Gothic Arches with NEW Lynne Perrella Stamps {by Liesbeth Fidder de Vos}

Hi everyone,

Liesbeth here with you today. 

Have you seen those wonderful new Lynne Perrella stamps release last week by PaperArtsy?

This year on the blog, we have been given free reign to do a deep dive into one of the PaperArtsy product ranges, and for this post I was very happy to be given these three new Lynne Perrella Collection stamps (LPC073, LPC074 and LPC075) and I'm totally in love with them! I'm looking forward to sharing my gothic arch book with you.

The PaperArtsy Lynne Perrella stamps have always been my all time favourites on earth. I love the historical atmosphere, beautiful fine details, wonderful faces and the collage style of these stamps, magical! As soon as I saw this 3 beauties I immediately thought about the past, long ago.. and castles and gothic windows. I decided to create a gothic arch .... something! 

Searching in my stash I found an old book cover, with fabric and a beautifil golden print. I got it from my friend Riitta in Finland. It was perfect for my idea. At this stage I never know what I will use next. I just start and see what happens. Of course my real starting points are the new stamps of the Lynne Perrella Collection LPC073, LPC074, LPC075.

I decided to make a gothic arch book cover and 3 big stamped pages, one for each stamp set. I drew a template and cut out the arch two times (front and back) out of the old book cover, keeping the golden print at the front cover.

Using my template, I cut the three pages out of Heavy Smoothy stamping card. I made them a little bit smaller than the book cover. Using PaperArtsy stencils and Fresco Finish paints I painted the edges of the pages. The stencils I used are PS234 and PS264. Fresco paints: Lawn, Chalk, Persimmon and Summer Sky.

Now I coloured the entire page with Distress inks and a blending tool. I made big overlapping areas with 4 or 5 colours. The one shown here is built up with yellow and greens. The PaperArtsy Fresco paint now works as a resist. I wiped them clean with a dry kitchen paper.

I also inked the other pages, at the right side yellow and red/pink and at the left side yellow and several blues. I finished every page with a bit of dark blue: Chipped Sapphire, to match the blue cover. I stamped the different stamps from LPS074 onto the blue page. I used Tsukineko StazOn-Jet Black for this, because of the bleach I use later on. I masked some important parts like faces and used PaperArtsy Stencil PS105, that wonderful crackle part, and some Distress ink-Chipped Sapphire. 

All those wonderful details on the stamps are perfect to add here and there. Sometimes you have to use the stamp without an acrylic block and bend it a bit. Press it in a bended position in the ink and print. Often the detail you need is at the edge of the stamp, like the trinkets at the womans back. That's easier!

I removed the masks and started the finishing touches. Using watered down (and sometimes pure) bleach and a synthetic brush I bleached faces and some details. After drying I coloured the faces with colour pencils, and made some accents with a white gel pen. With a black fineliner I outlined the pattern of the stencil. To make some shadows I used charcoal, wiping it with my finger to create a soft edge. I sponged the edges of the pages with black ink.

The pages are ready, here you can see the charcoal shadows. The red and green pages are made about the same.

I love how they turned out, this stamps are really perfect for this techniques.

Now I am going to make a book out of it. First I glued the pages on dark blue cardstock and cut them out 2 millimeters from the edge. I decided to add even more shadowing with charcoal, now the stamped images pop out! I painted the insides of the covers with blue watercolour paint and punched holes in the cover and pages. Using PaperArtsy Fresco finish Gold I sponged the cutted edges of the cover, and also a bit at the back side.

For the big pendant with glass cabochon I stamped, cut out and coloured the face from LPC075. It fits perfectly!

Some metal embellishments and a tassel finished the book.

A look at the first page of the book!

The final result. I'm sure I will make other Lynne Perrella pages to fill the book with!

Here are some details of the pages: Oh those stamps!! 💗

And more details.

And... a little bonus... I could't stop playing so I made three quick bookmarks on alcohol inked glossy paper:

This was super fun to do! I hope I inspired you with the wonderful new PaperArtsy Lynne Perrella stamps! So many possibilities....enjoy!

See you next time!

Lots of love,  Liesbeth XX

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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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With 3 Things: Christmas Junk Journal {by Liesbeth Fidder-de Vos}

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

This feature on the PaperArtsy Blog is where 3 bloggers are sent 3 items in the post. We have no clue what PaperArtsy HQ is going to send us, there might be a slight variation (for example on this round we each were sent slightly different paints) but generally 2 of the 3 things will be identical.

This is what I found in the surprise package I got: Stamp set Jofy137, Jofy stencil PS439, two PaperArtsy Fresco acrylic paints Cloud 9 and the shiny Gold. Lovely! With this beautiful stuff  also came a big paperbag and 3 tags. My brain immediately started spinning! ;-)

I just started...had so much fun and  ended up with a little Christmas junk journal with a pocket inside for the tags. ...... let's take a closer look.

The cover of the closed book.

 

The insert of the book: the pocket for the tags at the left and some pages.
      

I loved the big paper bag and I decided to keep it's original form and natural look, and I just folded it in half and the cover of the book was there! First I sponged the entire bag with brown Distress inks (Vintage Photo, Gathered Twigs and Scorched Timber)  to make it look old. I made white trees onto the cover with  PaperArtsy Fresco paint Cloud 9 and the stencil PS439. At the bottoms of the trees a bit of Fresco paint Gold, and also with Gold the 6 squares of the stencil on the front.  Christmas! :-) Perfect shiny gold!

                                       

Now I continued decorating: I stamped the trees (PaperArtsy Jofy137) with waterproof black ink (Tsukineko StazOn-Jet Black). I really love the fact that the shape is not exactly the same as the stencil. Wonderful, quirky effect! 

On a separate piece of paper I stamped the 6 squares, cut them out a bit smaller and sponged them with the 3 brown inks which I mentioned earlier. I bleached the images here and there with watered down bleach, and glued them on the golden squares. A pink colour appeared during bleaching... strange but so nice! It needed some snow and Cloud 9 is perfect for that! So I masked the squares and made small splashes with some watered down Cloud 9 paint and a fan brush.

I closed the top of the bag with some washi tape.The bottom of the bag was perfect to create a pocket, but there was some text and ugly things so I made a cover from a piece of music sheet, also at the right side. I softened the print a bit with Cloud 9 paint and sponged the brown Distress inks for the vintage, old look I wanted and glued the papers on the bag.

All of the stamps from stamp set PaperArtsy Jofy137 are used on the tags! 

First I coloured the tags with the brown Distress inks, stamped the different images and bleached here and there. I finished the tags with some accents made with a white gel pen, and some Fresco paint Gold at the edges, applied with my finger. I stamped the small tag stamp on a separate piece of paper, cut them out, made them 'old' with ink, punched a small hole and stamped the texts.

                                   

The inside was still a bit empty so I stamped it with the trees stamp and brown ink. The binding is easy: I punched two holes, added a piece of golden elastic and inserted some beautiful papers.

In the meantime I stamped the edges of the music sheets with the ,hearts and stars' stamp and black StazOn ink and painted the stars with the Fresco paint Gold. 

On the picture it's so hard to see how shiny the Gold accents are, in real life it's gorgeous!

I think this little Christmas book is nice to give someone as a present, or I'll send it to somebody as a very luxurious Christmas card!  It was great to do, a very nice challenge and it always surprises me so much to see what the other two girls have made of (almost) the same materials! Hope we inspired you to create, have fun! 

Hugs, Liesbeth XX

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