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Please allow me introduce you to Lily Lavender . She's a lovely little miss, with her empire waist dress, and pretty bouquet of flowers.  Lily reminds me of a character from one of Jane Austen's novels ;  however, she comes to us via Rubber Stamping Depot (you'll also find her, of course, at Altered Pages ).  I've created an ATC sized canvas with Miss Lavender, using Ecoboard and Gelli printing.  Lily is stamped and cut out--I prefer using Versafine or StazOn when stamping on Gelli prints, as these inks don't bleed like some others do.     Lily's feet are adhered to the Ecoboard canvas, however, from about the waist up, she is attached with dimensional square s, giving that little bit of 3d effect. You'll find us creating with more Rubber Stamp Depot products throughout the month of May. Eco Board, ATC size Lily Lavender   (Miss Lavender also comes with a cute little cap stamp, and she's only $3.50--deal!) Gelli...

I love experimenting, don't you? Various techniques, mediums, tools, and how they interact with one another. It's so exciting!  Well, I discovered such fun when I played with my Gelli Plate and my newly acquired deli paper. Great prints and patterns on a thin translucent paper. What to do with them? I held them up against my recently de-stashed clear acrylic tags and eureka! The exciting discovery unfolded before my viewers on Periscope and I was thrilled with the results. Here is where we will eventually end up: Now to begin as we mean to continue. First the list of required ingredients: Gelli Plate 5x7    Acrylic Paint    and Splash Inks    Brayer    Stencils    and Punchinella    Glaze Medium    Stazon Ink    Mailbox Muse Dragonfly Rubber Stamp Set    Mailbox Muse Alphapalooza Rubber stamp Set    Mailbox Muse Gothic Rubber Stamp Set    Mailbox Muse Al...

Hi Everyone, Jess here with an Alice themed tag.   I had this fairy stamp from  Fairie Song Stamps  and I wanted to use just the mushrooms.  I used my Staz On ink to stamp the mushrooms onto shrink plastic.   Once the ink was dry I colored in my images using colored pencils.  I poked holes in the top of the mushrooms, but didn't end up using the holes. I used my heat gun to shrink the images and set them aside.  Notice how intense the colors are! I always keep that in mind when I use shrink plastic.   I cut my Alice  image out and changed the words on her tag from "Drink Me" to "Eat Me."  I glued a tiny mushroom onto her hand and set the image aside. To make my background I used a dye ink and stencil.  Once I had the entire tag covered I shifted the image and covered up what I had just inked leaving the manila exposed.  I used a second ink color and then my whole tag was covered! It's a super easy way...

Hi Everyone!  Danie here!  Today I have been playing with a little paint on my Gelli Plate, this time to make my own love inspired backgrounds.  As some of you may know one of the things I love most is to make my own backgrounds/papers so I couldn't resist this with Valentine's Day just around the corner. Wanting a love themed paper I chose to work with a variety of punched hearts to use as masks with my plate. Having the shapes punched ready on hand I started with some red paint as my initial layer. Today I am working on my 8 x 10 Inch Gelli Plate.   For my first print layer I just used Red Punched Hearts ready to use For my second print layer I added a mix of Acrylic Paints in other red tones such as Red Gold, Red Violet and Magenta with a touch of white to the plate and roughly brayered these across the plate trying not to blend them totally together. Before taking my original red print to pick up the second print I proceeded to add my punch...