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 - Write Your Story {by Liesbeth Fidder-de Vos}

Hi everyone, it's Liesbeth 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.

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 ...

This time three of us received some wonderful PaperArtsy-Seth Apter products: the three mini stamps Seth Apter Mini 017 (was EM49), Seth Apter Mini 065 (was EM137) and Seth Apter Mini 069 (was EM141), Seth's printed tissue paper PT06 and Infusions - The Sage

Products with a beautiful bold, edgy look — I immediately imagined a large art journal spread. All three items would be perfect for that!

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

Using the three stamps and Tsukineko Versafine Clair - Golden Meadow and Avocado I started my first layer into an A4 journal

Later on I used the stripy stamp (Seth Apter Mini 065) to create some structure. Using a palette knife, I spread some PaperArtsy Fresco Paint - Chalk here and there and pressed the stamp into it. I then stamped the picked-up paint onto another area. I repeated this several times across the entire page

At the end, I also filled some empty spaces with the stamps and Versafine Clair inks

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

From a sheet of tissue paper, I tore various pieces, motifs, and text, and I cut out all kinds of circles. At this stage, I never know exactly what I will or won’t end up using

My second layer, after stamping, was glueing down small torn pieces of tissue paper. I always love to use PaperArtsy Fresco Finish Matte Glaze for it, works perfect!

For the top layer, I used many of the circles, the text, and even the beautiful “branding marks” from PaperArtsy that are printed in the lower corners of the tissue paper. I painted the back of the pieces that needed to remain clearly visible. That way, they really stand out

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

Anyone who thinks PaperArtsy  Infusions – The Sage only produces green straight from the pot is in for a pleasant surprise — just look at that explosion of colour…there's brown, green, blue, yellow, rust..greens.. such a joy every single time! I sprinkled some of the powder here and there and then sprayed it with water

The entire spread before adding the circles, text and ,PaperArtsy corners`. Here you see how the paint works as a resist. I love this old, weathered look

To my surprise, unplanned, I created a sky, clouds, and bushes :-)

A big picture of a big journal spread

A detail of the finished piece

Some finishing touches I did: Using a white gel pen I made some accents, like the white of the eyes and the lines on the letters. I also made shadows at one the bottom right sides of the circles and splattered some watered down paint (PaperArtsy Fresco Paint - Gold) with a fan brush

I also used the white gel pen in and around the circles here and there, and smudged it out with my finger

This was so much fun to create, and now I am so curious what the other two girls are going to make with exactly these three same products.

I loved doing this and I hope we will inspire you, have fun!

Liesbeth XX

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