Hello everyone, Liesbeth here with you today.
As soon as I saw this lovely stamp set, I knew I wanted to make some cards this time. The small squares are little paintings in themselves, and they look so beautiful in the grid, without adding much extras. Sleek and clean, perfect!
I used two of the wonderful PaperArtsy Eclectica stamps by Gwen Lafleur: EGL24 and EGL16 .(A great font in a perfect size..and more!) For my techniques I searched for a series of bright colours and I ended up with PaperArtsy Fresco acrylic paints London Bus, Banana, Slimed, Caribbean Sea, Glass Blue, Berry Nice and Lily the Pink. As a surface I chose the PaperArtsy Smooth card, heavyweight. I love the thickness of it, for my tiny squares
Using the thick smooth cardstock and the paints, I made several backgrounds in different ways. I just played, it was so much fun and later on I decided how exactly I was going to use them
It creates a wonderful effect when you use a natural sponge for dabbing the paint
I did this sponge technique with all seven chosen colours paints and created a very colourful marble-like background
I also created some background papers using Leandra's amazing brayer technique. See HERE everything about how she does it
And another one: with a small round applicator I ,turned' three colours of Fresco paint onto the surface
The final one was just painting a kind of rainbow, small stripes applied with a paintbrush
I stamped some of them, and a white paper, with the squares and ticket from stamp set EGL24 wth black waterproof ink. I used Tsukineko StazOn-Jet Black.. At this stage I still don't know exactly how I'm going to use them, but it really inspires me already!
To create a bit more interest I heat-embossed some of the small squares with golden embossing powder. I used the three bigger square stamps for it. (EGL24)
After that I cut out every little square :-)
Time to create some cards. As you can see I used the grid stamp just the way it is...I think it's nice to let the tiny square ,paintings' be the focal point and let them shine. So I just glued them onto the stamped grid
I finished this card with layers of white, purple and brayered cardstock. I stamped the beautiful circle from EGL16 onto the brayered paper with yellow ink (Versafine Clair)
Another card: Here I use the painted purple/pink circle background, again with some gold embossed squares. This time I stamped the grid stamp onto one of my brayered backgrounds instead of white
This applies to every card: I sponge all the sides of the small squares with black ink, so that no white is visible anymore at the cutting edges
Here I used the rainbow-painted cardsstock, the small grid stamp and the three bigger squares from PaperArtsy EGL24. I stamped the grid three times onto a white card
The size of the letters from stamp set EGL16 is really perfect for the squares of the 3-compartment grid stamp! I stamped the word ART with three matching colours of Versafine Clair and decorated the cut out squares with a golden gel pen
This card was a bit to clean so I decided to decorate the letters and the grid with the golden gel pen.
These were the techniques I used for all of the cards, I'd love to show you the finished cards and some extra ideas here down below
25 tiny miniature paintings!
And again! I also love the fact that the small squares are not completely equal and straight. A very natural look
I love the effect of the rainbow striped card, how the colours blend
A detail of the rainbow card
Some small tags, a mix of the backgrounds and the techniques I did. For the ,Hug-tag' I used black ink and a white gel pen.
Who knows more nice three-letter words?? :-) Someones name will be nice too....Tom, Liz...
For this card I just mixed up the rainbow strips and added three times the nice ticket stamp. I cut it a bit smaller to let it fit perfectly. The letter background of this card is made with one of my brayered backgrounds. I stamped it randomly with some of the letters from EGL16 and yellow and red ink
A closer look
The Art Card
Some other details to show you how nice and detailed this beautiful stamps are
PaperArtsy EGL16 and EGL24 are great to create all kinds of backgrounds of course, but for this cards I tried to show them just the way they are.
I loved to create this blogpost and I hope I inspired you, have fun!
Have a wonderful day,
LiesbethXX
