3UP - Masterboards

So today at Paperartsy, the 3UP favourite technique, is Masterboards... you've seen what I and my fellow 3UP-ers love about this technique, this is just to share a few more of the photos

 my supplies! (I did add South Pacific too)

 the first layers of paint added

 and after the addition of some extra Antarctic and Ice Blue

 and the first layer of stamping with paint - scratchy circles in South Pacific and diamonds in Antarctic

first layer of stamping with Watering Can archival and the Lin Brown branch from ELB10

second layer of ink stamping - black this time - the bauble and robin from the same stamp set

 coloured with Inktense watercolour pencils.

cut up into squares (I got 6 plus some smaller offcuts) and ready to layer on to some card blanks - I used the same tree branch and Cornflower Blue to tone with the shades on the masterboard - on my card blanks (they are approximately 6 inch square)

and a greeting from one of the JoFY early Christmas sets

with the offcuts I took a smaller card blank and images from the Hot Pick set HPXM05 and the stars from the ELB10.  9 cards from one A3 piece of paper - and still a little strip left.  Not bad - hope  you enjoyed seeing these, and have fun with your masterboards!

Thanks again to Leandra and everyone at Paperartsy for allowing me to play at being a 3UP-er again.

Happy Christmas!!

Inspired by Ruth - #3UP for Paperartsy

Well following my own nerve-wracking appearance at the start of the week with Lin Brown stamps on the 3UP challenge for Paperartsy, we've seen some fabulous projects ever since - gorgeous use of Chatsworth papers, Lynne Perrella stamps, Darcy stamps,  JoFY stamps and Ellen Vargo stamps yesterday.

It was Ruth's fantastic piece that inspired me - catch hers here - I just love the bright colours and stencilling over the top.

I used a canvas rather than covering greyboard with cotton fabric as Ruth did, as that's what I had;  but went to work with my bright translucent Fresco's and a babywipe - I don't often apply/blend paint like this, but think I need to more often.

this is the finished canvas... I followed Ruth's instructions, used a lot of the same colours because they are bright and cheerful and that's what inspired me... but I don't have all the Ellen stamps (booo!) and used different stencils so it wasn't a complete copy.

 first step, stamp, start applying paint..

 lots more layers...

 stencilling with snowflake and Tango and South Pacific for the 'bumping'

 Blood Orange stencilled with a stiff stencil brush to add shading to the orange flowers

grunge paste through the JoFY "bloom" stencil

which I then coloured with Eggplant.  Added some White Fire treasure gold round the edges and over the blue seed pods


entering this to the #3UP Paperartsy challenge - if, as a #3UPper I'm not allowed to enter the draw for the prize, I am sure the great team at PA will leave my name out!

3UP - Eclectica (Lin Brown)

Just a quick post tonight, with a snippet of a project I created for the latest 3up secret projects for Paperartsy...

You can see what I did here - and I can't wait to see who else is up tonight!

Here's a little glimpse to tempt you..

It's Paperartsy 3UP time again

To celebrate their 10th birthday, the wonderful people at Paperartsy are having a party - a blog party and I was delighted to be invited to take part again following a recruitment campaign on twitter.

This time we were sent a bigger parcel of goodies and a list of instructions - here's mine:

We all got a colour swatch to follow, a substrate - as you see, mine is a little box with a loose lid, stamps, Paperartsy smoothy paper, and some embellishments (a pack of flowers)

I loved the colour swatch I was given, and chose my paints accordingly...
I painted the whole of the inside and out with Haystack, then added the other colours - Hey Pesto, Chocolate Pudding and Smoked Paprika, adding paint, wiping it back and adding more, until I was happy.. though not so with the photos, sorry!
I decided I would add some hinges to my box, to make it easier (I hoped) to photograph and more use later...Luckily the instructions said we could add our own embellishments to what we were sent, and I had some little hinges. Finding a hammer was more of a problem, till I remembered my Tim Holtz Texture Hammer!

I admit, I really, totally struggled with the set of stamps I was given... I am not a cat girl, and couldn't work out how to use many of them on my box...  So I took one of the patterns from the set, and stamped round the edges.

The flowers would be easy to use, I love flowers both in stamp form and as embellishments. but the top needed something else, so I stamped the same pattern onto some tissue paper (I have been hoarding some sheets of the much-missed Paperartsy crackly tissue  but any thin tissue will work) 4 times, then painting the tissue with Smoked Paprika, cutting out the strips, trimming to fit the lid and applying with Paperartsy Fresco Satin Glaze.

I applied two coats of Satin Glaze over the whole of the lid, and one to the sides.

Time to arrange  the flowers - that took ages longer than I thought, to get them right.  I decided to add some extra bits - idea-ology from my stash - to break up the softness a bit.

Close up of the flowers.

I decided to leave the box plain inside so it can be used as a little trinket box.

I'd like to say a huge thank you to everyone involved in organising this at Paperartsy - I know it's been a lot of work - and for letting me play again with you!

Happy 10th birthday, Paperartsy.