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Enough gelli printing for a while. it's time to put those prints to work in my card making and journal pages. In the coming weeks my focus will be on card construction to get in the holiday card making groove. I weeded out the keeper prints and tossed the practice messes. I know some would say "keep them and layer more paint, use stencils and add more texture to them", but it's only paper and there will be more prints.
I agree about tossing what you don't love. OTOH, using a viewfinder can unearth the most amazing little pieces from the ugliest gelli prints. Just cut a smallish square or rectangle in an index card or chipboard and move it above the print to visually isolate areas. Magic occurs.
I have a bunch of them folded in half but have I actually gotten around to binding them into journaling books? NOPE. They are sitting on a shelf all folded and organized ready to go. I've got plenty of excused why I haven't gotten around to it but in the end they are just that... excuses.
I do plan on doing some Christmas color prints, maybe I'll actually use those.
I've been making notes, planning my designs, gathering supplies, choosing my palettes, and I cleaned up workstations for a fresh start. I don't know about you but once I'm in the production mode, I hate running out of tape, glue, etc... I just signed up for a couple holiday swaps to get me in the groove. I need to make cards for Fall/Winter birthdays, Halloween (my mum's birthday), Thanksgiving and Christmas... Last holiday season I was still making cards after Christmas. They were calendar cards that distributed to co-workers the first week of January, to wish them a Happy New Year, lol.
I promise myself every year I'll get started on christmas cards early and am actually excited about using some of the holiday stencils that I've had for years but hardly used.
Now if I could just get DH occupied out out of my hair long enough to get my plate out and get messy...
Bohodiva have you been inspired since starting this thread to use some more of your prints?
Those are GREAT backgrounds! Love them
For the ones that I can't like much...I will cut them into pieces and make *mosaic* tile looking things. Sometimes just the colors will look different this way and I hope to use a *grout* color to bring them together a bit LOL
Time to shift gears
