My Gelli Print Father's Day Cards

Hello. I know when I write my posts that I'll always get at least one person reading them - My dad. So I'd like to start by wishing him "Happy Father's Day".

As I mentioned in my previous post, he loves bird watching. Where as my father-in-law loves horses, so I thought I'd make a bird card and a horsey card (not very original but I never know what to make for men's cards). Other than that I was stumped. Then I saw this post on Barbara Gray's blog and was inspired.

I haven't played with my Gelli plate for a while so it was great to get it out again. I've used different colours, stamps and stencils to Barbara but I followed the steps she took.

This is my dad's with the new Geese stamp...........

.............and this is my father-in-law's with the Wooden Horse stamp.

I hope they (and you) like them.

Thanks for joining my dad and visiting my Crafty Little Blog today.

Stamps and Stencils Used

Remountable Geese

Wooden Horse

Clockwork Stencil

Lynne

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Masculine

It's time for a new challenge on the Claritystamp Challenge Blog. Congratulations to the winner and Top 5 of last month"s "It's All In The Words" challenge. I do love the beautiful verse stamps that Clarity do and that challenge was the perfect way to use them. It was also lovely to see the new Word Chain words used and people creating their own with the Letterbox set and the new Wheelie stencils.

This is my card for this month's "Masculine " challenge. Appropriately for this month, it's a Father's Day card. It was conceived on our DT trip to France. Jo Rice very kindly gave me, Janet, Linda and Sylvia a lesson with inks on the Gelli plate. It was such a fun evening and we all bounced ideas off each other. Special thanks to them all.

The background was the fun part. We brayered Adirondack ink (in this case Denim) onto the Gelli plate and then messed about with water. 

This was the first one that we tried in France. I used a spray for it and applied way too much water. We could see that the idea had potential though and played some more. 

These two were my favourites. They were created by dipping my fingers into water and flicking them at the inked-up Gelli Plate. The one on the left is the first print, which I think looks like rain, and the one on the right is the second print, which I think looks like snow. Two for the price of one!

You may have seen on Barbara's blog that we all made little pieces of art for the DT members who couldn't go (and another for a giveaway)........

....well this is one of the ones that I made and what inspired today's card. I don't know who received it but I hope they like it. 

To make it I stamped the Jazz Man onto the card first and then masked him off before I took the Gelli print so that his white bits would remain white.

The Jazz Man actually has a cane in in his hand but I realised that the brolly from the Clarity Characters set fits him pretty well.

I just masked off the bits that I didn't want before I inked up the stamp. Volia! Jazz Man with Brolly.

I thought a larger version would make a lovely Father's Day card for my father-in-law so I made today's card when I got back to the UK. I wrote "Happy Father's Day" and "Singing in the rain" around the frame and there's Glossy Accents on the glass part of the lamps. 

I hope my FIL will like it. I certainly had fun making it. 

Thanks for stopping by. I look forward to seeing you all get "Masculine".

Stamps Used

Jazz Man

Umbrella from the Remountable Clarity Characters Set

Large Lamp Post

Splash from Remountable Dolphin Set

Magical from Word Chain 7

Lynne

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Pride

It's nearly the weekend, so that means that Barbara Gray will soon be on our TVs with another great Claritystamp show (Sunday 1st June, 9-11am). Until then, here's another of my cards from this month's show.

I always love the silhouette animals that Barbara does and the Woodland Animals set is no exception. They are so cute and although I only used the deer and owl on my TV samples I can see the rest popping up a lot in my scenes in the future.

The Woodland stencil is the perfect accompaniment to these stamps.  You just place it on the card and create the scene through it. I used Distress and Adirondack inks for this, then did the black stamping in Archival. The new Wheelie alphabet stencils are perfect for creating whatever text you'd like, in this case it was "Happy Father's Day".

The word "Pride" finishes it off perfectly.

That was a short one! I'd better get writing my next post for the Claritystamp Challenge Blog now - I don't think that one will be as short. Don't forget, you have until 8pm on the 31st May to enter this month's "It's All About The Words" challenge. It's well worth having a go as there's a £50 Claritystamp voucher for the winner.

Stamps and Stencils Used

Wheelie International Alphabet

Woodland

Remountable Woodland Animals

Trees

Pride from Word Chain 6

Lynne

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Happy Father's Day

My Dad is one of my regular blog readers, so "Happy Father's Day" Dad.  xxx

This is the card I made for him.

I was really pleased with the scene I made following April's In the Classroom with Barbara Gray and I thought it would be perfect for my Dad's card.

Turning the topper into a completed card took longer than it did to create it though! I tried out so many backgrounds and colours before I settled on some green card that matches the boat.

The Father's Day stamp is from Lili of the Valley. I bought 3 sets of these at the GNPE, Harrogate as they go so well with the Clarity XL Postage Stamp.

Which I used for my Father-in-law's card.

He likes horses, so I made a little western scene in the stamp and heat embossed the Queen's head in gold. The background is embossed with my Spellbinders Grand Dainty Dots folder.

I hope they both like their cards.

If Hubby is reading this in Cyprus, Maya says "Woofy woof woof" (apparently that's Happy Father's Day in dog) too.

She's looking forward to normal sofa service resuming soon.

Stamps Used

Lesson 15 - Making a Point Set

XL Postage Stamp

Remountable Postage Set

Forest Ridge

Lone Ranger

Lynne

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