PaperArtsy - Topic 17 - A Vintage Christmas

2019 Topic 17: A Vintage Christmas

Hi everyone, on the PaperArtsy blog I'm sharing my take on topic 17 which is 'A Vintage Christmas'. I chose to work with gorgeous recently released Christmas stamps and stencils by Kay Carley. All the stockists for the stamps and stencils I used can be found on this post.  It's nice to do a pretty project like this now and again with lots of sparkle and a gorgeous palette of colours that I feel can reflect vintage from Tracey Scott's new Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylic Paint release. Stockists for the paints can be found at the end of this post.

I enjoy decorating gift bags and making tags for my Christmas gifts and everyone seems to appreciate them which is nice so I feel it's worth the effort. This one will be for my mum, it can be easily pegged onto the top edge of the bag.

There's a gel print in the background using some of the paints listed above. The Fresco's  create a really nice base for stencilling and also for colouring with pencils, the mono print gives an even coating of paint on the card with a little tooth for the pencils to grab. Die cut holly, a silver skeleton leaf, silver mini clothes peg, and a silver glitter matting layer all help to add the vintage sparkle.

The gift bag follows on from the tag above in style with a stencilled and stamped mono print and then stencilling over the top. The die cut this time is cut from another mono print where real leaves were used on the gel plate.

The recipients name could be written in the heart instead of using a gift tag.

By using different parts of a gel print you can achieve a nice variance in the colours but they all co-ordinate and the new Fresco colours are so pretty together. 

A bit of glitter card is another favourite thing of mine to use at Christmas and some wrinkled seam binding too.

Have a good week.

Chris x

PaperArtsy Blog contribution - Topic 13 Mushrooms

Hi everyone, hope you're well. I have a project on the PaperArtsy Blog currently where we're sharing projects for topic 13 - Mushrooms. 

I made a one layer card.

I did some gel printing as the background layer using a PaperArtsy stencil.

The mushrooms were created using an entirely different stamp, there are more photo's and how I created them on the PA blog.

Back soon,
Chris x

Paperbabe Stamps Challenge 97 - Sketch

Hi every one, hope you've had a good week. There's a new challenge starting on the Paperbabe Stamps Blog today and this fortnight the theme is a Sketch which can be interpreted in many ways. s

I made a card with the  Female Face Dinky Stamp Set, Mixed Media Templates ~ Portrait Face Dinky Set and a Roses Stencil.

Although it's not that obvious I started off with gel plate print which gave me a duotone of pink and blue, the pink at the bottom gave me the background colour for the face.

I used pastels for colouring, distress oxide inks through the stencil and created the bottom diagonal section from the sketch by using a die cut stencil and adding lots of glitter glue on and under it.

Hope you can join us in the challenge, as always there's a lovely prize from Kim.

Have a lovely weekend.

Chris x