Tuesday, 4 June 2024

Weekend playing with my Gel plate

 It was King's Birthday Weekend over this past weekend.  We got a public holiday on Monday.   We made the most of three days off by heading to our friends in Mangawhai.  We haven't been for quite a while so was lovely to spend time with them and their family (our pseudo family!!!)  

I took my gel plate, some Oxide inks and watercolour powders and had a bit of a play.   I used some nasturtium leaves and some large bubble wrap.   

 these are just a few of my backgrounds.  

I also watched the videos from Justine Hovey's Fearless Cardmaking in Minutes Challenge.  It's all about using your stash without thinking too much about things.  Take a theme, a focus, a technique and just go for it! 

So this evening, I took a background I had made using the ink on the bubble wrap as stamp.   I trimmed a panel of the big bubbles done in pink. 


I took a fine liner pen and doodled/scribbled roses.   Day one of the challenge was to take a theme (birthday) and a large die for your focus... so this was my day one homework.  The die cut sentiment is a new one from Pinkfresh Studio (having it's first outing)  Simple but every effective and less than 15 minutes to make.  
I'm entering this into the NBUS challenge (June) - 





4 comments:

Linda W. (ScrappinBari) said...

Fun gel backgrounds, Dawn & I love the stamped bubble wrap on your card! What a great idea to doodle roses - love them!!

Darnell said...

I love this happy card, Dawn! I haven't seen that particular video from Justine and I'll have to check it out.You did great on your homework. I love the fine liner doodling which turned your bubbles into roses! Thank you for inspiring everyone to use their NBUS! Hugs, Darnell

kiwimeskreations said...

What fun, playing with your gel plate - you have some awesome backgrounds there Dawn
Love that card - that is so impressive and original
Blessings
Maxine

Greta said...

Perfect doodling (something I don't do for good reason--haha) and fun, happy card!