Melinda

 I had a stab at digital collage the other day.

Melinda was my great grandmother.  I used an Android app called PicsArt to create the collage from a neighbourhood photo, a gelli print and a photograph of Melinda.

Happy New Year!

 

Greeting Card, 4 1/4" x 5 1/2"

Watercolour and Posca Paint Pen on Gelli Print

While we're celebrating the possibilities of 2021, I'm organizing my birthday calendar for the new year.  It's time to make a few cards.  

During the last week I've been playing with a new 5" x 7" gelli plate,  making papers for mounting greetings.  The new plate is a perfect size for a card front.

Getting Started for Christmas 2021

It's too late to mail any more Christmas cards, but I can get a start on 2021.  These are more of the designs I traced using a Posca Paint Pen.  The first background is acrylic paint on old book paper, created when I cleaned off my brayer during a gelli printing session.

The next two are mounted on gelli prints.  I enjoyed using handmade paper so much that it just might be time to gelli print on the wrong side of my remaining scrapbook paper!

 

Loving Them For the Gel Prints

 

I made a few more Christmas cards using the designs I traced with a Posca Paint Pen.

I really enjoyed making them using gelli prints for the backgrounds.  I was able to use some dark prints that I haven't found other uses for; I guess red is only a colour I use at Christmas.  Also, the prints were too dark or busy to stamp directly onto, but perfect for contrasting with the white border around the Christmas motif.  Now I want to get out my gelli plate again!

Happy Holiday Art

Santa's elves have been busy making cards!  They all took Joanne Sharpe's Art Sparks 5:  Happy Holiday Art and made a selection of bright, cheerful cards.

Pockets Full!

 

The last pocket is full and I have posies to spare for other journals.  What a fun class this was - Joanne Sharpe's Art Sparks 3!:  Pockets full of Posies.

Cheer During a Pandemic

Joanne Sharpe certainly knows how to bring cheer during a pandemic.  Her special series of classes is bright, bold and distracting!

Still More Art Sparks 3!: Pockets full of Posies

 

More from Art Sparks 3!: Pockets full of Posies

 

Checkerboard Pots

 

She Wore Flowers

 

Some of the pockets contain bookmarks...

Pots Galore!

 

Art Sparks 4 started today and I have lots more of Art Sparks 3!:  Pockets Full of Posies still to post.  The big book is all finished, though.

Posies in Pot-Pockets

 

This is one of my favorite pages in my book from Joanne Sharp's third pandemic class:  Art Sparks 3!:  "Pockets Full of Posies".  

Black-Eyed Susans

 

Joanne Sharp's third pandemic class:  Art Sparks 3!:  "Pockets Full of Posies"

Some Old, Some New

 

We've been painting some new, and using some old "art bits"  in Joanne Sharp's third pandemic class:  Art Sparks 3!:  "Pockets Full of Posies".  This grass pocket is a gelli print from my stash.

Little Pockets

 

My book, Summer, includes some pockets.  This makes the book interactive - you can pull the flowers out.

The little black pot is a pocket too.

Art Sparks 2! Color. Collage. Concertina.

I'm taking another on-line class from Joanne Sharpe.  We needed to buy or make a concertina or accordian book from watercolor paper.  I chose to make rather than buy; it is 5" x 7" in a landscape orientation. 

Front Cover

I cut the covers from thick cardboard and covered them with gelli prints.

Back Cover

Reminded of My Favorite Way to Gelli Print

One of the best gelli print teachers, Birgit Koopsen, posted on Instagram about her play day with a 5" x 7" plate, used as a stamp.  I don't have the 5" x 7" plate, but I have the 3" x 5", and she inspired me to play for a couple of days.

Bamboo

This is another card made from a gelli print.  I used a stamp by PSX to make the bamboo impression in the paint.

Gelli Print Cards

I made a few more cards from gelli prints recently.  Here are two that came from the same print.