PaperArtsy Christmas ornaments

Hello Everybody,

it's Monika here after a long-long break :-)

So let me show you my vintage Christmas card that was made with a PaperArtsy Scrapcosy stamp set: ESC08

Here is my tutorial.

1. I stamped on thick watercolour paper with Antique Linen Distress ink and sprinkled it with Gold Tinsel embossing powder.

2. After melting the embossing powder I cut out the images.

3. I cut out a square from Kraft-Core paper and distress the edges with a sandpaper (you can make it with Tim's sanding grip as well).

4. I chose a Christmas embossing folder and since my card was bigger than the folder I embossed first the bigger part, then the rest. (My embossing folder was: Holly Swirls by Sizzix)

5. I sanded the embossed surface and with a knife, I distressed the edges and inked with Gathered Twigs.

6. With Ranger Distress inks (Barn Door, Scattered Straw) I coloured the ornaments.

7. I stamped with the tinsel stamp on the card and again I applied Gold Tinsel embossing powder (I wanted to hang my ornaments on the tinsel).

8. I put gold twine through the hole of the ornament and put double-sided glue tape on the back.

9. I adhered my ornaments on the card and I fixed the twines with double-sided glue tape 1/8".

10. I smeared Micro Glaze onto the inked surface of the ornaments for protection and for a little shine.

11. With the same stamping method I prepared the text, but here I used Gold embossing powder. I coloured it with Scattered Straw ink.

12. I cut out my card base from kraft paper and I put my card together.

13. I placed two golden yellow rhinestones to the corners.

I hope you like it! Happy crafting!

Scrapcosy radishes

Hi It's Brenda with you again today and I'm sharing a card made with those gorgeous images from Scrapcosy at PaperArtsy and her vegetable set. 

You may remember my cabbage one I made a little while ago and this is the radish design which I love. Here is the whole set.

I began by stamping the radishes on card using four different archival inks (colours below). I love doing this but I'm very careful where I place the ink pads and always work from the lightest to the darkest to help prevent contamination. I wanted the radishes to look a bit more earthy than they were so I painted in some aged mahogany and ground espresso distress inks and shabby shutters over the leaves.

But once I'd done that I thought it would look better if I added some extra radishes over the top to create dimension so I stamped them twice more and later repeated the aging process on them. 

I then spent a happy hour playing with two PaperArtsy infusions - Magenta and The sage and here are the beetroot coloured fingers to prove it (or should I say radish coloured?). I was using the technique I showed you back in January and because I was working with a text stencil rather than a patterned one I started on the reverse side first. Pop over to the January post to see what I mean.

These are the results of the infusion playtime and you can see there were quite significant differences depending how much powder I used, how much water and whether I dried them with a heat gun or rolled paper towel over them to soak off the excess.

As I started to put the card together I decided I needed some greenery in it and the gorgeous new scroll die from Tim Holtz had dropped through my letterbox that morning. I thought it would be ideal as to me the two scroll designs look like vintage leaf stems and needing a quick background for them I simply rubbed four green distress inks over it but bear in mind my pads are getting rather old and dry so there wasn't too much ink to soak into the card and it needed quite a bit of rubbing and blending to get it covered. (See colours in the product list below).

But it worked, after I had cut them I blended forest moss around the edges.

I knew I needed some appropriate words so I delved into my boxes of stamps and found a set from the lovely Lin Brown with this phrase on. It is perfect stamped in aged mahogany.

Whilst I was placing elements I kept thinking that this really wasn't working - and then brainwave, I picked up the blending tool that I had just used with the forest moss and rubbed it gently over all the white spaces and around the edges and eh voila it transformed the background immediately and made it look more vintage. Now I was much happier with it and the colors complement the image really well.

At last I had adhered everything on - you can see the dimension created by foam pads with the additional radishes .....

... and the word vegetables from the stencil showed through just in the right place to form part of the design

Thanks for stopping by. I hope you like this vintage card.

hugs Brenda xxx

Scrapcosy 2 (A5 Set, Trimmed, On EZ) PS050 PaperArtsy Stencil {Scrapcosy} Lin Brown Eclectica Archival ink pad - Coffee Tree Branch Archival Ink Ranger Archival ink pad - Jet black PaperArtsy Infusions - The Sage PaperArtsy Infusions - Magenta Tim Holtz distress ink pad - Ground Espresso Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Aged Mahogany Tim Holtz® - Distress Oxide Ink Pad - Peeled Paint Tim Holtz Distress ink - Forest moss Tim Holtz Distress ink pad - Shabby shutters Tim Holtz Distress ink pad - Bundled sage Sizzix Bigz Die - Scroll By Tim Holtz

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Summer gardening card.

Hi. It's Brenda here with a card and a cabbage from a set of stamps I fell in love with straight away as soon as I saw them.

Recently I treated myself to this set of gorgeous vegetable stamps and a stencil designed by Scrapcosy, released through PaperArtsy.

I started the background by painting it with revive chalky paint mixed with a little paynes grey media fluid acrylic. When it was dry I stamped a watery wash of sap green acrylic using an acrylic stamp block and to finish I monoprinted titanium white acrylic using a piece of card.

I stamped the cabbage onto oyster coloured card using olive archival ink then painted it with shabby shutters DI, the edges were blended with iced spruce a the most tiniest amount of peeled paint distress oxides.

The gardening label was created by swiping modeling paste through the stencil and when dry I spritzed it with water and rubbed in sap green acrylic, dried it again and spritzed it with water and dropped on some paynes grey. I finished the background with a fine brush and a little more sap green before replacing the stencil and sponging through titanium white to bring the lettering back to life.

I know a couple of keen gardeners who would love to be given a card like this and it's not that difficult to make is it?

Don't forget click on any of the product images below to be transported over the the CVC shop to see the prices - (they are very good you know).

Thanks for stopping by.

hugs Brenda xxx

Scrapcosy 2 (A5 Set, Trimmed, On EZ) PS050 PaperArtsy Stencil {Scrapcosy} Ranger Archival Ink Pad - Olive Distress ink pad - Peeled paint DecoArt white modeling paste DecoArt Mixed Media Fluid Acrylic 1oz - Sap Green DecoArt Antiquing Cream - Titanium white Ranger - Tim Holtz® - Distress Oxide Ink Pad - Iced Spruce Tim Holtz® - Distress Oxide Ink Pad - Peeled Paint Tim Holtz stamps - Simple sayings

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