Hello crafty friends..
Welcome to my page today. I hope the title doesn’t make you think that I am
going to share some disastrous food recipe, lol!
I am still enjoying new crafty goodies and have tried two new techniques
which I would like to share with you.
I just got my mini gelli plate(3X5)...oh yes, its so tiny and cute! As you
know I get jittery making cards, I kept thinking what could be an alternate use
of those gelli prints and then hit upon making a name plague hanging for my
studio which is getting painted and all spruced up.
Firstly, I just wanted to play with colors and stencils and experiment
making custom prints with the plate. I took out found objects like a comb,
corrugated card board and bubble wrap for additional textures.
Here are the lovely prints I got on my first attempt...tiny slabs of handmade
prints!
Now it was time to gather supplies for the name plague and I cut out a cereal
box to make the base!
I adhered these gelli panel to the base and made 4 sturdy
slabs. I inked the edges with Black soot DI to give a border.
What next??? I wanted something different on the slabs for the alphabets
and tried my hand at zentangling!
These few hours of tangling the alphabets got me so engrossed I wished I
had more alphabets to do. It was so therapeutic and to add to that coloring
them with my new water brush pens was an icing! It was as if the alphabets came
to like with all those bright colors, I did manage to do some shading too.
It was an amateurish attempt at tangling and I know I need more practice
but the entire experience of doing this piece was so relaxing. I did 4
alphabets, TOFA( To gether for arts)...that’s my brand, blog and page too.
I then fussy cut the alphabets and had them stuck on the panels and went
around the alphabet shape with my new PIIT pens from faber castle, to highlight
and give dimension.
Then I strung all the panels with a metal chain and for the base, used up
beads and a bell to spruce it up. The end result...a bohemian chic!
I loved the total colorful splash of the tangled alphabets against the
gelli prints...I purposely dint do too many layers on the prints.
Now I can’t wait for my studio to get painted so I can hand this beauty in
a prominent place! I am quite trilled at my maiden attempts at gelli printing
and tangling...I urge you all to try it too! It’s quite addictive, don’t blame
me for that!
I would like to link this to the following challenges...
Crafty catz- word art
The Sisterhood of Crafters- Something old and new
SOS- Something new
Emerald Creek dares- something new
As you like it ch_ Fav paper or non paper project
Until my next Creative journey,
Happy Crafting and re cycling,
Cheers.
