3 Things - Write Your Story {by Liesbeth Fidder-de Vos}

Hi everyone, it's Liesbeth with you today for a 'With 3 Things' challenge post.

This feature on the PaperArtsy Blog is where 3 identical items are sent to 3 members of the PaperArtsy Blogging team.

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 ...

This time three of us received some wonderful PaperArtsy-Seth Apter products: the three mini stamps Seth Apter Mini 017 (was EM49), Seth Apter Mini 065 (was EM137) and Seth Apter Mini 069 (was EM141), Seth's printed tissue paper PT06 and Infusions - The Sage

Products with a beautiful bold, edgy look — I immediately imagined a large art journal spread. All three items would be perfect for that!

Lets take a closer look at what I made ....

Using the three stamps and Tsukineko Versafine Clair - Golden Meadow and Avocado I started my first layer into an A4 journal

Later on I used the stripy stamp (Seth Apter Mini 065) to create some structure. Using a palette knife, I spread some PaperArtsy Fresco Paint - Chalk here and there and pressed the stamp into it. I then stamped the picked-up paint onto another area. I repeated this several times across the entire page

At the end, I also filled some empty spaces with the stamps and Versafine Clair inks

Lets take a closer look at what I did ....

From a sheet of tissue paper, I tore various pieces, motifs, and text, and I cut out all kinds of circles. At this stage, I never know exactly what I will or won’t end up using

My second layer, after stamping, was glueing down small torn pieces of tissue paper. I always love to use PaperArtsy Fresco Finish Matte Glaze for it, works perfect!

For the top layer, I used many of the circles, the text, and even the beautiful “branding marks” from PaperArtsy that are printed in the lower corners of the tissue paper. I painted the back of the pieces that needed to remain clearly visible. That way, they really stand out

Lets take a closer look at what I did ....

Anyone who thinks PaperArtsy  Infusions – The Sage only produces green straight from the pot is in for a pleasant surprise — just look at that explosion of colour…there's brown, green, blue, yellow, rust..greens.. such a joy every single time! I sprinkled some of the powder here and there and then sprayed it with water

The entire spread before adding the circles, text and ,PaperArtsy corners`. Here you see how the paint works as a resist. I love this old, weathered look

To my surprise, unplanned, I created a sky, clouds, and bushes :-)

A big picture of a big journal spread

A detail of the finished piece

Some finishing touches I did: Using a white gel pen I made some accents, like the white of the eyes and the lines on the letters. I also made shadows at one the bottom right sides of the circles and splattered some watered down paint (PaperArtsy Fresco Paint - Gold) with a fan brush

I also used the white gel pen in and around the circles here and there, and smudged it out with my finger

This was so much fun to create, and now I am so curious what the other two girls are going to make with exactly these three same products.

I loved doing this and I hope we will inspire you, have fun!

Liesbeth XX

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Triple Layered Textures with TS {by Keren Baker}

Hello everyone, Keren here with you today for a textural piece using the gorgeous new sets from Tracy Scott. It turned out to be one of those projects where you plan the first step but see where the mood takes you afterwards!

My main idea was using the beautiful PS520 stencil, which I wanted to cut in half and have as a 'gate'way to the rest of the project. I also wanted to use lots of the new images, so needed my outer layer to be as bold as possible so it hid the subsequent layers. Instead of the background I began with my foreground!

As I wanted the 'gate' to be split into two and knew that once I'd used Grunge Paste, it would be hard to cut precisely, I trimmed the acetate in two, then attached the pieces back together with washi tape.

I separated the pieces shortly after stencilling and used my finger to soften the Grunge Paste edges, left to dry and then painted in Mustard Pickle. I also used PaperArtsy Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylic in White Fire over the top to give a metallic lustre.

I knew there'd be a lot of painting. As Tracy's stamp are so detailed and artistic, I used a stamp positioning tool so I could over-stamp and neaten any lines that I'd overpainted.

When it came to the main focus, I used this face image. I didn't want it to be exactly as the image so decided to change it. I meant no disrespect to the original image and inspired origins.

You can see some of the many layers that I put on. It felt like I was trying to do contouring on a face at one point! I won't show all of the layers, but you can see how I was building them.

I had more painting to do, but next decided to create the base layer that the face was going to go upon.

For the background, I wanted to use my brayer. Truth be told, I used to find brayering pretty scary and I have to admit I don't always feel like I know what I'm doing! I'd recommend just having a go, as it's so satisfying adding layers of paints. Start off with a couple of colours and just lightly brayer over your substrate.

Use different directions and add in an extra colour. If it feels too bright, just go back in with a lighter colour (I used Eggshell) which will knock the colour back. Being 'light-handed' with the paint will reap real rewards. You can see below how once I was happy with the background, I traced around the image which would help the face to 'pop' away from the brayering.

For extra texture, I used the circles stamp from TS109 which I brayered paint onto the stamp and then just stamped randomly onto the substrate. I sneaked in the text from the Ink and the Dog Xmas Plate 1.

The layers just needed bringing together and so I needed to get painting again. The large florals really are so stunning.

After trimming them all out, I just needed to arrange them and decide how I was going to attach the layers to the base. I still can't resist transparency, so used acetate.

I added the florals in the correct position onto a plain layer of acetate and lined up the front layer on top.

So I didn't have any elements moving, I secured the layers with washi tape and then punched holes through them. I added some eyelets and tied the layers together.

I loved the stencils, in fact PS518 would make a beautiful 'gate' too. You could make a long tall book using halves of the stencilled images. You can see the acetate wings that I stamped with Stazon, but these would look beautiful with transparent glitter added

I did want to add metallic flakes on top of the Grunge Paste, and will have a go at that next time. 

I hope you love playing with Tracy's stamps- they're so inspiring.

See you again,

Keren x

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