"YOU" Art Journal by Priya & "Amazing Grace" Plaque by Rupneet

Hello Friends,

This is Priya Mishra here from Sanskruti Arts & Crafts at Rainbow Craftykari Blog. Wishing you all a very happy Women's Day. I'm so happy and excited to join in this Women's day Insta hop and Blog Hop and Linky Party. Thank you to all the sponsors who have sponsored this beautiful hop !! For the next stop kindly click on this link
https://women-beyoutifullyyou.blogspot.com/2021/03/3rd-international-womens-day-blog-hop.html

My project is called -  YOU and I have added a quote "No one is you, and that is your superpower" 

When a woman stands for herself, she automatically stands up for all women. Before encouraging others, you should look within and find that support and confidence that defines you as a woman.

Keeping in this thought, to encourage the all the women out there, I've created an Art Journal Page today...

For making this Art journal page, first I created the background. Layered some papers, Tim Holtz die cuts and roughly dry brushed with white gesso. Created a little texture with some stenciling and stamping. Colored with chalk paint in shade of pink.

Then added some metal charms and wooden die cut for some added layers. Used a black marker to create some extra interest.

Finally added a Tim Holtz doll and sprinkled some black gesso and pink chalk paint all around. I added a sentiment " No one is you and that is your super power". Here are some more close ups of my project.

 

Now Over to another beautiful Artist, who has created inspiring project on this occasion. Over to You Rupneet

Thank you and Warm Regards
Priya Mishra
Sanskruti Arts & Craft

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Hello Crafty Peeps

Rupneet here From SylviazArt at the Rainbow Craftykari Blog. Wishing you all lovely women out there  a very happy Women's Day. I'm glad to join in this Women's day Blog Hop and Linky Party. Thank you to all the sponsors who have graciously sponsored this beautiful hop. For next stop click on this link:
https://women-beyoutifullyyou.blogspot.com/2021/03/3rd-international-womens-day-blog-hop.html

Today's artwork' theme is encouragement and what better a way to present it for the womens day... so chose this Plaque , which is primed and sanded well

Over this plaque I chose to give a textured background using a texture paste through a beautiful filigree stencil... once the texture is dried, I colored the background....

And thereafter I chose a beautiful image from newspaper image, a icecream tub lid and some flora to embellish...

I primed the plastic lid with gesso and decoupaged the image using modge podge and blended the colors over the corners, and after the image on the plastic lid dried, I chose to stick it to the middle of the Plaque, such pretty landscape image goes well with the background,  isn't it....

To embellish It further,  i use some flowers around the lid and stick them using a hot glue gun and a quote saying "you are amazing " comes on top of the Plaque which its look enhances making it look as one piece. 

I enjoyed working on this colorful make and loved its cheerful vibe... hope you enjoyed the process with me..

Thanks for reading through!

Rupneet
Creative Head
Team Sylviaz

Experiments with Gel Press by DT Aditi Mahajan

Hello Everyone,

Aditi here, Today we're here at the Rainbow Craftykari blog with an interesting post for you. Its an information packed post, with a lot of play and examples. 

We've heard a lot about Gel press, and seen videos, but our very first interaction was during Creativation 2017. We took up a class, saw demos and were fascinated with the power of this one tool.

Gel Press® is the original, superior monoprinting plate - permanent and reusable! Make stunning prints for use in your artwork: Mixed Media, Scrapbooks, Cards, Art Journaling, Home Décor and more! - https://gelpress.com/

As they suggested, gel press aids in making stunning prints to be used in any kind of project. Many of you might say, its the same, paint your background, stencil, stamp, etc. Well yes, but using this plate, life is so simple, you get faster prints, it's addictive so you keep going on and on. You can create intricate prints, with multiple patterns.

Here is a journal page we made using gel press prints.

This plate is a silicon transparent jelly like plate.

These come in varied sizes and shapes:

12"x12", 12"x14", 8"x10", 5"x7", 6"x6", 3"x5", 8" round, 6" round, Petites Set- Oval, hexagon, rectangle, triangle, square and circle (small).

The latest products are the Impressables. These come with certain patterns in the plate, so your first print has a self pattern.

This is the basic information. Now lets play with them and show you some results.

Firstly, always keep the plate on a craft mat or acrylic mat. Since it has baby oil any other surface will absorb it. The smaller ones can be used by removing only one acrylic sheet and leaving the other mounted. In between, if you want to clean your plate, use a baby wipe. You can work with acrylic paints, most brands work. And if  the paint dries up quickly you could use a retarder or acrylic glaze medium on your paint. We have tried working with inks and we got great results with distress inks and oxides. 

1. Add some paint on the plate, spread it with the brayer. Use bubble wrap and press onto the paint and lift it. Keep a sheet of paper and rub on the back to lift the print on the side touching the plate. 

2. Add a different colour on the plate and spread with the brayer. Using any texture comb, create a design and lift on your paper. On the left base, create some circles with a bottle cap and a contrasting colour and lift the print.

3. On a cleat plate, place the stencil and through the stencil add two colours and spread with the brayer. Lift the stencil and take a print on the paper from the plate. You could also take a print from the paint on the stencil by rubbing it on the sheet.

                       

4. Add two colour onto the plate and spread with the brayer. Place a stencil on the plate. Press a paper and lift the print. This will give you the print only through the stencil. Next take a print from the stencil. And third, press the paper onto the plate again once the stencil is lifted- this will give you a ghost print.                  

                 

5. We kept a plain sheet of paper next to us, and every time we used the brayer, we moved it on this sheet to clean the brayer before moving onto another colour. This gave us a great background, which we used for our journal page above. We had some prints to it with the small oval plate and stencil for more interest.  We cuts pieces from sheets show in technique 1 and 2 for our layers. 

6. Some play with oxides. We used the mini rectangle and hexagon plate. Added one colour of the oxide onto the plate directly from the ink pad. Next, we rubbed a darker colour onto the uprooted side of and embossing folder and pressed it on the plate. We then took a print onto our paper. We stamped from the folder directly on the paper, to take a print from the remaining ink as well.  In the last hexagon, after taking a print, we stamped another shaded using acrylic stamps and printed it over the first hexagon print for more interest. In the same way, you could add colour and stamp on the plate and take a print for a different background.

As you see above, stencils, stamps and found object work really well. Anything to create texture and patterns as with the plate all you're doing is lifting prints and getting some fabulous paper ready for your projects. Not just paper, your could print on fabric and other surfaces as well. We've only introduced this tool and there are many more techniques to explore.

We hope we've inspired you to play and explore :)

Regards,
Aditi
Dots To Lines