audition different papers inside the opening of the proscenium. It’s endless.
Utter simplicity! – a sentimental face, a handful of blooms, a scrap of hand-writing, and a heart. This contemporary design has an old-fashioned vibe, and could be used in dozens of ways. She’d be a perfect beginning for a charming paper art doll, or stamped on a book mark, or imprinted repeatedly to form a “garden” of female beauty.
Designing this HEART collection was a timely reminder to me:
“What the world needs now is love, sweet love.”
When a new collection is complete, I like to “audition” the images and surround them with fun artifacts from the drawers in my studio.
This was extra fun when I added old, well-loved photos of my family……including a special wedding photo from 1910 and other soft-hearted images.
Love rules!
Lynne Perrella
If you would like to see this release revealed, and the LOVE-ly samples Leandra & Dounia have created, then head on over to our Facebook Community 'PaperArtsy People' at 20:30 Paris time where Leandra will be live. You can also find the replay pinned to the featured posts at the top of the PaperArtsy People Facebook group.
And, don't forget...
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Red Rubber Stamps (A5 set)
Price: RRP €23.00 +VAT Size:5" x 6" (13 x16.5cm)
All stamps are individually trimmed onto cling foam, with a laminated storage/index sheet.
Lynne Perrella Collection 071 (code: LPC071)
Heartfelt
These samples are a lot bigger than you might think. I really enjoyed playing around with arranging the layers, and I didn;t want to hide the details, so the samples kind of grew!
These valentines are smitten with each other!
I just love the flowers ... blooming marvellous hair indeed! I went back to watch Kate Crane's tutorial with infusions colouring (Kate Crane - colouring with infusions) and taking stencil prints from infusions too (Kate Crane - Stencil printing with infusions), over in PaperArtsy People in the Kate Crane Guide. That is how I built up the colours in these samples with Magenta, Sleight Blue and Golden Sands infusions.
The stamping in the background is from Seth's most recent minis, ncie to add some extra texture!.
Abstract Number Heart
The numbers stencils is one of Tracy's and wow, the background turned out so cool.
I really enjoy adding colour to faces, especially unexpected colours, I did audition her on a different background. It can be a lot of fun playing around with the layers!
Lynne Perrella Collection 072 (code: LPC072)
Love Tendrils
This is quite a wide sample, and I love the frame stamped with the edge of another image to create a fun, abstracted design.And I just love how the stencil print turned out ...not quite sure how i managed to not get a frame, instead a beautiful blobby area! Perfect.
There are always some extr stamps you can use for embellishments, and this heart is super nice.
The Background stencil is the 'kisses' by Nicci Battilana, very appropriate! I love those hearts on her cheeks, but as I was focussed on adding colour elsewhere, I left the cheeks B&W
Love Notes
Someone is being treated to a bunch of flowers!
Hooray!
Another one that was auditioned on various backgrounds, before I comitted to the number stencil above! But she also looked cute laid on the black strip from the sample above!
And she looks pretty happy!
Dounia also made some samples with these designs, so it is nice for you to see another crafter's ideas!
Queen of Hearts
I doubt very much you would remember 'Queenie' from the Blackadder TV series in the late 1980's .... well this surely is a doppleganger for her , I think its the hair...
The Queen of Hearts has to have a red backdrop, and I love how the heart stamped in white on that layer looks
And again, all thedetails within the stamp are cut out and layered up by Dounia, which accentuates the design.
The Prof
There are 2 large stamps, the Queen of Hearts and her man, who looks like a professor of love to me with his heart embellished clothes and his glasses ....
This little love rosette is off the hat of one of the other designs in LPC072, and makes a wonderful additional embellishment
Plentyto colour in here within his magnificent costume.
Shake it up
In this sample dounial added to the dress by turning the bouquet of flowrs into a skirt
Here's a better look at the detail ...
Yup, she's still the happiest stamp in the set ...
Thanks for joining us today, don't forget to head on over to PaperArtsy People to see all the samples up close!
Leandra & Dounia
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1 comment:
You took me by surprise with a new release! gorgeous images, and samples.
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