Summer Party Pennants with ESC {by Jenny Marples}

Hello everyone, Jenny here with you today to share my ideas for creating fabric pennants, perfect for decorating your garden at a Summer party. Fabrics are such forgiving surfaces to work on so it's actually easier than you might think to get great results! 

The new collection of stamps and stencils from Raquel Burillo (Scrapcosy) are just perfect for this purpose, with beautiful floral images, lovely words and clever accent pieces.

Here's a peek at what's coming up...

The stamp sets used all come from the latest release and include ESC56, ESC57 and ESC58, combined with stencils PS528 and PS529. These are all available from your local stockists now.

The pastel palette of colours used for these pennants include PaperArtsy Fresco Finish Acrylic Paints (Cloud 9, Sand, Lemon Meringue, Guacamole, Spring, Cloudy, Mauve and Dolly Mix) which combine so well with Mattints (Acid, Fern, Bellflower and Foxglove).

To get started on these pennants you need to raid your fabric stash, ideally looking for non-patterned pieces in complimentary shades. I chose a neutral, vintage selection, dying some scraps with diluted Just Walnut and Lemoncello Infusions, though you may decide on a different colour scheme to suit your party theme.

Now grab those stencils and get to work, repeating patterns if needed to fill space. The fabric may absorb more paint than you are used to with paper so lift the corner of your stencils to check before you remove them completely.

I find ironing my fabrics before stencilling really helps to achieve that crisp finish. You can also re-iron them once the paint is fully dry. I know, ironing, but it's the fun sort!

Tear apart your stencilled fabrics into smaller pieces and begin to assemble them into rectangular pennants, adding in other scraps as required. A piece of muslin and a damaged lace tablecloth did the trick for me.

Make sure to overlap your pieces and I highly recommend temporarily attaching them together with a fabric glue pen.

A quick running stitch along the edges helps to make those joins secure and you can add extra translucent layers over the top to break up some of the larger areas.

Now it's time to add some colour with those floral images.

 

I felt nervous about stamping directly onto the fabric pennants so decided to make use of PaperArtsy's Blank Printed Tissue (PT10) using grey permanent ink to transfer the images onto one side.

It's a lot simpler to paint in blocks of colour on the reverse of your stamped images - the tissue allows for the colour to show through.

On the right side add a touch of shading with your Mattints.

Try adding a coat of Acid Mattint to the centre of your unpainted glass to make it look like it's been filled with an enticing beverage!

The Acid Mattint with also add that pop of yellow when painted over Cloud 9 paint.

You end up with a much larger range of colours to play with by adding Mattints over your painted images and it's worth experimenting on a scrap of tissue if you are unsure about any of the combinations.

With coloured images at the ready it's time to add them to your fabric pennants.

Use a matte medium like PaperArtsy Fresco Finish Matte Glaze to stick your tissue images to the pennants. Be generous with your application because the fabric will absorb more than paper. And notice how the colour becomes slightly stronger with the glaze applied.

Your tissue images will take longer to become fixed in place so allow for drying time. The upside to this is that you have a small amount of 'wiggle room' to reposition your images needed.

 

The ticket image from set ESC56 is perfect for letting you add some lovely sentiments. I added some extra pieces of lace trim to the pennants and repeat stamped the Greek key motif from set ESC56 on grosgrain ribbon to join them together. You can disguise the joins with little flowers for a seamless look!

And with that these Summer Party Pennants are complete.

Let's give you a closer look at my finished examples;

You can divide your images up to extend across several pennants - I did this with one of the butterflies, some tickets and the mixed flower clusters. 

I'm now thinking this could look good with a warm colour palette, possibly even more vibrant! Which colours would you choose?

Thank you for joining me today.

Jenny

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Brighten your Life with LPC {by Etsuko Noguchi}

It's Etsuko here with you today, and for those of us who love vivid colour combinations, the addition of Frida Kahlo to Lynne Perrella's collection is a delight to play with. Let me show you some ideas I have had with infusions boosting the depth of Mattints, along with tissue paper and stamps to make an arch Shaped booklet. 

The stamp set I've chosen this time is the Frida Kahlo collection -- Lynne Perrella stamp set 76, 77 and 78 (LPC076, LPC077 and LPC078)

Colours selected:

Mattints: Mojito, Greenstone, Dragonfly, Bellflower, The Pink, High Viz and Glow.

Infusions: Golden Sands, Are You Cerise, Orange County, Violet Storms, A Bit Jaded and Green Man.

PaperArtsy fresco Finish Paints: Cerulean, Electric Violet, London Bus, Smoked Paprika, Tangerine Twist, Green Patina.

The first thing that came to mind was Frida's vivid use of colour and her motifs inspired by nature. Thus I began to develop vivid rainbow-coloured combinations. Mattints as one layer are a pale colour, so I added Infusions in the same colour family to give it a little more depth. I painted on the SCA4H Smoothy cardstock.

Afterwards, I cut each colour into long narrow strips arranged them to form a rainbow pattern, affixed Frida's image, masked off the birds around it, stamped using Ranger Archival Watering Can, and layered them.

The other way I torn and collaged PaperArtsy Printed tissue (PT12) coated with Mattints.

The background created using Mattints and Infusions was cut into pieces of any size to form the pieces to be made. This is one of these pieces, the LPC078 image was embossed using VersaFine Clair - Nocturne ink and Ranger Embossing Powder - Black, then coloured over with oil-based coloured pencils. The white patterned sections on the sides were embossed with white powder using the PaperArtsy Stencil by Lynne Perrella (PS481).

This was also created using the same method as above, with image LPC076, and the red thorn tree on the side stenciled using PS480.

I cut out the doodled flowers and stuck them on.

Now, I shall stamp each image of Frida onto the PT10 blank tissue paper using VersaFine Clair - Nocturne, then emboss it with Ranger Embossing Powder - Black.

Once the embossing has cooled, you can colour the reverse side with oil-based coloured pencils. Then apply Snowflake to the entire reverse surface, except for the areas where you wish the background colour to show through. For areas requiring vivid colour, colour the front surface as well.

Afterwards, I used Mod Podge to affix the image to the background. PaperArtsy Fresco Finish - Satin Glaze is also good for this step. The stamped images then melt into the background.

I combined each image with its background, applied a little technique, and completed the layers.

This is now approaching the finishing stage. Yes, I wanted to incorporate Frida's image into the shrine, so I made it into a shrine-shaped booklet. Also I felt a slightly different pattern was needed for the right-hand page and the left, so I used a stamp image on the right and a stencil on the left. Starting from the right-hand page.

I created a shrine frame to divide the image into six colours on the SCA4H. Here, to achieve depth in the colours, I used PaperArtsy Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylic - London Bus, Firebird, Tangerine Twist, Green Patina, Cerulean and Electric Violet.

A single sheet of paper for the frame lacked sufficient thickness, so I added cardboard

underneath, however, the wavy pattern in the cross-section was slightly noticeable.

From here, I proceed to creating the left-hand page. I make the shrine frame with Green Man,

Greenstone and Mojito using PaperArsty Brayer, and cut for the shrine frame.

As the background I made previously was insufficient, I collaged the left-hand page background using a slightly paler colour, following the same method as before.

I used sanding blocks to remove the excess tissue paper.

For the images, I used Ranger Archival in Watering Can and Jet Black on the PS480, PS481 and PS482 stencils.

I stenciled PS480 onto tissue paper background, cut out the LPC076 bird, and affixed it to create the left-hand page.

This is the completed Shrine Booklet as seen from above.

Then allow me to begin by introducing the first page. My beloved LPC077 Frida's image  would make a splendid cover. Three doodle flowers I have been decorated.

As indicated earlier the left page has a muted colour scheme whilst the right page has been finished in vivid tones. On the right page, I have added the LPC077 bird to Frida.

Next is the red page; I added the LPC076 hand to PS481. On the right-hand page, I trimmed the floral section slightly to ensure it fits within the frame.

It fitted perfectly without much fuss, so lovely.

On the right-hand page side, I stenciled a diluted image of a London Bus against a PS480 thorn tree background, while on the left I affixed an LPC077 image.

The final page was decorated in rainbow colours.

Back cover LPC078 profile as a single point.

While working on the design, upon seeing the LPC078 border pattern, I thought it would be lovely to have Milagros at the shrine, so I crafted them from foil. I added a touch of colour to the print and attached them to the shrine frame. I applied a little white gesso onto foil, printed the LPC078 image using VersaFine Clair - Nocturne, and embossed it with Ranger embossing powder - Black.

Ranger Alcohol - Honey Comb, Sunshine Yellow, Haze Hut and Espresso were applied randomly using the Ranger Blending Tool.

Then I cut it using a round punches and decorated the shrine frames.

Lynne Perrella's stamps have been my treasures ever since I first met PaperArtsy. I feel truly honoured to be able to created the project using my beloved Lynne's Frida Kahlo series this time. The Frida Kahlo series is such a delight—cards, panels, journals, ATCs, and I think creating shrines from various materials is also a wonderful idea. Please create wonderful pieces using PaperArtsy products and share them via social media such as ’PaperArtsy People’. Look forward to seeing them. Thank you so much for visiting.

Etsuko xx

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