Saturday, February 20, 2016
It's Already Spring Somewhere...
So here's a journal page background that I'm calling
Ivy on a Trellis
, followed by another journal page background (with a built-in frame) that I titled with the same name as the stencil that made it,
Boxed Vines
:
The original
Boxed Vines
stencil (9"x12") used in the bottom image looks like this ...
... and the top background-page was made with these 2 9"x12" stencils ...
Above:
IVY 9
stencil
Above:
PRAYER FLAGS
stencil
Both pages were made with multiple, layered Gelli Plate prints. To tone them down for use as backgrounds, I gave each a topcoat of diluted Titan Buff acrylic paint with a sponge brayer.
Last but not least, I used my 6"x
6
" stencil
Flowers V
ersion 1
to make this greeting card cover:
It was a two-step process, first using a Gelli Plate to print the flowers on cardstock, and second, over-printing the whole surface with green-gold acrylic paint (also using the Gelli Plate.)
The
Flowers Version 1
stencil itself looks like this:
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