Craft Stamper – July 2019

Summer

Punch

Floral projects can be monochromatic too!

By Jo Firth-Young

S

ummer is here and I love seeing all the vibrant colours of flowers everywhere.

Mother Nature does an amazing job every year doesn’t she? I really like

seeing the flowers in their natural habitat with their green foliage but there is

something dramatic about them placed against black and white.

It makes for a really striking arrangement and makes the

colours pop.

The idea of flowers mixed with black and

white was the inspiration for my project. I

like to see white space in my designs -

this time I wanted to create detail and

texture in that white space.

My substrate is a recycled/

upcycled wood shadow box

bought in a ‘seconds’ sale. I

lightly sanded the surface to

remove any ridges created

by the original design. I

decoupaged the entire surface

(and some of the side panels)

with pieces of vintage book

pages, gluing them down with

Matte Mod Podge which I also

used to seal the surface. The next

layers, shown in the step-outs,

involved paint and Grunge Paste

so I made sure the substrate was

thoroughly dry before moving on to

these.

Top Tool...

A good white gel pen

• a touch of white
  doodling can make a
  design pop!

Go Shopping!

JOFY stamps & stencils, Fresco Finish paint, Grunge Paste, Smoothy available from

Loobi Crafts, http://www.loobicrafts.co.uk, 01525 838535

Carabelle die available from Carabelle Studio, http://www.carabelle-studio.fr

Memory Box die available from Crafts4Less, http://www.crafts4less.co.uk, 01505 337 458

Materials

Stamps Jo used...

• PaperArtsy JOFY74; JOFY

Other materials...

• Wood box canvas

• PaperArtsy stencil: PS

• Carabelle Studio die: Leaves &
Flowers

• Memory Box die: Sketch Floral

• PaperArtsy Fresco Finish paints:
Cerise; Prawn; Butternut; Vanilla;
Snowflake; Chalk;

• PaperArtsy Pearl Glaze

• PaperArtsy Grunge paste

• PaperArtsy Heavy Smoothy card

• Vintage book pages

• ModPodge

• Wood flowers

Meet the Designer,

Jo Firth-Young

“I design JOFY stamps for

PaperArtsy and I like to make things

• as my blog title says 'a little bit of
  this and that..'. Give me stamps, ink,
  paints and stencils and I'm a happy
  crafter!”

Explore her work online:

http://www.jofirthyoung.blogspot.co.uk

@jofyjo

http://www.facebook.com/JoFY.

JoFirthYoung

Project: Monochromatic Florals