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DT Kia

Let It Snow, Please

Hello all, Kia here today for our Christmas in July Random Act of Cardness Challenge. Today is Day 16, which is me, and my challenge is Gelli Plate Printing. If you do not have a Gelli Plate, now is the time. You will enjoy all that can be done with Gelli printing.

For my backgrounds today I decided to use Distress Oxide Inks, some using only one colour and some with two colours. One stencil of snowflakes was also used, and Saran Wrap, so minimal supplies. My Gelli Plate is 5 x 7 inches.

For my card above, this is done using Saran Wrap. I tear a piece bigger than my plate and crunch it up in a tight ball, then unravel being careful not to tear it. I apply my colours of choice direct to the plate, in this case Worn Lipstick and Wilted Violet, and smooth them out with my brayer. I then place the unwrapped Saran over the plate and lightly tap over it to make sure the wrinkles will transfer.

No need to worry as your ink will not dry while the Saran is over it. I lift the Saran, then apply my paper, and smooth the paper with my hands before lifting my print. (I use Hammermill Printer Paper cut in half for this).  There is so much movement on the paper, it is fabulous.

I use my background I trim it up and attach to a piece of 80lb cardstock. I then trim that to the size I want for this particular card. In this case I trimmed to 4.75 square. I stamped the large snowflake from Colorado Craft using VersaFine Clair Ink in Paradise, and heat embossed with clear embossing powder. I then sponged on Picked Raspberry and Wilted Violet along two edges of the paper and added some Nuvo Shimmer Pen in Midas Touch to this area.

To finish I matted with a light lavender then a dark purple cardstock on a Neenah cardbase and stamped the sentiment using VersaFine Clair Ink in Fantasia. A few Nuvo Crystal Drops in Morning Dew completed this card.

The card above is also done with Saran wrap and one colour. I simply moved the Saran in areas to move the ink below before pulling the print. I finished with attaching it to cardstock and cut the piece in two so I have a piece for the inside of the card as well.

Using VersaFine Clair Ink in Pinecone I stamped the Bramble Berry Branch from Penny Black. I did about 4 passes to ensure I had good coverage. I then painted on Nuvo Baked Cherry using Nuvo Aqua Pen from the Festive Season Set, and went over that with my Nuvo Midas Touch Shimmering Pen. It looks fabulous, I so wish the sparkle would show in pictures.

And finally for my last card for today, again I am using the Colorado Craft Snowflake stamp. For this background I used two colours and a stencil.

To do this I attach the Hammermill paper to my work surface at the top of my gelli plate with green tape. This ensures the paper will stay in place. I then applied Squeezed Lemonade, smoothed out with my brayer and took a print with the paper I have attached.

I then added Worn Lipstick, smooth it with my brayer and laid my stencil over the top, rubbing my fingers around the stencil to make sure it was making contact, then lifted the stencil and folder the paper back over the plate, smoothing out with my hands.

This is one of my favourite prints as it is unexpected for a snowflake. Once again I trimmed the print, attached to cardstock, then cut to size. I stamped the snowflake and heat embossed with Rose Quartz embossing powder, then stamped the sentiment using Red Carnation Ink. To finish I added Orange Marmalade Jewel Drops.

Following are some of the prints I made all with Distress Oxide Inks.

I hope you have enjoyed today’s challenge and I hope you can play along. Following are Affiliate Links for all but the Distress Oxide Inks, that I used for these prints.

Thank you for joining us today.


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Whisper

Hello all, Kia back today to share this card as part of our Random Act of Cardness challenge. This is Day 29, which is Masking.

This is a different kind of masking, using Masking Magic from Gina K Designs instead of masking over a whole image, the is the design of the image, which is a die. I was inspired for this card by a card I saw that Jennifer McGuire had done.

To start my card I die cut the Flowers Whisper die using my Gemini Jr and Gina K Design Masking Magic. I peeled the backing off the masking piece and affixed the tape to my card panel. I placed another piece of cardstock of the panel and rubbed over it with my bone folder flat, rubbing up and down the cardstock to ensure it was securely down.

I then proceeded to sponge on my colours, first using Spun Sugar on the top, then flipping the card and using Mahogany on the bottom. I then added the Abandoned Coral in the centre, and blended with the first colours put down, being the Spun Sugar over the Abandoned Coral, and the Abandoned Coral over the Mahogany.

Next, I put down some of the pigment ink to my craft mat to then add to the stencil. This way I am not contaminating my ink pad. I then picked up the ink from my craft mat and applied it to the stencil.

To finish up I added Nuvo Jewel Drops in Rosewater around the card. I decided against a sentiment as I wanted the flower to be front and centre with no distraction.

Many thanks for visiting today. I hope you have enjoyed this card and have provided Affiliate Links to the products used for this card, at no extra cost to you.


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Strawberry Hello

Hello, Kia here with you today to share this watercolour card.

The challenge for today’s Scrap’n Stamp 30 Day Random Act of Cardness is Watercolour. I used Nuvo Aqua Flow Pens as my medium for watercolouring.

This stamp is from Picket Fence Studios and is called Ponchatoula Strawberries. I stamped the image on Arches Cold Press watercolour paper using VersaFine Clair Ink in Nocturne.

I used the lemon zest, dark pink, light pink, mango, fresh green and red to paint. I mixed some of the colours together to get certain colours on the strawberries, and lightened areas by diluting colours with water. I do this in my palette dish, which is where I release the colour from the pens.

As well, when doing the background colour I used the full intensity of the colour and blended out to the pale colour with my paint brush. For this image I used 2 paint brushes, a #4 and #6.

On the flowers I used the pale pink and blended it out the petals, then used the mango mimosa for the flower centres.

To finish up I attached my panel to Gina K Design Onyx cardstock. I die cut the vellum shadow and the hello word twice, gluing together then gluing to the shadow piece. I then added a few gems.

I hope you enjoy this card today, and wish to thank you for visiting the Scrap’n Stamp Blog.

Following are Affiliate Links for the products used for this card, at no extra cost to you.


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