Blue and Orange

Today I just had to make something using blue and orange. I guess its not a 'normal' combo, but it's so vibrant and I love it.

In February at SMAC (the Paris trade show) I met Mona from Creative Imaginations who was doing the most fabulous make n takes with their Bare Essentials line. At the end of the show she gave me a gorgeous goodie bag of bits and bobs, and a cropadile (to lighten her load home). So today I learned how to set eyelets with the cropadile into the tags. I guess that's kind of basic for those of you who know how to use these babies, but I must say, the tag thingy is really fat, and the eyelets (soft aluminium) seemed to set perfectly and evenly...a feat I have not achieved before with the other cazillion setters I own! So big thanks to Mona!

To make the tag I started with Ranger Acrylic dabbers (Sail Boat Blue/ Sunset Orange) and dabbed onto cut and dry foam, then smooched all over the tag back. This gave a scratchy covering. Over that I stamped a PaperArtsy Mini (MN#20) in Red Pepper/Sunshine Yellow, and stapled randomly blue and orange ribbons around the edge top make an arch. German Scrap (Fancy Border) got rubbed with Archival Black ink (Ranger) and glued over the staples. The image is Mini #10. I set blue star eyelets at the foot and gave her a party hat from a background I made with the blue and orange dabbers.

On the front window panel I inked up the mini #20 in blue/ orange and randomly stamped around the acetate frame. Then softly sponged blue and orange over the top. I set eyelets (metallic blue and orange) around the edge, attached book corners, and hand drew dashed lines to make the frame more 'finished'.

I just found out that Wednesday stamper is doing a ''door" challenge this week, I figured my Ribbon Arch could maybe fit that brief too. Blow me down, Belinda has got a gorgeous Blue and Orange (and pink) door! Go take a look the work there is so inspirational.

Leandra

Pink and Sparkly.....who me??

Today was one of those days where I really know I should be doing a whole lot of mundane stuff, but I was itching to do something more exciting. I'm kind of on top of admin (and ironing BTW...woke at 5.20 this am!!...too weird that never happens), and so when i get to a point where I'm almost organised I feel like i deserve a reward.

Right on cue, in comes an email enquiring how I like to use the new PaperArtsy mini backgrounds. (only available to buy from shops we supply at this point. Katy's Corner has all of the newbies in stock, call her if they aren't online yet.)

Here's the result...more pinky sparkly than my usual, but this is exactly what minis are designed for..to make your own BG's to co-ordinate with whatever (papers) you wish them to. Small or large areas and everything in between.

Still lovin those Ranger acrylic dabbers, this time 'peri' and 'aqua' got to feature. Used frayed burlap distress ink and transferred the PaperArtsy Picture Pack image with glazing medium onto white card. The embellishment is using opals EP's with a (probably discontinued) hero stamp to make a faux wax seal kind of effect.

This week's Wednesday Stamper Challenge is Fleur de Lys, so i get to play with those cool gals too. Satisfying day, did something different to my usual and had a total blast. And i didn't have to pick up kids till 4.30pm. Ahh the artistic lifestyle....

TIP: the 'light' dabbers are thicker consistency than other colours, and take longer to prime. Unscrew the lid and drop a couple of teaspoons of water in. Shake and it will be more fluid, but the colour isnt compromised. Also a good trick when your paint is starting to run out.

New Stamps for May

Hiya, we have a bunch of new stamps released this month. We are adding a new group of 4 plates to the Urban Snapshots range called Wrought Iron. Here they are...
We have also redesigned Urban Snapshots Stage Lights 2 ...We are also introducing a new range of stamps called PaperArtsy Minis. These are credit card size stamps on EZ Mount. They are ideal for kinds of altered art and craft applications especially ATCs, card making, inchies and more. The images are mainly taken from our Ink and the Dog collection. This you can see 15 designs and next month we will release another 17...

Here are a couple of examples...
Click here to go see the rest.

Get going and collect the set.

Earth To Orsun...

Hi there. Well its been so busy here over the last couple of months that we're just beginning to get some normality back in our lives.

We've been at trade shows in the US, England and France generating more interest in PaperArtsy stuff. So this month we are releasing some more stamps from the Urban Snapshots range. These 4 are called Fancy Dress.





Here is another nice sample from Isabelle Norris using Plate Pierrot 3

More artwork

I was just fossicking about in the file manager of my computer and found this. I like it! Nice colour combination. It is from Jackie Hunter and uses stamps from Words plate 4 and Vintage nudes plate 4.

ATC's from Urban Snapshots

Wow 2 posts in one day!!! Check out these ATC's from Julie Harrington the designer of our Urban Snapshots range. She has used stamps from the Passing Time family of stamps. Along with Daisy D's papers and Basic Grey rub ons.

Cool Canvas

Here's a cool canvas that Dyan Reaveley (Art From the Heart and Blonde Moments famous front woman) sent to us. She has used School Days plate 2 from our Ink & The Dog Collection.