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Wednesday, June 3, 2020

Monoprinting

I'm not exactly sure what monoprinting is, but here is my card from the Spring On-line Card Classes for that lesson. It calls for either a gel plate (don't know what that is, and I don't have one) or a large, background clear stamp. I don't have a large clear background stamp, either. So, I used my embossing mat for my BIGkick. It worked OK. (Except, see below.) I added ink to the mat randomly and then used a brayer to make it cover the mat. Then I used a leaf stamp from Sunny Studio. I tapped the stamp onto the ink and then stamped it onto a piece of white cardstock. I did that repeatedly, wiping the stamp off between stampings, until the cardstock was covered. Then I put another piece of cardstock onto the mat covered with ink, and brayered over that to remove the ink from the mat to the cardstock. There was a section in the middle that I didn't want on this first card so I cut it out. I mounted the top and bottom pieces on foam squares. I added thin strips of black. Then I added the die-cut hello, which is four layers thick.

Here is the cardstock that I stamped with the colored ink. And this card uses the piece that I cut out of the first card. I had tried using some sort of embossing plate with the mat quite a while ago, and I guess it left a permanent indentation on the mat. You can see the design in the sentiment piece. I thought it was okay for this card, though. I stamped a sentiment from Papertrey Ink on it, matted with black and added to the card front.

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5 comments:

  1. Both of your cards are beautiful!


    Mary from NH

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  2. You were really able to improvise when you didn't have the things the class called for! I especially like the first card!

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  4. Wow, I love how this looks -- both pieces! I don't have a gel plate, either, but I might have a clear stamp that would work. I didn't know there was that option. I like the pattern due to the impression in your mat. It all looks very cool and your cards are really pretty!

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  5. Both of your cards turned out really nice. It was a great idea to use an inked mat and a stamp to create your two backgrounds. I'm not sure I would have been clever enough to think of making two backgrounds in the process. I probably would have just wiped the stamp off with a paper towel.

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