Gelli Plate Play by Amanda Southern

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:-

Gelli Plate 8”x 10”

Brayer

White Uncoated Card

Acrylic Paints

Sizzix Bigshot

Carabelle Studio Dies - Des Fleurs

Carabelle Studio Stamp - A6 Fleurs d’azoline par Azoline

Carabelle Studio Stamp – A5 Balloon Flowers by Birgit Koopsen

Archival Ink Pads – Black, Magenta Hue

Spectrum Noir Coloured Pencils

White Gel Pen

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

Card Blank

I know it’s not a new idea but a great alternative way to use your dies

See you next Tuesday

Love

Amanda X