Paperbabe Stamps Challenge 95 - Picture Inspiration - Floral Constructions & New Release

Hi everyone, there's a new challenge on the Paperbabe Stamps Blog today where we have a lovely inspiration photograph to work from.

There's also a new release of stamps and templates in great new dinky sizes just right for all the smaller projects such as cards, tags and ATCs so I'm sure they're all going to be flying off the Paperbabe shelves. I'm sure they'll be very popular for cards especially as with a set of face stamps and a set of templates there are many options and combinations to put together for a new look every time.

I enjoyed putting together my concertina booklet to show some variations in the figures using different hairstyles and skin tones and using the different face/template shapes. The new roses and leaves and the little daisy type flower, crown and alphabet sets are the perfect accents.

I started off my project by cutting and scoring my card each panel of which is roughly ATC size. After that I've used Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylics and a baby wipe to apply several different colours over the entire piece which is a very quick way to start off. I find I get a better result if I don't think about it too much, just dab it on and re-work when it's dry if I don't like parts of it.

The new Dinky templates are my starting point for the figures, I used them to put paint through and then I stamped over them and added a bit of rough sketchy shading with pencils.

There are all the hairstyles in the Dinky templates and some new styles too, I mixed and matched around my figures and sometimes used different hair stencil parts from different sets to create my own hairstyles, it's very easy to make the figures your own. I love that the dinky face stamps are a complete face stamp too, very easy to work with at this size.

The little flowers and the new alphabet stamp sets are great accents and I added some paper clipping words to meld into the background. I coloured all the negative space around the figures, the word stamping and roses with black pen and stamped the little daisies over the top of it. Some doodling and glitter glue finishes everything off.

All the new releases are now in the Paperbabe Stamps shop ready to fly off the shelves and there's lots of inspiration from my team mates on the Paperbabe Stamps Challenge blog.

Have a lovely weekend!

Chris x

Paperbabe Stamps December Release - Day 2

Hi everyone, it's day two of the Paperbabe Stamps December Release and today we're introducing the first of Kim's new line of stencils with Herringbone. This is a great stencil for male themed projects but works really well in more feminine mixed media projects for texture as I've used it in my project.

The new fairy wing template is a wonderful addition to the template series giving lots of options for placement as it's in three pieces, I think the lacy edge is very pretty too.

I created my portrait girl first from the templates, painting in her skin with acrylics and hair and wing with watercolour markers before stamping her features. The background was coloured with gelato watercolours and then I removed colour using the Herringbone stencil with a baby wipe. I used the star stamps from the mini profile face stamp set around the background in various inks and added the Art Quote 'Light from within'. I finished up with lots of black pen work to give a bit of a comic book heroine feel, I imagine her having long hair down to her feet! :-D

Kim has more gorgeous inspiration on the Paperbabe Stamps Blog and links to all of the team blogs in today's post. The new stamps, templates and stencil will be ready to purchase at Paperbabe Stamps shop on Saturday and I'll be back with you tomorrow for the day three release.

Chris x