I had the Pantone Colors on my mind and wanted to try my stencil butters with the gel plate. This started with the Gamboge and Sterling Silver colors of stencil butters. Using my brayer I added a thin coat of the Gamboge to the gel plate, then placed on the geometric stencil and brayer on the Sterling Silver. Topped all this with white acrylic paint applied with brayer and pulled the print with white cs. What a disappointment, looked just like I had used the stencil and spatula but with huge holes in the colors and a heck of a lot more steps with cleaning along the way. Plan B: This center piece is the Gamboge spread on white cs with a spatula. Once dry I placed the stencil and using spatula applied the Sterling Silver. Done. Flower was stamped in black ink on tissue paper that was torn down and glued on. Sentiment strips were printed on sticker paper and placed on the printed pp of b&w stripes. The mat layer is actually from the first attempt where I used white Text Vellum to mop up the excess butter on my glass mat where I had been loading my brayer. Rubbed the edges with my finger dipped in the Sterling Silver butter. Added stamen dots with yellow paint pen then mounted all on white cs base.
To test my layout I had added a small amount of dot adhesive to the back of each piece and began trying different configurations. Once I found the one that worked for me I lifted each corner and ran the dot adhesive just on the corners. This created a very organic feel to the overall card because the altered pieces don’t lay flat. I like this idea, instead of fighting with these wonky pieces asking them to be flat, I can just go with there natural state. I do love the shimmer the butters bring when they are applied.
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Love the colors! Need to try some of these stencil butters as you are creating stunning cards with them!
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How are you feeling? So glad you like the butters. Hard to pick which colors to get.
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Definitely a hit after your first experiment miss, Bonnie. Gorgeous shine and dimension for the silhouette flowers.
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Came together after the rough start. Love those sentiment strips for only a buck. Just figured out how to print them as black background.
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Absolutely AMAZING!!! I can just imagine how gorgeous the shine is in real life.
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So beautiful with those colors and the stenciled design. An amazingly wonderful design!
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Oh Bonnie this is such a cool design and love the color combo! Thanks so much for visiting my blog. I hope you’ll stop by often! Have a great week!
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This is great Bonnie. I love that you used the piece you didn’t like, too.
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Thanks Golda, it is actually the piece for loading the brayer. The piece that pulled the paint is in the trash.
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This came out great! I love the mat piece that was originally used to load the brayer, and the sparkle is gorgeous!
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What a nice bright and cheerful card. Thanks for sharing with us at the Crafters Cafe, CarolG
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Very pretty! Thank you for sharing with us at The PIP Challenge.
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Pretty. Thanks for joining us last week at Crafting Happiness Challenges. I hope you’ll join us again this week. Always anything goes and unlimited entries.
🙂 Janis, Owner & Design Team @ Crafting Happiness Challenges
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