Pop-Up Card with JoFY products Halloween {by Etsuko Noguchi}

Hi everyone, nice to be back with you again

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This year on the blog, we have free rein to do a deep dive into a PaperArtsy product ranges of our choosing. For this post I have been exploring JOFY's products.

Today I'm looking forward to sharing with you what I figured out when working out how to combine her cute Halloween design using 'Pop-Up Card' techniques.

For this project, I decided to use Mattints for the characters, and I added highlights with coloured pencils.

I'm sure you're all looking forward to JOFY's wonderful Christmas stamps and stencils, which are released every year. However, this time I decided to use the Halloween stamp set that I had been interested in for a while, thinking that combining its cute characters, tools, and words with the recently released monster series would create a new kind of fun, so I used it for this project. Since this project focuses on characters,  These stamp set are JOFY stamp set 141 and 83 (JOFY141 and JOFY83). and PaperArtsy Stencil by JoFY (PS461, PS410 and PS309). I used Mattints for colouring. From the left edge of the photo - PaperArtsy Mattints- Ash, River Deep, Greenstone, Bellflower, Glow, Hight Viz and Ladybug. Also I used PaperArtsy Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylic - Turquoise (Seth Apter), Steel Grey (Seth Apter), Little Black Dress. For the papers Smoothy (Heavyweight) A4 white stamping card. And highlighted with coloured pencils. (I'm sorry that the lower part of JOFY83 is not visible. I will upload the entire image in the photo below.)

First, create the main pop-up base, prepare three pieces of paper as shown in the photo. The thick brown craft paper at the bottom is a 16 cm square. The second (white paper) and third (Black) papers  are the same 13 cm squares size, , with 2 cm left on the top, bottom, left and right sides, and cut out a 9 cm square in the centre of the paper.

Next, I will make a pop-up stand to display the doll and other items. First, cut out three pieces as shown on the white paper on the left. I painted mine Little Black Dress, but you can use any colour you like. An enlarged view of the white paper is shown in the figure below.

This is the zoomed photo of the pop-up stand dimensions, the red lines indicate cutting and the dotted lines indicate folding.

After cutting the red line, fold both ends as shown in this photo. I coloured the adhesive parts that in red and blue for clarity.

From here on, my explanation may not be sufficient, so I will provide the URL of the original site. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPIwatzqCyo Pop Up-Tutorial by Duncan Birmingham

Attach the pink part of the pop-up stand to the back of the 13 cm square white frame. (In this photo, there are two pop-up stands, but in reality, all three are glued together.)

Next, the white frame upside down and only glue the blue parts to the craft paper base. When doing so, place the white frame in the centre of the craft paper, leaving a 1.5 cm margin on all sides.

Seen from the side.

Align the base of each ornament with the base of the stand and glue them together. If the base protrudes, it will hit the craft paper and not stand up properly.

Pull the white paper forward and the ornament will rise up. Success!

The main characters of the ornament are three characters, one of whom is Dracula. I used the JM52 boy mini stamp for him and added hair and a cape. I used Mattints - Hight Viz, Ladybug, River Deep, and Ash for colouring and added coloured pencils for highlights.

When creating the latter two characters, I made some changes to their specifications. At this point, the pop-up panel was already complete and the photos had been taken. While editing, I noticed a mistake in the photos and was surprised to find that the two characters had become twins with the same face... Sorry, I'll continue as is.

I lightly painted the pages of the book with a mixture of Seth Apter's new colours, PaperArtsy Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylic - Pumice and Snowflake, to create a worn-out base, and then added two or three items.

I stamped images of JOFY83's large pot, the cross grave marker, and the gravestone behind the girl onto book pages, coloured them with Mattints Ash, Shadow and Glow, attached card stock to the back, and cut them out.

Pumpkins are essential, so I searched for JOFY stamps to see if there was anything good, and I found this JOFY37. What do you think? I think they're great! Apply Tango and Nougat to the Stamp Heavy Card and to create the face by a black gel pen. So I placed them around the large pot.

I doodled ghosts and bats and arranged all the ornaments on three stands each. I tried several times to create a cool layout when they were raised.

I stamped three kind of the stamps Seth Apter mini stamp - EM54 and EM40 and JOFY83 onto 16cm square the craft paper. Also I make two 3 cm wide strips of the craft paper, stamp them with the same stamp, glue them to the front and back of the white frame, and pull the stand.

As shown in the photo, glue the strips to the front and back of the white frame, and attach a slightly larger black piece of paper to the back of the 16 cm square craft card.

Finally, I made a decorative frame to hide the strips. At first, I planned to use a turquoise blue frame and made a few, but when I assembled the whole thing, it didn't quite fit. So, I created a pattern on the Little Black Dress using PaperArtsy Stencil by JoFY (PS410) star stencil in Steel Grey (Seth Apter), and added Turquoise (Seth Apter) to the outside of the frame. The result was very satisfying.

The first two photos show the finished product before and after pulling the strip. Even a pop-up card with just one character is sure to be enjoyed by families with small children, so please give it a try. I had so much fun using JOFY stamps that I decided to make tags using the same characters for Halloween. I hope you enjoy today's project.

I used PaperArtsy Stencil by JoFY - PS329 to gel-printed gradient dots in Turquoise, Purple Wine  (Tracy Scott), Cerise (Tracy Scott), and Lemon Meringue on black paper for the background of the cards and tags. I used JOFY83, JOFY141, Jofy Mini Stamp JM85, JM86, and PS461 stencils for each card and tag layer. I used the same Mattints as for the pop-up card to colours the characters.

Thank you so much for stopping by.

Etsuko xxx

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2019 #13 Mushrooms: Field Mushrooms by Plath and JoFY {by Alison Bomber}

2019 Topic 13: Mushrooms

So many tips in this post from Alison as she builds up her painterly layers of her mushroom journal spread. Must find my sea sponger, that texture she created is fab! ~Leandra

Hi everyone, it's Alison here from Words and Pictures with you today.  After sharing one of my most complex creations with you last time I was here, this time I've got something altogether simpler and gentler!

When I signed up for this topic months ago, I was envisioning this page being very autumnal - the perfect fungi season - full of burnt oranges and rusty browns.  But when it came to making it in August, I found I didn't want to head into autumn yet, so instead we're in a summer meadow, happening on one of those magical fairy rings of white or pale mushrooms amidst the dewy grass.  And the other main inspiration was a Sylvia Plath poem.

I had a really lovely time sponging Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylic paints onto my book pages for the background using a natural sponge - they really do give a better texture than the artificial sort.

This was really the point I realised I wasn't ready for autumn.  Having used some Antarctic for the sky with Double Denim creeping in around the edges, I found myself rejecting the planned Brown Shed and Autumn Fire and reaching instead for Granny Smith and Hey Pesto to come up from the bottom of the page.

My mushrooms are drawn from three different JoFY sets, JoFY10, JoFY11 and JoFY37, only one of which is definitely meant to be fungal rather than floral, I think!

 
They're stamped in Watering Can Archival with some Olive tapped on at the bottom for the grasses.  The soft grey keeps us in that delicate field mushroom palette, nothing too bold.

Then I used Chalk and Eggshell for the first layer of mushroom colour.  They're both opaque so there's no problem covering up the background colours, but it does mean you lose some of the internal detailing of the images, plus I wasn't particularly on form with staying perfectly inside the lines.  Don't worry, we'll deal with all that later.

Adding Taupe to my neutrals and mixing up different shades with it and the Chalk and Eggshell, I had a lovely time creating three slightly different "species" of mushroom.  There's one with a gentle ombre to its cap (using a water brush really helps with allowing the Frescos to work wet in wet for a soft blended look)...

One of the species has tiny little spots and flecks (pure Taupe and pure Snowflake)...

And the "real" JoFY mushrooms are the sort where the surface of the cap starts to break up as the mushroom grows, leaving textured flecks across the top or sides.

The grass from around the foot of the JoFY37 mushrooms is repeat-stamped in Olive Archival to fill up the gaps...

... and amongst the blades of grass I added droplets of Glossy Accents to create my dewdrops.  They catch the light beautifully as you move the book around.

You'll see in the close-ups that I polished up the edges of the stamped images as well as adding back in some of the cross-hatching texture.  For this I used my dipping pen and some Colorex ink in Turtle Dove Grey.

I also used the Turtle Dove Grey to create some doodled borders, along with some white pen lines, and added some splatter with the same warm grey tone.

And last, but certainly not least, here are those words by Sylvia Plath.  They're the first lines from a poem called Mushrooms.  (They're stamped in Pumice Stone Distress Oxide so as to be very pale and discreet!)

If you know it, you'll know there's all sorts of subtext involved, and the mushrooms aren't only representing mushrooms in the poem... but here, that's exactly what they are!

Sometimes it's nice to leave complexity outside the craftroom door, ignore the dark underbelly of meaning and stick to something simple and light, and that's what I had a lovely time doing with these pages.

It's good to remember that even if you end up going over the lines when painting an image you can always retrieve that detail with a bit of pen and ink work.  Even in the simplest of page spreads, it can be those little things which make all the difference.

I hope you enjoyed coming for a morning walk and finding this simple fairy ring of mushrooms with me.  I'd love to see what sort of mushrooms you're finding on your craft table.  Thanks so much for stopping by.

Alison x

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