The House That Stamps Built: Anything Goes

 Continuing with the January theme of Anything Goes at The House That 

Stamps Built:

 

 

This is the first card I made after creating numerous backgrounds with the Gelli

Plate I bought over the holidays.  It was so much fun creating backgrounds. I hesitated

to buy one as I did not like the lines a brayer leaves.  I decided to try Distress

Oxide Inks and they leave such a smooth canvas like look with no lines! I left this

one as is but have gone on to stencil, splatter etc on some of the other backgrounds

I made one my first time playing.

 

Repeat Impression Stamps:

Portland Head Light (sm)

Happy Birthday

 

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For inspiration check out what my teammates have created:

 Heather  Joy   Laurie  Patti Shirley

 

A few fun challenges:

Aud Sentiments #266-ATG&A Sentiment  1/24 

Dare 2B Artzy  2/6

Happy Little Stampers: ATG with dies   2/1 

Gem of a Challenge #2  1/26

 

Gelli Plate Fun

I finally gave in and got a Gelli plate after seeing so many beautiful backgrounds. Yesterday 

I played with some inexpensive card stock, and used Distress Oxide spray inks and

made lots of backgrounds.  They came out beautifully, more of a canvas look.  I got a nice 

smooth  background and I did not have to use a brayer.  

 

On this background I dropped a wet stencil in a couple  areas, 

stenciled some blue inks, did some light splatters, cut some die cuts from 

the same sheet of paper, splattered some water and sprinkled

 embossing powder on the splatters and heat it. I die cut a layer, added

a blue layer and found a scrap of patterned paper that pulled the 

colors together.

It was a lot of fun trying something new and different, you will be seeing

more cards in future posts with the backgrounds I made.

A few fun challenges:

Die Cut Diva's: Frame It 2/1

Crafty Sentiments Designs: ATG   1/4

Tuesday Morning Sketches #586-ATG 1/5