Ellen Vargo Eclectica Designer !!!

 Welcome the newest Designer for PaperArtsy!!! Ellen Vargo!

I love her chunky stamps for making backgrounds. Leandra thought a mash up with Lin Brown's hand-carved Garden stamps would be great fun!
 

 

This is some of the purple Frescos again and the the gorgeous blues blended all around for a background onto a #10 tag.

 

Then I stamped with Spanish Mulberry and Baltic Blue paint, and used Versafine Imperial Purple, Majestic Blue, and Vintage Sepia inks. Sometimes I used 2 colors to each stamp as you can see in the lower right corner.

 

 

The Snowflake stenciled bubbles PS003 and stamped images make great contrast.

 

 

 

 

I stamped the Tulips from ELB02 and ELB04 onto black cardstock and embossed with gold embossing powder. Cut them out, and glued to the tag.

 

Outline with pens and add some dots. This is layered onto white watercolor paper.

 

If you like bright, you'll love this. And it is THIS bright in person!

 

The Haystack, London Bus, Tango and Blood Orange with just a touch of Claret make up the background.

 

I stamped the Diamond pattern down the side from EEV03 (see above) with Distress Ink and added

Clear Embossing Powder. Red archival ink and Carmel paint were used here, too.

 

  

 

Then I added Snowflake paint and Sepia ink to EEV02 images and stamped.

 

 

The beautiful phrase stamped in black archival ink jumps right out at you.

 

 

This is the #8 tag with the same type of background, but with different, more muted colors and EEV04.

 

The background  has stamps from EEV03 here again, too. 

 

 

I also used these gorgeous hand-carved stamps from EEV04.

 

 

I stamped the phrase ART IN BLOOM on white stamping paper from ELB01.

 

 

And used the ELB03 collection for the flower that I cut out and layered onto the tag.

 

Lin's Bubble stencil was perfect here with Grunge Paste that I sanded back to reveal colors underneath.

 

 

 

And here's a little ATC mash up for fun with Florentine Treasure Gold  on the edges, Lin's stencil and Ellen's fabulous leave stamps.

 

The Phrase is from the Darcy collection EDY06 with Zesty Zing on white stamping paper.

 

 

Just grabbed this shot of our projects at the Stitches Trade Show in the UK. Get them while they're hot, people!

 

That's it for me, I'll be back later this month with a tutorial and another fun project. Let me know what you think!!!

See you there.....now jump over to  The PaperArtsy Blog  

 for more projects from great designers using the new stamps from Ellen Vargo! Be sure to ask your LSS about these stamps!

 

Linda