My last time as Design Team member on this website … sad, but I think you will LOVE the creations of the new teamie from Holland – Marlene Meijer – van Niekerk!
…. (and yes – we both lived in South Africa!)
Of course this won’t be the last time I will be using TCW stencils, NO – I have used them as long as I can remember, and I will, as long as I will be creating!
If you’d like to see more of my creations, please have a look on my PAPER-STAMPS-COLOR blog.
But, I’m not off yet …
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I have a step-by-step tutorial (actually 3) for you today, celebrating spring!
Why do I say 3? I did 3 different takes on a similar technique.
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Take 1 :
Use acrylic paints on your Gelliplate, put the stencil on top, and pull a print from it.
I used 2 colors of Fresco Acrylic paints from Paper Artsy here.
Stamp a flower image (Stamp a Dream) onto the print as shown.
As you can see: the image does not pop, so I decided to …
…. stamp the image onto a separate piece of cardstock, cut out the flowers (not the stem), and color it with watercolorpencils. Leave a lot of white space, just hints of color.
Adhere the flowers over the stamped image.
Stamp a sentiment (Magenta).
A close-up..
PS – I had to cut the circle out, as the paper was not white anymore after the printing with the gelliplate.
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Take 2 :
Use distress ink on your Gelliplate (10 inches), 3 colors, just a tiny bit. Brayer over it to blend the colors a bit and stamp onto cardstock. Add the same colors of distress inks again, brayer over it to blend the colors, put the stencil onto the gelliplate, brayer over it, and pull a print on top of the first print.
Stamp a flower image (Stamp a Dream) onto the print as shown.
As you can see: the image does not pop, so I decided to …
…. stamp the image onto a separate piece of cardstock, cut out the flowers (not the stem), and color it with watercolorpencils.
Leave a lot of white space, just hints of color.
Adhere the flowers over the stamped image.
Stamp a sentiment (Magenta).
A close-up..
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Take 3 :
Use distress on your Gelliplate (10 inches), 3 colors, just a tiny bit. Brayer over it to blend the colors a bit and stamp onto cardstock. Add the same colors of distress inks again, brayer over it to blend the colors, put the stencil onto the gelliplate, brayer over it, remove the stencil .. and pull a print on top of the first print.
Stamp a flower image (Stamp a Dream) and sentiment (Magenta) onto the print as shown.
A close-up..
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I really hope you liked these step-by-steps …. more important – go give it a try!
Bye for now!
Hope you had fun with me during the year I’ve been around here! I’ll miss it!
Ellie Knol
The Crafter’s Workshop Design Team Member
STENCILS USED:
Of course The Crafter’s Workshop provided me with some product to create this project, as I am in their design team. LOVE these stencils!
Hi Ellie, great post and inspiration, thanks for sharing!
Thanks Miranda!
Lovely cards. It has been great seeing your creations over the last year.
Thanks Ann, glad I’ve inspired during my DT year!
Sorry to see you go! Love your three projects! Love the stamped sentiment.
Again very beautiful cards Ellie, I’m gonna miss you at TCW. Luckily, I can follow your blog. Those stencils are lovely, they’re already on my wishlist ! :))
Thanks Enny, glad you’re going to miss me, hehe, and yes.. you can visit me on my blog anyway! These stencils are great – they should be on a lot of wishlists 🙂
I am sorry too, 🙂 and thanks!
Thank you dear Ellie!! You are such a darling person!
xx