New Jofy Stamps

I have a few photo's to show you of the projects Jamie and I did when we attended a workshop with
Leandra from Paper Artsy.

I am ashamed to say we were late for the start, we went to to wrong end of the hall at the NEC and have you ever tried to get from from end to the other without knocking anybody over, not easy.
Well we managed to catch up and we really did enjoy the workshop, so all was well in the end.

Heres my picture using JOFY 09 stamp and Paper Artsy Paints. We did use some of Lin's stamps from the Eclectica range on the base layer, then applied paint with a sponge or scraper and stamped on top of the dried paint with Archival Ink. We used Translucent paints for the flowers so that it did not cover up the text and you can keep applying layers to build up depth and shading.

Here's Jamie's Picture using the same JOFY stamp. "Time" is off Sara Naumann's stamp E3 no 5.
Art in Bloom off E3 no 1

This picture I did after the show, I embossed on Indigo Blu's Black Cardstock with white embossing powder. Then painted using various colours of Perfect Pearls.

We are off  to the NEC on Wednesday for the Hobbycrafts show which starts on Thursday, so if I'm not about you can see what's happening by checking out our facebook page.

Toodle pip

Sharon x

Hand Carved Flowers

They are finally coming in, Lin Brown's fantastic new stamps, Carved Flowers from Paper Artsy. They are part of the new Eclectica3 range, and I am in love with them. I just have the one at the moment but I shall be stalking the delivery man tomorrow.

I found them so versatile with ink or paints, the possibilities are endless. You must pop over to Lin's blog at Yours Artfully where she is giving a free tutorial on the stamps. I'm trying to resist having a look till after I have posted this blog.

Here's a few photo's of the samples I have done:

The backgrounds are Chalk Acrylics sponged onto a piece of mount board. The main flower on the board is stamped up using distress inks Broken china and wild honey and the cut out flower was painted with Beach Hut and when the paper had dried stamped using Butternut paint, and the colours matched really well.

The wording is off Paper Artsy Petals Plate 6 and a few other bits from older PA stamps.

The centre of the flower is highlighted with Adirondack Dimensional Pearls in Butterscotch.

Same idea for the background but on this picture you will notice a few of JOFY's new stamps have sneaked in. Even though Lin's and Jo's stamps are completely different styles they do complement each other.

These flowers have been stamped onto painted card with Archival Ink and highlighted with a White Posca Pen.

Maybe just a word of warning it can became a bit addictive, by the time I had decided which flowers to use my desk looked like a flower garden, not a bad thing though.

See you soon

Sharon x