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Today I'm sharing another card using a gel plate background. The first stage was to stamp background flowers in Distress ink and then the foreground in black Archival ink.
A very therapeutic way to spend a couple of hours.
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A quick one today to share another card made with a gel plate background, with a layer of dye based ink, followed by a sprinkle of Brusho crystal pigment and a spritz with water.
Then I added some plants with Distress ink for the background and black Archival ink for the foreground. The moon was masked off and Distress ink used to darken the edges. The final touches were added with white gel pen and Posca paint pen.
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A quick one today sharing another card using a gel printed background. The initial stamping looked like this...
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Once again I seem to have time for crafting or blogging, not both! I have had a bit of time in the craft room making birthday cards.
The cards started off with gel plate printed backgrounds. These were made with a layer of dye based ink brayered onto the plate, followed by a sprinkle of Brusho crystal pigment and a spritz with water. It doesn't take long to make a stack of lovely backgrounds.
I used mostly Lavinia and Card-Io stamps, starting with lighter shades of dye based ink in the background and black Archival ink in the foreground.
Then the time consuming bit is adding in all the detail to create more depth, using Posca paint pens, white gel pen and Inktense pencils. To finish off the edges were darkened with Distress ink.
Another card...
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Hello and Happy New Year
The last couple of weeks of 2022 were very busy but I managed to save for myself a few days, at the end of the year and the start of 2023, to do a bit of crafting.
I've had a little play with the Gelli plate and GiogioCraft's gate stencils.
The base of the tag was prepared with some gesso to act as a resist, before smooshing through Distress Oxide ink.
With a few embellishments added the first tag of the year emerged...
I believe in looking forward, but most importantly enjoying and making the most of the present moment. I wish you many happy days, hours, minutes and seconds in 2023 xxx
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I'm a bit behind posting because I've only just caught up with the gel prints for week 3 of the
GelliArts #marchprintingchallenge.
12. Stars
13. Forest
14. Sea
15. Black and white
16. Layers
17. Green
18. Dots
I'm off for a bit more crafting while there's the chance. Thank you for stopping by. Have a great day xx
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Today I'm sharing the gel prints for week 2 of the
GelliArts #marchprintingchallenge.
5. Feathers - lots of layers on this one and some paint pen
6. Your initial - one of my favourite GiogioCraft stencils
7. Transparent - sticky tape transfer
8. Cardboard - I deliberately used kitchen towel to blot the paint so I could get the ghost print dots to give a sense of movement
9. Book pages - wasn't very inspired for this one...can you tell?!
10. Tissue paper - two layers of ghost prints, scrunched for the background texture and twisted for the heart
11. Metallic - on paper with a golden metallic sheen
One last one for the #2022Marchcolorprompt challenge on Instagram. Week 2 - pink and brown
It's been a busy week crafting. I'm leading a craft class at a local museum tonight, but more of that on Monday.
Thank you for stopping by. I hope I have given you a bit of crafty inspiration. Have a really lovely day xx
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Today I'm sharing one of the challenges for the #marchprintingchallenge hosted by Gelli Arts on Instagram.
Day 7 is transparent and so I thought it was a good time to try out the tape transfer technique.
I started by stencilling and doodling on the gel plate.
When the paint was completely dry I lay sticky tape across the plate and smoothed it down, before slowly peeling it off, one strip at a time. The tape was still sticky enough for me to fix it to a little glass bottle. If you wanted to store them for future use you would have to dust the back with mica powder.
I coloured the top with alcohol markers and wrapped around gold thread.
The light still shines through...just...
I was pleased with how the transfer worked out. Don't know why it's taken me so long to try it!
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Today I'm sharing some gel prints I've done for the GelliArts #marchprintingchallenge. Gel printing is very addictive, before you know it the whole room is covered in printed paper!
1. flowers
2. circles
3. rainbows
4. hearts
I also managed to use some die cut gelliprints on a gelliprint background for the #2022Marchcolorprompt challenge on Instagram.
Week 1- blue and teal
As always, the dilemma is make them into cards, keep as they are or use as a base for another project? What do you think?
Have a lovely week xx
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I've been making a few Christmas cards with the Gelli plate by printing straight on to the card blank. I've used Distress ink with a Giogiocraft stencil and some stamping on top. Where I was generous with the ink it has created speckles and texture, with less ink I achieved a smoother, flatter finish.
Some cards use the print and others the ghost print.
No two are exactly alike.
I used a stamping platform for the stag and stamped it twice, once in a lighter colour and then again with darker ink around the edges to give a little depth. I used a stencil brush with the stencil to add a little extra colour and stencilled some ground with a scrap of torn paper.
I really can't decide which I like best. As always your thoughts are very welcome.
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