Sea Horse

Hello!

I have been having so much fun playing with my gelli plate and trying out techniques that are stretching my usual CAS style with something a bit more artsy and layered.  Here are a few examples:

I was using the technique with alcohol ink on my gelli plate that the wonderful Barbara Gray demonstrated on YouTube a few Tuesdays ago.  

I used my lovely seahorse silhouette on the gelli plate and added a sentiment and some bubble effect stamps from Visible Image.  I shall link up for a second time at Happy Little Stampers Mixed Media Challenge where the theme is layers.

Here I used Uniko's fab Stylised Floral stencil on the gelli plate and then used black spray paint through my Afro Style stencil - it gives great coverage over the gelli background.  I added a Sizzix die cut up the side of the card.

I hope you like my cards :)

Sarah x

Afro and Alcohol Inks

Hello!

I am here with a reminder card for the current Take It Make It challenge over at Craft Stamper.   I used my afro stencil (available in my Folksy store) with a gelli plate and alcohol inks after watching a YouTube video by Barbara Gray from Clarity Stamp.

Basically I spread a range of alcohol inks on to my gelli plate before putting the stencil down.  I spritzed some blending solution over yupo paper and placed the stencil on that before running through my die cutting machine.  That process re-activated the alcohol inks and created a print that left the aperture as white space.  I was able to pull a separate print of the negative from the gelli plate by brayering acrylic paint over it and lifting the image on to a separate piece of card.  I hope that makes sense!!  Barbara's video explains it much more clearly :)

Once that was done, I put the stencil back in place and inked round the edge of the silhouette with black archival ink.  I then stamped a fab scribbled background stamp from Dina Wakeley through the aperture and added one of her sentiment stamps.

Sorry for such a long explanation.  I had never thought of using alcohol inks on my gelli plate before and really liked how this came out.  There is more inspiration from the talented DT over at Craft Stamper.  As long as you have used stamping on your project, anything goes so it could be easier to play along.  Our sponsor this month is the fabulous Uniko - Bev's range of stamps and stencils is amazing :)

Thanks for stopping by today,

Sarah x

Butterfly Afro

Hello!

I love my afro style stencil and mask - I wish that I had more time to realise all of the ideas that I have.  Isn't that the same for all of us?!  Today I inked through the stencil with a range of bright distress oxides to create the following:

Once I had inked through the stencil, I stamped a range of butterflies from Mama Elephant and Paper Smooches within the stencil aperture before removing the stencil and adding a few butterflies in colour.

I shall link up at Simon's Monday Challenge where this week's theme is Bright and Beautiful and at Seize the Birthday (without the optional twist of patterned paper).

You can find this stencil and mask in my Folksy store :)

Thanks for stopping by,

Sarah x

Another Stencil!

Hello!

I have a card made with another new stencil to share with you today :)  I just love this cool silhouette and mask and suspect that I will be using it a lot....

I simply inked through the aperture with Black Soot distress inks and then stamped a range of grungy and abstract images over the top.  They are a combination of Lisa Horton stamps and Neat and Tangled.  I added some pops of colour to give the image some extra interest.   The sentiment is from CASual Fridays.

I shall link up at both Simon's Monday Challenge and Simon's Wednesday Challenge where the focus is stencils.

I hope you like this design :)

Check it out in my Folksy store.

Sarah x