A note from Leandra ... It is always an exciting event when a new designer joins the team, and super interesting to see how other people interpret them. With that in mind, I invited Keren Baker to create with Kate's new stamps. I love to see how the same stamps can be used so differently, depending on a person's individual creative style. How might you put your twist on these stamps?? Like Kate, Keren loves bright colours, but she often uses white space to good effect too, and she often 'sees' stamps in unexpected ways ... so after the lovely blast of inspiration from Kate yesterday - here ..read more

A note from Leandra ... It is always an exciting event when a new designer joins the team, and Kate comes to us ready to begin a new phase in her creative walk, partnering with us as manufacturer of her stamps and stencils. Many of you may be aware that, Kate was previously designing for Carabelle Studio, who surprised us all when they announced their intention to close in Autumn 2023. Kate, who is based in the North of the UK, has worked consistently over the years to build a loyal and dedicated following that has quickly evolved and expanded across the globe. You might have attended one ..read more

A note from Leandra: This is an absolutely gorgeous release from Gwen with a perfect mix of background, focal and layering elements. I am super drawn to the flourish set that will make the most stunning Vintage style wallpaper backgrounds, but when you see how Gwen pulls it al together in her samples, it is so interesting! I love the layers, the birds with trailing patterns ...so much to enjoy in this release! I Am sure you will agree!   Gwen will be along to share with you LIVE her new products and ideas over in our Facebook Group, 'PaperArtsy People' shortly after this post pu ..read more

Hi everyone Etsuko Noguchi (My favorite things) here with you today. This PaperArtsy blog  has been very exciting recently with bloggers sharing all about Mattints, so as we move into a new topic, I thought I'd use those a little differently myself along with the Vintage stamps I am using, Hot Picks. This vintage topic had me thinking about how to mash-up my chosen Hot Picks decorative large number stamp set with Seth Apter stamp set. I thought a bit about what to make, but then I remembered the block cubes my son had, I decided to create a Cube Calendar using a calenda ..read more

Hello, Mags here with you today.  I'm excited to share with you my project for the next round of the 3 things challenge here on the PaperArtsy blog. I must admit I'm not normally a fan of surprises, mainly because I am a bit of a control freak ! but I do love a challenge ! When I was younger I loved watching "Ready Steady Cook", a UK television series where two chefs were given mystery ingredients and told to come up with something wonderful. This challenge is in a similar vein, but with art supplies. When the parcel arrived with the three supplies for the challenge, I couldn't wait ..read more

Hi there everyone! It's Riikka from Paperiliitin here today to share with you my make with 3 things! The three things I received were Ink & The Dog Collection (Buttons 4) stamp set (B4EZ), Tall Heart die (PAD-TH) and Fresco Finish Frosting Glaze (FF111). Frosting Glaze (FF111) was a new product for me, but as soon as I read the description in the card that was with the package, I had the idea of doing transparent ATCs. I've done some before and I really like the floating effect the transparent base creates. There's something magical about the substrate and it's always fun ..read more

Hi everyone, Nikki here today with my 'With 3 things' project. The products I was sent were PaperArtsy Frosting Glaze (FF11), PaperArtsy Die - Tall Heart and PaperArtsy Ink and the Dog - London 2 (LN2) stamp set. At first I was not quite sure how I was going to bring these together. I have been following some Zentangle style posts on Instagram lately and I am always happy working with geometric shapes so decided to create a journal page using the heart die both as a shape to draw around but also to create some translucent windows. To start I created a stencil out of my die and outl ..read more

Hi everyone, Leandra here It is time for a new topic on the PaperArtsy Blog and for our designer focus, we are looking back at  some of the numerous PaperArtsy in-house/ older design lines. As we have evolved over the years, so have the collections we offer, but there is still a vintage undercurrent throughout. Hopefully after this post, you will have a better insight into some of these collections. You may not be aware that as a brand, we launched in 2004 with the Ink and the Dog Collection, which was designed by Finnish designer Nea Nygard, in collaboration with Leandra. We came up ..read more

Hi Everyone Amanda Pink (p1nkart) here with you today. It's good to be back having had to take some 'time out' from my creativity last year and how lucky am I that my return comes with the opportunity to 'play' with Ellen Vargo stamps and the new PaperArtsy Mattints, especially as I'm feeling like a 'newbie' myself having been away for awhile !!  I didn't really have any creative direction with regards what kind of project I would make for this topic prior to starting (which is often the case) but I knew given the PaperArtsy Mattints were new to me I would spend some ini ..read more

Hello everybody!  Mi Mii from France with you today. I am so happy to be back on the blog to shre with you my interpretation with Mattints, and the Theme 'Glazed'. I was so curious to discover the new tinted glazes.  In this Art Journal page, I played with 2 new colours: Mattints The Pink (MT08) and Dragonfly (MT07). Salut tout le monde ! C'est Mi Mii, aujourd'hui avec vous ! Contente de vous retrouver ici, pour illustrer le Thème 02 "Mattints", et toujours "Glazed". Je découvre avec beaucoup de curiosité ces nouveaux glacis PaperArtsy Fresco Tints. Dans cette p ..read more