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Wednesday, 28 October 2026

Fall Vibes Cards with Mags Woodcock {by Autumn Clark}

Hello everyone! It's Autumn Clark from SewPaperPaint with you today to share a group of fall cards with cozy, autumnal vibes, featuring the gorgeous new stamps and stencils by Mags Woodcock.

This year, I gave my fall color palette an update with the addition of an earthy purple, along with my standard rusty go to colors. I added PaperArtsy Fresco Chalk Acrylics in Amethyst, to my standard Terracotta, Brown Shed and Heavy Cream. I love to layer Infusions over my paints, so I picked Golden Sands to liven the colors. I was inspired by a recent PaperArtsy FB Live, where Leandra was showing her infamous brayering technique HERE.

I used my brayer to apply the paints as lightly as possible to my 12x12" kraft cardstock, beginning with Amethyst. I scraped the paint with a credit card between colors to smooth out any thick applications. Next, I applied Brown Shed, then Terracotta, and then Heavy Cream. After all of my colors were down, I reapplied more color as needed. Working quickly and using the credit card helped the colors to blend slightly, which I really enjoyed. I dipped the panel into watered down Infusions in Golden Sands.

I repeated the whole process on a sheet of torn book pages I had glue sticked together. I ended up tearing it into smaller panels and sponged a combination of the three colors through Mag's new leaf stencil PS536.

This gave me smaller bits to use to strategically stamp some of the gorgeous leaves onto the more restful areas within the painty layers. I used Distress Inks to watercolor the images, stamped in Archival ink.

It was easy to get carried away here because no fussy cutting was required since the stamped images popped beautifully from the busy backgrounds.

Here I mixed a combination of stamping in Archival Ink with stenciling using PS538 and a baby wipe dipped in Amethyst Fresco Chalk Acrylics.

On another panel I dipped into my leftover inks from watercoloring the leaves. This made the stenciled leaves a bit softer so the stamped leaf from EMW008.

After all of my focal images were stamped and cut or torn, I had a pile of leftover bits of painty papers, so I glued them all to cover a panel.

Then I adhered a large teabag over the panel with matte medium.

This both unified the bits and gave a great texture to the piece.

At this point, things were coming together! I layered the elements adding stamping and stenciling where needed, such as using the circles in PS537 to create a halo effect for the stamped leaves from EMW009.

I love how the Heavy Cream Fresco created the much needed contrast! Below, I used a credit card to scrap more of it onto my background panel.

I created interest by making tabs and pockets, here with EMW007.

Again with EMW007, tucking in torn crocheted lace beneath the stamping. You can see how my book papers began to separate when I dipped them into my Infusions mixture. I accentuated this by peeling them apart more and curling the edges.

On this one I repeat stamped the gorgeous scripty image from EMW007 on the left, overlapping again and again for a fun effect. I stamped the ticket onto a scrap, stained with Infusions and tucked in some sisal fibers.

The stenciled leaves really popped on some of the panels!

I was so smitten by the tea bag collage that I decided to use it for the cover of a notebook. I didn't add a focal image to the notebook and let the collage texture speak for itself.

A simple stamped background onto the kraft cover using EMW008 was just enough contrast.

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Monday, 26 October 2026

Miracle Nature designs with Alison Bomber {by Miranda Degenaars}

Hello everyone

Miranda here with you today and I'll be sharing my fun play with the new wonderful release of mini stamps and stencils from Alison Bomber. And also four new colors of the PaperArtsy Fresco Chalk Acrylic paints. I used the FF239, FF240,FF241 and FF242.

I had a hard time choosing which products I was going to use( not my strong suit) I chose most of the new mini stamps to play with except for the pine trees.

At first I had no idea where I was going to but I knew that I was going to start with some large pieces of watercolor paper to create a fluid background. And then I would see what to do next.

I diluted the paint with plenty of water creating a very fluid mixture like watercolor paints. I used all 4 of the new colors.

I love the effect of the flow of paints on my 300 grs watercolor paper. I made one piece of paper using the colors Leaf, Dusk and Misty of the paints.

And one adding the Twig color. Love the structured effect this gave. I am not so much a lover of brown but sometimes you need to do a step out of your comfort zone

Then I felt the need to create small square cards....9,5x9,5 cm. I used a self made template to see which pieces of the background I liked most...

And I cut 12 squares of both backgrounds

So the fun could start having 12 square pieces to play with

I used an old reversed stencilling technique with a stencil from Alison's previous release. This is the PS523. A great stencil for abstract techniques too.

I applied the paint (Twig color) onto the stencil. It is still a diluted paint.

Then put the stencil with the paint onto the background and press with a kitchen towel

This is the result. I love playing in different ways with stencils. Positive, negative, just spraying with water to subtract color and all kind of other mediums.

It works also great using crayons as I used here. Mist the stencil and apply the crayon on top. These stripes create a lovely kind of tree trunks don't you think?

Well, I played along and finished with this part of the pile also using the new mini stencils here.

Then off to some stamping using these delightful mini stamps. Here I started using the AMB012. A perfect stamp to go with a watercolor effect. I choose matching colors of distress inks and Neocolor II crayons. Of course you can stamp using the Fresco paints too but I am a bit of a lazy crafter and did not want to clean immediately my stamps.

Just spritz your stamp with a bit of water. The amount of water is important for which effect you want. If you use too much water the image will be blurry. Too less water mostly will create a part of the image. The background trees are a bit lighter and the trees in the foreground more dark.

Then it needs some interest onto the foreground. That cute little sprig ABM010 was perfect. I misted it and applied a layer of crayons to it. The first print is the darkest and then some repeat stamping so the image became lighter.

Now I needed to do some accents.....so I took a white pencil and marker. And I thought the sentiment set 'Nature' AB021 would be a perfect match for all these cards. Love all the quote stamp sets from Alison.

And most time I have to finish with some shimmer spattering because I am a Magpie. I finished coloring the edges with the crayon.

Here is a close-up

I can't show you every photo of all twelve small square cards because then it would take too much time and space (and a coffee break). But I will show you some shots of different color use, adding of embossing powders and how I finished all twelve cards with matching envelopes.

Then I thought it would be a great gift to put them in a matching box. So my 'tiny' cards project became a bit more extensive.

Partway through I felt the need for more color, more Autumn vibes.

On this card I have used the 3 mini stamps ABM012, ABM009 and ABM010. Also I have used the mini stencil PM041

And here I've added the AB058 (Meadow grass) for some larger branches with leaves and embossed them using gold.

And these lovely berries are from the mini stencil PM037.Here some reversed stenciling, some plain stenciling and using some embossing powders too on the sprigs.

Almost forgot these toadstools.....I am always intrigued by these creatures of the woods. In so many colors and shapes. I also used the mini stencil PM041.

A variation in blues using the ABM014 stamp and mini stencil PM039. I felt it needed some white embossing on top. To get a crisp look of embossing powders over an inky background make sure your background is dry and I like to use an anti static bag to go over the top before stamping and embossing.

And as you can see I was again generous using some sparkle paints. Love my sparkles....