NEW PA Products {Feb 2016} Emma Godfrey Stamps

Hi everyone, Leandra here again. 

I know, we are spoiling you with 2 releases tonight! So lets take a look!!

This new release is from the wonderful Emma Godfrey. This is a partial release tonight, we have 3 more stamp sets to follow towards the end of the month for the Stitches trade show (Feb 21st) in Birmingham, England.

As you may be aware, Emma works here at PaperArtsy as a senior elf, but prior to that, she had her own gorgeous scrapbooking shop, and that is how I first met her. She sold PaperArtsy stamps - oh and she would also come to our ArtsyCrafts retreats too! Emma still runs her own crops regularly in Upmister, London, and you can find out more about that on her blog.

I am amazed how much Emma's style has changed in the last 2 years. She is now fully ensconced in the journaling and mixed media zone which suits her very well, and so she tends to smooch and flick paint all over the place in stunning bright colours. Her samples are gorgeous, and you will see that tonight in this post!

She has switched things up to a larger format this year, and I think you are going to like the fresh modern, funky, scribbly style she has achieved. If you like, these, then keep your eyes peeled, another 3 will follow VERY soon!

Here's a video introduction and some samples using these new stamps for you to check out!

As ever, we always have some super talented crafts who volunteer to help us work with our newest stamps.  I'll hand over now to Emma who will introduce her support crew tonight, and has some of her own work with these new stamps to show you too. 

Enjoy ! 

~Leandra

Hi everyone, Emma here to show you the newest stamps that I've designed for PaperArtsy.

As Leandra mentioned above I {heart} art journaling and for 2016 I wanted to design some stamps with elements that I quite often draw freehand in my journal. And quotes ... I love quotes ... you can never have too many in my opinion! 

Tonight I have three very talented wing-men who have made some fabulous samples ... I do love to see how other people use my stamps in such different ways!
 

Tonight we start with Anneke De Clerck. 
I adore Anneke's clean and simple but also "thinking outside the box" style, the way she combines colours and elements is always awe-inspiring.

'Bloom Card' using EEG14/15 by Anneke De Clerck

Anneke says: I love the flower stamps because of their size and the 'open' design. I've used the large flower with my 3"x5" gel printing plate and stencils to make a masterboard. I've cut a card and tag out of that sheet. Instead of coloring the flower with paint I practiced my doodling skills on it :)

'Happiness Blooms Card' using EEG14 by Anneke De Clerck

Anneke says: Less is more :)  Simply stamped the smallest flower with Distress Ink.

'Wherever You Go' using EEG13/15 by Anneke De Clerck

Anneke says: Each set holds big stamps, small stamps and awesome quotes. The perfect stamps to use on art journal spreads but they are very suitable for card making too.

'Art' using EEG15/4 by Anneke De Clerck

Anneke says: I stamped the swirly circles on a gelli plate print to create a flower. In my opinion the swirly circles are very versatile: they can be used for background stamping, as a flower, as a frame.... the possibilities are endless.

'Canvas' using EEG15 by Anneke De Clerck

Anneke says: The perfect quote to stamp on a canvas isn't it :)

Next up we have Lauren Hatwell. 
Lauren is someone with a fantastic imagination ... she can see alternative uses for stamps that seem so obvious once she's done it, but that I would never think of.  And she finishes everything so beautifully (check out the inside of her cards if you don't believe me!).

'All Your Heart' using EEG13 by Lauren Hatwell

Lauren says: I really love the larger sized shapes and quotes on this release of Emma's. So useful for journalling, they mix and match brilliantly. I like to use lots of different styles and mediums and all the stamps really lend themselves to that. There are, quite literally, no limits.

'Swirly Girly' using EEG14/15 by Lauren Hatwell

Lauren says: I had so much fun making this little tag and that, after all, is what it's all about. Everything I needed was right there in front of me and I think it clearly demonstrates just how far you can take these amazing stamps.

'Happiness Blooms' using EEG14/15 by Lauren Hatwell

Lauren says: These big "happy" flowers are gorgeous and I love their swirly centres. You can throw loads of product at them or keep them really clean and simple and they still work beautifully.

'In Love With Life' using EEG13/15 by Lauren Hatwell

Lauren Says: I really enjoyed colouring this with my Copic markers. Emma's clean, bold designs really are a dream to work with, whichever medium I want to use.

Our third contributor tonight is Etsuko Noguchi. 
I asked Etusko to make some samples for me as she has such a fantastic eclectic style and I was intrigued to see what she would create. I love the extra little touches she puts into all her projects ... as you will see here.

'Love Mini Album' using EEG13/14/15 by Etsuko Noguchi

Etusko says: The stamped diamonds on each side of this mini album pull out card to reveal four photographs (as you'll see in the video above). The two different sized flower stamps were layered up to make a large floral focal point.

'Illumination Art' using EEG13/14/15 by Etsuko Noguchi

Etusko says: I love illumination art. The circle stamp makes a frame for the photograph, and I created a collage background with the other stamps.

'They Bloom ATC' using EEG14/15 by Etsuko Noguchi

Etusko says: I really love the pretty flower stamps. I used them to make an embellishment from shrink plastic and resin. With the other stamps I made a background for the card. This is a very eye-catching piece.

'Love Tag' using EEG13/15 by Etsuko Noguchi

Etusko says: The cute heart is the focal point of this tag. I also used a shrink plastic flower, and created a messy style background with the other stamps.

Wow - didn't they do brilliantly? So now it's time to show you what I've made with these new stamps. I've got a few step outs so you can see exactly how this all came together...

Project One: 'We're All Different Wild Flowers' using stamp sets EEG13/14/15 
by Emma Godfrey

First I've made an art journal page ...

Step One: First I started with a page in my journal that already had some Little Black Dress and Zesty Zing Fresco Finish paint leftovers on it.

Step Two: I added some more Fresco Finish paint in Zesty Zing, Caribbean Sea, Inky Pool and Limelight to fill up the space.  Then a messy layer of Fresco Finish Snowflake.

Step Three: Next I stenciled Cobalt Archival Ink pad through The Crafters Workshop Mini Believe Script stencil, and Magenta Hue Archival Ink pad through some sequin waste.  I stamped the wavy line (EEG14) and the small lines (EEG15) with a Jet Black Archival Ink pad. I coloured in the empty squares of the wavy lines with an Extra Fine White Sharpie Paint Pen.

Step Four: I smooched Dreamweaver Translucent Embossing Paste through The Crafters Workshop Mini Reversed Chickenwire, and when it was dry went over it with White Fire Treasure Gold. I stamped the tiny dots (EEG13) in Versamark, and heat embossed them with a bright pink embossing powder. To finish the background I stamped Mini 72 using Fresco Finish Snowflake paint.

Step Five: On a piece of Smoothy card (just big enough for one large and two small flowers) I drybrushed Fresco Finish Zesty Zing and Orchid paints, and then stenciled Aquamarine Archival Ink through The Crafters Workshop Mini Texturized. I stamped the flowers using the black Archival Ink pad, added some highlights with the white Sharpie pen, and then cut them out. I edged the flowers with White Fire Treasure Gold. I stamped the quote onto Smoothy card with the black Archival Ink pad (I do this twice so that I can cut out alternate lines - which lets me leave the biggest space around each line) and cut them out. To finish I stuck the flowers and quote down, and outlined the quote with a black pen.

Project Two: 'Life Is A Great Big Canvas' using stamp sets EEG15 by Emma Godfrey

I've also made a piece of framed art ...

Step One: First I cut a piece of Smoothy card slightly bigger than the aperture of the frame. I stenciled Cobalt Archival Ink pad through the lines on PaperArtsy Stencil PS018. I then applied a watered down layer of Fresco Finish Zesty Zing, Limelight and Caribbean Sea.

Step Two: Now I applied a thin layer of Fresco Finish Snowflake paint - leaving it thicker in just a few places. Once that layer was dry I stenciled the Magenta Hue Archival Ink pad through sequin waste, and stamped the circles (EEG15) with a Cobalt Archival Ink pad.

Step Three: I stamped the small lines (EEG15) using Fresco Finish Snowflake paint and the spiky circles (EEG15) with an Aquamarine Archival Ink pad.

Step Four: Using Fresco Finish Snowflake paint I stamped Mini 72 and some bottle tops. I smooched some Dreamweaver Translucent Embossing Paste through The Crafters Workshop Mini Cubist stencil and let it dry before applying White Fire Treasure Gold. I added some dots using the Extra Fine White Sharpie Paint Pen.

Step Five: To finish, I added some tiny dots with a gold paint pen, some dots of Fresco Finish Inky Pool (using the handle end of a paintbrush), and some lines using a credit card and Fresco Finish Orchid. I stamped the quote twice onto Smoothy card using Magenta Hue Archival Ink pad. I cut out alternate lines from each quote (this lets you leave the biggest possible space around each line), and matted them onto black cardstock. I positioned the artwork behind the aperture and then glued on the quote, before putting it all together in the frame.

So I hope you love the stamps, and all the samples we've made. If you would like to follow me I am on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and have a blog and Facebook page.

I am teaching art journaling workshops at various shops in Essex in the next few months - you can find more information here. If you would like me to come and teach at a shop near you, please ask the shop to get in touch with me.

Emma

Awesome ideas with Emma's stamps I am sure you agree! Thank you to all who have helped Emma by sharing their awesome ideas!

Tonight's wing-men have detailed step out's explaining how they made their samples on their own blogs, so do drop by and take a look by following the links provided above.

These new Eclectica³ Emma Godfrrey stamps are available now from your favourite PaperArtsy stockist. As you know,  we do urge you to support independent retailers, online and in store by shopping with them regularly.

EDIT: Each night, prior to this post publishing, Leandra demos via Periscope (a live streaming app) a demo using a couple of products from these new things. Watch as she makes a bright layered tag (above) with Emma's stamps and Fresco Paints, and starts the 'blocking' technique to make the stamped image 'pop'.

We offered 2 releases with Emma, this live Periscope shows the second part of Emma's release

Below is a list of the retailers who have already got these new releases in stock ready for you to buy, so don't wait, visit them now!

~Leandra 

United Kingdom
Artist Trading Post, Wirksworth, Derbyshire.
Birds in the Barn, Marks Tey, Essex.
Blade Rubber Stamps, Bloomsbury, London.
Clacton Arts and Crafts, Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.
Countryview Crafts, Potton, Bedfordshire.
Craftylicious, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk.
Imagine That..., Upminster, Essex.
Loobi Crafts, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire.
Papermaze, Ipswich, Suffolk.
Stampers Grove, Edinburgh.
Swanstitch, Deal, Kent.
That's Crafty, Romford, Essex.
The Artistic Stamper, Faversham, Kent.
The Craft Barn, Merstham, Surrey.
The Craft Box, Barnsley, South Yorkshire.
The Craft Den, March, Cambridgshire.
The Forget Me Not Kraft Kabin, Hockley, Essex.

Continental Europe
Expression-Hobby, Marcinelle, Belgium.
PaperiSaDe, Turku, Finland.
Kerudoc Creation, St Yvi, France.
Stempelfee-Shop, Hilden, Germany.
Stempeloase Munich, Munich, Germany.
Bianca's Toko, Drenthe, Netherlands.
Hobbycompleet de Duif, Leeuwarden, Netherlands.
Leuke Stempels, Nijverdal, Netherlands.
Big Time Stempel, Gockhaisen, Switzerland.

USA/ Canada
Frantic Stamper Inc, Eagle Point, Oregon.
Simon Says Stamp, Columbus, Ohio.
Tupelo Designs LLC, Sugarland, Texas.
Vintage in KC, Johnson, Kansas.

Asia/ Pacific
Tiny Dots, Chiba, Japan.
Crafters Cupboard Pty Ltd, Berwick, Victoria, Australia.

If you would like to sell PaperArtsy stamps, stencils, or paints in your store, please contact Leandra or Mark: sales@paperartsy.co.uk or call us 0044 1277 212911.

We prefer to partner with full time independent retailers who teach classes regularly either online or in-store.

NEW PA Products {Feb 2016} Clare Lloyd

Hi Everyone, Leandra here with some exciting new stamps by Clare Lloyd.

Clare is one busy blogger! She constantly has loads of new ideas popping up on her blog, she is also one of our most efficient designers to deal with! I am convinced she's an octopus with 3 heads or something the amount of work she gets done!

Did you see the announcement online this weekend that she has collaborated with Trish Latimer, Tracy Scott and our own Kim Dellow to make video tutorial called 'creating faces' video under the Craft Stamper umbrella?? How cool, and what a brilliant reference that will be too. Details here.

For this release Clare wanted to mix it up a bit, and was craving bigger faces....so that's what she did! Everyone seems to be loving larger format stamping so lets go with that, and it offers up a great opportunity to practise face-colouring too!

Clare has added elements that could be hair and clothing adornments, or perhaps make up part of your background! It amazes me how different these faces can look depending on how you colour them too, you can even change the age of them, make them into spooky witches or old hags if you wish! That flexibility and ability to add personality to them really appeals to me!

Oh and there are stencils too! Elements from the stamps are repeated but not duplicated exactly. A very good idea!

 

Here's a video introduction and some samples using these new stamps for you to check out!

As ever, we always have some super talented crafters who volunteer to help us work with our newest stamps.  I'll hand over now to Clare who will introduce her support crew tonight, and has some of her own work with these new stamps to show you too. 

Enjoy 
~ Leandra

Hi everyone, Clare Lloyd here to share lots of idea with you for my new stamps designed for PaperArtsy.

My new faces are, as Leandra mentioned, much larger and have elements that can be used to make a journal page or mixed-media project. These larger images can be extended into part or whole figures and also can be painted easily using Frescos or your preferred colouring mediums. 

Of course PaperArtsy have worked hard behind the scenes to ensure all my stamps are available now to buy, check the stockist list at the end of this post.

I have had wonderful help tonight with samples, just click on the person's name below to go to their blog, and you will see more details on how they made their samples. Well worth a visit as their work is so varied, and interesting to discover how each piece came about!

 

Tonight we start with Chris Cresswell.  
Chris creates fabulous journal pages and mini marvels using wonderful colour combos and as someone who owns every Fresco paint colour....I think you can call her a PaperArtsy Fan!

'Miss Violet' using ECL09 by Chris Cresswell

Chris Says: I love the tilt of this girl's face/head and the fact this allows me to place her anywhere on a page. I love the flexibility of the girls' faces that allows me to use any media to add bodies to the heads. I really love the hair designs on both of the girls. Easy to colour in or add different media.

'Mini Art Flower' using PS023 by Chris Cresswell

Chris says: I love this new stencil. Each element is so useful for backgrounds. When i first saw it I knew I wanted to create some mini art with the flower head. My favourite technique at the moment is to paint over a background, around the focal image. This really makes it pop! The leaves and spotty background are made from the stencil too.

'Patchwork Flower Girl' using ECL10 by Chris Cresswell

Chris says: I love the symmetry of this girl's face. I couldn't wait to add a body to her, which I did here by paper piecing. I'm going to have great fun in my art journal with these girls' faces. I love that little flower accent too.

Next up we have Christine Dark. 
Chris is a fabulous designer and when I saw what she did with another of my stamps in December's issue of Craft Stamper magazine I just had to ask her to be part of my team! I'm so glad I did!

'Pretty Awesome Postcard' using ECL09 by Christine Dark

Christine says: Another beautiful face and hairstyle to colour and the great thing about these head and neck stamps is that because they’re a larger size they’re going to be great for art journaling and canvases, you can easily add clothing to make a complete figure too.

'Fluffy Blue Jumper Girl' using ECL10 by Christine Dark

Christine says: I love Clare’s whimsical girls, they each seem to have their own character and will suit many occasions, I also love Clare’s open style of drawing which makes them a delight to colour.

'Triple Icon Girl' using ECL09 by Christine Dark

Christine Says: I had such an enjoyable time making my wooden icon triptych as I was able to combine both stamp sets and the new stencil into my scene, you’ve got to love those quirky birds and the always inventive accessory stamps that Clare includes in her sets.

Our third contributor tonight is Trish Latimer .
Trish is a designer after my own heart, she loves modern and clean design. She is also a girlie face fan too!

'Flower Power Girl' using ECL09 by Trish Latimer

Trish says: My favourite thing about the face stamps is the hair, I think! This flower power lady has striped hair, with added fine liner doodles for extra detail.

'Tea Cup Tree Birds' using ECL10 by Trish Latimer

Trish says: A nest in a teacup? Such a quirky design needed a quirky project, so I put the nests sitting high above the clouds on stalks!

'A Bird In the Hand Girl' using ECL10 by Trish Latimer

Trish says: Scraped Grungepaste through a stencil provided the detail in the background for this project, a bit more of a delicate look for a more delicate face maybe?

Thanks to my wing-men for doing such fun things with these stamps! Don;t forget to go back and see their blogs by clicking on each of their names! 

So now it's time to show you what I've made with these new stamps. I've got a few step outs so you can see exactly how this all came together.

Project One: 'Bird Girl Wall Hanging' using stamp set ECL10 by Clare Lloyd

Firstly I have made a wall hanging. it's hard to appreciate the larger format of this in a photo, but you can appreciate the size more clearly in the video Leandra shot.

Step One: Stamp the face and sketch figure onto sheet of canvas. NB the finer the weave of the fabric, the more detail you will get from the stamp, or you can add layer of gesso or white fresco paint to the canvas to 'fill in' the weave before stamping too if you prefer.

Step Two: Paint figure and background using Mermaid, Candy Floss, Bora Bora and Bougainvillea. Then mask the figure and stamp clouds onto the background using Antarctic and Bora Bora.

Step Three: Add shading using Fibralo Water Soluble Pens, colouring pencils etc. You could also add black to the outlines of the stamped image if you wish too.

Step Four: Time to finish off my fabric wall hanging…embellish the panel using the birds and quote. I added more detail and shading to the figure using water colour pencils; then sewed the canvas onto a quilted fabric panel. 

Project Two:'Memory Box Girl' using stamp sets ECL09 by by Clare Lloyd

I've also made a pretty memory box... 

Step One: The box was painted with Antarctic and then I stamped all over it using Mermaid. 

Step Two: To add some contrast colour I then used new stencil PS023 to add some Candy Floss dots.

Step Three: The girl was stamped onto Smoothy card and coloured using alcohol pens and pencils. The flower, leaves and butterfly embellishments were simple stamped onto painted card, cut and a layered up onto the box.

I am really looking forward to seeing what you do with my new stamps and stencils. Any creations I find on my blog hopping travels or on social media get pinned HERE. 

Find me at: clarelloyd.blogspot.com, on Pinterest HERE and if you want to see my latest projects or WIPS then look for me on Instagram. Also on Facebook HERE and Twitter HERE.

Thankyou!

Clare

Another amazing post, and a huge round of applause to Clare and her support team. They really came up with some fabulous projects, certainly got my mind ticking!

All tonight's wing-men have detailed step out's explaining how they made their samples on their own blogs, so do drop by and take a look by following the links provided.

These new Eclectica³ Clare Lloyd stamps are available now from your favourite PaperArtsy stockist. As you know,  we do urge you to support independent retailers, online and in store by shopping with them regularly.

EDIT: Each night prior to this post publishing, Leandra does a live stream demo via Periscope to show a technique or idea with these new stamps. This time, she shows how to blend paint on a stamped face to add shading and definition with Fresco Chalk Paints. Great tips for you to practise shading.

Below is a list of the retailers who have already got these new releases in stock ready for you to buy, so don't wait, visit them now!

Enjoy and we'll see you here again in 15 minutes for another announcement!!

~Leandra 

United Kingdom
Artist Trading Post, Wirksworth, Derbyshire.
Birds in the Barn, Marks Tey, Essex.
Blade Rubber Stamps, Bloomsbury, London.
Clacton Arts and Crafts, Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.
Countryview Crafts, Potton, Bedfordshire.
Craftylicious, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk.
Imagine That..., Upminster, Essex.
Loobi Crafts, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire.
Papermaze, Ipswich, Suffolk.
Stampers Grove, Edinburgh.
Swanstitch, Deal, Kent.
That's Crafty, Romford, Essex.
The Artistic Stamper, Faversham, Kent.
The Craft Barn, Merstham, Surrey.
The Craft Box, Barnsley, South Yorkshire.
The Craft Den, March, Cambridgshire.
The Forget Me Not Kraft Kabin, Hockley, Essex.

Continental Europe
Expression-Hobby, Marcinelle, Belgium.
PaperiSaDe, Turku, Finland.
Kerudoc Creation, St Yvi, France.
Stempelfee-Shop, Hilden, Germany.
Stempeloase Munich, Munich, Germany.
Bianca's Toko, Drenthe, Netherlands.
Hobbycompleet de Duif, Leeuwarden, Netherlands.
Leuke Stempels, Nijverdal, Netherlands.
Big Time Stempel, Gockhaisen, Switzerland.

USA/ Canada
Frantic Stamper Inc, Eagle Point, Oregon.
Simon Says Stamp, Columbus, Ohio.
Tupelo Designs LLC, Sugarland, Texas.
Vintage in KC, Johnson, Kansas.

Asia/ Pacific
Tiny Dots, Chiba, Japan.
Crafters Cupboard Pty Ltd, Berwick, Victoria, Australia.


If you would like to sell PaperArtsy stamps, stencils, or paints in your store, please contact Leandra or Mark: sales@paperartsy.co.uk or call us 0044 1277 212911