New Eclectica Lin Brown...part 2

Hi, busy week for me with 5 posts! As promised I'm back again with my remaining samples from Lin Brown's stamp release last night. In case you missed it you can click the link to last nights post on the PaperArtsy blog. It was a real joy to work with these stamps and stencils.

As soon a s I saw this stencil I knew I wanted to use grunge paste with it.

I started with a brayered background using the colour palette given, we used Fresco paints in Vanilla, Yellow Submarine, Caramel, Toffee, Chocolate and Claret. I used the lighter colours and also added in some Fresco Gold at the end in one sweep of the brayer to leave some texture.

Next stamping in co ordinating archival ink with the leafy background stamps.

Lastly having applied the grunge paste and let it dry I replaced the stencil and brushed on some metallic glaze and Biscotti perfect pearls just to make it pop. The lettering had some additional Treasure Gold applied to the bottom half and then some wobbly stitching just finished the edges off.

I have quite an eclectic style and went down a clean and simple route with 2 of the samples. I wanted to show how versatile the stamps are. The daisy one is quite straight forward, once shaded the daisy heads were layered up. I used one stamp to make a leafy background and border and dots were added with a gold pen.

I thought some of the stamps could be used in an oriental style and combined it with a favourite 3 panel layout of mine. These are the ingredients.

Fairly straight forward, the background 'waves' were created using the stems of the seed head stencil and distress ink.

A wash paint for the panels, cut them out first then stamp and finish with gold pen highlights.

Lastly, this is an idea I had but didn't get finished in time for sending. I've used pan pastels before to create a meadow style scene and just thought with all the lovely small leafy or flower style stamps available on the plates, I could repeat this. The above left is the pan pastel one using versamark to stamp and then colour in with the pastels.

 This one is the finished Fresco version but using archival inks in various colours instead of versamark. Now  I didn't know but the way I created it is an ombre style as demonstrated by Jo Firth Young on a periscope demo she did yesterday at PaperArtsy HQ....serendipty?! So if you want to see a fab demo click the link here to the JOFY post and embedded video.

To finish some gold highlights.

That's all from me for the time being.... I've really enjoyed it. Thanks for taking the time to visit and leaving such lovely comments. R x