Gelli Plate Play by Amanda Southern
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Hi Everyone
I hope that you have all had a wonderful Bank Holiday
weekend. I have been playing with the Gelli Plate, I love creating backgrounds
so I have a “go to” stash when I need one quickly. So I created this card from
a recent play where I was replenishing my stash. My card uses a matching stamp
and die from Carabelle Studio and I cannot take the credit for my tutorial this
week as I am recreating a tutorial that I saw on Birgit Koopsen’s blog who is a
very talented designer for Carabelle Studio as well as a fabulous mixed media
artist. I just had to give it a try so thought I would share it with you.
Here’s What I Did:-
The
first I did was to make myself a foam stamp out of the Carabelle die. To do
this I die cut it out of adhesive foam sheets but any thin foam would work you
could also use Styrofoam plate or similar. I cut mine using a Sizzix Bigshot. I
then stuck that to a piece of acetate. That was actually too thin so I stuck
that to a couple of layers of corrugated card and even made myself a handle for
it.
With my
stamp made I then brayered acrylic paint onto my Gelli Plate I blended yellow
at one end into pink at the other end. I then took the handmade foam stamp and
stamped into the paint before laying on my card to pull the print from the Gelli Plate. I then stamped onto the print the coordinating stamp in black Archival ink. I then stamped the flower again onto a post it, cut it out and
lay on my stamped flower to act as a mask before I then stamped the Balloon Flowers, in Archival Magenta Hue, so they appeared to be behind. I then added
further coloured shading to my stamped flower using coloured pencils.
To add
even more detail to the flower I coloured in some of the small dots with a
white gel pen and added some dimension using white and coordinating colours of Enamel Accents which give it some texture.
I
stamped my sentiment in black Archival ink and with my sewing machine stitched
all around the outside and added some splatters of white paint. To finish I
have matted onto black card and added to a card blank.
I also,
whilst I was at it, made more foam stamps from a selection of Carabelle dies to
use with the Gelli Plate at a later date, you could however do this with any
dies in your collection.
What I Used:-
Archival Ink Pads – Black, Magenta Hue
Ranger Enamel Accents – White, Wild Orchid, Cheese Puff, Lemon twist, Pink Gumball
White Paint – PaperArtsy Fresco Paint Snowflake
Self Adhesive Craft Foam or Similar
Corrugated Card
Acetate
Sentiment
(From my stash)
Sewing Machine
Black Card
I know it’s not a new idea but a great alternative way to
use your dies
See you next Tuesday
Love
Amanda X
7 comments
Looks great. Brilliant way to use your die cuts. Top tip! Lx
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely love the card.....like a packet of fruit salad sweeties! Foam stamps are great aren't they and they do stamp remarkably well too
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Donna xx
Gorgeous card, and great use of the dies Amanda! x
ReplyDeleteDefinitely groovy! A 1970s summer of love swirling into life... and some Shakespeare to go with it - I'm happy!
ReplyDeleteAlison x
Definitely groovy! A 1970s summer of love swirling into life... and some Shakespeare to go with it - I'm happy!
ReplyDeleteAlison x
Really gorgeous Amanda, so colourful and thanks for the die cut stamp tip.
ReplyDeleteFliss xx
Great card Amanda and a great way to use your die cuts.
ReplyDeleteAvril xx
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