Summer 2016 #3UP {Lynne Perrella}

Hello, Leandra here

And we're back in the room for a second brilliant post today!

It's time to get up close and personal with the dignified and unsurpassed Lynne Perrella Collection. If you love collage stamps, look no further, and yes, we couldn't resist some infusion magic with these!

So kick back, and hop around another 3 blogs to leave your comments for these lovely bloggers who have created truly beautiful projects.

Enjoy, Leandra

First up this evening we have Lynn Price.

Hi, Lynn Price here! I have been dabbling in mixed media for almost two years. I absolutely love experimenting, and I had a blast playing with the new PaperArtsy Infusions!

My experiments brought me many interesting results; for this 3UP, I showcased a variety of substrates using the Infusion powders.

This depicts the first phase of several applications of the Infusions to matte photo paper. The way the color and walnut crystals work together fascinates me!

I stamped this wonderful image from LPC026 onto Yupo paper. I love how it emulates white marble!

To see the full project please visit my blog post HERE.

Places to find Lynn.

Blog: Experiments In Paper

Next up this evening we have Autumn Clark. 

Hello! I’m Autumn Clark from SewPaperPaint. I define my style as grunge meets elegance. I love to distress everything and balance my work with a touch of pretty and neat.

I used LPC 028, this gorgeous set inspired me to create an intricate paper doll, complete with vintage lace train. She is floating in a moody sky of Infusions over her city.

To create my background I alternated mixing Infusions on either side of a canvas, allowing the drips to form and meet.

My favorite part of my experimentation with Infusions was discovering this beautiful water splatter technique. Because Infusions are so highly soluble, and as a dye, non-permanent, the blotted splashes lifts the color right off the canvas.

To see the full project please visit my blog post HERE.

Places to find Autumn.

Blog: Sew Paper Paint

Pinterest: Autumn Clark

Instagram: Sew Paper Paint

Finally this evening we have a project from Ellie Knol.

Hello, I am Ellie Knol!

I like challenges. It makes me have to think outside the box. These Lynne Perrella stamps, now how on earth was I going to use these!? They are so different to any style of stamps I have ever used!

I chose to alter a CD-tin and CD, and to use (black ánd white) heat embossing to show the beauty of the Royal Blood shade of Infusions. This lady looks to be a royal, and it would lend itself to be on a real CD and tin all by itself.

Here you can see the difference between using a brush to mix the colors (top of the background), or leave the misted water to do its work (downward). LOVE all the different colors in the Royal Blood Infusions; from purple to deep blue, and even some greenish teal tints.

I finished the background with more stamping: with a script stamp (postage) and a bubble stamp. I added some color to the bubbles and the woman with a watercolor pencil. I amazed myself in finishing this project so fast, and it was such fun, that I am now really feeling different about this type of stamp. I couldn't have imagined that!!

To see this project in full please visit my blog posts HERE.

Places to find Ellie.

Blog: Paper-Stamps-Color

Facebook: Ellie Knol

Pinterest: Ellie Knol

Wow, what a fantastic evening, two posts for the price of one!

Lynne Perrella stamps have such an elegant quality and these projects have all shown the stunning stamp details . Fantastic experiments and techniques being showcased with the infusions too. Hopefully these projects have given you some great inspiration. 

See you tomorrow for another 3 guests and 3 more projects.

~Darcy

2015 #15 Magical Mediums {by Lynn Price}

 2015 Topic 15: Gels and Mediums

Hi, Lynn Price here! I am so honored PaperArtsy has asked me to play around with various mediums for this post. I am a nursing professor here in Connecticut, and have recently discovered mixed media as a fun way to re-charge by creating something unique using an entirely different part of my brain - working with various mediums satisfies all of that!

Today I am playing with a two-page journal layout . 

For this layout, I played with three mediums: Regular gel medium (matte) (familiar to most of us, but used here also as more of a faux encaustic technique), glass bead gel, and Clear Tar Gel (from Golden) – Liquitex calls it's version of this product string gel.

I started with card stock heavily sponged with Distress Ink in warm colors. I die cut dragonflies, butterflies and bees and applied with these gel medium to gessoed pages with a few dry embossed bits which created a light yellow and orange background from the ink reacting to the medium. After stamping with Paper Artsy Mini 44, I then covered most of the plain (non-embossed) die cuts with extra gel medium, to really blend them into the background.

Mini 44

Next I stamped with the end of a beautiful Lynne Perrella stamp from LPC28  in archival ink to create additional detail and added more gel medium.

LPC28

Then I swiped Golden's Bead Gel with my finger in areas that I thought would pool when I sprayed on the final colors. Because of the gel medium already on the surface, the distress inks on the die cuts no longer react. I love the effects of the beads – so shimmery!

After spraying the two pages with various colors of distress inks, I used the end of a thin paintbrush to write and draw, by dipping into the clear tar gel like a pen. This medium not only dries clear, but is also self-leveling, so small areas originally left open will likely fill in (like the loop in a small “e”, for instance). Here you can see how the clear tar gel indeed dries clear, so that the stamping and colors underneath come straight through - can you see the word “Love” ?

Below is one more close up, showing the beautiful beads after spraying, as well as the phenomenal effect from the Clear Tar Gel on stamping and background color. I have more examples on my blog if you’d like to see more of this finish.

This was such a fun make, that I actually made another one, with clear tar gel which you can see on my blog Experiments in Paper, along with more details of this layout. 

Lynn. 

Welcome Lynn and thankyou for creating such a fun page. You have show just how versatile the gels are, from regular 'sticking' to adding the shimmer and texture of the beads and the dreamy, fluidity of the tar gel. Indeed magical. ~Darcy

We would love you to join in with challenge #15: Gels If you are inspired by any of our guests who blog with us over the fortnight, then please join in and link up your creativity HERE. 

All links go in the draw to win a voucher to spend on products of your choice from the PaperArtsy online store. The Gels link will close 17:00 (London Time) Sunday, Aug 23rd winner will be announced 2 hours later at 19:00.