Monday, January 15, 2024

My first gelli plate adventure

 One of the Dutch webshops had a special offer I couldn't resist ... so now I have a gelli plate. Finally! I really like to be challenged so I deciced to make at least one background I could use for the challenge on Stamping Sensations. The theme is in the form of mood boards. From this mood board I picked Chinese lady in kimono, rose (the pink in the background) and garnet/red. 


The background is made with my gelli plate and acrylic paint, I used a stencil for the rose. The lady in kimono is a stamp from De Stempelwinkel (Long Black Hair, nr. Q8901NS). I stamped her on both the background and a separate white paper with versamagic (black). I colourized the print on the paper with my polychromos pencils, and acrylic paint (gold). I cut it out, and left the collar and cuffs out (so these parts are the background showing through). Glued it on the background. I added golden stripes on the collar and cuffs and covered them with a transparant glossy layer, which is actually ... glue! Yeah, really. I will try to make a picture of the glossy layer, I tried yesterday but it was hardly visible on the pics I took. 

I glued the card on metallic paper (gold), and on deep red card stock. I stamped the border with Brilliance galaxy gold, the stamp is a PaperArtsy (Eclectica by Lin, ELB23).

Challenges:

Stamping Sensations - January Challenge


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5 comments:

  1. Your card is stunning Helen, the gelli plate background looks amazing, love the elegant stamp too.
    Thank you for joining in at Stamping Sensations, I love your take on the mood board.
    Chris
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    1. So sorry for the late reply, I think I didn't hit the publish button. Thank you so much for your lovely comment, Chris!
      Helen x

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  2. Thank you Brenda, I really appreciate, hope you will feel better soon!
    Helen x

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  3. wat een fantastische kaart gemaakt naar aanleiding van de Moodbord. Ja...mooie webwinkel is de Stempelwinkel. Hele mooie stempels hebben ze. Dank je wel voor het meedoen aan de challenge van Stamping Sensations

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    1. Bedankt voor je lieve compliment, Dora! De Stempelwinkel heeft zeker veel moois, het is één van de merken waar ik graag mee werk.

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