Tuesday 30 August 2016

Paper piecing

I was inspired to create this card as an entry for the Clarity Stamp challenge.  I selected 5 different papers that showed a range of hues of similar colours.  The elegant lady was stamped on each paper, then the hat and dress were cut out.  Here I have a couple of tips, 1. don't cut the gloves from the dress section until you are ready to glue 2. Don't sneeze after you have cut the gloves from the dress!  Guess how I know!

Then came the task of lining up the ladies on the base card, so that they could be dressed in the graduated papers.  As my elegant lady is from some years ago, she is fixed to a handle, so I decided to scratch a mark on the handle in the centre top and bottom, this enabled me to place a pencil mark to more accurately position them.  

The centre plaque was created by masking over the ladies with 2 large post-it's then applying 2 shades of distress green and over stamping with the crackle stamp in a contrasting raspberry, using the technique of holding the stamp in your hand, rather than securing to a handle, and using 2nd and 3rd generations of ink.

Then the ladies needed grounding so I shaded a puddle under each lady imagining the light source above.


14 comments:

  1. Oh i do love this lady and i like how you have used different tone.

    Thanks for entering and good luck

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    1. I have used this lady quite a few times, it seems timeless and can suit so many ages. Thankyou for your words of encouragement.

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  2. A lovely idea to use a graduated colour scheme for this oh so elegant lady. Best wishes in this month's Clarity challenge and thank you for taking part. ;~}

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    1. I had the idea that I fancied using the elegant lady for the paper piecing, however I only have the small one, so a card would need more about it, with a bit of effort I managed to find 5 suitable papers!

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  3. I like these lady's good way to show fussy cutting good luck in the clarity challenge x

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  4. What a clever idea to use graduated coloured paper. Thanks for joining this month's Clarity challenge. Good luck! x

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    1. No luck this time! I'm one of those who finds it hard to cut up beautiful papers, I guess it was easier with the relative plain nature of the papers! Thankyou for taking the time to look at my work.

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  5. Using graduated papers is a clever idea. An elegant card. Good luck in the challenge x

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    1. Using this stamp goes a long way to assisting the elegance of the result! Thankyou for taking the time to comment.

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  6. Delightful artwork with the graduating shades of colour - your elegant lady looks great.
    Good luck in the Challenge draw x

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    1. Thankyou for commenting, and sorry for the latness of this reply. It is very special to get comments from fellow crafters.

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  7. Very elegant and eye catching, and I really like your border. I'll have to look out that crackle stamp!

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    1. Thanks for your lovely comments. The crackle stamp was a recent purchase but I can already see it is going to be very useful. I first used it on a Jo Rice workshop, where it was used to produce a more subtle background texture.

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