LETS PLAY with a Gelli Plate

What fun to learn and play using a Gelli plate to create backgrounds on tags for a project that will come together thanks to Linda at our monthly Divas Art Group who hosted the project.  I Will show you a photo of the project when completed.

For now I wanted to show off my play time making these terrific backgrounds.  Some were embossed first, color applied to the plate and then the tag face down on the plate to pick up the color.  For the one with the butterflies, I used the remnants of some punched out butterfly elements and placed it on the Gelli plate to pick up some of the color, and then I placed the tag card down to pick up the color remaining.  This was my all time favorite as the remnant picked up some of the coloring leaving the areas untouched where the butterflies had been removed.  (Hope that is more clear than mud.)
In any event I had so much fun that I will link this to LETS PLAY at http://acolorfuljourney.com. It was so much fun that I had to order me a plate to play more.  I need some fantastic backgrounds for my journal.

 



Easter Cards

My journal has been on hold why I took time to make Easter cards to send to family.  It was a fun break but now I have the most messy craft area ever.  I have attached photos of some of the cards I made.

 

After I scanned three together, I found that using Photoshop I could have straitened each one individually on the scan.  Little did I know at the time; always learning something new.  Thus next time, my scan won't be so crooked.  Hope you all have a pleasant weekend.

 

 

 

LETS PLAY

March is headed off on the right foot with a day to play.  I have almost finished my journal cover and will link it to LETS PLAY for March.  Somewhere in my stash is the word ART and when I find it will add it to the bottom so the journal reads UNIQUE ART.  I used a piece of heavily textured paper, embossing folders for the unique design and the flower using a foil like cardstock.  My cover was first painted in white gesso, then painted all over in Indigo Lumiere paint, sponged on some Luniere Halo Blue-Gold followed by Basics Gold and Liquitex Silver acrylic paints.  The back cover is identical without the added embellishments.  Always open for suggestions.

Valentines

The last couple of weeks I made valentines for family members and friends.  Below is the one I made for the Creative Every Day "love" challenge for February.

 

 

I neglected to photograph all of them. (Shame on me.)

Brown Paper Bag Backgrounds

For the monthly challenge at Oriental Stamp Art, we are to create a project using painted brown paper bags. I thought this was a terrific time to pull out some unused items and also meet the challenge over at Lets Play. AND, also the challenge at Creative Carte Blanche.

First I painted the brown bag with white gesso and for one section, I took a baby wipe and removed a lot of the gesso.  (gesso provides a great surface for other colors).  Then I pulled out my Gelatos and added three main colors and on the other section omitted the pink shade and used Lumiere Paints.  On the green section, I also used some Brushos in blue, yellow and orange.  When dry I used a stencil by Ryan Design to add the gingko leaves using a Delusions spray.  I crinkled up the paper when dry because I wanted more texture, adding silver and gold sprays by Lindy's Stamp Gang.  I turned both of these pieces into cards.

1) For the green section I tore the brown bag away from it and edged it with a brown distress ink pad, and with a sponge added some brown ink to the  high spots on the card.  Then I added a brown ribbon and the Happy Birthday Chinese chop and mounted the finished card to a light green followed by a white card.

2)  For the second card, I trimmed it and mounted it on a blue card and then white, adding a ribbon and fan element along with a Thank You in a Japanese kanji.

 

This was a really fun project and I plan to make more backgrounds for my art journal.

DIVAS Canvas Fun

Our project hostess, Debbie, presented us with the materials to create a steampunk canvas with a large red heart -- Valentines Day is right around the corner.

We used gesso, and Lindy's sprays to create the effect.  It was fun to meet friends to celebrate a new year at DIVAS, a local art group.



UNCAGED and ART FOR HEALING

I completed another spread for my art journal, UNCAGED, using the theme at Art Emporium and Art for Healing at Creative Every Day.  For the background, I used a napkin (serviette) with the birds which was perfect, added a bird cage stamp with a little bling along with some birds painted black.  I feel un-caged because I am actually making an art journal which I have wanted to do but scared me as well. Below is the spread I created.