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It's time for another Woodblock Wednesday with Amy T.
I couldn't resist making another Valentine with some of my remaining ink-sprayed doodled Hearts.
This time I paired them with a Woodblock Happy Valentine's Day Sentiment from My Sentiments Exactly!
I attached the hearts with foam tape and mounted my panel on another sprayed background from my stash (clearly time to restock with another spray session).
The newest challenge at Shopping Our Stash is Winter Wonderland - creating cards with a winter landscape or an all white card.
I die cut lots of white snowflakes from Essentials by Ellen Snowflakes and attached them to my white card base using foam tape for a few of them for dimension.
I die cut the Lawn Fawn Giant Let It Snow sentiment from silver-white glitter paper.
I'm also joining the Simon Says Instagram Challenge of White-on-White.
I hope you'll break out your favorite winter white and join us.
When I saw the newest Inspired by Challenge image, I remembered I had an XOXO print I had saved from a prior Gelliprinting Challenge, so I pulled it out.
I used the Sketch Challenge as well with some fun Monsta Stickers.
I added a few conversation heart stickers before attaching it all to a red card base.
This morning I watched a Reel on Instagram by Shanoukiart where she quickly scribbled a heart on texty paper and cut it out to make her own embellishment, and I knew I wanted to give it a try. As I expected, it was a bit trickier than it looks in her video (at least for me), but I made it work.
I chose some "rejected but saved" glittery spray papers from my stash (note to self - February may need to be my own "Daily Spray" challenge), which turned out to be perfect when I chose little areas of the sprayed patterns to draw my hearts. I decided I wanted to use them for the Sketch from The Paper Players.
I found a gelliarts background that I had made with thread back in September 2022 that I thought would be the perfect background, so I cut it with a stitched rectangle die cut. And because using my prints in my art & trying new techniques are two things that make me very happy, I'm joining the "What Makes Me Happy" Challenge at the Cut It Up Challenge.
I looked at multiple colors, and finally went with a yellow strip for the hearts and a bright purple card base. I really love this color combination.
I finished with a vintage wood block sentiment from Savvy Stamps.
My sketchy hearts also took their inspiration from the TGIF Challenge.
I had another wonderful week of #gelprintJanuary2024 in the studio.
The week started with Day #21 Stencil. I pulled out a never before used Klimt The Kiss Stencil (okay technically it's a Mask) by Elizabeth St. Hilaire from Joggles. I tried more liquid paints in blue and gold, which produced a really cool effect on the second pull.
Day 22 is Pattern - a repeated decorative design - I chose this repeating flower foam stamp and printed with it vertically and horizontally. I was trying for a patina effect with gold and green paints, but it didn't quite work like I hoped (that's one of the fun things about creating art every day - the learning).
Day 23 is Space. I thought if I sprayed some Dina Wakely White Media Gloss Spray with dark navy paint, I might get an outer Space look. Not sure that what I quite ended-up with, but I loved it nonetheless.
Day 24 was Rainbow, so I pulled out my Rainbow of Dylusions paints to print the rainbow ... one of my favorite things to print.
Day 25 was Mini, so I pulled out my never-before-used Butterfly Wing Mini Plate. I had fun using a Carabelle Studio Jamboree Texture Plate with Blue & Purple paint.
Day 26 was Geometric. I tried using a never-before-used ClearSnap Art Screen Trio stencils. I didn't get the effect I was hoping for, but again, the learning is the joy of it all.
Day 27 is Grunge, another favorite. Since yesterday's attempt seemed a bit grungy, I kept that trio of colors, but used a combination of other stencils from my stash to get a grunge effect.
It's been fun to create art every day. I might need to figure out something to do for February.
We're still creating with OLD and NEW at Jingle Belles this week.
My NEW started with the Simon Says Stamp Wonky Tree-O Die Cuts I got for my birthday, but had yet to be opened. I die cut them multiple times from an OLD strip of ink-sprayed watercolor paper that was just the right size for these small die cuts.
I used a NEW (never been opened) Simon Says Stamp Holiday Typewriter sentiment by CZ Design and backed my trees with an OLD Taylored Expressions Mini Slim Stacklets Die Cut.
Another week of hopping through blogland:
Have a tremendous Thursday!
When I saw the Simon Says Recycle Challenge, I knew exactly what I would use since I had just torn the sides off of the packaging for my new Farmhouse Fresh Honey Chai Steeped Milk Lotion, and the pieces were sitting on my desk. I thought it would pair perfectly with my unopened package of Echo Park Bee Happy papers.
I put it all together using this week's Freshly Made Sketch.
Since recycling was the focus, I left the vertical side element a bit wider.
I love sending cards to my friends and family for Valentine's Day. This one features a layout from Sketch~N~Scrap and vintage collage images from REDLead art + craft. Since they were all facing the same direction, I flipped the sketch and moved the images to the other side, so they are looking into the card rather than off the edge.
I matted the images in black cardstock and added a sentiment from REDLead Story Stamp Valentine Words. I finished with a sprinkling of light blue gems.
I'm also joining AAA Cards Anything CAS Goes (Valentine's Day).
And also The Dream Factory Challenge for My Sassy Girl - a feminine, girly Valentine.
The current Lawnfawnatics Challenge is Lots of Heart - to make a card featuring lots of hearts. I decided it was the perfect inspiration I needed to make a card requested by a friend.
I started by using all of the Hearts from the Lawn Fawn Just Stitching Hearts on a red gellipress print I made with red paint (with a touch of silver).
Next I used a small ink blender to add some of the new Scorched Timber Distress Ink to bring out the stitching. I die cut my hearts using the largest Lawn Fawn Stitched Square Stackables die and attached it to a older piece of hoarded Authentique texty designer paper.
Next I stamped the row of hearts from Lawn Fawn Simply Celebrate Hearts onto a scrap of the same Gelliprint (without the Scorched Timber) using Black StazOn Ink with clear embossing powder before cutting with the coordinating hearts die. I also stamped two of the sentiments from the same set with red ink on white cardstock. To add the Daddy, I used Lawn Fawn Claire's ABCs.
I finished by covering the smallest stitched heart with a very old layered felt heart from my stash and added a tiny conversation heart sticker too.
