A note from Leandra:
It is such a wonderful thing to bring to life the designs from a new designer, we are super excited to see how Mags grows as a designer, and I am sure she will be sharing lots of ideas from her creative muse with you all over the coming months!
Mags is no stranger to those of you who follow PaperArtsy, she has long been a strong advocate of our products, using them to develop numerous new techniques. I have long relied on her for imagery, ideas and support when launching new products in the vintage and rusty style that she loves so much. She has been a valuable member of the blog team, and we are chuffed to bits that she is taking on this new role as a designer on our talented team!
As I was pressing these stamps for the first tie, I created some behind the scenes videos for Mags of the process, and I hope to share some of that with you tonight as we go live on IG with our SM posts!
Mags will be LIVE over in our Facebook Group, 'PaperArtsy People' shortly after this post publishes, and remember, all our new releases 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.
Our retailers endeavour to join the designer's live to share their direct shopping links in the live chat - this makes it easy for you to find a store with product in stock immediately.
Enough of me, let's hear from the designer herself!
Hello everyone. Mags here with you today. I am a mixed media artist and crafter with a passion for all things vintage and grungy. I love to experiment with unusual combinations and techniques using PaperArtsy products. I have been a PaperArtsy blogger for some time now and was delighted when Leandra invited me to become a product designer.
This first release with PaperArtsy is such an exciting process, bringing new designs to reality. It consists of 8 mini stamps.
The overall theme is travel, combined with visual texture. I love to create vintage themed art which tells a story, either real or imagined. Quite often I use words to help spark the viewers imagination. I designed these stamps to be used for vintage mixed media projects, but also with a wealth of other more contemporary uses, As you will see as I share my samples, they combine beautifully with the new Printed Tissue designed by Leandra and Mark.
Mags Woodcock Mini Red RubberStamps
Price: RRP €4.90 +VAT
Size: generally credit card (ish) size images
All stamps are individually trimmed onto cling foam
Each of these mini stamps offers multiple uses, designed to be versatile and adaptable The overall theme is travel with visual texture as a bonus. I used my vintage typewriter to create some elements, along with my Dymo label maker. Additional mark making and hand cut foam stamps also make up some of the elements. I am excited to see how you will use them in your work.
Eclectica³ Mini 145 by Mags Woodcock {EM145}
Using my vintage typewriter for the text fragment on this stamp created an authentic look, the mark making added a sense of movement. The frayed gauze adds subtle texture and a contrast to the circles.
It's easy to add colour to the circles and the text background, here I used Ladybug Mattint to tone with the colour of the postage stamp on the printed tissue. The circles echo the postal marks.
It's easy to change the look of the text area of the stamp. Here I stamped upside down and then added an additional layered word panel.
Eclectica³ Mini 146 by Mags Woodcock {EM146}
Again, the vintage typewriter came into play. The linear look to this stamp makes it ideal to add to the edges of a page and the gaps allow for the text blocks to also be used separately.
The typewriter text looks fabulous as a side detail on any project, but also as visual texture when stamped upside down at the opposite edge of the substrate.
Stamping in black ties in with the black and white photo and adds to the vintage feel of the project.
The wording adds to the story of the project as well as adding texture and an additional layer over the Printed tissue text.
Eclectica³ Mini 147 by Mags Woodcock {EM147}
The Dymo tape style wording is a bold accent which I love, combined with the subtle texture from the gauze. This stamp is a definite 'two for one' and the images can easily be snipped apart to make 2 stamps.
Eclectica³ Mini 148 by Mags Woodcock {EM148}
Combining mark-making with a bold arrow allows this stamp to add tons of visual texture with the ability to use small elements separately.
Adding shading and pops of colour can add points of interest to linger on.
Repeat stamping and creating a dark area of shading builds the depth of this stamped image. I used a 'Stabilo All' pencil and activated it with a water brush.
Eclectica³ Mini 149 by Mags Woodcock {EM149}
This stamp has so many possible uses, not only as a whole, but as separate labels. You may even spot a Yuletide use in the possible word combinations.
Stamping and heat embossing the word block, and then cutting out individual words gives a bold dynamic storyline. I love the dimples from the solid embossing.
Eclectica³ Mini 150 by Mags Woodcock {EM150}
I wanted a tag element within this mini release, the answer was to make an editable tag. With this one you can choose the length of the tag. The 'fly high' dymo grouping, and tiny flying birds gives 3 ways that this stamp offers different options.
I cut this stamp apart to make it easy to use the individual elements separately. The birds and hole reinforcer circle make great detail when stamped in other areas of the project.
Eclectica³ Mini 151 by Mags Woodcock {EM151}
A pure texture stamp, created from some of my burnt paper which you may have seen me do in the past. Use it as texture, add shading or colour, you choose.
Stamped in black and then white gel pen added to the holes create the look of burnt paper.
This background just goes to show that one stamp can be used in many ways. repeat stamping with Vintage Photo Archival ink, then spritzing with Just Walnut Infusions creates an interesting look, ideal for matting and layering.
Eclectica³ Mini 152 by Mags Woodcock {EM152}
A bold dynamic stamp, created with my hand cut foam stamps, Use as a group of three or individually, so versatile.
Creating a sense of movement is easy with this stamp, it adds a dynamic element to any project.
PaperArtsy Printed Tissue: POSTCARDS (PT13), colour
Price: RRP €5.40 +VAT
Size: 30" x 20" (67 x 47 cm) 4 per pack
Printed with permanent ink, will not bleed when you add wet media.
To increase tissue strength, coat with Matte Glaze on a non stick surface, let dry, then apply a second layer of Matte Glaze to adhere tissue to your preferred surface (card, wood, paper, fabric etc).
The more liquid the glue, the more easily the tissue will disappear.
Colour can be enhanced with Mattints, or translucent products like infusions.
Leandra says ....
Printed Tissue was originally designed so we had an on-brand product to use as packaging material when we ship out orders. It did not take too long for us to realise we needed to make this available for people to purchase!
I was always a huge fan of 7 gypsies tissue when it was available back in the day a cazoodillion years ago, however, theirs was printed onto kraft tissue, the surface was kind of shiny, and the imagery on their tissue was not generally the best quality, usually a series of dots, but even with those features not being so good, I still loved it!
We currently have 12 Printed Tissue papers available, these are all black permanent ink on white tissue which becomes clear if you adhere with a really runny glue.
This release is the first of our coloured tissue papers. You can see the backs of the postcards that Mark and I picked up from flea markets in Paris well over 2 decades ago. We decided to let the vintage patina of each postcard speak for itself, and we had Dounia make sure she proof read all the content to make sure there was nothing inappropriate on there! Of course there were a couple that raised eyebrows, but nothing too x rated! I love the beautiful script styles.
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| Photo credit: Tracy Hickman on the blog here |
In the sample above, this was the starting point for a journal spread by Tracy Hickman on the blog last week. Breaking a page is made simple with the addition of Printed Tissue, and you can push-pull with paints depending on how prominent you prefer the design to be.
This is how her journal spread ended up, with the addition of doilies and Scrapcosy stamps.
And a close up of the corner where you can see the tissue peeking out.
Mags says ....
I have loved working with the new Printed tissue, it's right up my street. I decided to create a set of postcards using the tissue combined with my minis. I wanted them to tell a story, so used vintage found photos. So let your imagination flow and tell the story.
I hope you have enjoyed exploring these new releases with me and want to try some of the techniques I have shared, I would love to see what you create, so please tag me on social media. Have fun and happy crafting.
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