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. 

Thanks for stopping by. 

Postage Collage Card

 This week I managed to get some time to play and today I'm sharing a Postage Collage card that made using Waffleflower's Postage Collage die and stencil set.  This time I used the Everyday stencil.  

I used a variety of inks with the stencil layers to colour the die cut in.   It was fun matching up different colourways.  I haven't added a sentiment to the front so can used it for any occasion. 

And here is some WIP -  did some watercolouring this morning.  

Used a variety of water colour mediums - metallic paints, cheap watercolour pencils, Altenew watercolour paints, some paper piecing as well.    And then this afternoon I got two made into cards.  I'll share them later. 

Tomorrow is Father's Day here in New Zealand.   I've got my son, daughter-in-law and the two granddaughters coming for lunch.   I'm doing a roast of lamb with roast veggies.

Season's Greetings - Christmas in July

 One of my purchases at the recent Craft Fair was new die from Waffleflower last weekend, together with several matching stencils and a stamp set.   One of the stencils was Postage Collage Christmas.... It's an awesome die that cuts one panel of stamps shaped pieces... you can keep it whole or cut it up. 

I die cut for white card and used the stencil to add colour - then I cut the individual panels giving me a number of stamps. 

For this one, I took one of the individual stamp panels and made this card

 I used dark navy card and matted it with some red card.   Stamped the sentiment from a Rosie's Studio set was embossed with Gold powder.  One of my other purchases was a Spellbinders die - Layer Cherry Blossoms.  I used a mahogany card to make one of the blossoms - to give the idea of a poinsettia.    Finished with some gold bauble gems.  

I've got another card using one of the stamp panels schedule for tomorrow evening... my sample for Sweet Stampin' Challenge so do pop back to see how I finished that one. 

I'm entering this into the NBUS challenge as this is the first outing for the stamp/stencil die and also the Layering Cherry Blossoms die.    And also into the Christmas in July challenge at Craft Rocket Challenges 

Being sick sucks....

I hate when I get sick... 'specially when I get the coughing bug.... but the upside is that I feel well enough to surf the net, make cards etc. I've got a doctors cert stating I don't have to go back to work till Wednesday next week... but will see how I feel earlier in the week.

Anyway I did get some cards made yesterday and today. I saw a "1" card on HA Flickr group and decided to give it a go for Nathan's 1st birthday in August. Thanks to Anne who posted the template on her site.

This photo is of Snoopy who decided this morning to keep me company. He came into my craft room and jumped up on to the other table and laid himself down on my mending pile.... he is not used to having someone at home during the day so is making the most of being inside.

This next card is one I made for my friend Jean whose birthday is tomorrow. As I said one of the advantages of being sick ( but not too sick) I can surf the net. I came across this tutorial on Faux Postage stamps.
Thought I'd give it a try and am rather pleased with the results. Although I wish I had a paler red or a pinker piece of felt for the flower. I used 3 different types of ink - the lime green is VersaMagic chalk ink in Key Lime, the blue is Pearlescent Sky Blue Brilliance pigment ink and the reddish one is Worn Lipstick Distress ink (dye ink) - all sponged onto white computer paper that I had printed with the template. The butterfly is a HA one from the Artistic Butterfly set.
I made the felt flowers with my CB. and used a Kaisercraft brad in the centre. The blue background card is embossed with the Texture folder in the CB and it is all mounted onto a cream card.

Well I better get some house work done.... not too sick to do that unfortunately... and I want to go tomorrow to the big craft fair being held here in Auckland. It is huge... comes to Auckland twice a year. Really worth visiting.

Thanks for visiting and have a great weekend.