Hello everyone,
Below are the cards we made at our last class follow by a snapshot of the cards we will make this Wednesday.
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| Layered Circle Thanksgiving Card |
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| Waterfall Purses Birthday Card: View 1 |
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| Waterfall Purses Birthday Card: View 2 |
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| Waterfall Purses Birthday Card: View 3 |
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| Carved Wood Grapes Thank You Card |
Upcoming cards:
Hello everyone,
Below is a recap of the cards we made on Wednesday September 14, 2022. Since this Fall Session is on a weekly basis, I will keep my update short. Please email me if you have any questions. Thanks.
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| Dry Embossed Mums Background accented w/ Metallic Rub |
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| Gold Butterflies Stickers on Pattern Paper & Embossed Vellum |
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| Reversed Sponged Inks w/ Peacock Feather Stencil |
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| Color Pencils w/ Gamsol Tri-Fold Elephant in Tea Cup |
Hello everyone,
Below is a recap of the cards we made on September 12, 2022. Since this Fall Session is on a weekly basis, I will keep my update short. Please email me if you have any questions. Thanks.
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| Orange & Bronze Acrylic Leaves |
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| Dark and Light Blue Background with Iridescent Medium Large Whale Die Cut |
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| Pink and Purple Background using Butterflies Foam Stamp |
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| Blue Background with Stamped Blue dots and Iridescent Medium Small Whale Die Cut. |
Hello everyone,
Hope you are staying cool and hydrated!
Well our Summer Gel Printing Class has come and gone. Hope everyone enjoyed the challenge and the unpredictable process of gel printing.
Below is a recap of the cards we made at our last class.
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| Butterflies Birthday: Brayer Antique Linen, Spiced Marmalade, Abandoned Coral and Fired Brick Distress Oxide Inks onto gel plate and roll off excess ink onto a piece of scratch paper after each color to avoid mixing colors together. Using the embossing plate to stamp the image onto the inked gel plate. Lift up the inked embossing plate and stamp the image onto the scratch paper. Use the scratch paper to stamp the sentiment and die cut the bottom layer of the butterflies. Adhere to the top and bottom layers of the butterflies together. Adhere the inked background onto black mat and ivory card base; Add bow, butterflies, gems and sentiment as shown. |
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| Embossed Sunflowers: Stamp and heat emboss sunflowers with white embossing powder onto white card stock. Brayer Antique Linen, Tea Dye and Wild Honey distress inks onto gel plate, brayer to slightly blend colors, and use corrugated cardboard to stamp pattern onto gel plate. Place embossed card panel onto gel plate to lift background print. Stamp dots onto card panel with Tea Dye ink, color sunflowers with distress markers and sponge Vintage Photo distress ink on panel's edges. Tape knotted ribbon onto card panel before adhering to kraft card base. Add gold sentiment to finish card. |
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| Special Day Tropical Florals: Use Fossilized Amber, Picked Raspberry and Fired Brick distress oxide spray to add color to gel plate. Place mixed media card panel onto inked gel plate to pick up colors. Let dry before die cutting with the frame die. Use leaves embossing folder to emboss vellum. Assemble die cut flowers and sentiment together onto red card base as shown. Add gold bow to finish. |
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| Thinking of You florals: Brayer Tumbled Glass, Shaded Lilac and Scattered Stray onto gel plate, place stencil on gel plate and pull the initial print with white card panel. Remove stencil and use the same card panel to pull a second print to add more background color (repeat this step again as necessary). Die cut background panel. Assemble card panel with die cut flowers and twigs onto black mat and card base as shown. Add stamp sentiment to finish card. |
Hello everyone,
Hope you are having a good week. Here is a recap of the cards we made at our last class follow by a preview of the cards for this coming Monday.
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| Floral Heart: Stamp flowers with Black Archival Ink onto gel plate; Color with pastel chalks; Brayer a thin layer of iridescent gold acrylic paint over the image; Lift image with white cardstock; Cut out flower image with heart die; Place over embossed vellum, add ribbon and attach to red card base. |
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| Hot Air Balloons: Use embossing folder to emboss image on cream card panel; Brayer a thin layer of blue, green and white pearlescent acrylic paint on gel plate; Put embossed card panel on top and lightly rub to pick up paint on raised areas; Attach panel onto black mat before placing on top of aqua blue card base; Add sentiment and bow to finish. |
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| Leaves: Brayer a thin layer of yellow acrylic paint; Use white card stock to lift the 1st yellow layer; Brayer a thin layer of green acrylic paint, place leaves (back side down) onto gel plate; Put the same card panel with the yellow layer on top and rub all over; Hold on to one side of the card panel, remove the leaves and place the card panel back down and hold; Then lift the other side of card panel to remove the remaining leaves and place that side back down to pick up the vein images left behind. Cut image to fit card and adhere onto green card base with die cut sentiment. |
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| Ghost Print: Brayer a thin layer of iridescent gold acrylic paint over the leaf images left on the gel plate; Lift a ghost print with another white card stock; Cut to size and attach onto black mat; Add ribbon and butterflies before adhering onto white card base. |
Here is a sneak peek of the cards we will making on Monday (our last class for the Summer).
Hello everyone,
Hope you are having a relaxing weekend. FYI, I sent out an email survey for the upcoming Fall Session with a revised (truncated) schedule from September 12 to October 3, 2022. Thank you to all who responded.
Below is a recap of our previous gel print class and a sneak peak of Monday's cards.
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| Butterfly on Sunflower: Heat emboss stamped image with gold embossing powder; Brayer Mowed Lawn, Peacock Feathers & Dusty Concord Distress Inks on gel plate; Place embossed image on gel plate and lift print; Repeat for darker color if desired; Adhere to card base and finish by adding gems and sentiment. |
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| Red Flowers: Brayer Rose Pink & Old English Red Marvy Uchida inks onto gel plate; Add white flowers onto inked plate & place paper over to lift print; Remove flowers (save flowers for next card) & repeat inking gel plate once more to add color to background; Trim to size, add gems, ribbon and stamped stentiment & adhere to card base. |
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| Floral Wreath: Brayer Pear Tart, Bamboo Leaves & Cottage Ivy Memento
Inks onto gel plate; place die cut vine wreath on top of inked plate;
place paper over to lift print; repeat inking a couple times to add more color to the wreath
and background; Adhere wreath to print, add flowers (from previous card), gems, sentiment & bow onto wreath; Adhere to card base. |
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| Seahorse: Brayer Cracked Pistachio & Salty Ocean Distress Oxide inks onto gel plate; Place printed seahorse image onto gel plate to lift 1st background print; Repeat inking the gel plate, place stencil to inked plate, put scratch paper over stencil and rub off ink in open area of stencil; Remove stencil & place printed seahorse image back onto gel plate to lift the stencil image; Sponge print edges with Peacock Feathers Distress Oxide ink; Add gems and adhere to card base. |
Cards for upcoming Monday's class:
Hello everyone,
Hope you had a great July 4th weekend! Below is a recap of the cards we made in our first class and a preview of the cards for Monday July 11th.
Hopefully, you all had a chance to check out the how to videos from Gelli Plate that I emailed last week. I will keep my caption for the cards brief assuming that you know what "lift print" means. If not, please email me. Have a great weekend!
Take care,
Connie
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| Floral Thanks: Apply drops of pink dye reinker on the left side and purple reinker on the right side of gel printing plate; roll brayer gently from pink to purple to smooth out ink; stamp un-inked floral background stamp onto gel plate; remove stamp and put white card stock onto gel plate; lift print; adhere sentiment, ribbon, butterfly and gems as shown to black mat and card base. |
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| Birds on Branch: Use the left over ink on the brayer from previous card to apply ink on the gel plate; place white card stock onto gel plate; lift print; stamp birds on branch with black ink; cut image with scallop oval die; adhere sentiment, pearls and ribbon onto vellum before attaching to card base as shown. |
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| Sea Life: Apply Tri-color Brilliance Ink onto gel plate, roll brayer gently from green to blue from each side to smooth out ink; place white card stock onto gel plate; lift print; place wave stencil on top of gel plate; place scratch paper on top of stencil & gel plate and rub the back to transfer pattern; lift up scratch paper and stencil and place the previous lifted print onto the gel plate; rub to transfer the stencil image onto print; sponge blue ink over fish stencil onto center of print; cut white frame using corals & turtles die; Adhere frame and sentiment onto card base as shown. |
Below are the cards we will be making on Monday July 11th.
Hello everyone, Hope you are all doing well. Below is a quick recap of the cards we made in our first class. Next class meeting will be on ...
