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Painted Rose

Painted Rose

Hello all! It’s Deborah here with you today. Last week I watched Jennifer McGuire’s video about the Gel Press Lift Technique. In brief, the technique uses a gel plate, dye inks, brayer, stamps, embossing and lots of card and stamps. You start by stamping an image on white card and embossing with either clear or white powder. Next, you put dye ink on your gel plate, use a brayer to smooth the inks together and then press the ink onto your embossed image. You then have a negative on the gel plate which you transfer to a piece of white card. You repeat this several times and end up with two images. One is the positive and the other the softer negative. The photos below show my first attempt at using Concord & 9th’s Painted Rose – but I forget to completely blend one of the ink layers and ended up with a very definite line across the image. I was able to rescue the softer image and you’ll see that on my second card. I’m still trying to work out how to save the other image!

My first card is for Mother’s Day and I’m perfectly safe sharing it early, as my mother-in-law doesn’t use the Internet.

The card is a US A6 which measures 6¼” x 4½”. I used Hero Arts Mod Pattern for the background, but it is 6” square. So, I used a ½” masking tape all the way round the card and then stamped the background in soft blue ink and removed the masking tape. The Concord & 9th Painted Rose on this card was made from the brayer run off sheets from the above technique. I stamped the rose in Versafine black ink and heat embossed with clear powder. I did the same for the leaves. I fussy cut them both out and adhered them flat to the card. I used a clear aqua shimmer brush to add sparkle to the rose. I finished the front by adding a scripty Mother’s Day sentiment from Lawn Fawn’s Celebration Scripty Sayings.

On the inside I cut a piece of white card slightly smaller than the base. I stamped the rose in pale yellow in the centre and added one of the messages from Painted Rose in blue. I edged the card with a blue marker and adhered it to the inside of the card.

I decorated the envelope to match the card with a rose on the front and a message on the flap.

My next card uses the negative page produced from Jennifer McGuire’s printing technique. I used blue and yellow inks on the gel plate and when brayered smooth they meet to produce a soft green colour. The embossed positive image resists the ink and leaves an image on the gel plate and when pressed onto white card, produces a lovely soft image.

As you can see from the softer image at the start of this post, I had a very marked line on the rose. To save the image, I used an oval die to cut it out. I used the Hero Arts Mod Pattern to stamp a pale-yellow background on a US A2 size card (4¼” x 5½”). I adhered the oval image to the card. I used Concord & 9th’s Beautiful Words stamp set on a strip of the left-over card for the message.

On the inside I stamped the rose in yellow and added the word ‘beautiful’ in bold capitals. I stamped it once in yellow and again in blue to give a soft green colour.

That’s all from me today. I’ll see you again next week. Keep safe.

Deborah, x

10/03/2021 | View: 278 | Categories: Ink Blending, Stamping Techniques, Card Making, Stamped Background, Fussy Cutting, Masking, Gel Press | Tags: Concord & 9th, Hero Arts, Lawn Fawn

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