2016 #13 Delft Tiles {by Liesbeth Fidder}

 2016 Topic 13: Paper Piecing

Hi everyone, Liesbeth here.

Tonight I'd like to share with you this evening with a post about Paper piecing !

First thing I was thinking about when I heard the words ,Paper piecing' was a beautiful big fabric quilt. Second thing in my mind was (very Dutch ;-) ) Delft blue kitchen tiles. The Lynne Perrella stamps are so very perfect for this ! So I have chosen the tiles, wanted to create Delft blue antique tiles !

You need to know : the moment I start a project, I never have a plan in mind,never, I just start ... That's the reason I made far to much painted and crackled paper. Just one A4 piece is enough for this project.

Step One: I covered a (one is really enough) piece of Smoothy Stamping card A4 with a layer of Fresco Finish : Southern skies and after drying with a thin layer of Crackle Glaze.

Step Two: As soon as I dried the Crackle Glaze , I covered it with a layer of Fresco paint Chalk. You can find everything about Crackle Glaze and ,how to' in Leandra's video HERE !

Step Three: After drying the crackles, I punched 1 inch squares and stamped them by inking the stamp  with Archival Cobalt and putting the little paper square onto the stamp as shown. I made 4 different tiles, 10 times each. 

I used the following LPC stamps: LPC028,

LPC032,

and LPC014 for this.

Step Four: Onto the left over ckrackled piece I stamped the ,tea cup woman' from LPC014 using StazOn ink Jet Black and I cut her out (without the background, just the woman)

Step Five: I coloured the pieces using  a waterbrush and Fresco paint  Coral (the perfect skin colour !) and Southern Skies

Step six: I sponged the edges of the tiles with black ink to let them pop out..

  

Step seven: I glued the tiles tight onto a piece of off-white cardstock and a blue card. Using some foam tape, I finished the card by adding the woman.

A tiny ,left-over' card !

Well, I hope you like this technique and give it a trie yourself ! Of course you are free to choos other colours or other parts of Lynne Perrelle stamps , there all very good for this style! Have fun  creating your own paper pieced Delft Blue !

Best wishes,

Liesbeth X

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Wow Liesbeth, you always seems to weave wonderful magic with Lynne Perrella Stamps, the tiled background idea is fantastic and the idea to borrow from Delft China is perfect!! Thanks so much for sharing! ~Gillian

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2016 #13 Journal Cover {by Lin Brown}

2016 Topic 13: Paper Piecing

Hi everyone Lin Brown from Yoursartfully here.

Tonight I'd like to share with you a step by step guide to making a cover for a journal. I used a fabric version of paper piecing with fabrics that I printed on my Gelli® Plate. 

Of late, I seem to be including fabric into my work more than paper and although paper piecing could be used for this project, I figured that the benefits of using fabric would be two fold. First of all, it would be longer lasting than paper and would also be a lot more flexible. 

Step One: I cut a piece of calico for the base of my journal cover. I allowed an extra 5cm at the top and bottom and 8cm on both sides.

{Tip of the day: I have mixed a little Fabric/ Textile Medium into my Fresco Finish paints which not only extends the drying time but allows the fabric to remain flexible, and makes the paint permanent for washing once heat set too.}

Step Two: I love using my Gelli® Plate but am not particularly keen on all the white space left behind from the stencils. There are a few ways to overcome this but this is my favourite method...

I  brayered a layer of Mermaid and Guacamole Fresco Finish (mixed with textile medium) onto the Gelli® Plate , then placed my stencils. I used my brayer again to remove a little of the paint.

This is how it looks before printing (I have no idea why the paint now looks yellow!!!), then I took a print with the fabric

Here's a close up shot of how the printed fabric looks. Although there is a little bit of white space, it is no longer bold areas, much more muted and to my liking.

Step Three: This is another of my favourite Gelli® Plate techniques. I used some bold stamps from my very first plate of stamps designed for PaperArtsy, ELB01 to remove some paint from my Gelli®  Plate.

ELB01

I also used an off-cut of cardboard to remove some of the paint.

This is how it looks when printed.

Step Four: My third and final Gelli® Plate/paint technique. I brayered a mix of Tango, Caramel and Chocolate pudding on to my Gelli® Plate. Arranged my stencils.

Used a textured sheet of paper towel to remove some of the paint.

And printed on to a piece of fabric that had already been printed using the first technique.

Step Five: Once I had a good selection of fabrics using the above techniques, I cut them up into random sized squares and rectangles. I used a piece of Heat'n'Bond between the calico and squares of fabric to enable me to iron them in place.

Step Six: I used a zig zag stitch on my sewing machine around each square. At This point I wished I had cut the fabrics into shapes of the same size, it would have made this step a lot faster! Once I had finished though, I was pleased with the result, it does look better with a random pattern.

Step Seven: I folded the top and bottom edges leaving the journal cover approx 0.5 cm bigger than the journal on those edges.

Step Eight: I cut away a triangle from each corner to avoid the underneath edge showing when it was folded.

Step Nine: Once folded, I hand stitched these flaps across the top and bottom, leaving the long edge open to allow the journal to be slipped in and out of the cover.

Step Ten: To finish the cover, I stencilled images from PS007 and PS024 with Chocolate Pudding Fresco Finish paint.

I love how this project turned out but I had intended to make a feature panel from one of the images below but when I tried to arrange them on the front of the journal, they were way too big! They covered too many of my patchwork squares. I enjoyed this project and will definitely make another of these but next time I will incorporate the feature panels into the patchwork.

I hope this project inspires you to dig out your Gelli® Plates and start creating a stash of fabric and papers that you could then use to piece together and cover pretty much any project you have in mind.

Lin
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This looks fabulous Lin, such great colours and a brilliant array of techniques. Patchwork like this is always so effective whether in paper or fabric. Thanks for sharing. ~Darcy 

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2016 #13 Patchwork Frame {by Emma Godfrey}

2016 Topic 13: Paper Piecing

Hi everyone Emma Godfrey here.

Tonight I'd like to share with you this evening with a post about paper piecing.

For me, paper piecing brings to mind patchwork quilt effects but using paper instead of fabric. I've decided to use a simple triangle shape for my patchwork pieces, and to make the project a piece of wall art using an IKEA Ribba frame.

Step One: Measure the aperture of your frame. This one is 12cm x 17cm, so I cut five strips of Smoothy card, each 4cm x 21cm.

Step Two: I made my backgrounds using Infusions - A Bit Jaded, Lemoncello, Are You Cerise and Emerald Isle. I sprinkled a mixture of colours onto two of the strips, sprayed them with water and then blotted them with a paper towel (this creates a softer effect). For the other three strips I dragged a single colour of Infusions and Pearl Glaze over each of them (this creates a gorgeous wood effect).

Step Three: On the blue/green sprayed strip, I stenciled circles using The Crafters Workshop Mini Circle Grid stencil and Fresco Finish Snowflake paint. 

I then stamped and heat embossed that strip and three others using gold, white and neon pink embossing powder. 

I used EM23 (the flowers), 

EM21 (the triangles), 

EM19 (the leaves) and 

EEG07 (the small pinwheel circle - on top of the stencil circles). 

To co-ordinate the pieces I used gold and white Extra Fine Sharpie Pens to colour in some of the detail.

Step Four: On the back of each strip I marked at 4cm intervals along both long edges (starting one of them 2cm in from the short side). I drew lines to join the marks up into triangles, and cut them out. It was at this stage that I decided the neon pink embossing powder was just too bright, and I resprayed a new strip and left it undecorated. Once all the triangles were cut, I edged them all with Treasure Gold Brass.

Step Five: Cut a piece of card 4cm larger than your aperture. Draw on grid lines (ie. there should be a 2cm border all around) and then arrange your triangles. When you're happy with the layout, move them to one side and apply red double sided tape over the entire area. Stick your triangles in place, and then fix your piece of card to the aperture.

Step Six: To finish, stamp and heat emboss (with gold embossing powder) your quote onto a spare piece of Smoothy (I used a quote from EEG18). 

Cut the quote out and glue it in place. You can always use your quote to hide any small gaps between the triangles! Put your aperture into the frame.

Here's a close-up of the finished project…

I really enjoyed making this frame, and I love using the Infusions - they give such pretty and varied backgrounds. I think this idea could work really well with hexagons (for a more authentic looking patchwork effect), and also you could stick each of shapes down individually and leave a small white border between each one for a different look. I hope you like it too ... if you're inspired, I'd love to see what you make on Facebook.

Emma

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Wow Emma, what an amazing concept. I love how all the bits come together to make something completely different! This is fabulous! And so cool to see how minis come into the mix too! Thanks for sharing! ~Leandra

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2016 #13 Patterned Scraps {by Justine Hovey}

2016 Topic #13: Paper Piecing

Hi everyone Justine here, joining you this evening with a post about Paper Piecing. This is a fun technique that I often forget about so I thought I would do a post to remind everyone just how great this technique is and how much variety it can bring to your project. It is also a great way to use up your patterned paper scraps! 

For this card I used traditional paper piecing. I took some pictures along the way to make it easy for you to follow the process. 

To create this card, you will need some patterned papers that coordinate well with each other, a card base, scissors, a stamping tool of your preference and some back ink.

I stamped out the moth stamp from the Eclectica Darcy 19 set onto the card base and onto each patterned paper I was planning to use.

EDY19

I cut out various pieces of the patterned paper and attached them to their matching spot on the card base. I made sure to alternate colours so that no same colour was touching the other. I repeated this until the entire butterfly was covered and I stamped the sentiment onto the card base. 

I did the exact same technique for this card here except I used the flowers from EDY19. This card proved to be a lot easier since the pieces I cut out were much larger and not as numerous as the butterfly. I think they both look a little like stained glass. I’m sure you could run some Glossy Accents overtop and it would look even better! Don’t you love afterthoughts after you finish a project?

For my last project today, I interpreted paper piecing a little differently. I decided to take some masking paper and piece it creatively onto a stamp to create a beautiful mask.

As you can see I took the branch stamp with the berries on it from the EDY19 set and “pieced” all the berries with masking tape to cover them up. I inked up my stamp with black ink and removed all those pieces of masking tape before stamping onto my card base. I used the MISTI Stamping Tool to ensure that I was able to stamp in the same spot twice without error.

After I stamped in black, I cleaned my stamp thoroughly and dried it. Then I covered my stamp in red ink (berries included of course) and stamped it in the same spot. It not only made the branches a deeper black and the berries red which is a great contrast colour, but it also gave a bit of a shadow to the branches that I really like.

I repeated this stamping technique all over the card until I was satisfied (three times). Lastly, I stamped the sentiment.

I have to say that these projects were really fun to create but were a bit time consuming. I did have to redo the last card because I didn’t dry my stamp in between colours. However, I find fussy cutting quite therapeutic though. Do you enjoy fussy cutting or is it something you try to avoid? 

Thanks for joining me today for my Guest post at PaperArtsy. If you enjoyed these cards, you can find me all over social media! 

Justine 

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Oh Justine you have such patience, that fussy cutting for the moth was a labour of love, well worth it though. The flower takes on new life with those patterned paper, Glossy Accents would be a great addition. Great tip for using pieces of paper to mask off stamps, very effective. ~Darcy 

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All challenge links go in the draw to win a £50 voucher to spend on products of your choice from the PaperArtsy online store. The Paper Piecing link will close 17:00 (London Time) Sunday, July 10th 2016. The winner will be announced 1  hour later at 18:00.