New Stamp Designs - EEG16, EEG17, EEG18 & Minis

Hi everyone,

I have a surprise for you ... tonight I get to reveal three more brand new stamp sets from PaperArtsy ... and eight minis! Whoop!

The stamps are in the same style as the last three ... lots of bigger images, quotes and phrases, and some useful little bitty stamps. The Mini's have essential sentiments for card making in the same typewriter style font as the big sets ... which I love because they'll work for boys and girls, plus some other on trend background images. 

So, here are the actual stamps...

 

What do you think? I hope your brain is buzzing with ideas of what you could do with them.

If you pop over to the PaperArtsy blog, tonight is the big release night! You'll get to see what I made with the stamps, and also some fantastic pieces made by my wonderful wingmen (Tracy Scott, Gabrielle Price and Kim Osbourn).

And there's a video ... lights, camera, action ...

They are all available to buy here if you must have them straight away! :)

Thank you once again to my fabulous wingmen - your creativity left me speechless!

Enjoy!

New Stamp Designs - EEG13, EEG14 & EEG15

Hi everyone,

Well tonight I get to share with you my brand new stamp designs from PaperArtsy...

Before we get to the stamps themselves, here's a close up of a journal page I made with one of the new sets...

These stamps were inspired by my love of art journaling. If you've ever seen me demo, you'll know I love my paint, stamps and layering - and these stamps are perfect for that. And quotes ... yay ... I do love my quotes. But they're not just for art journaling - you'll see plenty of ideas over on the PaperArtsy blog for cards, canvases, scrapbooking, ATC's etc.

And here are the actual stamps...

Some of you will have seen EEG13 and EEG15 in your local craft shop (or on the imagine that... website) for a few weeks as Leandra released them as an early Christmas present, but EEG14 is brand new.

Over on the PaperArtsy Blog you can see what my fabulous wingmen (Anneke De Clerck, Lauren Hatwell and Etsuko Noguchi) made with the stamps, and I also have a couple of projects that I show step-by-step.

Lights ... camera ... action ...

I hope the projects have got your inspiration flowing and if you think you might "need" them, then they are all available to buy here.

Thank you once again to my wonderful wingmen - you did a brilliant job ladies!

And ssssshhh, this is top secret ... but there might be more to come very soon.

Enjoy!

Fathers Day

Hi everyone,

Sorry it's been a bit quiet on here this month ... I went for a long weekend away in Amsterdam at the beginning of it, and the rest of the time I've been a busy bee working on top secret PaperArtsy stuff.   Put the 5th July in your diaries if you want to see what me, Jo, Lin and Mark have in store for you!

Anyway, tomorrow is Father's Day ... and as usual I've left making a card right until the last minute (but we won't tell him that!).  This is it ... and the how-to is below.

Instructions
1. I brayered a background on a piece of Smoothy cardstock (you can find how to do this in Leandra's fab video below).

I used Fresco Finish paints in French Roast, Taupe, Space Cadet, Stone and Lake Wanaka (and I applied them in that order).

2. When the background was dry I added some Fresco Finish Pewter.   I didn't have the energy to shake the bottle, so I took the top off and dipped the non-brush end of a paintbrush in it to mix it up.   When I pulled the brush out there was a lot of paint on the end so I rolled and splodged it onto the page.   I also stamped PaperArtsy Mini 18, with the same paint, randomly all over the page.

3. I cut a card blank from metallic grey card (4.75"x9.5") and folded it in half.  I then cut a piece of Vanilla Bazzill (4.25"x4.25"), and a piece from my background (4"x4").   I stuck them all together.

4. I added a strip of corrugated metallic grey card across the bottom. (I've had this in my stash for ages - no idea where I got it from, sorry.   But it should be quite easy to replicate in a "ribbler" or you could paint some corrugated card with Fresco Finish Little Black Dress/Pewter).

5. Finally, I die-cut my word from the Vanilla card, and the stars from the metallic grey - and stuck them on with PVA glue and 3D Foam Pads.

Enjoy!

PaperArtsy: Mixed Media Video

Hi everyone,

Here's a YouTube video that I made with PaperArtsy explaining how to break down a mixed media background into some simple steps.   You can follow it exactly, or mix it up and add/repeat steps as you get more adventurous!

Below is a photo of a finished piece...



And here are some that I cut up into smaller pieces to use on cards...

Enjoy!