Sheet size: 30" x 20" (67 x 47cm) Price: RRP €4.00 + VAT
4 sheets per pack
Sometimes new products come about accidentally. We have always used tissue to go in the packages we send out on our retail website, and while hunting for a new supplier in Europe, rather than plain tissue, we decided to explore the option for printed tissue utilising designs from our Hot Picks and Ink & the Dog collections. People have always re-purposed the tissue we ship out, so we figured this would be a packaging upgrade and gift for customers, and a far more obvious product to re-use in multiple crafty ways for customers.
It caused a buzz immediately, emails have been coming in from customers and shops asking how they can buy more! So we figured out packaging, price, and here we are, a new product. Of course now our designers are thinking about how they might do some of their own tissue too...so watch this space! We do hope to offer more options to follow in due course.
As you have already seen peppered in the samples above, Leandra used the tissue over painted Smoothy card. Here is a quick look at the pages where the new Printed Tissue is a dominant feature.
Apart from the stamped image in the centre, the rest of this page uses tissue. You can see the warmth of the painted card come through easily as the tissue disappears once glued. Rather than cutting out images, it is easier to get a wet paint brush, dampen the line and then pull the image out, this gives nice feathered edges that melt into the background too.
Here's a close up. Notice how sharp the script is, we are really pleased with the quality of the product and the nice black print.
Here are the 'blokes' on the left. The vintage car on the right is applied over the texture of the round stone frame (before sanded back). The tissue is quite fine, so when glued it was super-easy to get it to press down into the dips of the Grunge paste and mould perfectly over all the texture of the 'stone' detail - a thicker tissue would not have managed that, so it really melts into position easily.
This is the front and back cover, Leandra decided to use the PaperArtsy HQ logo on there and it happily wrapped around the spine.
Script and checkerboard sections were added throughout.
We have always called this guy Alfred as he reminds us of Alfred Hitchcock. It was easy to paint on the tissue with translucent paints, watercolours etc.
The clock and script surrounding the clock face made a good focal for this guy MN111, the exterior of the cock was tinted softly with taupe paint to make the clock-face more of a focal.
Numbers also are a nice feature on the edges of pages, small sections go a long way.
Even when upside down!
Project: Mini stamp-Stencil Book