I haven’t been feeling very well recently and focusing on things isn’t always easy so decided to just sit and play with ink and my gelli plate.
I made these three backgrounds and one where I was wiping off the brayer.
By the time I had made these I decided to make something with half of the yellow one.
I decided to emboss the background with some extra yellow ink. Then added some scraps of cardstock and then chose to stamp and colour the Art by Marlene beach house as the focal feature.
I also stamped the Corcord and 9th sentiment and cut that out.
This month for the tag swap I went a little grungy but also a bit cute!
I decided to use the Art By Marlene beach house stamp and to do some paper piecing but with the base on Kraft cardstock. I then decided to add some white ink behind the main image, some splattering and some stamping using a random wood mounted stamp from the stash. I then decided everything needed a coating of ink to make it blend… this turned my pretty cute house into a cute but grungy house!
I then added more white pigment ink through stencils around the edge but used the sticky embossing powder in the hope that I could add gilding flakes to those sections. This didn’t work well so they look only a little gilded and mainly white and textured. But I like the effect so I didn’t mind.
I stamped and embossed and inked the sentiment from Art Journey nl and added that.
I then used my inktense pencil to add some shading and definition to the image, the sentiment and around the edge of the tag.
I added some ribbons to finish off and decided it was a finished piece ready for the swap.
The first few photos were taken at night with flash, this is the tag in daylight.
It was good to use the Beach house stamp in a different way. It is such a cute set of stamps and I don’t think I’ve ever gone grungy with them before!
I started by creating the background panels using up the papers to create some bright square cards. Then I stamped the beach hut images and coloured them with promarkers in similar colours to the papers.
I also added ribbons to the papers. The sentiments were stamped on card I had coloured with the same promarkers colours so everything tied in.
Inside the card I stamped a beach hut using a pale grey ink so it was like a watermark.
I also decorated the envelope with a beach hut image but stamped in grey archival to give it more emphasis.
Almost every month I join in with the swap of a decorated tag over at UK stampers forum and this month I’ve decided to join in again.
I grabbed lots of strips of scrap paper that were sitting on my desk to coat a tag. They happened to have come from the Christmas papers but weren’t overtly Christmas designs so work for anytime of year.
Once glued down I scraped some gesso down the centre and as it’s old gesso it’s gone quite thick so perfect for stamping into as it holds the shape well. I used a random text stamp from an old magazine set.
Next I stamped the Art by Marlene beach hut stamp onto a panel of cardstock and added that to the front of the tag using dimensional tape.
I coloured elements of the stamp with my water colour pencils and added glossy accents to the roof to add more dimension.
I then added an Art by Marlene sticker as the title and doodled round it.
I finished the tag with black archival ink on the edge and some scraps of ribbon and twine through the top.
Love how this came out and pleased I could use up some of the off cuts that were on my desk for this tag.
Today I have some bunting to share which is for the UK stampers forum swap. The theme for this swap is Monochrome, so I went for the turquoise colours as my monochrome.
I stamped the beach hut from Marlene using the archival inks and then used distress crayons to watercolour the image. I also added some ink blending round the edge and a little bit of stamping to provide some texture. I then splattered the art alchemy sparks paints to give it some shimmer. Next I added the hand stamped sentiment and edged it with some Inktense.
I love this image and the gentle finish this bunting had.
It’s been a fun swap to get involved in and I’ve loved creating the flags and receiving some fun bunting in return.
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