Woven Paper Wishes

 

Hello and Welcome

Scraps...do you save them?

I like to save mine in the hope that I will be able to use them to make a card.

That's how this card came to be.

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

• I began by taking a look in my scrap pile of pieces leftover from other cards.  I like to keep them just in case I can come up with something to do with them.  I found three of them, all done with stencils from A Colorful Life Designs (see below) and my Distress Oxide inks.  I cut the pieces into strips of different sizes for interest and set them aside.
• Using a piece of heavy white cardstock, I embossed it using a folder from Darice to use as my main panel.
• I figured out how I wanted to arrange my strips and wove them together, leaving room for a sentiment.  When I was happy with the pieces put together, I glued them in place over the embossed white panel.
• Next, I cut a circle from another leftover stenciled piece and stamped the greeting from Avery Elle in my Misti.  I glued that onto a piece of matching cardstock.  It looked flat and needed something more, so I inked up a piece of cardstock and die cut the flower from Tim Holtz.
• I glued the whole panel onto a piece of cardstock, then onto a heavy white card base.
• I pop dotted the sentiment to the side.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Here are the stencils I used:

Groovy Flower Mask

Fleur Grillwork

Mid Century Squares

Discount Code for A Colorful Life Designs

*Just use the code KarenFan10 to get a discount on stencils and masks.

(affiliate)

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Cardz 4 Galz- TEXTURE

Try it on Tuesday- KEEP IT SIMPLE

Through the Craft Room Door- ANYTHING GOES

Supplies

Stamps- Everyday Circle Tags (Avery Elle)

Inks- Versafine Clair; Distress Oxides (Peeled Paint, Blueprint Sketch, Broken China, Shabby Shutters)

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

Accessories and Tools- stencils (ACLD); TE Blending Brushes; Numbers Embossing folder (Darice);

pop dots; Infinity Circle dies (HA); Wildflower die (TH); Misti  

From My Garden

Welcome

So happy to have the weekend to play.

I hope you aren't getting sick of seeing all the Gel Plate leaf prints I have been making.

I made a bunch of them while playing so now it's time to make them into cards.

This was a super simple one using my Distress Oxide inks.

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

• I cut my white cardstock for the panel, then pulled out my Gel Plate, brayer and some Distress Oxide inks: Rustic Wilderness, Evergreen Bough.
• Next, I took the fern and laid it flat onto my work surface.  I inked up my brayer with some Rustic Wilderness DOX ink, being sure to cover all the surfaces and then laid that onto my plate pressing over it with a piece of scrap paper to make good contact.  I carefully lifted the leaf off and pressed my cardstock onto the plate to pick up the impression.
• Since this was going to be a simple print, I wanted to add some interest to the background, so I inked up the Leaf Ledger background stamp from Impression Obsession with the inks mentioned above and stamped directly onto my plate, then rubbed the leaf print back onto the plate.  >>watch that your stamp doesn't slide or you won't get a good image impression<<  
• I placed the panel into my Misti and stamped the sentiment, then splattered the whole panel with my black Posca pen.
• I mounted it onto a white card base.....easy right?

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Supplies

Stamps- Scripted Bold Sentiments (Pinkfresh Studios); Leaf Ledger (IO)

Inks- Distress Oxides (mentioned above); Versafine Clair Nocture

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook- Waterloo, Ont.)

Accessories and Tools- Gel Plate; Misti (My Sweet Petunia); leaf from garden; black Posca pen

Beautiful Botanicals

Hello and Welcome

I so appreciate that you have dropped in to see what I have been up to.

As I mentioned in my last post, I am taking an online class from Vicki Boutin, learning techniques for some fun creating Gel Plate prints.

This is another print I pulled during the class using some leaves from my backyard.

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

• I took out a piece of white cardstock, my Gel Plate, brayer and some Liquitex Basics acrylic paint.
• I squeezed some green paint onto my plate and brayered it all out, covering the whole surface.

<< Helpful Tip:  One of the struggles with Gel Printing seems to be the amount of paint used.  You don't need a lot of paint, I brayer off the excess paint onto a piece of cardstock I keep nearby to remove some of the paint. >>

• After the whole surface was covered with paint, I gently laid the leaf onto the plate.
• I took my piece of white cardstock and rubbed it all over the plate.  
• At this point, I lifted the cardstock from the corner, being sure not to pull it off all the way and removed the leaf.  I laid the cardstock back down and rubbed again to get the leaf impression.  I just love the impression I was able to get with all the leaf details.

Here is the print I pulled.

• I set the print aside to dry completely before moving on to the next steps of making it into a card.
• Now I was ready to cut the pulled print down into a card front panel.  I wanted to try and figure out how to get the best part of the print to cut. To best do this, I pulled out my Marvelous Masks Rectangles.  They were the perfect solution to finding the best look.
• Using the rectangle mask, I was able to move it around over my print and find the best spot that I wanted to cut out.  I added a few little pencil marks in the corner of my mask to show me where to cut and I was able to make the perfect card front panel using this technique.  The nice thing about these masks is that they also come in different sizes so you can change the size of you card panel if you are cutting if from a larger print.
• Next, I splattered with my white Posca pen then placed the panel into my Misti.
• I stamped the sentiment from Impression Obsession with some Versafine Clair Nocture and then clear heat embossed it.  
• I glued the finished panel onto a piece of white cardstock, then foam taped it onto my white card panel.

Here are the masks I used:

Marvelous Masks Rectangle

Discount Code for A Colorful Life Designs

*Just use the code KarenFan10 to get a discount on stencils and masks.

(affiliate)

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Little Red Wagon- JUST BECAUSE

Try it on Tuesday- KEEP IT SIMPLE

Use Your Stuff- INSPIRED BY REAL LIFE

Supplies

Stamps- Gentle Hugs (IO)

Inks- Versafine Clair

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook- Waterloo, Ont.)

Accessories and Tools- Marvelous Masks Rectangle (ACLD); white Posca pen; Gel Plate;

Speedball brayer; green Basics acrylic paint; clear eb powder; heat tool

Life Lessons

 Hello and Welcome

I'm grateful to have a long weekend with time to play.

I have been taking a Gel Plate Printing class from Vicki Boutin. 

Although I have used the Gel Plate for many years now, it's good to refresh my memory and better yet, learn some new tricks and ideas for using it.  It's been a great class so far, 8 lessons in all and great time spent with her wonderful community.  

BTW, all her lessons are recorded so you can sign up for the classes at anytime.  She is doing them live on Monday and Thursday nights for a few more weeks.

No, I am not affiliated with saying this...just thought you may want to try them out.

This was one of the prints I did last week when we were experimenting with our Gel Plate, water and a stencil.  I love this fun stencil called Round Fragments from A Colorful Life Designs.

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

• I cut a white piece of cardstock to use as my front panel.  I got out my Gel Plate and brayer and some Basics Acrylic paint.  
• I squeezed a small amount of paint onto the plate, then brayered it all over, covering the whole surface of the plate.
• Next, to add some texture and interest, I added some water to help break up the paint.  It gives such a fun and interesting texture to the background.
• I placed the Round Fragments stencil over the plate and pressed it down carefully, trying not to get my finger marks onto the plate.  (At this point, I rubbed a piece of cardstock over the plate to lift off the paint....this is not the print I used for this card but will be kept for future use.) 
• I removed the stencil, then rubbed a piece of cardstock over the plate to create this pattern.

These are just some of the positive and negative prints I pulled in the class.

You can see the one I'm using in the top left hand corner.

• Next, I got out some scraps of white cardstock to cut the sentiment from Frantic Stampers.  I cut it out 3 times and glued them together.  The sentiment really looked flat against the stenciled print, so I decided to jazz it up a bit.  
• TIP: <<< I covered another scrap piece of white cardstock with some clear packing tape.  I die cut the sentiment again from that.....it gave a nice shine and added stability to the die cut sentiment.  I glued that onto the stack of 3 I had done before >>>
• I glued the stenciled panel onto another piece of white cardstock, then pop it up onto a heavy white card base with some foam tape.
• I glued the sentiment and the hearts over the painted panel.

Here is the stencil I used for my card:

Round Fragments

Discount Code for A Colorful Life Designs

*Just use the code KarenFan10 to get a discount on stencils and masks.

(affiliate)

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Wed.- ANYTHING GOES

Challenge Up Your Life- CIRCLES

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- none

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook- Waterloo, Ont.)

Accessories and Tools- Geli Arts Plate; Speedball brayer; Basics Acrylic Paint; stencil- ACLD;

die- Frantic Stampers; clear packing tape; Spellbinder Platinum die cutting machine