Welcome to a new blog series: Eclectica Monday!
I worked with Paper Artsy, one of my all-time-super-extra-favorite stamp companies, to create a range of stamps. These are designed to be used for art journaling, and cardmaking…and whatever else you can think of! In this blog series, I want to share a few project ideas for using the stamps. Today we’ll start with ESN02.
If you do art journals, then you’ll probably already have ideas for the “journal” and “entry no.” stamps…but besides being page titles, they can also become part of the background for either an art journal page or—as in this case—a handmade card.
Rather than use all the stamps separately, I put them all on one big acrylic block and stamped them as a background unit.
You’ll need—
– ESN02 Eclectica stamps
– Spearmint Gelatos pigment stick
– Gesso
– paintbrush
– acrylic paper or sturdy cardstock
– black inkpad (I used Versafine)
– Dylusions spray in Lemon Zest; Tiny Circles stencil (optional)
– yellow silk flower, black button, black and white baker’s twine
– blank card
– craft sheet
Here’s how I made the card:
1) Scribble Spearmint Gelato onto your craft sheet. Mix with gesso.
2) Mix well until you have a chalky green, then paint onto your acrylic paper. My paper is about 4.5″x6″ and I didn’t cover the entire piece, so it has a sort of scuffy, dry-brush effect. Let dry.
3) Arrange your stamps onto one big acrylic block. Tip: A CD case can also work!
4) Ink it up and stamp onto your background paper. Ink around the outside edges of the paper.
5) Place a stencil on top of the stamped piece and spritz lightly with yellow ink. (Note: The circles from my stencil were hard to see when I sprayed, so you could probably spritz without the stencil.)
6) Add a yellow flower, button and baker’s twine, then mount onto a blank card.
Hope you enjoyed the project! Happy Monday!
PS. Eclectica stamps can be found through Paper Artsy and Paper Artsy retailers.
Wow gorgeous card, love the colours and that flower sits perfectly on it. X Fab
Thanks, Fab! It’s part of my attempt to use ‘older’ things I have in my stash…I must have had that flower for 5 years! 🙂
Gorgeous, and I am a big fan of the stamps you designed for Paperartsy, will be watching regularly!
Thanks, Helen! See you next Monday! (That post will be an art journal page.)
Wonderful card Sara! I’m an art journaler, so I love these stamps! Off to look at your aj page now :o)
Alison xx
Kindred spirits! 🙂 Hope you have fun looking around!