Life Is Art - Crafty Girls Creations: Challenge 38

My card today is being linked to the Anything Goes Challenge 38 over at Crafty Girls Creations.

I actually made two card panels from my print using my Gelli Arts Plate, but I'm just entering the top card in the challenge. 

It's so much fun using paint and making a mess with stamps, stencils and just about anything else you can find to make a print on your card panel. I love how the colors layer over each other. 

I was working on some card ideas last night and just when I have an idea I wanted to try I had to stop! I hate when that happens. I have what's called a job however and at some point I have to stop and go to bed. I just hope when I can get back to my craft room my creative juices will be flowing. 

All supplies used on my cards are listed below.

I'm linking this card to Crafty Girls Creations: Challenge 38.

Supplies:

Cardstock

Ranger Dylusions Paint

Gelli Arts Gel Printing Plate

Stamp - Funny Bones by Riley & Company

Versafine Onyx Black Ink

Hero Arts Clear Embossing Powder

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You Are Pretty Darn Amazing

I love bright, bold backgrounds with a splash of black! For this background I used my Gelli Art Gel Printing Plate. I created this background awhile ago and just set it aside until I decided on a sentiment. When I use my gel plate I will normally make several backgrounds or one large one and cut it down. I ended up getting two backgrounds out of this one. I've saved the other for another card.

I love all the random patterns you get when you work with the gel plate. I used paint and stencils to create this. For the sentiment I used a stamp from Avery Elle and the matching die. I heat embossed the sentiment with clear embossing powder. Supplies are listed below.

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Supplies:

Cardstock

Ranger Dylusions Paint

Gelli Arts Gel Printing Plate

Avery Elle Stamp & Die Set: Simply Said: You

Versafine Onyx Black Ink

Hero Arts Clear Embossing Powder

Inspirational Cards

I love creating backgrounds for cards!

When I'm not in the mood to work on anything, I make backgrounds. I have a whole container of them! Every now and then I'll look through my stash and pull something out that inspires me. 

For the backgrounds on these cards I started out with an 8-1/2 x 11 sheet of cardstock, my Gelli Arts plate and some Ranger Ink Dylusions Paint. When I pulled this sheet out of my basket I decided to take some stencils from my stash and added a few patterns here and there. 

The sentiments I used on these cards are from Reverse Confetti.



I love how they turned out.

I heat embossed the sentiments with Hero Arts white embossing powder. I didn't cover the sentiments completely because I like the grungy look of how they melted while only being partially covered.

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Mixed Media Canvas

Oh my! I have a new found love/addiction for deli paper! I've been on sites watching videos on how deli paper is used for quite a few months. I just put it in the back of my mind to try sometime. Then I found this stamp from Everyday Valentine at Joggles and I knew I had to buy it. I didn't know what I'd use it for however. When I ordered the stamp I picked up a small amount of deli paper to try. I will definitely need to buy a larger quantity.

For my base I used a 6x6" canvas panel. The background was created using Dylusions paints and my Gelli Arts gel press printing plate. I've had the 6x6" and 3x5" plates for a few years. When I went to a stamp show in June I picked up the 8x10". Love it, I'm so glad I splurged on it! I used three different paints and then printed my background. Because it's kind of a messy job I went ahead and created two more backgrounds on deli paper at the same time. I'm going to use those for canvas projects also.

I added some texture to the background with some translucent embossing paste and some stencils by accident. I meant to grab my white paste. Since you can't see the translucent, I grabbed another stencil and used the white paste. For the flowers I used some I had in my stash from Recollections. The smaller ones where already colored. The larger ones were white so I used distress ink with water on my craft mat and ran them through the ink. After they were dry I matted the sentiment with DCWV burlap, adhered the flowers and my canvas is ready to hang out in my craft room!

I had two scraps of the background paper left. Because I can't toss things, they are large enough to use for two cards. I'm going to go work on them now. I'll post them later.

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April Swap Cards

I was a little behind in getting my cards out this month! Instead of mailing them on the 15th, mine didn't go in the mail until the 17th. I'm a poky card maker so I had to step it up a bit to get them finished. Generally I don't wait this long but I started a new job on April 4th and I haven't had a lot of creative time. I've been too exhausted at night to do much. By the time I get home it feels as though my head is going to explode from everything I'm learning during the day. It's going to get better, but for now that's the way it is. 

For the card above I used a Hero Arts Clings stamp called Leaf & Floral background. I heat embossed the design and then watercolored with distress inks. I can't remember which colors I used for this card. The sentiment is a Penny Black slapstick/cling stamp from the Life's Messages set. 

The card below does use a background that I had in my stash that I made a few weeks ago when I had my Gelli Arts plate out. When you are using that it's a good idea to make a lot of backgrounds because it's a messy project. I used Dyan Reaveley Dylusions paint in Cut Grass for the background. I used cork from the DCWV Cork Solids Mat Stack for the field grasses. This die is from Die-Namites. Sentiment is from Stampin' Up called World of Dreams.

This next card was stamped with a Hero Arts Reversed Flowers & Leaves background and heat embossed with white embossing powder. I then took three distress crayons in picked raspberry, mustard seed and twisted citron and used my finger to rub them in on the background. The sentiment is from The Right Words stamp set from Dylusions. I heat embossed it and then used a Spellbinders die to cut it. 

My last card was a little bit of a struggle. I'm still learning how to stamp flowers. I'm getting better, but I'm not where I want to be yet. I used this card by Yana Smakulav as the inspiration for mine. The stamp set is by Hero Arts called You're So Lovely. I used Altenew crisp inks in coral berry, ruby red, frayed leaf and evergreen.

I hope my swap partners like the cards I've sent them. Thanks for stopping by!