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Mixing Custom Blends with Paper Glaze - Stencilling Fun!
by Lisa Tilson on May 05 2021
Hello everyone, Lisa here today to share two cards using A Rose, some Paper Glaze, Paper Glaze Enhancer and a stencil that I love! Both cards are similar in design, but changed up a little with the sentiments. I had spare Paper Glaze that I had mixed so I couldn't let that go to waste so two background panels were created. I think both these cards would make great Wedding/Engagement cards. One would also be a great all occasion card for your stash.
I started off by taking a panel of Neenah 80lb cardstock and securing the Watercolor Brush Strokes stencil down over the top. I really love this stencil - as I think it adds a very unobtrusive background to your card. Sometimes you don't want the stencil to be the star of the show, but still have it's place on the card and that is what I think this stencil does brilliantly, especially when you use soft colours. I used three colours of Paper Glaze, but my bottom colour is a custom blend of Pink Carnation and Golden Rose. I was attempting to make a coral colour and tried mixing the two together. I wasn't sure it would be what I wanted and I was right, but what it did produce was this GORGEOUS ballet slipper blush colour (bottom 6 or so lines below).
I then added some Paper Glaze Enhancer to it, to remove some of the shine and that results in a more textured matt finish. I used the Paper Glaze Enhancer with each of the glazes. So, I applied the mixed blend through the bottom of the stencil with a spatula, cleaned the spatula off and then added Pink Carnation with enhancer above it, and then Snowdrop White with enhancer above that, fading out towards the top and making sure not to have the lines stretching all the way across the card, a more unfinished finish at the top! And as I had some of the custom blend left, I cleaned off the stencil and secured it to another panel and went through the same process.
These were set aside to dry whilst I worked on my main image. I really love A Rose, and thought it would look pretty over the background. So I grabbed some Arches Hot Pressed card and stamped the image twice using Versamark Ink. I applied gold embossing powder and heat set. Both images were watercoloured with Mijello Mission Gold paints and left to dry.
For my first card, I popped the rose up with foam tape and I used the Always Word Die with it's shadow die. The shadow was cut from vellum, and the word part was die cut twice from Neenah 80lb cardstock. As I wanted my gold to match the gold of the embossing powder on the rose, I smooshed my Versamark ink pad onto some scrap white cardstock, applied the gold embossing powder and heat set before die cutting the final layer from that. All my layers were then stacked together and adhered over the top.
For the second card, I adhered the rose flat onto the panel and then took a strip of vellum which I prepped with an anti static bag. I stamped a greeting from More Fancy Sentiments using Versamark Ink, applied gold embossing powder and heat set. This was then placed over the rose and secured at the back of the panel with tape.
Both panels were then adhered flat to a top folding notecard. And that finishes my two cards.
I hope that you will try mixing your Paper Glazes - I love the sometimes unexpected blends you can create when you do this. And If you don't have time to use up your spare glaze, you can always pop it into a pot and save it for another day. Picket Fence sells spare containers for this exact reason.
Thanks for joining me today. I'll be back soon with another project for you!
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Love Ya, Paper Glazes And Stencils!
by Erica Andersson-Burke on Jan 12 2021
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Hi Picket Fence Fans!
It’s Paper Glazes no1 fan, Erica, here with my first blog post for 2021!
I’ve been using crafting as a means to cope with some heartbreak and grief. For me, that’s such a welcome way to ‘take a break’ from feeling awful and just lose myself in the process for a little while. It’s probably no secret that I love the Paper Glazes, and recently I have been trying out a new technique where I have been making shimmery card stock with them! It’s super fun and oh my gosh, the possibilities are practically endless!
I have also been mixing some of the Paper Glazes to make new custom blends! It’s messy and fun.
For this card, I mixed together Daffodil Yellow, Succulent Green, Ocean Poppy and a brand new colour coming on Thursday!! I didn’t mix them totally together, I wanted the colours to show through a little bit, almost like marbling if that makes sense?
This mix I used directly onto a card base over the Geo Squares Stencil. When that was dry, I used the Love Ya diecut on black card stock and added that to the card. I kept it very simple to let the Paper Glaze shine.
The second card is done with the same layout, only with different colours and different techniques. I started by ink blending some Hickory Smoke Distress Oxide ink over the Geo Squares stencil. Again, direcly onto a white card base. Over this, I also added a light touch of Petunia Pink, Marigold Orange and Bee Sting Yellow Atelier Ink.
The reason I used these colours was to match a piece of shimmer card stock I made with some left over Paper Glaze. This piece was created by scraping off the excess Paper Glaze I had used to create a bigger piece. Strangely, I love this bit more than the original piece!! Funny, huh? The colours used in this are Daffodil Yellow, Marigold Orange, Peony Pink, Boysenberry Violet and a touch of that new colour coming on Thursday!
I used the Love Ya die again, only this time both of the pieces. The shadow part on the shimmer piece and the words were cut out of grey card stock. I also cut out another three shadow pieces out of white card stock and layered these up.
This was then adhered to the ink blended card base and with that, this card was also done!
Isn’t it amazing what you can use the Paper Glaze’s for? Even the smallest blob of it can be used for something, so next time you bring yours out, make sure to have spare paper around to scrape off any excess glaze and use for word die cuts or the A Tree die, like I have done here.
I hope I have inspired you to look at your Paper Glazes in a new way and to help you get the most out of them, and if you haven’t tried them yet, what are you waiting for?? Come join in the fun and use the hashtag #pfpaperglaze on social media so we can see your projects!
Lots of love and happy crafting from Erica
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Burst Of Sun Stencil Fun with Erica
by Erica Andersson-Burke on Dec 22 2020
Hi guys!
It's Erica back on the Picket Fence Studios blog for the last time of 2020. It's been an absolutely dreadful year, and this month has been extra testing for my family, as we lost our matriarch, my mother-in-law, at the beginning of it.
Rather than dwell on all the misery, I'm going to try and bring some cheer with the Burst Of Sun Stencil with lots of colour and shimmer.
My first card was done by ink blending a panel with the Burst Of Sun Stencil and an array of Life Changing Blender Brushes and Distress Oxide inks, in a rainbow look. In the middle, I stamped up the HB2U from Do Good Recklessly with Black Hybrid Ink.
I also added LOTS of bling from the Gin & Tonic sequin mix, and I adhered these to the card with Glossy Accent.
The second card is done in a quite dramatic look. Golden Rose Paper Glaze on black card stock using the Burst Of Sun Stencil! Ooooooh, I love the drama of this!
Apart from the drying of the Paper Glaze, which admittedly doesn't take long either, this is a relatively quick card. It's finished off with the big mic and a sentiment from the Do Good Recklessly stamp set. Both are heat embossed in gold, the sentiment on black card stock and the microphone on grey card stock.
The final card is a labour of love for sure, and is a twist of the first card, only using Paper Glazes instead of inks over the Burst Of Sun Stencil!
I used the first card as a colour reference wheel and mixed a few in order to achieve the colours to match as close as possible. The colours I used are Daffodil Yellow, Marigold Orange, Peony Pink, Agapantha Purple, Cornflower Blue, Jade Vine, Succulent Green and Leaf Green.
In order to make the extra colours, I mixed Daffodil Yellow and Leaf Green to make the Twisted Citron part. To get the Wild Honey part I used Daffodil Yellow and a little bit of Peony Pink.
To make the Carved Pumpkin look I used Daffodil Yellow and Marigold Orange. Cornflower Blue and Agapantha Purple were mixed to create the Blueprint Sketch look.
When this Burst Of Sun background was dry, it was finished with the same HB2U sentiment, only heat embossed in white on black card stock. I cut this out using a circle from the Slim Line Diecutting System, as well as another 4, layered these up and adhered to the card.
Well, that is it from me for today and this year! I hope you loved these cards and got inspired to get crafty today.
Lots of love and happy crafting from Erica
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by Michelle Lupton on Jun 12 2020
Hello - it's Michelle here today to share this card that I made a little while ago by mixing Agapantha purple and Cornflower Blue paper glazes to create a new colour.
I love using a gradient of colour over a stencil - I usually do this with ink and Life Changing Blender Brushes, but you can do it with Paper Glazes and a palette knife, too! They mix beautifully, and spread over the stencil just like cake frosting - so satisfying! I called my new colour Royal Blue.
I used the Mermaid Scales stencil and a sentiment from Fancy Sentiments on this card.
Thanks for visiting :)
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Sarcasm, Flowers, and Paper Glaze
by Sara Sherlock on Apr 21 2020
Hello! It's Sara, from Much Love Sara. I'm here to share three cards with you, that are all variations using a fun technique. Each card uses the new Never Faked a Sarcasm Stamp Set, the Flowers Stencil, and Paper Glazes - and the colors of the glazes are custom blended.