The Craft Barn Alpha Challenge continues with the letter F. The twist this fortnight is that we can only choose words between FE and FR.
I decided to choose the word 'Fellow' because I recently aquired a PaperArtsy stamp which shows a rather snazzy fellow and I thought he fitted the bill perfectly.
You can join in the Alpha Challenge at any point - it's addictive believe me!
I also wanted to use a little piece from one of my first gelli plate prints which I made at an Andy Skinner class recently - more, much more on that in another post!
Please don't expect too much because the print I used was one of the first I pulled from the gelli plate, but from that moment I was addicted. I never realised these plates were so much fun until I finally gave in, did the class and bought the plate!
Here is my double page spread:
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| The left page was made with part of a gelli plate. The right page was made using stencils and stamping. Both archival inks and DecoArt Traditions and Americana paints were used. |
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| The word definition was left without paint/ink as required by the challenge. |
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| My 'fellow' was stamped onto white card with archival ink. Most of the background was coloured with distress marker and a waterbrush. Some random acrylic paint stencil work was added to the image to enable it to fit with the page background. |
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| The right hand page was covered with a light wash of Fresco snowflake. Script stamping was done with DecoArt acrylics. Stencilling was added with both acrylics and archival ink. |
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| The gelli plate print was achieved using an Andy Skinner stencil and three DecoArt acrylic colours (both Traditions and Americana). A piece of fancy yarn also helped to add another dimension to the print by placing it onto the paint loaded plate prior to pulling the print off. |
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| The die cut letters were cut from some card covered with a piece of gelli plate print. Once applied, some shading was added around the letters with pencil. Black pen was also used to define the letters. |
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| All the die cut letters had stencilling applied to help them appear as an integral part of the design. |
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| A little extra shading was added below the foot to act as a shadow effect. Thanks for looking at my pages - expect more gelli plate work soon but remember - I'm a beginner!! A big hello to new followers too. I've been a bit of a lazy blogger lately but never fear, I will get to you eventually! |