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Sunday, 16 February 2025

February 2025 - With 3 Things: Flower Book {by Liesbeth Fidder de Vos}

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

This feature on the PaperArtsy Blog is where 3 bloggers are sent 3 items in the post. Typically we will receive a stamp, a stencil and a couple of Fresco Paints, and in 2025, everyone will receive identical products.

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 are allowed to bring 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 ...

It was so exiting again to unpack the pacage! The three things are lovely and really perfect together, and ideas popped up immediately. I have made a small flowery book, let's take a closer look.

The booklet has pockets that fit a small tag. This is how I made it:

Using a sponge and an old credit card, I applied the two beautiful colours of PaperArtsy Fresco Finish paint Sunshine and Flamingo onto an A4 PaperArtsy Smoothy stamping card (regular, SCA4) and on a smaller piece of the Smoothy heavy cardstock (SCA4H) for the cover. I didn't apply it too neatly... because that's not me. :-)

I mixed a tiny drop of PaperArtsy Fresco paint Little Black Dress with the pink Flamingo and used a sponge and the JoFy stencil (PS086) to apply it here and there onto both pieces of cardstock. With a small round blending tool I also made dots with both Flamingo and Sunshine.

Using a waterproof ink (I used Tsukineko StazOn jet black) I stamped the two flowers of the PaperArtsy stamp set (JoFy76), spread all over the surface.

Now it becomes a book: I folded the A4 in 8 parts and cut the middle of the centre score line as shown. I fold the book to a ,zine'. Hope this is clear.. The small heavy card will be the cover, I cut it a bit bigger than the book, and scored a 3 millimeters spine. I didn't throw away the left-overs.

I sponged the edges of the pages and the cover with black ink and glued the book into the cover, only at the edges as you can see on the picture..

Time for decorating the booklet! Using waterproof ink, I stamped the several JoFy76 stamps onto regular Smoothy cardstock. Now I have used every stamp of the set, they are so nice! I coloured them with (very) watered down PaperArtsy Fresco paints Sunshine and Flamingo.

I cut the stamped images out, sometimes the entire stamp, but also only parts. I decorated every page with them, trying to create nice compositions for every page or spread.

Out of the left-overs I made a tag, it fits in one of the pockets of the booklet. I finished the piece with white gel pen, black fineliner, some ribbon and three glass beads. And of course a tiny bit of glitter glue because I love glitter!

Ready!

I'd love to show you every page...the lovely cordial text makes a story! This is the front of the booklet.

The first spread: Relax,...

Second spread: recharge,...

Third spread: get set, GO!

And finally the back side of the book, with the tag.

This was so much fun to do and it's always a pleasure to work with these wonderful PaperArtsy products! I'm so curious to see what the other ladies are creating with this 3 things! Hope we inspired you, have fun!

See you soon,

Liesbeth XX

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Thursday, 13 February 2025

February 2025 - With 3 Things: Woven Pouch {by Keren Baker}

Hi friends, it's Keren from (@craftstampink) with you for a 'With 3 Things' challenge post.

So let's take a look at what I received from PA HQ (minus the felt and fabric)...

Today I have made a woven zipper pouch- let's take a closer look.

Here's how it came together..

Gather products that match in colour...giving Refresher vibes (anyone in the UK remember those?!).

Paint large pieces of fabric- the left is putting paint straight on the fabric, the right swipe is using watered down Frescos (roughly 2/3 paint, 1/3 water).

With only 2 colours, mixing them is the perfect way to get perfectly toning extra colours.

You can see my clean up piece of fabric- but the gorgeous stencil was too delicate to get a decent result as the paint was seeping under the stencil- maybe next time I should add spray adhesive on the stencil to stop that.

Whilst I waited for the fabric to dry on the washing line, I got to stamping. JOFY stamps are beautiful and of course stamp perfectly. I do like to over-stamp when using fabric, so a stamp press comes in pretty handy.

Now to prepare some strips for weaving using a rotary cutter- just cut twice as wide as you need the strips to be.

To avoid raw edges, simply make them into bias strips all ready for weaving.

Adding double sided fabric adhesive to the reverse of the stamp images meant it would be easy to iron them on once the pouch was put together.

Ahh the weaving- my brain was not prepared for the struggle or effort! Firstly, prepare your weft- I found a large cardboard box and stuck pins into them.

This is where I nearly gave up. Once you've woven the diamonds (which are at a 30 degree angle to the weft), you then have to create the 'cube' pattern.

The brain strain was worth it- a wonderfully tactile piece of woven cloth.

To secure the weave, just add some stitching around the edges. Now I arranged the flowers-can anyone see a chicken? How I wished I'd seen it when creating it and would have made it look more 'chicken-y'! I stamped on acetate for the black outline flower.

I love the painted fabric- the Fresco Finish Acrylic Paints are just awesome. It was fun creating my own substrate and they're such happy colours to work with. Limited supplies really does encourage creative thinking. What is really exciting is the way that you can create nearly seamless blends on fabric.

We'd love to see your stamped fabric projects!

See you again soon,

Keren

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Monday, 10 February 2025

February 2025 - With 3 Things: Miniature Flowers {by Jenny Marples}

Hi friends, introduction it's Jenny (Pushing The Right Buttons) with you for a 'With 3 Things' challenge post.

So let's take a look at what I received from PA HQ ...

Today I have made an arrangement of miniature flowers... let's take a closer look.

After receiving those mystery supplies my mind immediately went to the idea of making flowers, but the stamps in the JOFY76 stamp set are quite large so I decided to use them with lightly sanded shrink plastic and permanent black ink.

As you'll see below, by adding small amounts of Little Black Dress and Snowflake PaperArtsy Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylic Paint to the Sunshine and Flamingo ones (and by mixing those two together) you can extend your colour palette.

Following advice from a previous post on the PA blog I watered down the paint before applying it to the surface of the shrink plastic.

After cutting out each stamped image and heat shrinking them (deliberately curling them along the way) you can the paint the reverse and edges of each cooled piece with undiluted paint. If needed you can also touch up bits of the front too.

Knowing these flowers will be seen from all angles you can add your own details to the back of the flowers with permanent black and white paint markers. Those noticeable black and white stripes in Jo's original designs can be replicated on the edges of the flowers and also on the paper-covered wire stems. You can protect your painted flowers with clear nail polish.

Now it's time to create the larger flowers with the individual petals and centres. Use a fast bond glue that dries clear throughout the assembly process.

To stick the stems to the base of the flowers I recommend threading beads and a bead cap onto the wire before bending it over at the end. Glue them together and allow to dry.

Below you'll see some suggestions for the ways you can then embellish the stems with extra beads, twisting the wire and by adding miniature painted leaves - I used dies from CoolKatzCraft to cut mine.

To hold the finished flower stems I'd found an old bottle but it needed improvement, which is where the PS086 stencil came in useful. I found it easier to use a permanent black marker to trace the design onto the uneven surface before filling them in with a couple of coats of the Little Black Dress PaperArtsy Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylic Paint.

I suggest adding something like sand into your finished container to help hold the flower stems in place. And you can add extra stems decorated with beads and bits of broken/old jewellery and the smallest flowers to complete your arrangement.