NEW PaperArtsy Products: Alison Bomber {June 2024}

A note from Leandra:

Ohhh do we have some beautiful things to share with you today! 

We all have become great fans of Alison's botanical stamps - the gorgeous mixture of ephemera, nature and words are pulled together across a variety of media: ink, paints and watercolours. In this release she shows you a myriad of ways to use these new designs, from gel printed 'blueprints', to watery loosely stamped images and even a candle holder!

Alison's month as a Fodder School 3 tutor is coming up in August, so keep your eyes peeled for her supply list, which will soon be announced. Of course you may already know her stamp set (EAB-F) and recommended Fresco paints are already available from our stockists around the world.

 

Alison will be along to share with you LIVE her new products and ideas over in our Facebook Group, 'PaperArtsy People' shortly after this post publishes, and ... don't forget ...

 

These stamps are available EXCLUSIVELY from our approved stockists. Please check the list at the foot of this post to find a retailer online or geographically near you, it makes sense to order within your country where possible. Our retailers also endeavour to join the designer's live to share their direct shopping links - this makes it super easy for you to find a store with product in stock immediately.

Hello, all!  Alison here from Words and Pictures, and I'm thrilled to be introducing these three new stamp sets to you.  They are a continuation but also a development of the Botanical Textures series which began in February. Welcome to the Pressed Botanical Textures!  Once again, I've really been thinking about how the stamps could be used both for simple stamping and also for exciting mixed media techniques.

You still get beautiful botanical sketches on these plates - but this time a sketch and a silhouette in each set, which gives you so much flexibility.  There are scrumptious textures to layer up, as well as ephemera for adding detail.  And of course there are words to go with the pictures... fragments of poetry and carefully chosen individual words.  I can't wait to share them with you. 

Alison Bomber Red Rubber Stamps

Price: RRP €23.00 +VAT    

Size:5" x 6" (13 x16.5cm)

All stamps are individually trimmed onto cling foam, with a laminated storage/index sheet

I love the leafy stems in this first set, EAB39 Pressed Foliage.  They are reminiscent of ferns, but also have an echo of the formal decorative foliage you find in old books or in architectural detailing.  The texture is some dry brush strokes which have a great distressed look.  And there's storytelling in the ephemera as well as in those word fragments, as you'll see in the first sample I made with this plate.

Eclectica³ Alison BomberSet 39 (EAB39)

A Summer's Day Out By Train

This prosperous gentleman is the managing director of the Agences Generales de Voyage, and he's busy promoting the wagons lists or sleeping cars on his new trains.  Have you ever thought of travelling overnight from the city and waking up to fresh country air and beautiful forests and fields!?  And you could send a postcard home, with stamp and postmarks included.  Those little pieces of ephemera can tell big stories, you see... 

  

The pressed foliage leaves (layered as both sketch and silhouette) provide an organic spontaneity in the background, contrasting with the geometric squares and circles of the photo and the ephemera labels.  

And those strips of masking tape have other foliage and meadow grasses on them (the strips are left over from creating the quartet of panels you'll see later in the post).  

 

Pressed Foliage Tag Pair

For each set, I've created a pair of simple tags showing you why it was important to me to have both the sketch and the silhouette on each plate.  You've already seen how beautifully they can layer up together... but the silhouette can really hold its own against a background texture. I love how the dry-brushing has a look of woodgrain when repeat-stamped to cover the whole tag.

 

And the detailed sketch is perfect for a simple stamping - so delicate and effective whether you colour it in or not.  Got to love the detail on that postage stamp too, straight off a postcard sent from Prague in 1949 to some relative or other of mine!