Welcome to the Scrap
Matrix blog.
Today it’s my turn to show
you my second project for ‘Paperartsy’ month.
They have a great variety of
paints, stencils and stamps. Have I told
you how much I love these products?
I have to say that my crafting budget takes a
huge hit every time they have a new release.
My current favourites are those designed by Jo Firth Young and I’ve used
them for this project.
So if you feel
like hiding from the world’s troubles, I suggest you hop in your craft room,
(or designated area), and play along for a while. You will need:
·
A canvas, approx. 20 x 26cm
·
White Cardstock
·
A craft sheet (optional a piece of scrap paper will do)
·
A brayer
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Paperartsy Paints – Summer Sky, Guacamole, Magic
Moss, Zucchini, Granny Smith,
Gold,
Snowflake, Wisteria, Lavender, Purple Rain, Eggshell and Truffle
·
Paperartsy Stencils
PS139 and PS164
·
Paperartsy Stamp sets JOFY 81 and JOFY 82
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A stamping platform or stamp positioner
·
Archival Ink Coffee
So this is what you’ll
need to do.
1. Sponge Summer Sky and Guacamole randomly onto
the canvas. Then put a little Magic Moss
onto your craft sheet and load up your brayer. Run the brayer over your canvas
in the sections you want some colour. Repeat with Wisteria, Gold and Snowflake. (Snowflake will tone down some of the colour,
so do this only if you feel it’s too bright).
2. Sponge Magic Moss through stencil PS139on
either side of the canvas. Next, lightly
sponge Guacamole over it again but only on the top of the ovals. In between
these, Sponge Granny Smith through stencil PS164, and again sponge Zucchini but
only on the top of the leaves. I also sponged
Zucchini and Magic Moss through PS164 in a few other random places just to fill
in some gaps.
3. Next I stamped two
of the large flowers from JOFY 81 using a stamping platform onto white
cardstock with Archival Ink Coffee. Using this as a guide I painted the stems
using the greens listed above and Snowflake and once dry, placed the cardstock
back in the stamping platform and re-stamped the image over the paint. (I
forgot to photograph this).
4. I repeated this process six times (but only
using the flower part of the stamp). Painted each section of flower that I
wanted to cut out and piece together.
This is much easier (but more time consuming) than trying to paint each
section on the one flower.
5. Using the grid stamp from JOFY81, I stamped
it randomly over the canvas using Magic Moss and Gold. The double flower stamp from JOFY82 was
stamped using Archival Ink Coffee onto the bottom right of the canvas. I painted the circles in Gold. Using the purple paints listed above, I
sponged them onto a piece of cardstock and stamped the flowers again. I cut out the petals only, (these will be
glued onto the stamped images later). Next
I sponged the green paints onto cardstock and stamped the two leaves from
JOFY81 and cut them out.
6. Before gluing anything onto the canvas I went
over the edges of my images with a brown pen.
I used a PITT pen but any pen/marker will do. A colour lighter than the
Archival Ink is best.
7. Arrange images
onto the canvas and glue/attach them using gel medium. Next I added highlights with a white Posca
pen and stamped the quote using Archival Ink.
If you have any questions about this project I'm happy to answer them. Just post it in the Comments section.
You don't have to use the same stamps I have.
I'm sure if you pop over to
scrapmatrix.com and
have a look at the Paperartsy products on offer, I'm sure you'll find something to your liking.
They are sure to bring you a little bit of
happiness.
Also don’t forget to share your
creations with us on the Facebook page, you may even win the monthly prize. Well, that’s it.
I hope you like it.
Take care.
Jen
>^.^<
