Summer of Color week 1

Summer of Color is a 6 week challenge blog where each week there is a different colour choice to use in whatever way we choose.  This week's colour is Citron & Turquoise.

I thought that I might use different techniques each week with my Gelli plate using the colour proscribed for that week.  Firstly I watched this video.

I cut out some paper circles and put them on the gelli plate.  I applied some turquoise and some yellow paint.  Of course it all went very green!  I removed the circles

and they looked like this.

You are supposed to wait for the paint to dry between each layer and although I did use the heat gun a bit, it all took a long time.  I did watch Trooping of the Colour in between!

I added with acrylic paint

and added circles and lines.

I put the clear packing tape across the gelli plate and smoothed it down.  Then pulled it off.  I stuck 2 pieces to tin foil, one piece to a piece of atlas paper and on the other I tried some Perfect Pearls.  I looked in my journal for somewhere to put them and found this page that I had done with Pan Pastel and hadn't liked very much.

I wasn't overly impressed with the result when I'd stuck the tape on the page.

However all was not lost as in searching through the journal I found this page

which is much more citron and turquoise.

I added the circles that I'd used as masks on the gelli plate and added a complementary colour and some words from a Dylusions stamp.

Looking forward to finding out what week 2's colour is and hoping for a more interesting time with the Gelli plate.

Thanks for stopping by.
Bernice

Technique Challenge

On 12 Months in View yesterday there was a video of a very simple Distress Ink technique.  I watched the video and then did these 4 tags.

I followed the instructions on the video for this tag and then went over the first layer of colour with one of the colours through a stencil.  Then stamped the phrase.

For this tag I stamped the colours with Distress Ink and then found several small stamps that I had and stamped with Black Archival.

With this one, I stamped the image on the tag first and then stamped it again on a piece of paper.  I cut the image out and put it on top of the stamped image on the tag before putting the colour onto the tag.

With this tag I coloured the whole of the tag with yellow and then stamped the distress ink over the top.  Then I drew round the shapes with a black pen and added some doodling.

I have stuck all the tags into my journal.

 

While I was doing these tags the background reminded me of a patchwork quilt or bedspread.  I decided to do a whole page in my journal.  I did the 'stamping' technique and then went over the whole page with different colours through a stencil.  I printed out the poem 'Bed in Summer' by Robert Louis Stevenson, cut it up and inked it, then stuck it on the page.

Thanks for stopping by.

Bernice

Little Details

Carolyn has a weekly meme on Thursdays called Messy Little Details.  Find out about it here.  Why don't you join in?

Can you guess what this is?

It's the centre of a big wheel - or perhaps I should say center as I took the photo in Florida!