lara

This year, to keep from design fatigue, i made three different holiday cards for people - the kitty and snowman are images from old vintage christmas cards i found on the internet, and the crazy reindeer is from a stock photo site.

For the backgrounds i went through my huge stash pile of gelli prints and found some that looked much better cut into smaller pieces than they did at their original size. Again, reminded to never throw those away no matter how ugly they might look!

Once i matched up the image with the print i did add some more gelli or stamped layers to get the card a little more pulled together.

Topped them off with alpha stickers i've collected throughout the years. Seriously, some of these are at least 15 years old! And as i was running out of certain vowels I found ways to substitute for them - like a three for an e (that rhymes!) and a zero for an o (kinda rhymes?).

and .... voila!

Something i am pretty well known for at this point in my life amongst family, friends and coworkers is making birthday cards for people. Here are a couple i've made the last couple of months.

The above was made using a Gelli Plate and stencils. The back i did up a little differently than usual:



Corset style! All the greetings are exposed when unlaced!



This card is also a Gelli Plate print with a cupcake wrapper glued with soft gel (so it dries completely transparent)



Again a Gelli Plate print with stencils and masks used. This might be one of my favorite yet!



Lastly a Gelli Plate collage for a coworker who was leaving.

This years cards were made with, you guessed it, a Gelli Plate and some plastic snowflakes i picked up at the Scrapbox in Ann Arbor.



Layers and layers of blues and white acylic paint with layers and layers of stencils!



This was the first time i really used the technique of printing on a full sheet of paper then finding the 4" x 4" section that was most interesting and cutting that out. It used more paper and produced more scraps then i'm really comfortable with, but it also was good training for really seeing the details in things.