{Spotlight Project} Monoprinting Fun with Trendy Butterflies and Gelli Plate

Hello! I'm back again today with another project. I'm covering for Monika :o) I'm still having fun with my Gelli plate. Yesterday you saw me do some stamping on gesso. This time around, I did some stamping on my Gelli plate for my prints. It's another fun technique! Here's the card:

Don't have a Gelli plate? Don't despair! There are alternatives. Before I bought my Gelli plate a couple of years ago, I was doing my monoprinting on glass. I bought a few 8x10 frames from the dollar store and used the glass on those frames. Granted I had to Shery-proof it (line the edges with lots of duct tape) to make sure I don't cut myself on the glass (and also to give DH peace of mind whenever I work with things with sharp points or edges).

Stamping on Gelli plate is pretty easy! I brayered orange acrylic paint and then stamped the butterfly from Trendy Butterflies all over.

Then I pulled two prints. The one on top is the first print and the one on the bottom is the second print (which I used in my card). Because I never like wasting paint, I pulled a third print by laying cardstock over the Gelli plate and I got a really nice artsy frame that I can use later. I repeated the process, this time with blue acrylic paint.

The rest is pretty straightforward: I cut my panels in quarters and then adhered them to yellow textured cardstock. I added some sticker stitches and mounted the panel to my card base. Then on scrap cardstock, I stamped the distressed label and sentiment from Blossom Overture, fussy cut it, adhered it on the card with foam dots, and the card's done. 

I have to admit, I wasn't really feeling it with this card when I was putting it together because I was using way too many real layers for my comfort. However, I ended up liking the card after I was done. DH was pretty impressed and looked excited when he swung by my craft table to check up on me. I talk to myself a lot when I'm crafting; I get too quiet and he gets worried :o)

Anyway, see you again next week (hopefully!) for another spotlight project.

Stamps Shery used in today's project:

     

Blossom Overture is the February/March 2015 set in the STAMPlorations stamp club. We've got lots of perks, including a free 4" by 6" stamp set like Trendy Butterflies sent every 3rd shipment (or immediately after signing up for the semi-annual subscription) and choice of 2 ARTplorations stencils ($10 value) in every stamp club package mailed out to subscribers! For more info and to sign up, click here.


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