Sept 2025 - With 3 Things - Dreams Card {by Liesbeth Fidder-de Vos}

Hi friends, 

It's Liesbeth here with you, welcome to this new round of 'With Three Things´!

Every time, three members of our PaperArtsy Blogging team receive the exact same set of supplies. This time: a stamp set, a stencil and some Fresco Paint. Exiting!

We have no clue what PaperArtsy HQ is going to send, the whole idea of this challenge is to do something crafty in our personal style with these 3 items. We can incorporate other PA products into the mix if we feel it is necessary.

So let's take a look at what I received from PA HQ :

When I opened my package I was very happy to find this beautiful combination: PaperArtsy stamp set ELB34 and stencil PS002, both designed by Lin Brown. The two PaperArtsy Fresco paints are Rusty and Kiwi Gold. So nice! I immediately started thinking of possibilities....

And I came up with this big (A5) card ....let's take a closer look.

To create the card, I started with a piece of PaperArtsy Smoothy Heavyweight cardstock (almost A5: 14,4 x 20,5 cm) I tore a strip of masking paper in two pieces and masked the upper piece of the card with one of them, as shown here. I used the two paints the way they are and for a bit more contrast I also mixed both of them with a few drops of black and white ( PaperArtsy Fresco paints Little Black Dress and Snowflake) so I ended up with 4 colours.

Using small sponges I painted the first strip with the 4 paints. The mix with the black paint became very dark green, so I used that one in moderation. With one of the stamps I built up the background. I used Tsukineko StazOn - Saddle Brown, Mustard and Olive Green.

I removed the masking paper and covered the painted strip with the other half of the masking paper, and another torn masking paper a bit lower...to make the second area. 

I hope the picture below makes sense:

And so on.. Painting and stamping strip by strip, every time another stamp...I used them all!

Sometimes some white remained visible...I like it!

When al the painting and stamping was done I connected everything by using the stencil PS002  and the two Fresco paints Kiwi Gold and Rusty.

Using the white PaperArtsy Fresco paint Snowflake and the stencil, I sponged the large branch.

Onto a separate piece of paper I stamped the text and the hinges with dark brown StazOn ink (Timber brown), cut them out and sponged them a bit with Saddle brown (StazOn).

I glued the card onto an A5 white cardstock (a double A4)

I punched holes in the hinges, added some small brads and glued the hinges and text onto the card. I also outlined the white branch with a black fineliner.

This was so much fun! I love the images and the warm feel of the colour combination! And of course, I can´t wait to see what the others come up with! I will be fun to see how different three projects with the same Three Things can be!

Hope we inspired you with this!

Have a wonderful, creative time!

LiesbethXX

 

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Pop-Up Card with JoFY products Halloween {by Etsuko Noguchi}

Hi everyone, nice to be back with you again

Etsuko My favorite things here with you today.

This year on the blog, we have free rein to do a deep dive into a PaperArtsy product ranges of our choosing. For this post I have been exploring JOFY's products.

Today I'm looking forward to sharing with you what I figured out when working out how to combine her cute Halloween design using 'Pop-Up Card' techniques.

For this project, I decided to use Mattints for the characters, and I added highlights with coloured pencils.

I'm sure you're all looking forward to JOFY's wonderful Christmas stamps and stencils, which are released every year. However, this time I decided to use the Halloween stamp set that I had been interested in for a while, thinking that combining its cute characters, tools, and words with the recently released monster series would create a new kind of fun, so I used it for this project. Since this project focuses on characters,  These stamp set are JOFY stamp set 141 and 83 (JOFY141 and JOFY83). and PaperArtsy Stencil by JoFY (PS461, PS410 and PS309). I used Mattints for colouring. From the left edge of the photo - PaperArtsy Mattints- Ash, River Deep, Greenstone, Bellflower, Glow, Hight Viz and Ladybug. Also I used PaperArtsy Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylic - Turquoise (Seth Apter), Steel Grey (Seth Apter), Little Black Dress. For the papers Smoothy (Heavyweight) A4 white stamping card. And highlighted with coloured pencils. (I'm sorry that the lower part of JOFY83 is not visible. I will upload the entire image in the photo below.)

First, create the main pop-up base, prepare three pieces of paper as shown in the photo. The thick brown craft paper at the bottom is a 16 cm square. The second (white paper) and third (Black) papers  are the same 13 cm squares size, , with 2 cm left on the top, bottom, left and right sides, and cut out a 9 cm square in the centre of the paper.

Next, I will make a pop-up stand to display the doll and other items. First, cut out three pieces as shown on the white paper on the left. I painted mine Little Black Dress, but you can use any colour you like. An enlarged view of the white paper is shown in the figure below.

This is the zoomed photo of the pop-up stand dimensions, the red lines indicate cutting and the dotted lines indicate folding.

After cutting the red line, fold both ends as shown in this photo. I coloured the adhesive parts that in red and blue for clarity.

From here on, my explanation may not be sufficient, so I will provide the URL of the original site. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPIwatzqCyo Pop Up-Tutorial by Duncan Birmingham

Attach the pink part of the pop-up stand to the back of the 13 cm square white frame. (In this photo, there are two pop-up stands, but in reality, all three are glued together.)

Next, the white frame upside down and only glue the blue parts to the craft paper base. When doing so, place the white frame in the centre of the craft paper, leaving a 1.5 cm margin on all sides.

Seen from the side.

Align the base of each ornament with the base of the stand and glue them together. If the base protrudes, it will hit the craft paper and not stand up properly.

Pull the white paper forward and the ornament will rise up. Success!

The main characters of the ornament are three characters, one of whom is Dracula. I used the JM52 boy mini stamp for him and added hair and a cape. I used Mattints - Hight Viz, Ladybug, River Deep, and Ash for colouring and added coloured pencils for highlights.

When creating the latter two characters, I made some changes to their specifications. At this point, the pop-up panel was already complete and the photos had been taken. While editing, I noticed a mistake in the photos and was surprised to find that the two characters had become twins with the same face... Sorry, I'll continue as is.

I lightly painted the pages of the book with a mixture of Seth Apter's new colours, PaperArtsy Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylic - Pumice and Snowflake, to create a worn-out base, and then added two or three items.

I stamped images of JOFY83's large pot, the cross grave marker, and the gravestone behind the girl onto book pages, coloured them with Mattints Ash, Shadow and Glow, attached card stock to the back, and cut them out.

Pumpkins are essential, so I searched for JOFY stamps to see if there was anything good, and I found this JOFY37. What do you think? I think they're great! Apply Tango and Nougat to the Stamp Heavy Card and to create the face by a black gel pen. So I placed them around the large pot.

I doodled ghosts and bats and arranged all the ornaments on three stands each. I tried several times to create a cool layout when they were raised.

I stamped three kind of the stamps Seth Apter mini stamp - EM54 and EM40 and JOFY83 onto 16cm square the craft paper. Also I make two 3 cm wide strips of the craft paper, stamp them with the same stamp, glue them to the front and back of the white frame, and pull the stand.

As shown in the photo, glue the strips to the front and back of the white frame, and attach a slightly larger black piece of paper to the back of the 16 cm square craft card.

Finally, I made a decorative frame to hide the strips. At first, I planned to use a turquoise blue frame and made a few, but when I assembled the whole thing, it didn't quite fit. So, I created a pattern on the Little Black Dress using PaperArtsy Stencil by JoFY (PS410) star stencil in Steel Grey (Seth Apter), and added Turquoise (Seth Apter) to the outside of the frame. The result was very satisfying.

The first two photos show the finished product before and after pulling the strip. Even a pop-up card with just one character is sure to be enjoyed by families with small children, so please give it a try. I had so much fun using JOFY stamps that I decided to make tags using the same characters for Halloween. I hope you enjoy today's project.

I used PaperArtsy Stencil by JoFY - PS329 to gel-printed gradient dots in Turquoise, Purple Wine  (Tracy Scott), Cerise (Tracy Scott), and Lemon Meringue on black paper for the background of the cards and tags. I used JOFY83, JOFY141, Jofy Mini Stamp JM85, JM86, and PS461 stencils for each card and tag layer. I used the same Mattints as for the pop-up card to colours the characters.

Thank you so much for stopping by.

Etsuko xxx

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