Another amazing week on the Paper Artsy blog and Darcy has launched some fabulous new stamps in the Eclectica range! I have made a papier mache heart using Lynne Perella stamps inspired by Helen Chilton's post which you can see here, and am entering it for the challenge here.
I followed Helen's advice and painted the heart with Snowflake first so that when I painted the Limelight it would be a strong colour, then added the crackle, then thick brush strokes of Bora Bora. I used the script from LP 014 in Magenta Hue Archival and the Mini 26 which echos the script at the bottom of the teacup lady, also from LP 014. I covered her with Fresco Gloss Glaze which Leandra advised a while back in her video to bring out the colours.
I made a shrink plastic heart from LP 015, using the script to fill in the blank edges, taking inspiration from Carol Quance's charm bracelet a few weeks ago (love how all the tips start to come together). It was an afterthought to turn it into a flower by adding a shrink plastic stem from Lin Brown's Eclectica. The finishing touch was to stitch some of the funky bobble trim that was in my Monster Monday box to the cord, which I thought went well with the neon colours I had used.
I would just like to say on here, huge congratulations to the Paper Artsy followers who are having their amazing work showcased on the PA blog at the moment. I thoroughly enjoyed looking at their projects last night. Just as much fun as seeing the talented Guest Designers.
Hello Lucy, that is beautiful. I love that image & it was a great idea to make the little SP heart flower - love the LB stem!
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for your very kind comment on my blog. I do like the image I used on mine, but I'm just not sure it suits the heart. I think I applied too much pressure when I stamped it on the tissue, losing some of the detail & making it darker than it really is, but I didn't realise until I'd stuck it on the heart. A lesson learnt. :)
Love your shrink plastic heart flower. What a lovely idea. I agree, all the tips seem to be coming together. It's been such a wow month I am glad this week to just see what everyone else has been doing and digest some of the fabulous tips and techniques. Thanks for dropping by and your lovely comment. I appreciate you taking the time to visit and leave a little sunshine
ReplyDeleteWhat a great project !
ReplyDeleteI love this project. Lucy. Teacup lady is a brilliant image and one I'd so like to own: on the wish list, of course! The colours look really great on this. I'm trying to catch up on commenting - where does time go? Kitchen floor beckons, oh dear! Julie Ann xx
ReplyDeleteBeautiful heart Lucy glad you got to play along :D
ReplyDeleteFabulous heart, Lucy. I love that lady with a tea cup but for some reason haven't bought that stamp set - yet!
ReplyDeleteThis is lovely!
ReplyDeleteHow cute is that... lovely tinting on the image!
ReplyDeleteAlison x