Hello Card With Monoprint Background

Hi dear readers I'm glad you could drop by today. Today I have a card to share using a monoprint background I made using my gelli plate over the weekend. I am not as pleased as I could be on how the sentiment turned out but used it anyway. I think the letters were too thin and too tiny but on the whole I like how this card turned out. Of course Cameron my Cameo was happy as he actually got to do some cutting.

 

The card base I had cut out to use for the card in the previous post but it was the wrong color. I decided since at the same time I had cut out the bird and the banner to go ahead and use it on this card.

The background paper was created using a round gelli plate. Later on I'm sure I'll use the pieces I trimmed off. After pulling a bunch of prints on white cardstock and some of the paint was dry on the plate I went and brushed with a foam brush purple over the plate. I then took a stencil which was covered in paint and placed it on the plate and then removed it. Then I placed a black insert from a page protector on my plate and pulled my print.I love the light airy look that resulted. This is the fun of pulling prints as you never know for sure what you are going to get.

 

The bird was originally a Silhouette print and cut. I believe at one time it was a free file or it came with my Cameo. I decided to use it as a cut file.  I didn't like the first two colors I had used of gelatos on the bird so started playing mixing and blending colors until I ended up with this brass look. I used the orange to color the beak. A marker to make the eye and the bird was done. Except it looked blah to me.  On my desk was a bamboo stamp by Judkins which I had bought at a thrift store. I don't know if the stamp is still available as it is an older stamp. I decided to see if I could stamp over the gelato which is sort of waxy like chapstick. My Stazon  ink worked.

The "HELLO" banner was part of a tag which was a freebie from Silhouette. The "Hello had been at the end of the tag but I centered the words and then resized to fit on the bird. Originally I was going to put the banner directly on the bird but decided instead to back it with a scrap from the black.

My frugal tip is to use cheap paints for pulling prints. I actually found that the craft paints had a longer drying time than the artist grade paints so didn't dry too quickly on the plate. I did at the thrift store pick up a bottle of extender which slows down the drying so I can use my metallic acrylic paints.

Thank you for stopping by. I hope you have enjoyed your visit here and maybe even been inspired to get "painty" and "inky". I'm off to follow the advice for artists that while people are criticizing or praising your recent work you should be creating new work. Wishing you Happy Frugal Crafting till we meet again!

Garden Background Stamp Card

Hi readers I have been busy cleaning off my work space as well as the rest of my craft room. It is a daunting task. It is also fun as I find things I've forgotten that I bought or even gifts from friends.

I had placed this stamp a friend gave me the first of the year on my work space planning to use it but alas it got buried under a mountain of scrap paper. Of course there was also a good size of plastic which I had cut from the page protector in that stack. I love how this turned out. I did use glue instead of floor wax but the glue has some drawbacks which I'll talk about later on in this post.

 

I started by stamping with my Garden Background stamp by Stampendous using Stazon Royal Purple Ink. When stamping on plastic you need an ink like Stazon. I have not tried my Ranger Archival ink yet on plastic but that might work. I also have not tried to heat emboss on this plastic. I have heat embossed on transparencies but they are expensive.

I waited a few minutes to make sure the ink was dry. It can take up to five minutes stamping on this plastic where inkjet transparencies is almost instant. Then turned the plastic over and this time I brushed white glue on the plastic. Then I placed a single ply sheet of facial tissue in the glue. Although the glue works I noticed there was more of a tendency for the facial tissue to tear when trying to gently push it down with a foam brush onto the plastic.

You will want to make sure the glue is dry before scribbling with gelatos or you will tear the tissue. You do not need to scribble all the way to the edge of your stamped image because when you mist the mist is going to spread the color.

 

I wanted to do a closeup to show you the texture you get from using the facial tissue. That white spot on the flower is a reflection from the window. :-(  No matter where I seemed to put this card to take a photo I was getting a reflection when trying for a closeup. I probably could have gotten a better picture if I had more patience which is not my strength.

You will notice that in places the colors bled outside the stamped lines for me it was no big deal. Lol! But then even as a child I never colored within the lines. I wanted to blend colors more on the flower however I discovered that because I used glue instead of floor wax that I had to be really careful blending the colors. If you don't have gelatos I'm pretty sure that watercolor markers would work. That is an experiment for another day.

Since I had decided to cut out a scallop card base I decided to cut down my stamped image using my scallop scissors. I had bought the scissors years ago before I even had a cutting machine and usually they just take up space in a drawer.

Originally I had cut my card base out of Kraft cardstock. However, I did not like the way it looked. Oh well it will be used for another project. Then while filing my scrap paper there was this piece of blue 12x12 which I had previously cut a card base out of. There was just enough of the card stock to cut out my base. Remember if you do this technique that whatever color you place your stamped image on is going to show through as this image is semi-transparent.

When gluing this down there is no redo like there may be in some other projects. Also you are going to have to take into account that like adhering vellum what you use may show. I used a dot tape runner. However, I found that adhering the tissue with glue there was once again a tendency to try to tear which I did not have when I used the floor wax.

My conclusion is that you can use glue for this technique but it is not as satisfactory as using an acrylic floor wax. I do have some vintage mod podge which appears to still be good. Lol! And it is "Vintage" as I bought it ten years ago for a project. I am going to be trying that for this technique and getting back to you.

If you decide to try this technique you may decide to use the facial tissue side instead of the plastic side. I have to admit I was torn about which side to use when I made this card.

In the meantime I have some prints I made using my new round "Gelli Plate" I want to use on cards. Yes, I know I'm all about frugal crafting but it  is Roni's fault over at Ink Stains. Last month she had several posts on prints using a gelli plate. When my "material girl" saw those posts she had to go and order one from Amazon. ;-)

I'm off to doing more play and more cleaning. Who knows what treasures I may uncover. Wishing you Happy Frugal Crafting till we meet again!

Plastic Embossing and Gelato Play

Greetings my dear readers. Can you believe another posting today! I was so excited at how these cards turned out that I couldn't wait to share them with you. I only wish I could have gotten photos that did them justice. First off is a card I ended up using the debossed side as I liked it better when I got through playing. The tissue paper I used was too dark and although you could see the glitter on the embossed side it was the same color as the tissue paper even though I used greens and gold fine glitter.

I started out by embossing a page protector using Stylized Flowers by Cuddlebug. After embossing I brush Pledge floor wax over the embossed plastic on the debossed side. I then placed tissue paper on top. Using a sponge brush to pat it down tight and to work any air bubbles out. Then I sprinkled fine glitter randomly on top. Some places I got glitter in a few places heavier than I had wanted to but I kind of like the effect.

After the wax was dry I went and colored with different colors of gelatos the flowers and in some of the other places also. Then I used a wet sponge brush over where I colored to soften the look.

I glued this embossed panel on black paper. Then glued it on a white card blank which I had edged with a metallic paint pen. I'm a loving this card.

 Here is the second card I made. Yesterday I got in the mail a Darice Butterfly In The Corner folder. Of course I couldn't wait to do something with it. Once again I embossed on a piece of plastic from a plastic protector. This time instead of using tissue paper with the floor wax I used facial tissue which I had separated. The facial tissue wrinkled in places while I was patting it down. Although it doesn't show in the photo once again I sprinkled glitter this time a magenta color which is what the pink is in the photo.

When the wax dried I colored with gelatos on the debossed side. Because of the wrinkled tissue it was hard to see where the pattern is when I colored. Then I took a mister and misted with water. I took my finger and blended the gelatos. I cut the butterfly out and then colored it with gelatos. and then brushed with water. I used a dimensional paint on the body. I used scrapper floss for the antennae and then glued rhinestone on the floss. I love how the gelatos brought out the texture in the wrinkled facial tissue.

I had fun experimenting with embossing on plastic and trying out this technique. I've never seen this technique but got the idea from stamping on plastic and then doing the tissue paper with floor wax and glitter. Now to see if this will work white glue instead of floor wax.

Thank you for stopping by. Do come back as I plan on doing some playing with a round Geli Plate which just came in today's mail. Then sharing the results with you.

Wishing you Happy Frugal Crafting till we meet again!