gelli plate print easter cards

Well if only making stuff with 'em was as easy as producing 'em ...

I had a test drive of my NBUS Gelli plate yesterday and boy oh boy is it addicting. It's like the magic of heat embossing and watercoloring rolled into one! You seriously never know what you are going to get each time you pull a print. (Of course, spatial thinkers out there can probably plan their layers and colors ahead of time and know what they're gonna get. Moi? Not yet.) I decided to keep my colors pretty much to one color family to avoid "mud" and have some fun. This happened. In less than an hour ;)

Today I grabbed the three prints indicated above and made these. I had used printer paper to pull prints so just adhered that to the front of cardbases. Then the big question. What now?

The print I had fallen in love with was number 1, which I turned into the two cards in the middle row. And then they became these cards. Here's #1.

Stamped with a Tim Holtz Easter Blueprint, planning to place the MFT bow up top to cover an empty spot. Didn't like the offcenteredness so I stamped an Impression Obsession sentiment vertically to balance it out. And to cover the excessive blackness at the base of the bunny I snipped some grass out of tissue paper and stitched it along the bottom. A challenge, this one. Unlike the next one, #2.

Isn't this fun? I had pulled out extra die cuts that were laying around from recent projects, like this one, and something made me think of covering one of the eggs on this print with a die cut egg. And that led to the idea of keeping the stamping light and whimsical and voila! Thanks to Paper Smooches Spring Fling.

On to print number 3. Lovely blue/green-ness. Also a cool print made by taking CS leftover after die cutting lots of w&w leaves and using it as a stencil on the Gelli plate (like the eggs above).

Meet #3. Lotsa lovely white space.

Stamped the egg from Tim Holtz Easter Blueprint, masked it and sponged a bit of Broken China around it to set it off a bit from the busy background.

Here's #4.

This half of the print had to become an Easter card too. See those faint egg outlines. Another of the magical moments provided by the Gelli plate. (After pulling the colorful egg print and its "ghost", I laid down some blue and green paint and made this print, getting the remnants of the colorful print too. Clear as mud?)

The little bunny? He was sent to me by Bev B., so I perched him on a die cut square topped with a die cut leaf for interest. Stamped my sentiment on both and lined them up. Two more leftovers put to good use ;)

Last card  #5 was a cinch.

I like how the giant image nestles nicely into the circles on the print. From Joy Crafts Spring.

Whew. Hope I've inspired you. This all came about cuz I was inspired by Darnell's NBUS challenge which is ending today. Thanks for the push, girlfriend.

Card #1 is going to:

Time Out - #51 Easter/Spring

Stempelkueche - #39 Stitched

SSS Wednesday Challenge - A bit of Green

Mixed Media Monthly Challenge

Card #2 is going to:

Penny Black and More - Feature a Creature

SSS Monday Challenge - Make your own Background

Addicted to Stamps and More - #184 Clean and Simple

Artistic Stamper - Springtime

Card #3 is going to:

Time Out - #51 Easter/Spring I've even used the option of masking on this card!

SSS Wednesday Challenge - A bit of Green

Double D - Feeling Green

Card #4 is going to:

Challenge up your Life - Die Cutting

Mixed Media Mojo - Springtime

Anything but Cute - Crazy for Colour

SSS Monday Challenge - Make your own Background

And card #5 is going to:

Penny Black and More - Feature a Creature

SSS Monday Challenge - Make your own Background

Artistic Stamper - Springtime