2015 Topic14: Flowers{Challenge}

Topic 14: Flowers

Hi Everyone, Leandra here to introduce a new topic on the PaperArtsy Blog: Flowers.

Before we get into the nitty gritty, here is Darcy with the winner for our last challenge which of course was Time.

Darcy here...I loved watching the entries come in for this challenge. Clocks always look so nostalgic to me, a very emotive theme. However you didn't go all vintage, there were some wonderful, bright funky takes on this theme. Very imaginative use, not just of clock faces but time related words too. 

Sooooo, the winning name out of the hat for Topic 13: Time..is...Jane Walliss from DizzyCrafter.

Please email Darcy to claim your prize darcydotneedles@hotmail.com

It's Leandra back with you to explore Flowers. First up, here is a short video.

Oh my, where to begin. Flowers are a central theme that crosses over all our stamp collections here at PaperArtsy.

Ellen Vargo created a stamp set of 'leaves/petals' ... EEV09 whihc on the face of it makes you scratch your head, but when you see the samples below it's a lightbulb moment!

these stamps are easily transformed into flowers as you can see in the samples below ...

 Blog post here for the above image

and here is the post for this gorgeous sample.

And then Jo Myhill came up with these gorgeous samples that are more 3 dimensional using the same stamp set! You can read about them on Jo's blog here.

Many moons ago Lin used to teach lots of metal working classes, and an early ArtsyCrafts Retreat involved making this layered flower with a UTEE centre. You can read more about the method here, but this post from Lin dates back to 2010 ! Can you believe it! The concept centres around our Hot Pick stamps and dies HP1004 whihc were released April 2010.

Fast forward to early July 2015, and we have a few new Hot Pick flowers, once of which (HP1505) Astrid Maclean made this gorgeous sample with.

Lin Brown's flower stamps have been hugely popular this year. Again, another stunning sample from a recent blog post If you scroll down you will find the step-out instructions for this one.

Back to the metal, again, Lin shows in great style how it's done!

And finally a gorgeous piece by Wanda Hentges...

It wouldn't be flowers if there wasn't an element of JoFY going down somewhere! Last week on the blog, Tracy Scott shared this stunning altered clock using Jo's stamps, any chance to show you this again...

And something from Jo herself with her newest stamps...

Of course, this is just a small representation of this topic using stamps, there are many three dimensional ideas out there too, and i have pinned loads already. 

Check out my Pinterest page Blog#14: Flowers . I'll be pinning more over the next 2 weeks while this topic is open.

I hope you can find time to join in!

Leandra

Topic 14:Flowers

You are welcome to share your ideas and link up your creativity to this page.

All links go in the draw to win a voucher to spend on products of your choice from the PaperArtsy online store. The Flowers link will close 17:00 (London Time) Sunday, Aug 9th , winner will be announced 2 hours later at 19:00.

1. The challenge is a chance for you to show how you have been inspired by a particular technique of the fortnight. Your entry should contain:

- a mention of which post inspired you and why, and 

- a link in your blog post to that original post on the PA blog.

The whole concept of this challenge is 'play along with us'. You are encouraged to put your own twist on ideas you see on our blog. We love to see how you are inspired!

2. The link you put on our linky page must lead directly to the specific post on your blog where you have explored the technique/ idea mentioned in point 1 above. Don't link to the home page of your blog, or we will be unable to find the post to leave you comments.

3. Spam links will be deleted.

4. We prefer your challenge post is created exclusive to our challenge, but if our topic fits perfectly with another challenge, then of course your post may link to both if you feel it is appropriate.

5. You are most welcome to use stamps/ products/ substrates you have to hand from a variety of companies, we do not expect you to exclusively use PA products - it's lovely when you do though!

6. You can enter as many times as you like in the fortnight. We don't want to restrict your creativity or participation! Link closes at 17:00 Sunday Aug 9th  (London Time)

7. The winner of the random draw will receive a £50 credit to be redeemed on the PaperArtsy Website, the credit includes VAT and postage. We request that one of your purchases is an A5 rubber stamp. You can add any other items to your basket, but the final total should not exceed £50

8. Each Sunday fortnight the winner will be announced at 19:00, also, in the same post, the link for the next fortnight will be posted. It's your responsibility to claim your prize coupon from Darcy: email her darcydotneedles@hotmail.com

Good Luck! If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask!

2015 #13 Rag Time Charm {by Clare Lloyd, Designer}

 2015 Topic 13: Time

Hi Clare Lloyd here with a little fabric make for you this evening.

Step One: Working on a large scrap of poly cotton fabric I stenciled a thin layer of Cheesecake through EEG016 stencil and stamped an image from ECL01 using Limelight.  

Step Two: Then came some stamping using Forget me not Archival Ink. 

Step Three: More layers stamping using Orchid and Black Archival Ink. I added a few random time based words from EEG01 and a small stencil pattern across my fabric using Pearl Glaze. Once dry, I tore the fabric into 3 strips.

Step Four: Tear the fabric into strips.

Step Five: Plait the strips together.

Step Six: Attach a toggle clasp.

My fabric watch strap was created by plaiting the fabric strips, stitching them together using close zig zag stitch on a sewing machine and then hand stitching on a toggle clasp. The watch and butterfly charm were simply attached using jump ring which I felt would give it more versatility, meaning you could simply remove the watch and/or charm changing it to a bracelet instead. 

Find me here on my blog or Instagram. 

Wow this is fantastic Clare! I love how the fabric stamped up so beautifully, this would be a perfect gift for one of my teens girls too! ~Leandra

We would love you to join in with challenge #13: Time If you are inspired by any of our guests who blog with us over the fortnight, then please join in and link up your creativity HERE. 

All links go in the draw to win a voucher to spend on products of your choice from the PaperArtsy online store. The Time link will close 17:00 (London Time) Sunday, July 26th winner will be announced 2 hours later at 19:00.

2015 #3 Wait For Me... {by Liesbeth Fidder}

Hi, it's Liesbeth here. I made this Time-Triptych with two of the wonderful new Hot Picks stamp sets, I really love the stamps !

I stamped the head (HP1504EZ)  onto a piece of masking tape, cut it out and stuck it on a wooden icon triple . I also masked both side panels.

To create structure, I used the stencil Mini Postcard and some Grunge Paste.

I removed the masks, let the paste dry well  and painted the entire piece with Fresco Acrylic Paint. I used Chalk, but you can also use another light colour or white. A perfect base coat: one very thin layer is enough. 

Using a wet sponge , I started painting the piece building up layers as shown. I used Fresco Paints Mermaid, Bora Bora, Beach Hut and South Pacific. My favourite range ! :-D I kept the area of the head white.

I sponged some accents around the edges with a bit of Glass Blue..

...and did the same using the beautiful dark Inky Pool to create depth. I also painted the  cross-cut ends of the wood with Glass Blue.

I dripped down some (very) watered down French Roast paint, I let it just run here and there from the top downwards.

 I stamped the head and clocks  (HP1502EZ) onto white tissue paper, and the text ,Wait for me' (I didn't ink ,Hey') and the plate on a piece of cardstock, all with StazOn ink Jet Black.

I cut out the tiny clocks and the plate and teared out the face. After that I coloured the text and frame a bit with blue and brown Distress Inks.

I attached the face and the small clocks at the surface with Golden gel.

After drying, I stamped the several stamps of the two HP sets and Ink and the Dog Clocks Plate 5 , I filled the entire piece using StazOn ink again.

Ink and Dog:Clocks Plate 5

Using the watered down brown Fresco paint again, I painted some clocks and gears.

I finished the piece with a thin layer of Treasure Gold Brass at the edges and onto the Grunge Paste, I just aplied it with my finger. I added the plate (foam tape) and a metal clock.

Some details:

I used two brads to finish the plate.

Hope you like it ! I enjoyed the new stamps and of course the wonderful PaperArtsy supplies a lot while creating this ! See you next time !

Liesbeth X

Thanks Liesbeth, these are some of my 'go to' colours too. Wonderful use of the new Hot Picks stamps. The head is a fabulous focal image, and brilliantly shown off here with the supporting columns of clocks on either side. 

We would love you to join in with challenge #13:Time. If you are inspired by any of our guests who blog with us over the fortnight, then please join in and link up your creativity HERE. 

All links go in the draw to win a voucher to spend on products of your choice from the PaperArtsy online store. The Time link will close 17:00 (London Time) Sunday, July 26th winner will be announced 2 hours later at 19:00.

2015 #13 Flower Clock {by Tracy Scott}

 2015 Topic 13: Time

Hi everyone and what an honour it is to be here today….

My name is Tracy Scott and when at the ‘day job’ I am a Finance Officer from East London but in every waking moment of my spare time I am a Mixed Media Artist and Teacher, Wife, Mummy and Nanny to my 2 beautiful grandbabies.

I love nothing better than getting inky and painty and am attracted to all things bright and beautiful which certainly influences me when I work, I love to throw bright colours together and just play and see where the mood takes me !!

When I was first given this theme my initial reaction was ‘Oh No’! For some reason the theme ‘Time’ initially conjured up clocks, vintage images and brown and gold tones which is most definitely not ‘Me’ but I sat back and had a good think about it and suddenly it came to me, my mother in law had given us a freebie clock which had never seen the light of day and was just waiting for the right project to come up !!!!!!

Step One: I started by removing the clock hands and giving the whole thing a coat of gesso before sponging on a mix of Fresco Finish Limelight and Fresco Finish Mermaid paints, I used a stencil to add some texture in Limelight and then used the flower stem stamp from the JOFY Collection 32 stamp set and stamped directly onto the clock face.

Step Two: I then stamped the large flower stamp from the JOFY Collection 32 stamp set ...

...onto white card and painted with Fresco Finish Yellow Submarine, London Bus and Orchid paints before cutting out.

Step Three: I continued by painting the small stem flowers directly on the clock face with Fresco Finish Yellow Submarine, London Bus, Orchid and Beach Hut paints and added some drawn leaves which I painted in Limelight. Once these were all painted I adhered the large painted flowers to the clock face to create some dimension, and stamped some small flowers onto white card which I left uncoloured for the centres.

Step Four: To finish of I pencilled in my quote and then went over with a Black waterproof pen, adding the number 3 to my clock face as well. I stamped and coloured the butterfly from the JOFY Collection 32 stamp set and used a mix of Fresco Finish Yellow Submarine, Orchid and London Bus paints for this. I then reassembled the hands on the clock and adhered the butterfly to one on the hands so that it sits above the background and looks like it is moving.

My favourite part of this project is the dimension, the stamps really did lend themselves to being layered to create a 3D piece.

I loved making this project, the colours of the Fresco Acrylic Paints are amazing and a pleasure to work with and I adore the gorgeous Flowers and Butterfly on this stamp set, they really lend themselves to being layered, I am not a big fan of my own handwriting (most of us aren’t are we ??) but really like the way this quote and even my handwriting blends perfectly with the stamps and makes this project all the more personal to me.

Check out more of my work on Facebook at www.facebook.com/myjournallingjourney 

On my blog at www.heartistry@studio7.blogspot.com 

If you would like to attend an ‘in person’ workshop with me check out www.afth.co.uk where there is a full list of dates and classes available.

Thank you so much for stopping by and visiting today, I hope to see you all again on the big worldwide web in the future

Bright and Painty Hugs

Tracy

Wow Tracy, I love how you have transformed the clock into a blast of colour! It's lovely to see you doing something 'off the page', so to speak, and totally full of your panache and pizazz! Thanks for sharing with us tonight! ~Leandra

We would love you to join in with challenge #13:Time. If you are inspired by any of our guests who blog with us over the fortnight, then please join in and link up your creativity HERE. 

All links go in the draw to win a voucher to spend on products of your choice from the PaperArtsy online store. The Time link will close 17:00 (London Time) Sunday, July 26th winner will be announced 2 hours later at 19:00.

2015 #13 Passage Through Time {by Kate Yetter}

 2015 Topic 13: Time

Hello everyone, Kate here, joining you this evening with a post on Time. I am sharing a altered book cover using time pieces in my background.

Step 1: I started off by choosing an old leather-bound book. I covered a time-piece stencil with Grunge Paste and allowed it to dry.

Step 2: After the Grunge Paste dried, I added water to Bora Bora and applied it to the cover with a paint brush.

Step3: I sprayed the Bora Bora with water, spreading it into the groves of the cover.

 

Step 4:  After the Bora Bora was dry, I added Maple Sugar Glimmer Mist and allowed it to drip down the cover.

Step 5: I stamped my focal image from the Lynne Perrella collection and colored it using Fresco Finish Paints. I detailed the image with a pen.

LPC026

 LPC029

Step 6: Lastly, I collected all of my embellishments and placed them where I liked them.

I hope you will incorporate the Time theme into your upcoming projects. Whether it is an altered clock, scrapbook page or a page on family genealogy, there are many ways to record the passage of time.

Kate.

A lovely altered time themed book Kate. The colours are very evocitive of a well aged timepiece/treasure that has been hidden for years. Thanks for sharing your creativity with us.

We would love you to join in with challenge #13:Time. If you are inspired by any of our guests who blog with us over the fortnight, then please join in and link up your creativity HERE. 

All links go in the draw to win a voucher to spend on products of your choice from the PaperArtsy online store. The Time link will close 17:00 (London Time) Sunday, July 26th winner will be announced 2 hours later at 19:00.