It is a little nerve wracking asking people to work with something new that you have designed. I don’t know if other designers feel this too but there is something amazing about seeing the sketches that you did being turned into products that other people are, hopefully, going to have fun with.
So seeing the way that Michelle Short and Anneke De Clerck breathed life into these products for the February Release of the new stamps and stencils in the PaperArtsy Eclectica³ {Kim Dellow} range with their beautiful samples brings me real joy. I wanted to share that joy here on my blog with a blog post dedicated to each of these talented designers and showcasing their lovely samples.
So I will kick off today with a showcase of Michelle Short‘s beautiful work. Michelle has a wonderful clean and simple style to her work and for her samples she has made some beautiful cards and tags.
I love how Michelle uses negative space and dimension in her work with great colouring and the odd splash of ink and paint from time to time! For her first sample above she has used the retro-electro heart (I so hope that name sticks!) and frame from EKD04.
The next sample (below) she has used one of the small flower stencils from the PS048 stencil and embossed it into her background. Totally love that effect. The butterfly is from EKD05.
In this next card Michelle has used the large flower stamp from EKD06 with the leaves from EKD05 and some lovely colouring and masking to make this stunning focal flower. Just gorgeous!
The next two samples are matching tags and so clever with stamps from EKD06 plus the sentiment stamp from my original release set EKD01. In the first tag also uses the texture stamp from EKD05 but if you move down to the second tag you will spot the large flower stencil PS046 embossed into the background.
How totally gorgeous are these samples? Big, Big thank you Michelle for these wonderful samples!
If you haven’t had a chance do visit Michelle Short’s blog The Card Grotto and say hello. She makes some fabulous videos too on her YouTube Channel The Card Grotto that are well worth watching and subscribing to, plus you can find her over on Instagram.
Kim
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Thank you so much, Kim! It was a pleasure working with your amazing products xx
Ahh thank you Michelle, could not have done without your beautiful work!