Card Making: Friendship

Today, I am making a card with which to celebrate special friendships. I use a variety of techniques in this card, starting with the Gelli Plate and ending with stamping. Read on to see a step by step reveal of how I created this card and become inspired to create your own.

I start the process on one of these index cards.

I will be using a Gelli Plate to create the background.

I place a dollop of Bianjo Acrylic Pain on the Gelli Plate and spritz it with water to dilute it.

I then brayed the paint over the Gelli Plate.

I place a warm colour on top of the cool colour.

I brayer only lightly, as I do not wish for the two colours to mix and give me third colour.

I use an ball point tool to lightly draw into the wet paint.

I have an index card that had been slightly smudged in the studio, but this will still work fine on the project.

I brayer the card onto the Gelli Plate.

This is the image that I pull off the Gelli Plate.

I have found a quote I wish to use on the card in a tiny book called Vriendin, jy is die beste.

This is the quote I wish to work with.

I carefully crop the quote to the desired size.

I then mount the quote on 3D tape. This will give the card some dimension.

I use a Crystal Craft Ink Pad to stamp two images onto the card. These clear stamps are some of my oldest in my collection and I have no idea who produced them. I use a Chiswick block to stamp with.

I pour clear embossing powder over the wet stamped images.

Then I torch the embossing powder with a Black & Decker heat gun.

I draw a border of tiny circles around the index card, using an Artline marker.

The index card is now ready to be mounted to a card.

I fold an orange A4 sheet of cardboard in half with a bone folder, to form a card.

I then find some clear stamps by Timbres Clair to stamp onto the card with VersaMagic ink.

I wish to use only one of the border patterns and I cut it apart from the rest of the stamp.

I need to line up the stamp and in order to avoid the stamp running off the edge of the card, I place a tissue on the card to stamp onto.

I then use double-sided tape to adhere the index card to the orange card base.

The completed card.

You can watch a compilation video of the above steps on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/fTCu_Bjc3Yo

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