Six Flower Cards with AB {by Liesbeth Fidder-de Vos}

Hello everyone, Liesbeth here with you today for showing you the beauty of two PaperArtsy stamp sets by Alison Bomber. I'd also love to show you some fun ways to use Infusions

This time I chose this two beauties: The Apple Blossom, PaperArtsy EAB46 and the Coneflowers, PaperArtsy EAB49. Although they're not exactly the same style, I think they work together perfectly. Just look at all those beautiful flowers! 

I will also work with three summer colours of PaperArtsy Infusions Dye Stain: Are You Cerise, Slime and Sunset Beach

I decided to make a few pretty cards. After all, who wouldn't enjoy receiving a beautiful card filled with flowers? This is how I made them:

On a piece of smooth watercolor paper, I sprinkled just a little of three Infusions colors along the left side. After spritzing it with water, I let the colors blend together into a vibrant burst of color. While everything was still wet, I inked up the text stamp (EAB46) directly from the background and stamped it onto the right side. So instead of using an ink pad, you're actually using the card itself as your ink source

After letting the card dry well I stamped some fragments of the text and some flowers from Stamp set PaperArtsy EAB49 with Tsukineko StazOn - Jet Black. This ink stays deep black even if you use bleach, which I use a lot

And yesss , here comes the bleach. Infusions work really well with bleach; every color of Infusions bleaches differently, it is always a surprise. I  started to ,paint' the petals with a synthetic brush and watered down bleach. If it doesn't bleach enough, I use pure bleach, but first I give it a bit of time.

At the left side you can see I also stamped with bleach. Put a drop of bleach onto a craft sheet or big acrylic block, spread it out to a very thin layer and use it as an inkpad.... bleachpad ;-)

After the bleach was dry, this card was a bit to white, it needed a bit of colour so I painted the flowers lightly with watered down Infusions.

Being a firm believer in the 'more is more' philosophy, I couldn't stop there! I stamped a few more leaves around the edges in light green ink (Versafine Clair-Avocado) and finished the card with a beautiful sentiment in black.

It's not really a technique, but I just had to show you this. It's one of the other cards I made. When working with Infusions, little surprises often appear on your paper. In this case, a beautiful 'flower' suddenly emerged all by itself. It wasn't planned at all—it just happened naturally. I love moments like that!

A detail of the ,flower' on the finished card, love it!

Before showing you my six cards, I would love to tell something about other finishing touches I did

 

This beautiful Apple blossom stamp from EAB46 is the focal point on one of the cards and it needed to pop out a bit more, so I drew a shadow around it with charcoal pencil and smudged it out with my finger

In my opinion this card needed very strong. bright coloured flowers. I coloured them with a pink Ecoline marker.

Here I coloured the leaves at the right side after drying (stamp-in-Infusions-technique) with only water; the water automatically absorbs and spreads colour from the infusions.

Two pictures to show you the bleaching effects again. The light text in the background are stamped with bleach. It`s important to clean your stamp immediately after stamping with bleach

And...after mixing up both PaperArtsy stamp sets EAB46 and EAB49 and having lots of fun making the Infusions backgrounds I ended up with these six cards

The Summer card is the one I showed you step-by-step above

I extended the stem by drawing with a black fineliner

Springtime and Postcard.

I secretly used an extra stamp here (PaperArtsy EAB21)...because the text matches so perfectly. The small birds nest stamp is stamped with a dark red ink and masked before I stamped the flower

The shadowed apple blossom and the Imagine card with the strange Infusions flower :-)

It was such a joy to create with these wonderful PaperArtsy products once again. I absolutely love the endless possibilities of Infusions, and combined with the beautiful floral stamps designed by Alison Bomber, they made creating this blog post a real pleasure.

I hope I've been able to inspire you and perhaps given you some ideas to try for yourself. Have lots of fun creating, and I'll see you again next time. Thank you so much for stopping by and taking a look!

Liesbeth XX

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3 Things - Soft Floral Bookmarks {by Martha Ponsanesi}

Hi everyone, it's Martha (@CraftingMartha) 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. Typically we will receive a stamp, a stencil and a colour product.

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 ...

These are the three products received: Alison Bomber stamp set 46 (EAB46), PaperArtsy Stencil by Sara Naumann (PS178) and PaperArtsy Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylic - Rose (FF29).
They inspired me to create something with a delicate feel by pairing pink with just one other colour, while also playing with different types of paper, not only white, but also kraft and vellum.

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

I started by stamping the text stamp from the Alison Bomber stamp set 46 (EAB46) several times on both vellum and kraft paper, and then embossing with white embossing powder, with the idea of tearing them to use as decorative elements on part of my bookmarks.

Then I stamped the other decorative elements onto the kraft paper and heat-embossed them using white embossing powder.

and then I cut them out, ready to be used later.

Wanting to keep a soft, delicate look, I chose not to use dark ink for the stamping. Instead, I added PaperArtsy Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylic - Rose (FF29) to cardstock, then stamped and heat-embossed the words from the Alison Bomber stamp set 46 (EAB46), with white embossing powder....

To create my bookmarks, I first made a master-board to cut them from later. So I took some watercolour paper and applied diluted PaperArtsy Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylic - Rose (FF29) with water using a piece of acetate.

Along with the PaperArtsy Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylic - Rose (FF29) , I used a Distress Oxide Ink Pad in Dried Marigold, which I find blends really well with it.

I used the Distress Oxide with PaperArtsy Stencil by Sara Naumann (PS178), but not in the usual way, instead, I used the reverse stenciling technique, So I sprayed water onto the inked stencil and then pressed it onto the watercolour paper.

I added an extra layer of depth to my background by diluting PaperArtsy Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylic - Rose (FF29) , then inked one of the branches from the Alison Bomber stamp set 46 (EAB46) making sure to clean the stamp quickly before the paint dried on it.

Here’s the masterboard I just created...

...from which I cut these three bookmarks.

To make the bookmark more interesting, I stamped one of the sentiments from the Alison Bomber stamp set 46 (EAB46)   several times using Distress Oxide and stencilled a small branch by applying PaperArtsy Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylic - Rose (FF29) with a sponge.

And here are my finished bookmarks.

One thing I like to do is save the wet wipes I use to clean my colours, sometimes, like here, I cut them up and use them as a ribbon for my bookmarks.

Close-up details: vellum and kraft paper, both with torn edges.

I stencilled with PaperArtsy Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylic - Rose (FF29) and a sponge directly onto the bookmark and onto another piece of paper, then cut it out.

A mix of stamped, embossed, and die-cut elements.

Creating with just three products was such a fun challenge, it really reminded me how creative you can get with just a few supplies, and I really love how these turned out.

Have fun.

Martha xxx

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