Crazy Birds ATCs

Hello Everyone,

Shilpa here,

Today I would like to share with you my last post as a Guest Designer.

I've created ATCs with Tim Holtz Birds Crazy stamp set and Gelli Plate printing.

I love my Gelli plate... love to create prints with them. I use them in my Art Journals, to make mixed media canvas, cards...but today I wanted to use them to make ATCs.

Let's see the process..

I got prints on papers with Gelli plate, Acrylic Paints and Crafters Workshop Stencils.

Cut them into ATC size.
 For more layers in the background, I stamped on them with text and texture stamps.
Adhered butterflies,Tim's tissue tape and Trellis diecut pieces. Splattered distress stain colors.

Next I stamped Crazy Birds and colored them with Distress Inks. Fussy cut them and adhered on ATCs.

And here are my four ATCs .....aren't they cute?
Hope you liked them...


Thank you so much Kim for this opportunity to write at this wonderful blog.
I am grateful to you all readers as well for love and support.
You can see more posts at my blog - Neon Diary

Products used from Eclectic Paperie:
Gelli Plate
Acrylic Paints
 Crafters Workshop Stencils
Texture Stamps
Distress Inks
Archival Ink
Tim Holtz Birds Crazy Stamps

 



 

Gelli Plate Printing Fun

Hi folks! Kim here today to share two project with you, both created with one Gelli Plate print. (All product links at the bottom of the post)

Now...let me start by sharing that I spent the majority of today creating a darling video for all of you, showcasing the new 6" round gelli plate and textured acrylic sheets. And...I spent the other half of the day trouble shooting said video, with zero success. My video is "stuck" on my phone and I have been unable to get it to upload to my computer or You Tube. (This is even with the help of my genius IT savvy brother-in-law!) Call me frustrated! So...I'm sorry that I don't have a lot of photos to share of the process, but I will let you know just as soon as I'm able to get the computer issue figured out...whether by hammer or some other means...LOL!...I'm kidding...kind of...

I started with the 6" round Gelli Plate, three Textured Acrylic Sheets, a non-stick craft sheet, a few stencils, a brayer, and some paper towels.  Here are the steps:

1. Apply acrylic paint to gelli plate, use brayer to spread paint over entire plate.
2. Press one of the Textured Acrylic Sheets into the wet paint, remove.
3. Press all or a portion of your paper on to the gelli plate and smooth with your hand to create the print.
4. Remove your paper, use another piece of paper is pick up any excess ink.
5. You can see a great video, created by Gelli Arts, on using the new 4" and 6" round Gelli Plates here.
6. Once I completed my 8.5x11" gelli print, shown below, I cut the paper into 2x2" and 1x1" squares.

Using the 1x1" squares, I created a card, shown at the top of today's post. I simply layered the 1" squares onto 1 1/8" black squares and then adhered them onto a piece of white, embossed cardstock. I'm giddy over how the colors pop against the stark white!

Next, I followed this video to created a book (I trimmed my book down to a 3" square...it's SO cute!) I used the Believe Script stencil, from The Crafters Workshop, and Wendy Vecchi's white embossing paste to add some design and texture to each page of my book. Here's the finished cover...

Once the paste was dry, I used foam tape to add a 2" square to each page. I stamped images from the Primitive Icons stamp set (see the bottom of the post for this week's special!!) to stamp images onto white cardstock. I cut out the images and words and added one to each book page...

I'm seriously so in love with these tiny books (my friend Godelieve was my inspiration!) that I'm going to make one for everyone I know...want one? :-)

If you've made it this far...hang on for this week's special and product links.

For one week only, purchase the 6" round Gelli Plate, Dina Wakley Primitive Icons, and/or Tim Holtz Mesh Texture Fade for a 25% discount! Use code GELLI when checking out!

Supply List:

6" Round Gelli Plate

Primitive Icons Stamp Set

Mesh Texture Fade

Believe Script Stencil

Wendy Vecchi Embossing Paste

Brayer

Textured Acrylic Sheets

Thank You cards with Gelli Plate and Art Anthology

Hi everyone, Steph Ackerman here with my final post as the guest designed for eP for this month.  Big thanks to Kim and Bonnie for inviting me to participate. 

Today I've got some cards to share.

Have you played with the Gelli Plate yet?  Well, if you haven't, you should. It is so much fun.  I love mix'd media and I know so many people are using the Gelli Plate for mix'd media projects such as canvas and journals, but how about we switch it up a bit and create some mix'd media cards?  Oh so much fun!!!!

I began by placing Art Anthology paints on the Gelli Plate.  I used  Kenyon Copper Sorbet, for the first print, then placed The Crafter's Workshop Gathered Flowers stencil in the paint and placed a sheet of white paper on top.  For the second generation print, I added the Mini Chicken Wire Reverse Stencil.  This is the result.  It may not look like much, but read on.....

 

 
 

 

I cut the print to fit a 5" x 6 1/2" card, then wanted to add some other color.   I realigned the stencil back over the print.  I then inked it with VersaMark watermark ink then moved the stencil to get that missing spot on the left side. 

 

Then I poured Ranger Seafoam White Embossing Powder on top and heat set.  I wasn't sure what the outcome would be, but hey, that's what creating with mix'd media is all about, isn't it? 

 

 



I stamped the sentiment in VersaMark ink and embossed it with Seafoam Embossing Powder.  I also inked and embossed the edges for a little more dramatic effect before matting with black cardstock.  And the final card looks amazing!

 

 

 

 

Since I was having so much fun, I created another Gelli print using Kenyon Copper Sorbet with Velvet Aloha, and Honolulu Blue Sorbet.  I again placed the Garden Flowers stencil on the painted Gelli Plate and placed white cardstock on top.

After removing the white cardstock, I found the result wasn't very pretty at this stage.

 

But tear it up, mat it with some cardstock and a wonderful couple of cards are created.

 

 

Use the Scor-Pal to create the scored lines above and below the Gelli printed paper.

Stamp the sentiment in VersaMark and emboss with Seafoam White Embossing Powder.

Don't they look amazing!  Why not pull out your Gelli Plate and get creating today!

Thanks for stopping by. 

Please visit my blog for more inspiration.

Steph

 

Imagine

Hi everyone, Micki here to share an unexpected result while playing with my Gelli Arts gelli plate yesterday.  Of course having lots of gelli plate prints, I used some in my art journal.  But first, the gelli plate experience.
It's been a while since I had used the Gelli Plate which means that I have to get a feel for how much paint to put on the plate.  And that means that I always tend to get too much on the first couple of tries.
I started to pull prints (I used deli paper and old book papers), realizing after pulling the first and 2nd  prints that had put on way too much paint.  I put those aside and continued to pull two more prints from the same paint covered gelli plate.  Didn't think anymore about it, cleaned the plate to try another color combo when I saw that some of the paint on the deli paper prints were still wet.  Actually, on some spots where was enough paint I could have used my palette knife to remove it.
Ok, so not thinking, I layed the "still wet" printed deli paper back on the now cleaned gelli plate. Applying pressure all over with my hands and pulled the deli paper off the gelli plate.
This was the result:

Those bare strips is where the paint was still wet and the gelli plate "grabbed" it right off the deli paper.  I didn't take a picture of the gelli plate at this point because I was having too much fun with the plate.  I added black gesso to the gelli plate (over the strips of pulled paints) and used a book page to pull a print:

Is that not the coolest?  (Ignore the left side, I had pulled that print earlier and wanted to use up the rest of that book page. )   I tried to recreate it, using the same process except with book pages instead of deli paper but I could not get it to replicate!  It took me a while to realize that it has something to do with the deli paper.  I continued playing and as usual ended up with lots of prints:

 I also pulled a couple of prints on black card stock:

 And then I had to figure out how to dry all the prints without stepping on them:

Now to my art journal page.  I had this idea of using some of the gelli plate prints for hair, as in paper piecing the hair on TCW 12x12 Profile Stencil.  I wanted to do the paper piecing first before I stenciled the face.  So that I would have a general idea of there to glue the printed pieces, I used Dried Marigold Distrss Stain to stencil the face - light enough but still visible. 

Then it was just a matter of tearing strips and small pieces to fill in the hair:

One that was dry, I added Dylusions Spray Inks, water and covered the rest of the pages.  I used a clear wax crayon to outline the face which created a resist:

I used the Umbrella from Wendy Vecchi Studio 490 - Rainy Day Stencil as a corner embellishment by masking off the handle and stenciling it in each corner with Studio 490's White Embossing Paste.  Once the paste was dry, all four were colored with Splash of Color's Key Lime Silk Acrylic Glaze. 

 Since I had the glazes out, I gave the hair a watered down was using Splash of Color's Boysenberry Silk Acrylic Glaze.

I added some background texture using several older Studio 490 stamps.  I love Studio 490 Vintage Flower stencil which I stenciled in a cluster -giving each flower several coats of paint and making sure to that it was dry completely before overlapping and stenciling the next flower.

The leaves are from Dylusions - Around The Edge set, stamped in Jet Black Archival ink and colored with Faber Castell Big Brush pens.  I used Faber Castell markers to go over the stenciled flowers for some depth.

The butterfly was stamped onto another gelli plate print, cut out and glued to the page (to cover a boo-boo).  The face was filled in first with white gesso, then with Dried Marigold Distress Stain.  The gesso was still a bit wet so when I used a brush to blend the stain, it mixed and made it more opaque.  Added journaling Dina Wakley style around the profile, some shading with gelatos and markers and added a border with Chipped Saphire Distress Paint. 

I couldn't decide where to stamp the word "imagine" from Unity Stamps - Inspire Words by Donna Downey and settled to stamp it on her neck. 

I definitely love the hair.  And I did create a background from that really cool gelli plate print:

It's ready to go when inspiration hits!  Thanks for stopping by and hanging in there with me.  Hope I made sense in my explanations.   And I hope it inspired you to grab your art supplies and have fun!

Supplies Used:

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