New Stamps. Night 1: Hot Picks

Over on the PaperArtsy blog this evening we are launching new paints and new stamps. The paints are a new limited edition winter set, full of scrummy colours and the stamps are Halloween and Christmas themed. 


HPHW05

HPXM08

HPXM09

Do pop over to the PaperArtsy blog to see the full range. 

I had a little play with the new paints and Christmas stamps and made these 2 small samples. 

I started with Mermaid. Concrete and Captain Peacock blended onto a size 8 tag. 

I blended Blueberry into the edges and added the snowflakes using Concrete mixed with Metallic glaze. Then I added a hill of Dreamweaver crackle paste. 

Once this finished crackling I added the small trees. These were stamped in plum archival ink onto tissue paper, torn out and glued on with glaze. 

I rubbed a little stickles into the crackled paste. 

I stamped one of the larger trees twice, using Professor Plum and also Moonlight. Over these I stamped the fancy tree in black archival. 

I also stamped the main sentiment in black archival. The eagle eyed among you will note that to achieve this configuration of text.. and the snowlake in the background I had to cut apart this stamp and use the parts separately... shhh don't tell Mark and Leandra lol (oops, busted, according to the video Leandra guessed I had cut the stamp apart lol)

I love how this turned out, it looks like a proper vintage Christmas card lol The snowy hill was a little bare. So I used a tiny border element from another of the stamps and created this little fence. It is just stamped onto tissue paper using black archival ink. 

I finished off by adding white dots to the tiny trees. 

for the 2nd sample i made a little card. 

This started as a gelli plate print using the same colours as above, but also incorporating Emma Godfreys star stencil. 

I painted some smoothy card with concrete and used WOW black embossing powder to stamp the tree.  i them painted Captain Peacock and stamped the row of snowlakes. 

Then all I needed to do was layer it all up. I added splatters of  concrete to the background and a bow from leftover Captain Peacock. 

All these new stamps are now available from your favourite PaperArtsy retailer so do please support them. 

Darcy x