A note from Leandra:
A wonderful summer collection of Raquel's hand-drawn, vintage style stamps are ready for you to enjoy. Raquel has created these to mix and match really easily, so you might have a hard time choosing a favourite! There is plenty here suitable for all kinds of celebrations that you might enjoy with friends and family, from cocktails to invitations and more! And Raquel is getting married to her long-term partner this summer, so we are wishing you both all the best for a wonderful day and many more years ahead!
Raquel will be along to share with you LIVE her new products and ideas over in our Facebook Group, 'PaperArtsy People' shortly after this post publishes at 20:30 Paris time. Our retailers endeavour to join the designer's live to share their online shopping links - this makes it super easy for you to find a store with product in stock immediately.
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Hi everyone. Raquel here with you for another stamp & stencil release. I am absolutely thrilled to finally share this collection with you, and it might just be my most personal release yet. This entire collection was inspired by a single, joyful word: Celebrate.
As someone who completely adores vintage imagery, I wanted to design a versatile tool kit packed with detailed, hand-drawn botanicals, whimsical butterflies of all sizes, and elegant textures. I fell so deeply in love with the concept of the curved floral frames in the botanical cocktail glasses set that I actually used them to design my very own wedding invitations for later this summer! Every stamp and stencil has been crafted to layer effortlessly and work interchangeably, and I have had the absolute best time bringing these elements together in the samples and projects I'll share with you today.
I hope you like this new release and that these projects I made will spark your imagination and inspire you to dive into your stash today, to create beautiful art, handmade cards, and heartfelt gifts for the people you love. Let’s get crafting!
Let's start with the stamps .......
Red Rubber Stamps (A5 set)
Price: RRP €23.00 +VAT
Size:5" x 6" (13 x16.5cm)
All stamps are individually trimmed onto cling foam, with a laminated storage/index sheet.
Scrapcosy Set 56 (ESC56)
If you know me, you know I love a butterfly! For this collection, I really wanted a big, dramatic butterfly that would be absolutely perfect for fussy-cutting and adding as a gorgeous decorative touch when wrapping up a special present. But then I thought, why not create two of them in the same set? That way, you have instant variation depending on the size of the gift you're preparing, and check out the layering opportunity!!
Once the butterflies were decided and the presents were ready to decorate, the only thing left to do was party in true vintage style. Of course, every good party needs an invitation! To bring that idea to life, I designed a vintage-style "Admit One" ticket stub. I intentionally left the center empty and included a bunch of versatile sentiment words so you can mix, match, and stamp your own custom greetings inside the ticket for whatever unique occasion you're celebrating.
With the little bit of room left on the plate, I added a classic Greek-key border for extra decorative framing options, alongside a beautiful morning glory flower. That particular flower—and others you will see on the next stamp set—is really special to me. I walk past them every morning on different parts of my route back home from the school run. I picked this specific one one morning and decided to hand-draw it for this release so I could bring its natural beauty into a stamp for you.
YOU'RE INVITED
You would normally use a butterfly as a focal image on its own, however, you can also see a butterfly as a pair of luxurious wings to instantly elevate a simpler element. On this tag, you can see exactly how adding those fussy-cut wings transforms the project.
This is the perfect way to present an event invitation. You could also stamp the ticket repeatedly in a long strip to recreate vintage ticket rolls, or bind them into a mini book where the pages are a bunch of tickets containing the typewriter font messages.
The two wings nest together perfectly. I used Mattint River Deep to add the blue color to these three elements so they coordinate beautifully.
BEAUTIFUL MORNING GLORY
The Greek key stamp is designed so you can easily build a complete, continuous frame by stamping it twice. For this flat base layer, I stamped the morning glory directly inside the frame before adding colour.
To create instant dimension, I popped up the "Beautiful" sentiment and nested each card layer into a slightly larger one. The bottom frame features a quick, textured background made by sweeping a dark ink pad (Versafine Clair Pinecone) directly onto the cardstock, then blending over the white gaps with a sponge loaded with Vintage Photo Distress Ink.
This project shows how you can transform a relatively small focal image into a larger card format just by increasing the frames around it. Playing with contrasting colours, distressed textures, and varied heights is a great way to add immense dimension to a simple design.
PARTY TIME!
Here is a festive sneak peek of what is to come in ESC58! Even though the main focal images belong to that upcoming set, you can see a couple of elements from ESC56 making a starring appearance here too.
This time, the ticket features a fun "Party Time" sentiment to perfectly match the celebratory tone of the tag. I also used the Greek border strip horizontally to beautifully ground the martini glass focal image.
ART JOURNAL PAGE
The large-scale butterfly stamps from ESC56 are ideal for art journaling! I worked directly on an Art Journal Vol 1 page previously painted with brush-cleanings in PaperArtsy Fresco Finish paints—Pea Coat, Niagara Falls, Gold Rush, Chocolate Pudding, and Gold. The base was just brushstrokes I made to clean up my brush while demoing at a craft fair.
Starting on the pre-painted background took away the pressure of a blank page. To make the focal elements jump out against the deep teal base, I chose Squeezed Mattint—a striking orange hue that instantly makes everything pop.
I designed three balanced clusters across the double-page spread, each anchored by a Greek-key frame, an orange focal element, and coordinating ephemera tickets carrying complementary sentiments from the stamp set.
Colouring all the sentiment tickets in matching orange tones ties the layout together seamlessly, establishing a cohesive palette across both pages.
To tie into the gold tones of the background, I stencilled inside each Greek-key frame using stencil PS529, applying Gold Fresco Finish Paint with a sponge for a soft metallic accent.
I also stencilled PS529 lightly across the background using Versafine Clair Pinecone ink—the same ink used to stamp the main images. This softens the painterly brushstrokes and unifies the spread with subtle texture.
I love adding dimensional pop-ups! It brings art journal spreads to life! Shaping the butterfly wings gives the illusion that it’s hovering softly over the framed cluster, ready to take flight.
The third cluster features the morning glory stamps, styled with the same layered framing and ticket details to bring a harmonious, satisfying finish to the entire spread. I'm pretty pleased with how this art journal spread turned out.
Scrapcosy Set 57 (ESC57)
If ESC56 gave you a glimpse of my daily walk, ESC57 is the full botanical summary of my route back home from the school run—filled with cherry blossoms, irises, morning glories, and the occasional butterfly flapping around. You already know the story behind the morning glory, but in this set, I’ve brought it to you in a much larger scale, making it perfect for your bigger projects.
Have you ever taken a really close look at a real iris? They are absolutely fascinating! They are structured in such a unique way that you can see three distinct, facing angles. They have a perfect symmetry that you might not expect from such a wonderfully unusual-looking flower. I drew this particular iris from a bunch I collected on the very same spot where the morning glories grow. All of these flowers come back year after year, but they often get completely cut back by the village gardeners. Before they disappeared this time, I gathered a few to draw and made sure to split the iris bulbs and replanted them in more places, so they can expand even more next year. I really hope I did it right!
The cherry blossoms are actually an invented collage. I took pictures from several different angles of the blossoms on the trees I pass by, and then stitched them together into my very own custom composition—one designed specifically to leave the perfect amount of space for a sentiment right on the side.
As for the remaining decorative flowers, they are a nostalgic nod to one of my all-time favourite stamps: the thunbergia flower composition from my very first set, ESC01. I’ve always loved the shape of those tiny petals, so I decided to recreate some of them here as a versatile corner piece and a decorative border line to help frame your projects. To finish the set, I added some very common, yet incredibly useful sentiments in my signature font. I hope you find this set just as inspiring as my daily walk home!
SPECIAL DAY
Welcome to the botanical party! A day spent with flowers is always a special day, and this card celebrates that by featuring almost every single element from ESC57—it's a party for the eyes! (Plus, it features a little sneak peek of stencils from PS529 in the background!)
I used the small stamp featuring little flowers and leaves to create two long botanical ribbons to frame the "Special Day" sentiment. To achieve this continuous look without overlapping lines, I simply stamped the first flower, covered it with a fussy-cut sticky note mask, and then safely stamped the adjacent flowers on either side so they appear to sit beautifully behind it.
By fussy cutting and layering these elements, you can add incredible dimension and movement to your projects. It is very rare for me to leave a project completely flat, as I absolutely love shaping the fussy-cut pieces by hand to create natural shadows and volume.
To colour the images, I used PaperArtsy Mattints, though the specific shades might surprise you! Mattints are wonderfully peculiar... and fluid; their batch colours can evolve over time if left unsupervised! For the green I used Mattint Fern and for the purple I used Mattint Bellflower, but for the cream and pink tones on my cherry blossoms both came from two bottles of Mattint Nutty! Different batches and ages, they are not brown anymore, but they are absolutely beautiful, just embrace the change, they will surprise you!
THANKS
To create a lush floral border for the butterfly, I used the corner stamp along with some masking, then stamped two extra large flowers to seamlessly bridge the vertical sides of the frame.
Echoing the main frame concept, I bordered the "Thanks" sentiment with the smaller thunbergia stamp and added a few extra cut-out flowers to complete the look. Layering these distinct elements adds a wonderful depth and creates beautiful, soft shadows across the card.
To make the entire design pop, I set it against a very dark blue background, subtly textured using stencil PS529 with a dark ink to add extra interest without distracting from the main focal elements. Don't forget that a detail to elevate your composition can be to use a ball tool on a soft surface like a mouse mat to shape petals, leaves and wings gently.
Scrapcosy Set 58 (ESC58)
Let's continue with the party! For this final stamp set, I had the fun idea of decorating party glassware with botanical elements to create unique, elegant focal images. The chic martini glass (complete with its own olive skewer!) and the classic champagne flute are designed to be dressed up with extra details from the set, like the individual olives or a slice of lemon or lime, creating a beautiful frame for your celebration-themed sentiments.
This set is also deeply personal to me because of my upcoming wedding. I wanted to design my very own wedding invitations, which inspired the dense, lush floral frames you'll see at the top of the stamp set. They are a custom collage of the multiple flowers I drew for this entire release, specifically composed to encircle your greetings. My actual wedding invitation is a triptych, and those two frames—along with the storybook-style sentiments "Once upon a time..." and "Happy ever after"—form a central part of it!
Whether you are crafting for birthdays, weddings, anniversaries, or any happy milestone in between, this set is designed to help you raise a glass and toast life's happiest moments.
ON YOUR DAY
This interactive design is one of my favourite samples from the release! It invites the recipient to step right into a celebratory garden party surrounded by lush, cascading blooms.
Tucked right behind the initial layer of flowers, you can catch a tantalising glimpse of the champagne glass waiting at the centre of the party.
The detailed clusters of blossoms on either side create a beautiful framing effect, encouraging you to slow down and appreciate each floral element.
Opening the two interactive flaps reveals the celebratory champagne flute in full, sharp focus against a gorgeous, striking modernist stencilled background.
To bring the blueberries to life, I layered Glossy Accents over them to give them a dimensional, 3D finish that mimics the luscious shine of real fruit.
I also added Glossy Accents to the glass itself. I purposefully tried trapping tiny air bubbles inside the liquid area, and I'm so happy I managed to make it! While we usually try to avoid bubbles with Glossy Accents, here they add a wonderful touch of realism to mimic the effervescence of real champagne!
When fussy cutting the flaps, I intentionally left a slightly wider card border around the flowers; that allowed the delicate blossom buds to keep their stems completely sturdy and visible.
This is probably the most personal sample in the whole release, as it is a direct recreation of the layout I designed for my own wedding invitations. The original triptych design featured these exact "Once Upon a Time" and "Happy Ever After" compositions across the first two opening flaps.
While these designs are beautiful as standalone cards, they are also perfect for building a storybook or mini album. You could use the first composition as your cover page, and repeat the empty floral frame on the inner pages to hold your text before concluding with the final sentiment.
To make the floral borders pop without an overwhelming amount of cutting, I used a clever "half-fussy cut" technique. I simply drew a straight pencil square around the panel and only fussy cut the specific leaves and petals extending past that frame line.
I mirrored the same layout and half-fussy cut technique on the coordinating card. To ground the design, I used the direct-to-paper ink pad method to create a rich, dark brown distressed frame around the border.
CHEERS!
This playful, celebratory tag features a fun interactive twist—the martini glass has a hollow design that lets you tuck the olive skewer right inside! In the background, you get an exciting sneak peek of stencil PS528, setting a festive party vibe.
To create maximum dimension, I fussy cut the flowers and foliage separately, gently shaping each piece by hand before reassembling the collage. Those three layered blue daisies add such a gorgeous focal point to the base of the glass!
Shaping the leaves of the mint twig gives them incredible 3D life—the realistic curves make it look fresh enough to smell!
I really love how all these textures and dimensional techniques came together on this tag—it’s such a fun project to create for a special celebration!
