Gothic Arches with NEW Lynne Perrella Stamps {by Liesbeth Fidder de Vos}

Hi everyone,

Liesbeth here with you today. 

Have you seen those wonderful new Lynne Perrella stamps release last week by PaperArtsy?

This year on the blog, we have been given free reign to do a deep dive into one of the PaperArtsy product ranges, and for this post I was very happy to be given these three new Lynne Perrella Collection stamps (LPC073, LPC074 and LPC075) and I'm totally in love with them! I'm looking forward to sharing my gothic arch book with you.

The PaperArtsy Lynne Perrella stamps have always been my all time favourites on earth. I love the historical atmosphere, beautiful fine details, wonderful faces and the collage style of these stamps, magical! As soon as I saw this 3 beauties I immediately thought about the past, long ago.. and castles and gothic windows. I decided to create a gothic arch .... something! 

Searching in my stash I found an old book cover, with fabric and a beautifil golden print. I got it from my friend Riitta in Finland. It was perfect for my idea. At this stage I never know what I will use next. I just start and see what happens. Of course my real starting points are the new stamps of the Lynne Perrella Collection LPC073, LPC074, LPC075.

I decided to make a gothic arch book cover and 3 big stamped pages, one for each stamp set. I drew a template and cut out the arch two times (front and back) out of the old book cover, keeping the golden print at the front cover.

Using my template, I cut the three pages out of Heavy Smoothy stamping card. I made them a little bit smaller than the book cover. Using PaperArtsy stencils and Fresco Finish paints I painted the edges of the pages. The stencils I used are PS234 and PS264. Fresco paints: Lawn, Chalk, Persimmon and Summer Sky.

Now I coloured the entire page with Distress inks and a blending tool. I made big overlapping areas with 4 or 5 colours. The one shown here is built up with yellow and greens. The PaperArtsy Fresco paint now works as a resist. I wiped them clean with a dry kitchen paper.

I also inked the other pages, at the right side yellow and red/pink and at the left side yellow and several blues. I finished every page with a bit of dark blue: Chipped Sapphire, to match the blue cover. I stamped the different stamps from LPS074 onto the blue page. I used Tsukineko StazOn-Jet Black for this, because of the bleach I use later on. I masked some important parts like faces and used PaperArtsy Stencil PS105, that wonderful crackle part, and some Distress ink-Chipped Sapphire. 

All those wonderful details on the stamps are perfect to add here and there. Sometimes you have to use the stamp without an acrylic block and bend it a bit. Press it in a bended position in the ink and print. Often the detail you need is at the edge of the stamp, like the trinkets at the womans back. That's easier!

I removed the masks and started the finishing touches. Using watered down (and sometimes pure) bleach and a synthetic brush I bleached faces and some details. After drying I coloured the faces with colour pencils, and made some accents with a white gel pen. With a black fineliner I outlined the pattern of the stencil. To make some shadows I used charcoal, wiping it with my finger to create a soft edge. I sponged the edges of the pages with black ink.

The pages are ready, here you can see the charcoal shadows. The red and green pages are made about the same.

I love how they turned out, this stamps are really perfect for this techniques.

Now I am going to make a book out of it. First I glued the pages on dark blue cardstock and cut them out 2 millimeters from the edge. I decided to add even more shadowing with charcoal, now the stamped images pop out! I painted the insides of the covers with blue watercolour paint and punched holes in the cover and pages. Using PaperArtsy Fresco finish Gold I sponged the cutted edges of the cover, and also a bit at the back side.

For the big pendant with glass cabochon I stamped, cut out and coloured the face from LPC075. It fits perfectly!

Some metal embellishments and a tassel finished the book.

A look at the first page of the book!

The final result. I'm sure I will make other Lynne Perrella pages to fill the book with!

Here are some details of the pages: Oh those stamps!! 💗

And more details.

And... a little bonus... I could't stop playing so I made three quick bookmarks on alcohol inked glossy paper:

This was super fun to do! I hope I inspired you with the wonderful new PaperArtsy Lynne Perrella stamps! So many possibilities....enjoy!

See you next time!

Lots of love,  Liesbeth XX

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