Hi Playmates
There's a new challenge to join in with at the SNIPPETS PLAYGROUND with Yours Truly in charge for the next fortnight. Why not use up some snippets and come over to play?
For my homework I'm sharing two ATCs made with my fave flower stamp. All the pieces of card are snippets.
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| Two Artist Trading Cards (2.5" x 3.5" each) |
Hope to see you over in the Snippets Playground. We're a friendly bunch, so come and play. Plus there's a nice prize up for grabs if you follow the rules.
Hi Friends
Following on from last Wednesday's gelli printing adventures, today, I'm sharing more cards and an ATC using the golden circle print (shown further down this post). I chopped the gelli print circle into pieces, ensuring some of the circle was visible on each piece.
I then set about adding stamping and die cuts over the top, then matting and layering to make 3 greetings cards and an ATC.
It takes an AGE for stamping to dry if it goes over the top of an acrylic painted print . . . so to speed things up, I usually stamp with Versafine Clair black ink, then heat emboss with clear embossing powder.
MATERIALS:
I used the golden circle gelli print shown below. The circle was created with bright orange paint, but I pulled the print after brayering a thin layer of translucent gold paint on top. The gold acrylic paint I used is Abstract by Sennelier (Iridescent Gold #028) available in pouches from Hobbycraft in the UK for around £4 (it will last you ages).
Close up of the embossing on the ATC:
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| Just look at the gloss on that embossing! |
So there you go - a double whammy. First I had all the fun of creating gelli prints, then I got the opportunity to be creative all over again by turning them into cards and ATCs (and an envelope shown at the bottom of my previous post HERE).
And finally . . . I was inspired to cut-up my gelli printed circles and make cards this way after seeing THIS BLOG POST by Tricia Morris via Pinterest. No point keep pinning stuff to your boards if you never USE them is there? LOL!