Gelli Art Plates and CS Stencil Shapes

I'm still having fun with my gel printing plate from Gelli Arts, and this time I made a slew of manila tags with some fun, bright acrylic paint colors from Kay's stash.

The steps to create these tags are surprisingly easy and will transfer well to your pages, cards, and art journal projects.


Here's the drill:

1. Add blobs of acrylic paint to the geli plate and blend with a brayer. Don't be like me. Don't use way too much paint. Look at that mess. Ugggh.

2. Press and burnish tags onto the plate to transfer the paint. Use the brayer to blend as needed, and keep going until the paint is gone. Clean your plate and brayer. (And wipe off the drippy paint mess, too, Tricia.) Sit back and watch the paint dry. Switch the laundry loads.

3. Trace large, simple shapes onto the back of your favorite tags and cut with a scissors. You can also run the tag through a die cutting machine to create shapes. Here, I've used the Altered Panel Custom Shapes stencil to add a butterfly and a house shape to this tag.

4. To create a contrasting base for the shapes, paint tags in a solid coordinating color with simple brushstrokes. Allow the paint to dry and match a shape with each tag. You can also create some more neutral geli prints for the tag base.

5. Adhere the shape and draw around the outside edge with a fine-tipped marker. Draw around the image a second time. Crossing over the original line will add to the desired look. Caffeine helps. Finish the tag with a stamped sentiment and top with ribbon.

There is so much more that could be done with additional stamped images and embellishments, but I was quite happy with the simple look and chose to stop there.

Sentiment from the Fire & Ice Greeting UM.

Sentiment from the Tribal Art Nouveau UM.

Sentiment from the Tribal Borders & Backgrounds UM.

So . . . I thought I had this post all wrapped up. But I had more tags, and after sleeping on it, I decided to make this:

I followed the same technique as described earlier, but with Graffiti Black Smooth paper as the base, a white pen for outlining, and the Hopes stencil for the shapes.

Did this look difficult? It's not. See for yourself!

Happy Painting . . .
Tricia

A little Dab will do ya!

Good Monday Morning Everyone!

Have you gotten your hands on the new Neon Dabbers yet? If not, you really should treat yourself to a set. The colors are so vivid and bold! I have been playing with them a lot lately and hope you will give some of these techniques a try.

First up, the Aurora Borealis Technique.

1. Paint a wavy line of white gesso across a scrap of black cardstock.

2. Using a light touch and a foam brush, gently pull the paint down from the line of gesso causing a streaking affect.

3. After allowing the gesso to dry, apply inks directly onto the painted streaks using the dabbers.

4. Tear along the original gesso lines and apply to white card base.

5. Stamp a quote from the Fire and Ice collection and add "stars" using a white gel pen.

I created these cards using the same technique just changed up the colors a bit.

Cape Cod kit sentiment

Comfort Zone kit sentiment

Next up is the Plastic Wrap technique.

1. Apply a generous amount of ink direct from the dabbers to glossy cardstock.

2. Apply a sheet of plastic wrap onto the colors and squish it around making sure the wrap is wrinkly.

3. Allow to dry for about 5 minutes. Carefully peel up the wrap revealing the intricate designs.

4. At this point you may still have a significant amount of wet paint left on the wrap. Press these down onto dry panels of plain white cardstock to create a mono print. I actually got 2 mono prints from one very inky sheet of plastic wrap. (Warning: this technique is very messy. If you don't like colorful fingers make sure to wear disposable gloves.)

Mono print panels

5. After creating with these Dabbers you will be left with a ton of fun panels to create colorful card creations! I promise to share them as soon as they are complete.

I really enjoyed sharing these techniques and hope you will give them a try.
Have a fantastic week!

Julie

 *********THIS GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED************

Today's vintage kit is the Games Lite (formerly known as JR) kit from March 2003. This kit contains a dozen 8-1/2 x 11" premium printed and plain papers, a wood-mounted stamp, pre-cut photo mattes, alpha stickers, Cutaparts and more. The papers in this collection have the most amazing silken texture . . . you have to feel it to believe it!

To be entered in today's random drawing, simply leave a comment listing your favorite dabber technique from Julie's samples above. Winner will be chosen and announced on the December 3 blog post by 10am Central. Good luck!

The Day 1 Giveaway random drawing winner was comment #65, brenbramo! Congratulations! Please contact Karen at karen@clubscrap.com with your contact information so we can arrange to send you your prize!

Fire & Ice Blog Hop

Welcome to the November Blog Hop. I can't wait to see what all of our other bloggers are up to today!

My friend Julie shared a really cool photo with me the other day that inspired this Fire & Ice scrapbook page. I think this page really captures the concept of "fire" and "ice", do you agree?

To create the base paper, I stamped a 12x12 Blue Plain with the ice crystal image using Versamark ink and heat embossed with iridescent embossing powder. (I used the embossing powder from the Aurora Borealis kit from a few years ago, but any shimmery/iridescent embossing powder will do.)

I stamped the phrase with Sapphire Hybrid Ink onto a plain white panel, and added more stamped "ice crystals" with Versamark ink and clear glitter embossing powder around the edge of the panel.

Fire & Ice UM B&B

Fire & Ice Plain Paper

Hybrid Ink Pads

InLinkz.com

Now it's time to check out what awesome creations our other bloggers have in store for us. Here's a full list of the Hop participants. If you like what you see, please leave a little blog lovin' in the form of a comment, it will really make their day!

Club Scrap Creates (you are here)

Julie at Cape Cod Scrapper

Inkstains with Roni

Deb Duz Scrappin

Jill P's Place

Tricia at The Efficient Crafter

Hetty at Craft Chaos

Kay's Keepsakes
Cathy at The Artful Gamut

Anne Marie at Artfully Balanced

Debby at Masculine Inspirations

Dishing with Janet

Lisa at Carpe Memoria

Marya at A Notebook Novel

Digital Musings from AnnetteD

Happy hopping!
Karen

Digital Multicolored Stamping

Happy Thursday!

I want to start by thanking CS Member Norma for inspiring me to discuss today’s topic! Norma started a thread recently in the CS Forum asking about this and it’s a really cool technique, so I thought I’d share it with all of you.

I’m using Photoshop CC for this tutorial but it works in other versions of Photoshop and should be possible in other graphics programs that support layers.

1. Create a new document: 12 x 12, 300 ppi, white transparent white background.

2. Open the StampGraphic04 file from the Fire & Ice Digital Kit.

3. Drag the stamp image onto your new document and rotate it into a horizontal position.

4. Duplicate the stamp image layer, rotate it and drag it down a bit, letting it overlap slightly.

5. Repeat Step 4 a few more times until you get a shape you like (my example has a total of 5 stamp images).

6. Merge all the stamp image layers into a single layer.

7. Open Background01 from the Fire & Ice Digital Kit.

8. Drag the background onto your document.

9. Rotate the background 90 degrees and resize it so that it just covers the stamp graphic.

10. Create a Clipping Mask - Layer Menu -> Create Clipping Mask.

That’s the technique - isn’t it cool looking? With this particular stamp, I think the effect is similar to using Gelatos on paper.

Now let’s turn it into a digital card: crop the white background, and layer it with a couple of other backgrounds, add a stamp sentiment image on top and you’re done!

I hope you’ll give this technique a try - the results can be stunning!

Until next week!

- Ron

It can't be winter yet...can it?

Well it sure felt like it last week on Cape Cod. We had a day filled with the big fluffy white stuff. I just don't know if I am ready for it yet. Ready or not it arrived, and I couldn't resist taking pictures. The snow looked so pretty covering all the brightly colored fall foliage still clinging to our trees. Dusty, our cat, wasn't too sure about it. She loves going out side with my hubby, but it was a bit too chilly on this day.

November 2013 Scrapbook PJ Party Sketch

iClassygirl aka Tiare, hosts a fun Scrapbooking PJ party once a month and features the current Club Scrap monthly kit.  This month's sketch featured a double page spread. My wintery photos were the perfect fit for the sketch.

Here are some of the ways I chose to make the sketch my own.

Tear the edges of the Pattern Basics Pastel dots paper. Add chipboard snowflakes painted with Creative Concoctions Gesso and clear glitter glue. A silver sequin and gemstone add interest to the centers. Use strips of rhinestones from the Spring Chorus kit for further embellishment.

Ink the outside edges of your layouts with WOW Red and Blue Neon Inks.  Mat your photos using HPOPS. Fossils orange and Avant Garde green were used on the double page spread. Choose quote and sentiment stamps for a title and added interest on the spread. 

Thanks again to Tiare for hosting this fun online get-together. It is always nice to share crafting time with folks, even if they are spread out all across the country.

Hope you will check out the video of her event and give this double page layout sketch a go!

Thanks for stopping by and have a great week.

Julie











Other products used in the layouts.

Club Scrap Fire & Ice Navy and Red cardstock - background papers
Club Scrap Fire & Ice UM Collection stamp sheet - "Enjoy change." quote
Club Scrap Holiday 2010 UM stamp sheet - Let it Snow sentiment