Craft Roulette #172

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Craft Roulette #172 has these parameters:

Project: Z-fold Card

Colors: Any Colors

Element: Old (I used an old stamp set from Mama Elephant)

Random: Something from my MESK! (a monoprint that I made using a gel press and a stencil that has been sitting unused in a folder on my desk for a couple of years!)

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Online Card Class Day 4

 Today's class for the Holiday Card Workshop at Online Card Classes is a two for one technique with the gel press. I used Hero Arts reactive inks instead of paint, but I still got 2 for 1!

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Gel press and mixed media

These cards are not my usual style! Even though the pattern is all on layer of paper, it is a multi-meda card. 

I made the panel with a combination of distress oxide inks, alcohol ink and acrylic paint on a gel press. Then I stamped the flowers and the sentiment, as well as stenciling the text in the background, and drawing the stems and leaves on the flowers.

 

The flower stamps are very old, discontinued wood mounted stamps from Stampin' Up. Also, I can't for the life of me remember where the sentiment stamps are from - sorry!

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Textured Rainbow for Paper Rose

Back in February, I attended an online Gel Press workshop/retreat with Lydia Fiedler of Understand Blue. There were heaps of amazing techniques, and these two cards came from one of those techniques.

I began by running a piece of white cardstock through my die cutting machine to emboss with the Tulips 3D embossing folder. I then added Distress Oxide inks in Abandoned Coral, Fossilized Amber and Broken China to my Gel Press and blended the colours with a brayer. I then gently pressed  the embossed panel into the gel press to pick up the colour onto the raised parts of the image. To finish the first card, I added a die cut and a printed sentiment strip.

 

This results in lots of ink being left on the Gel Press where the embossed image did not pick it up, so I took a piece of printer paper and took a print from the remaining ink. 

To finish the 2nd card, I added a stamped sentiment.

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Alcohol ink rainbows for Picket Fence Studios

 I've been trying out some different techniques using my gel press recently.

 

For this card, I laid my stencil onto my gel press and then dripped a rainbow of alcohol inks over the top and brayered it to spread it out. When it was dry, I removed the stencil and brayered some white acrylic paint over the top and took a print.

I had so much ink left on my stencil that I sprayed it with alcohol and took another print onto printer paper. It looked so pretty that I decided to make another card using it!
 

 

 

 

 By the way, does anyone else think that the Alice girl stamp reminds them of Emma Watson? or is it just me? 

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Alcohol ink kaleidoscope for Picket Fence Studios

 I have a blog post up on the Picket Fence Studios blog today - here's a sneak peek: 

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Picket Fence Studios and Gel Press Collaboration

Gel Press and Picket Fence Studios are doing a collab - it's not all happening at once, but you will see the design teams for both companies each posting something in the coming weeks! 

For this card, I added Distress Oxide Inks in yellows, oranges and browns, onto my 6x6 gel press, and then brayered over it to spread the ink. I then cut the "a tree" die from white cardstock and adhered it with repositionable adhesive to a 6x6 piece of white cardstock. I put this onto my gel press and ran my fingers over to make sure I got the ink right into the spaces in between the leaves of the tree. 

 

After making the print, I removed the tree die and added some more ink to the edges of the tree with my Life Changing Blender Brushes, before adhering it back onto the panel, but offset a little bit to the  right. I cut the panel down to fit onto a card front, added a stamped sentiment, and finished with some Irish Coffee sequins. 

 

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Miss your smile

 Are you making lots of hello or miss you cards at the moment? I am.

 I made the panel using a gel press - I picked up ink I had brayered onto a gel press with stamps from Altenew and stamped them onto a white card base (I took a print from the gel press as well, but that's a card for another day!)

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Happy Father's Day

 Today is Father's Day in Australia, so I made these cards for my Dad. 

I used alcohol ink on Yupo, with silver foil added before it was totally dry. The sentiment is from a company that no longer exists.

For this 2nd card, I used acrylic paint and camellia leaves on my Gel press.The die cut happy is from Hello Bluebird.

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Missing you loads

 I've been making and sending a lot of "hello" cards lately, seeing as I can't say hello to my friends in person.

 I made a background using a Gel press, a brayer, Distress Oxide inks and a background stamp from Hero Arts (sadly discontinued).  I finished with a die cut sentiment from Pink and Main, and a sentiment strip from Paper Rose.

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Just a note

Dawn Woleslagle taught a technique in the last Online Card Class using a gel press (or the back of a large photopolymer stamp). And then Lydia Fiedler's FB live sessions happened, and I bought myself a gel press. SOOOOOO addictive!

I added Distress Oxide inks to a gel plate, spread it out with a brayer, then stamped onto it (I used a discontinued stamp from Hero Arts, but you could use almost any stamp for this technique). I then pressed my cardstock onto the gell plate and removed it to get this gorgeous panel. I added a blue panel that I had leftover from another card (I'd sprayed the panel with water using a stencil from Paper Rose), and cut it with the Hello Topper die from Birch Press. I finished with a white embossed sentiment from Clearly Besotted. 

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