2024 Topic 10 : Gilded {by Liesbeth Fidder-de Vos}

Hi everyone!

Liesbeth here with you today. I would love to show you my gilded book/starbook with wonderful women faces, gilded and framed behind glass!

My inspiration and starting point this time was the beautiful Lynne Perrella stamp sets by PaperArtsy: LPC069 and LPC070. Love the fact that the faces of the stamps are in profile, perfect to cut and frame.

I used three different ways of gilding: gold leave flakes, golden paint and rhinestones. And of course I didn't forget our current theme ,Nature'!  Let's start! 

Maybe you already know I never have a (ready from start to end) plan for a project...never..., only some ideas and some starting points. For this gilded star-book I new I needed the two lovely Lynne Perrella stamp sets LPC069 and LPC070, a metallic paint, PaperArtsy Fresco Finish matte glaze and gold leave flakes. I was planning on using the beautiful platinum PaperArtsy Fresco paint White Fire but later on I changed that to Gold.

The surface I used are 6 cardboard microscope slide mailers and glass slides. They are used in the medical world to protect and send medical preparations to the labs. I used 2-place mailers, they are also available with 1 or 4 places. In combination with the glass slides they are so great to create with!

First I made the book, I piled up 6 slide mailers and glued backsides onto front sides.

I coated the entire book with a layer of gesso and after that I started with adding some Nature, our theme! There fore I tore out some small pieces of Alison Bombers PaperArtsy printed tissue paper (PT08). I glued it onto the front, back and left ,pages' of the book using PaperArtsy Fresco Finish Matte Glaze. Works perfect!

I chose 4 beautiful colours of PaperArtsy Fresco Finish paints: Summer Sky, Glass Blue, Inky Pool and a bit of Coral, applied it in spots with sponges, covering every part of the book.

I painted the edges of the frames with the dark Inky Pool to accentuete the depth. With a bit of watered down Coral paint I coloured parts of the Printed Tissue paper, like berries, acorn and so on.

At this point I was sure  the pages needed a bit more...but I didn't know what... So I decided  to first create the glass slides.

 

Time to use the gorgeous images of the Lynne Perrella stamp sets (LPC069 and LPC070)! I stamped the different women on white cardstock with dark blue ink (Tsukineko Versafine Clair-Twilight, and cut them out a bit bigger, outside the lines, to be sure it fits.

   

Using Ranger Distress Inks (Salty Ocean, Chipped Sapphire and Abandoned Coral) and blending tools I coloured the faces, large areas of colour. I think it's about the same colours as the paints I used. With a little bit of watered down bleach and a synthetic brush, I bleached some details of the images here and there to highlight them.

 

One of the glass microscope slides was my template: I cut 12 slide size cards out of the stamped images. I hope this makes sense ... if not...see photo below ;-)

With a bit of tacky glue I glued some shiny gold leave flakes at the edges here and there. I have a little box with multi color flakes...no idea what brand it is. Once the glue is dry, you can make it shiny by gently polishing it with a paper towel. I applied a very small drop of Glossy Accents on every corner of the stamped paper and added the glass, and I glued the whole thing in the niche.... 12 times!

Some more for our current theme Nature: Onto the left pages I stamped some small parts of the stamps like this rose. Again with Tsukineko Versafine Clair - Twilight. I inked them with just a corner of the ink pad. The other stamp is a kind of a swirl...you can see it on other pictures. Above the glass slides, into the thumb grooves I put  golden rhinestones.

I gilded the spine and the edges of the book by sponging some PaperArtsy Fresco Finish-Gold.

The final finishing touch was adding some small parts, like words or this circle below, from the Alison Bomber Printed Tissue (PT08) and...a extra tiny bit of golden paint.

The book is ready! Here I show it as a star-book I think the images of the stamps and the printed tissue are perfect together..although the style is completely different, it works!

One of the pages.

For the front of the book I used some left overs from cutting the stamped images and glued them at the edges. No waste!

The backside of the (almost) closed book. I used a cut out stamped image from one of the PaperArtsy Lynne Perrella stamp sets (LPC069).

An overview of the book among most of the materials I used. 

Another detail picture of one of the pages. Oh how I love this stamp from LPC070!

I had so much fun with this gilding adventure! It is a pity that on the pictures the shininess is not very visible. In real life the book is glossy and shiny and bling bling, believe me!

I hope I inspired you to create some gilded projects yourself! Have lots of fun, see you next time!

Liesbeth XX

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NEW PaperArtsy Products {Kate Crane} November 2024

A note from Leandra ...

Are you ready for a new release from Kate Crane ??? 

As the year end looms ever closer, we love to go small with our product sizes. Smaller stamps, smaller stencils, and that means smaller prices too! Woop woop!

Kate Crane is here to share with you some fabulous backgrounds and layer-building tools; 8 mini stamps and 5 mini stencils. 

We know that this time of year you may well be looking ahead to Christmas, and we think the dinky size of these products might make the perfect stocking fillers for your crafty friends & family, or who knows, you might be making an advent calendar for someone very special. 

If you would like to see this release revealed, and the numerous samples Kate has created, then head on over to our Facebook Community PaperArtsy People at 20:30 Paris time. You can also find the replay pinned to the featured posts at the top of the PaperArtsy People Facebook group.

 

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These stamps are ONLY available EXCLUSIVELY from our approved stockists. Please check the list at the foot of this post to find a retailer online or geographically near you, it makes sense to order within your country where possible. 

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Hi everyone, Kate here.

Let me introduce you to my latest collection of eight mini stamps and five mini stencils. We all love something small and cute right?! There is everything you need to create backgrounds, build texture and layers, and then add some quirky focal points.

This collection includes funky (sometimes silly!) creatures, foliage and floral as well as background textures, and they all work beautifully together.

Kate Crane Mini 009 by Kate Crane   (code: KCM009)

First of all, here is a quirky bird delivering a gift of love. Great for cards, journal pages, and even Valentine's Day! Of course mini stamps doesn't always mean mini art. Here I used repetition to create a large journal page with these quirky birds delivering bundles of love in formation form. The world feels a bit topsy turvy right now, so I think we can all do with a bit more love.

 

Allowing the birds to fly in and off the edge of the page gives a sense of continuity, as well as overlapping and maybe raising one or two with 3-D foam. I added these birdies over a background of brayered Fresco paint (from the Tracy Scott range), and you might spy lots of stamped and stencilled texture added from my previous collections.

 

Kate Crane Mini 010 by Kate Crane   (code: KCM010)

I just love silly chickens. Chickens are comical by nature, the way they move, the noise they make ... just silly! You can use a silly chicken for many different occasions and they are a great addition to cards and tags.

You might just notice that this chicken is layered over the new mini stencil PM003. I printed this background in two colours and then spliced them together. Even the chicken's body has a little extra texture stamping ... from the new mini KCM014

 

But like I said, mini stamps don't always mean mini art so here is a chicken half mandala, because why not?! This is an art journal page so anything goes. Repeating the chickens and adding them around a central circular print using the new mini means that I can easily upsize this to a larger page.

I placed them around a print using the new mini stencil PM036. Circles always work!

Kate Crane Mini 011 by Kate Crane   (code: KCM011)

 And here we have a wise old owl looking a little serious. Again you might notice a little texture stamping in gold over his body.

I placed him over a print using the new mini PM032, and also layered over a 'branch' using the new very useful foliage mini stamp KCM013. Trim a couple of leaves off and it easily coverts to a branch - a great place for a wise old owl to perch.

Again I wanted to upsize to a larger page but instead of using repetition I placed the owl over a central print using KCM036 Anything circular is a great place to add your image, it frames it so nicely.

This next card has a background of 'bits'. It's a great stash buster! We've all got a large collection of useful bits haven't we?! I know it's not just me.

Here I used up lots of bits from backgrounds made using stencils and Infusions. Cut into narrow strips, overlapped and stitched make a great colourful background for a wise old owl.

Kate Crane Mini 012 by Kate Crane   (code: KCM012)

Who doesn't love an Echinacea flower? I love them because sometimes they do look a bit droopy and even a little scruffy! I doubled up the flower head here to give it a little dimension.

 

And if you look closely at the background you might just be able to spot the new mini 'rainbow' stencil PM035.

In this large journal page again I used repetition to create a circular shape with the flower and I was very pleased to discover that the lower droopy leaves created a fabulous central shape. I'd like to say I designed it like that but ... ! I think this would work on an even bigger scale, adding more flowers and taking the circle outwards. Another  flower could be place in-between each flower. Maybe I'll try that sometime. 

And finally, sometimes the Echinacea can be added as an additional image to a page in more of a secondary background role. Here I placed it in the corner of my journal page where it plays second fiddle to the chicken and it just balances things out.  So many uses for a flower!

Kate Crane Mini 013 by Kate Crane   (code: KCM013)

Foliage and leaves are one of  my 'go to' doodles. My daily bullet journal is full of them in various forms and colours, casually doodled while I ponder my day!  A sprig of foliage is a fabulous filler stamp, especially when repeated.

Here you can see a close up of the owl perching on the foliage so it appears as a branch, This would make a great place for the silly chicken to sit too.

And here you can see how I have repeated the foliage stamp, and placed it from the top and the bottom around the central focal point. It really helps to fill out the page and balance things out.

Kate Crane Mini 014 by Kate Crane   (code: KCM014)

Texture stamps! You just can't have enough. They are so very very useful. 

Once I completed my Echinacea mandala journal page the centre felt a little empty, so texture stamp to the rescue. I used Fresco Gold as stamps can take acrylic paint as long as you wipe it straight away. It's a great way to fill a space without feeling a little overwhelming. And if you look closely at the backgrounds of all of my latest projects you will see this popping up everywhere.

And sometimes I stamp it in ink over main focal images too; it just fills those little empty areas nicely.

Kate Crane Mini 015 by Kate Crane   (code: KCM015)

And another very useful texture stamp. This one has more vertical lines and again I often stamp it in ink as well as Gold Fresco as it's such a useful filler stamp, and a wonderful top layer.

Kate Crane Mini 016 by Kate Crane   (code: KCM016)

One of my 'go to' techniques when building layers and texture on a background is to use tone-on-tone ie: blue on blue, pink on pink etc. You can really build depth and multiple layers this way without things getting  too crowded. And just when you think you have done enough stamping you can add a little black to really make the colours pop.

 

This background stamp has quite bold marks and is perfect for adding top layers. Here I added it to a print using mini stencil PM036. You can see here that its great for scribbling round too.

PaperArtsy Stencils {Mini Size}

Price: RRP €4.90 + VAT

Mini Size: 3.5" x 3.75" (9cm x 9.5cm) 

Robust 250 micron mylar designed to offer longevity, deep texture and easy clean up

You can never ever have enough stencils! And when they are small and cute like this they are irresistible! Again, small doesn't mean only good for mini art projects, these little cuties can be repeated over and over to build a page as big as you like. Perfect to use with Infusions. I like to water my Infusions down and build up pattern, or alcohol ink on the Gel Plate for a more distressed look. Once you get messy with your favourite technique you may as well build a few backgrounds and then you'll always have a good selection to choose from for you next project.

PaperArtsy Mini Stencil by Kate Crane (PM032)

Did I already say that I like circles?! Circles just always seem to work as there are no hard edges to clash with anything.

I experimented with gel plate printing and Infusions to create these prints.

And you can see here how I have used it as a calm and lovely place for my owl to perch.

PaperArtsy Mini Stencil by Kate Crane (PM033)

This mini is an amalgamation of my most common doodles. Always flowers of course. But the scallops and crosses and circles, yup! They feature commonly too!

And again this is lovely for adding a few scribbles.

When used as a background, the flower can be placed to one side to subtly balance a main focal image on the other. Because of course you don't always have to have a focal image in the middle.

PaperArtsy Mini Stencil by Kate Crane (PM034)

Ooh circles again! This time a little hand-drawn doodled mandala.

I created a series of prints aiming for a mixture of lights and darks, so that I always have a good selection to choose from. Sometimes you need a calm quiet background, but you can't beat the drama of a print like this with added black!

These prints were made with Infusions, and because they are circular ... yes, you guessed it, they make a great place to add a focal image.

PaperArtsy Mini Stencil by Kate Crane (PM035)

It doesn't matter how old you are, spotting a rainbow is always exciting. Such a wonderful, colourful natural phenomenon. And here is my take on a rainbow in stencil form.

Above and below were created with Infusions. If you water down your Infusions to create prints like these, you can easily control the amount and density of the colour by adding more or less water.

And for a more gently distressed look, I used alcohol ink on the gel plate. And although this is not technically a circle shape, it creates an arch which is still a brilliant place to add a focal image. It just frames it so well.

And at first you may not notice, but in fact this Echinacea is placed in the centre of a rainbow arch. Do you see it?

PaperArtsy Mini Stencil by Kate Crane (PM036)

A spiral is a form of circle, right?! You see? Circles always work!

A spiral is a fantastic place to add an image to the centre, it works as a natural 'frame'  and the spiral shape draws the eyes to the centre.

These samples are made with watered down Infusions. You can get such great vibrant colour.

And again, for a slightly more subdued distressed look, alcohol ink on the gel plate.

Once a print has been trimmed down it can be used as a central focal point on a larger project, here as the centre of a journal page. The spiral draws your eye to the centre, where the owl comfortably sits.

Remember these designs all complement each other and work really well together, so you really can get creative. The stamps and stencils might be mini but your projects can be as big and mighty as you like. I do hope you enjoy my latest collection, and I can't wait to see what you make. 

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