When Is A Card...

... not a card. Well, when it starts out as a card and turns into something else. 

I fancied a little gell plate session. So I grabbed my plate, some paint, stencils and some heavy weight smoothy card. 

This was my first page, it started black with some stencilling..

Next I added pale green, then some pink and finally blue.. forgot to take more photos. 

This was from the 2nd sheet, first blue..

then orange.. more stencilling, and then yellow, again I forgot to take photos of each stage. 

These are the pulls that I made, the pink one is actually some of the yellow one with added pink. I can never quite decide whether i think gelli printing is worth all the effort, it took ages just for 2 sheets. I could have painted more than that in half the time. 

I used my new butterfly stencil PS029 to outline a butterfly on one of the prints. 

and PS030 to make the lollipop flowers onto the pink sheet. 

I used PS031 and some Stewart Gill paint to create an edge on my card blank. 

I then added my darker print to the centre. 

and added the other bits plus a title. 

I liked it, but somehow it just didnt seem finished.  Because I had used heavy cardstock, and few layers of paint, the front of the card was now quite  weighty. To balance that out I brayered on a little paint onto the back of the card. 

This made it feel better, but still I felt it needed more. then it hit me, it really was more like a book cover now than a card... so why not add pages. 

I rifled though by bit bag and pulled out some previously painted left over papers and cut them to size. Some are just paint, some stencilled, some marbled. 

I stitched them intothe cover..

and voila! a 6x6 travel size mixed media journal.. love it!

Darcy x