Hello my crafty friends. I am getting messy in the craft room today. My inner kindergartener is coming out to play. I am doing some finger painting on the Gel Press! No surprise, it was tons of fun!
Since I am showing off the Whimsical and Wild stamp sets today, which are designed by Jane Davenport for Spellbinders, I wanted to combine mixed media with my card making style. When I saw a finger painting video by Gel Press I knew I needed to do that for these cards.
I started by making a swirly background that I could stamp my elephant on from the Elephant Dreams stamp set. Then I would be able to do a bit of paper piecing and not color my elephant the traditional way. You can see the making of the print and cards as well in the video below.
I'd love to know what you think of my elephant, cause I think it's fabulous. Using a Gel Press print give is so much texture, depth and interest that you can not get any other way.
For my second card and the Giraffe Wisdom stamp set, I wanted to make a more intensional print, a giraffe print background. I started by making organic shapes with my finger and brown paint on my Gel Press. I let that dry and brayered over the dried paint with a golden yellow color to pick up the paint. I am so tickled with how it turned out.
To color my giraffe and the girl on the elephant card I used my Journey Color Burst pencils. I like the look of colored pencils with a gel press print.
If you would like to see me finger painting and making these cards you can watch it all in the video below.
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Thanks for spending part of your day with me, I'll be back again soon with more cute things.
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