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Hello and Welcome

Meet today's card.

An easy one to create using my Gelli Plate.

So many people seem to be intimidated by a gel plate, but honestly it couldn't be easier for creating fast and fun backgrounds.

I will walk you through it below.

So here's what I did to create my card.

• I cut my card front panel from a piece of heavy white cardstock.  I got out my Gelli Arts Plate, a brayer and some Distress Oxide inks....Blueprint Sketch, Broken China and Wilted Violet.
• I took the ink pads and pressed them directly onto my Gelli Plate, leaving a bit of space between the colours as not to contaminate my ink pads with the other colours.  
• Using a brayer, I rolled over the Gel plate to blend the colours. *be sure to have an extra piece of paper handy to roll off the excess ink from your brayer.  These often make wonderful backgrounds as well or can be used to die cut *
• Next, I place the Dot Circle Stencil from ACLD over my Gel plate and using my tweezers, I gently pushed the stencil onto the plate being sure to make good contact with the plate.
• I lifted off the stencil removing some of the ink from my plate, set it aside and rubbed my cardstock panel over my plate.  Voila, I had my background.
• I dried the ink completely....{DOX inks take a bit longer to dry so use a heat tool or just set aside for a bit.}  When dry, I placed the piece into my Misti and stamped the silhouette image from Impression Obsession and then the sentiment from Visible Image using some Versafine Clair ink.
• I mounted the inked panel onto a heavy white card base.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Here is the stencil I used:

Dot Circle

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Adding my card to these challenges:

Allsorts- MASCULINE

Love To Scrap- ANYTHING GOES

A Bit More Time to Craft- ANYTHING GOES

Supplies

Stamps- Rock Silhouette (IO); Just Be Happy (VI)

Inks- Distress Oxides (colours listed above); Versafine Clair

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook- Waterloo, Ontario)

Accessories and Tools- Dot Circle (ACLD); Misti (My Sweet Petunia); Brayer (Speedball);

Gelli Arts Plate