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) - 

Playing with a Gelli plate...

 A couple of weekends ago I pulled out my Gelli plate and had a play.   I had been watching some You Tube videos  - This one from Ardyth and this one from Natasha - both using inks on the gelli plate.  I did about 10 pieces and today I have two cards to share that I've made so far both using Natasha's water drops technique.   

First card: 

I used some Catherine Pooler Aquatini and Tiki Torch inks.  Still getting used to how much water to drop onto the plate. I added some white ink spray splats and some dark gray splats.  I used Gina K Master Layouts 2 & 3 to make my layers and the circles.  The background layer used Ardyth's blending trick using some Catherine Pooler Lime Rickey.   The sentiment is from Gina K's It's all you mini stamp set. 

Second card:

Another blended background using water drops.  This time I used two different blues from Catherine Pooler on my Gelli plate- one lighter and one darker.  I was also inspired by Natasha's video here   She added lots of little stamps in gold embossing  and cut into postage stamps.  I cut the panel into two and then took a lot of little stamps from a freebie stamp set and used some Rose Gold powder.  I then cut the Waffle Flower Postage Stamp die four times - twice in white card and then out of each of the dark and light blue paper.   I then fussy cut the centres out of the blue papers and glued to the white die cut which I had cut apart.  I then added the four stamps (two light and two dark) onto the panel with 3D tape.  The sentiment is from Altenew - Birthday Builder stamp set. 

I've still got lots of papers to use.  One background has been worked on... but still waiting to decide how to use it. 

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Gelli plate stamp lift technique

Today I am sharing another of my Gelli plate backgrounds.   I made this one into a card that went to my friend Suna, as part of our NZ technique swap group.  Our theme this month was to use Paint or Ink on our card.  This is why my Gelli plate came out on Saturday as I had seen a You Tube video by Nicole Watt (here) It was one where you put on your acrylic paint onto the plate and use stamps to lift the paint off.  You then let the paint dry.  Once dry, add a light layer of white paint.  I couldn't find my white paint so used white gesso and then did my print. 

Here's how I made it in the card

I used green and blue paint and did the lift technique with a Catherine Pooler stamp set.  I used a Spellbinders Hemstitch rectangle die cut out the bit I wanted on my card.   I matted it onto black card.  I used a sentiment from a new to me set from LDRS Creative - it's a stamp that is a lot of sentiments that you stamp all at once and then cut with the coordinating die.  Great to have a pile of sentiments on hand. 

Looking forward to a good weekend as our Princess is having her birthday party.  She turned 3 on Tuesday this week.  Where has the time gone!  

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