Welcome to my part of the Craft Stamper Blog Hop! If you didn't pop in here because of the blog hop then make sure to hop over to the Craft Stamper Blog first now to join in, as there are awesome prizes to be won!
My name is Birgit Koopsen and I'm a newbie on the Craft Stamper Design Team. I'm thrilled to be invited to work with such an awesome and talented team and looking forward to creating hopefully inspiring projects for the magazine!
I would call myself a mixed-media scrapbooker. I love to create layouts and mini-albums as well as off-the-page projects like canvasses and every now and then do some Art Journaling. I love vibrant colors and lots of texture. I'm always trying to combine different techniques to create colorful and interesting backgrounds or embellishments. My style goes from quite clean and geometric to busy and messy depending on my mood and the products I have on hand.
Now, the theme for this blog hop is "Looking Back". We were asked to pick our favorite project/technique of last year. Since my first project for Craft Stamper Magazine is yet to come and I therefor don't have a personal project from last year I decided to go through some previous issues to see which article inspired me most to try myself. I came across Kate Bentley's "Gelli on a Plate" article in the newest issue. I know, that's not exactly last year, but.... I brought home a gelli plate from CHA last year and it has been sitting on my desk for a whole year, not used once, although I thought it would be real fun and I absolutely wanted to try. So now I thought was a good time to do so. I spend an afternoon in my studio playing and ohhh you won't believe the fun I had. I just couldn't stop. Every print brought up ideas for a next print and at the end of the day I was left with about this:
And then I made a couple more using more different colors and layers on one print:
For these prints I mainly used stamps, stencils and paper shapes but I can think of so many more objects to "stamp" with!
Stamps are from MyStampBOX, Darkroom Door, 7Gypsies, Prima and Infocrea. Stencils from The Crafter's Workshop.
The technique itself is quite simple. You add a thin layer of paint to the Gelli Plate and stamp or draw in it, add stencils or paper shapes on top and then put a piece of paper on it. You can keep on adding layers and colors as long as you like. Just imagine all the things you can do with these prints. Use them as backgrounds for your layouts or art journal pages, create nice mini-album covers, die cut them to create fun embellishments or make a simple but nice card like this one:
The letter to collect from me is: K
SPOT PRIZE!!!
My spot prize is a variety of WOW! Embossing Powder and Scrapbook Adhesives by 3LTM products worth about $ 40, (BPS 25,-, € 30,-)!
To be in with a chance of winning simply leave a comment on this blog post by midnight (GMT) on Friday 8th February 2013. The winner will be drawn at random week commencing Monday 11th February.
I hope you enjoyed my post! Your next stop on the hop is Kim Dellow.
If you get stuck on the hop at any time, pop back to the Craft Stamper Blog. Have fun checking out all inspiring blogs coming next and good luck! Maybe you are one of the lucky winners! :)
Thanks for stopping by, but don't leave without checking out my previous post with another awesome prize to win, generously donated by 7 Dots Studio!
Have a wonderful weekend!
