New/Underused Product Part 4

Linden Leaf is hosting some different LTC swaps this year.  She posted them last year giving us plenty of time to learn, play, and work on our cards.  For the swap you are supposed to pick a new or underused product and use it in different ways to make four sets of cards.  I picked the Gelli Plate.  I have used my plate a few times but I thought I was not using it to its fullest.

This is my final one of these swaps.  This is the one technique that I have been dying to try since these swaps started.  I had no idea that you could use alcohol inks on a gelli plate.  HERE is the video that I tried to copy.

Start off by putting the alcohol ink on the plate, spread it around with the brayer, and let it dry.  Then, in the video, she puts a stencil down and pushed it down with a piece of bubble wrap.  I love the stencil she uses and wish she gave more info about it.  (Sorry that my stencil is clear.)

Next she adds ink with a kitchen trivet.  I have a silicon oven mitt with a similar texture and used that.  She put the ink on a "puddle pad" and stamps the trivet in that.  I have no idea what a "puddle pad" is and I put the ink directly on my oven mitt.

The woman in the video is a little annoying and adds more texture items and another color with the brayer.

After this last layer of ink she stamps the whole thing  (stencil still down) with a large texture plate.  I don't have one of those but saw this serving tray at the dollar store and thought it would do that same thing.  I didn't really see the pattern from the serving tray on the plate but some of the ink does come off so I assume it works. 

Now it's time to pull off your stencil.  When the ink is dry, roll out a thin later of paint.  In the video she adds more texture after the paint and I did the same with a wrinkled up grocery bag.  Finally, you pull your print.  For this set, I used only white card stock.

For the first go I followed the video religiously.  But after a few pulls I kinda did whatever.  After a while I stopped with the oven mitt and used a corner of the bubble wrap instead.  I changed up the colors a little bit each time, sticking with a fall theme.

The hardest part about these cards was picking a border color and stamping my stamp.  I wanted to stamp my stamp in a maroon color on velum but it bled and looked like a red blob.  I tried two different inks pads one of them being Stazon.  I ended up stamping it with brown.

I'm very happy with how these cards turned out.  I am very likely to use this technique again :)  BIG THANKS to Linden Leaf for hosting these swaps <3

Here is my first card:
https://wchristmas6.blogspot.com/2019/02/newunderused-product-part-1.html

My second card:
https://wchristmas6.blogspot.com/2019/05/newunderused-product-part-2.html

And my third card for the new/underused product LTC swap:
https://wchristmas6.blogspot.com/2019/08/newunderused-product-part-3.html

Four Seasons Day Event

Yesterday, my son Boxing Turtle and I attend the Four Seasons Day Event in Chandler, In.  Chandler is about 30 minutes from our house and the event started at 10 am.  I thought I was going to get to sleep in but the kids were up bright and early.

For this event, they divided up their little town into four sections and each section was a season.  We started off in Spring and got the Summer boxes too.

Then we went back for lunch and stamped a few table top boxes.  After lunch we found Fall and Winter.  We missed one of the Spring boxes but talked to some folks at lunch who said it is now in the right spot.  We found all 36 of the event boxes.

When we were done we went back for a snack and stamped more table tops.  I had wanted to exchange with a few folks but they were all out boxing when I was ready to stamp.

The weather was nice and we had a good time.  Boxing Turtle is a funny navigator, reading too much of the clue at a time, which had us driving in circles because I couldn't remember what he said.  We took a selfie in each season but forgot to take any pics in the church.