Rare Earth Elegant Frames

I used the new Rare Earth blending inks by Tattered Lace to make the background papers for these cards. I put dots of the colour on my gelli-plate. I got this idea from Birgit Koopsen, which she calls faux marbling. I love the effect.

I rolled the brayer over the ink on the gelli-plate.

I then cut some pieces of garden string and shredded it by separating the individual strands.

I laid the pieces of string on the gelli-plate put my paper on top of the gelli-plate. I ran my brayer over the paper and pulled my print.

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I used the papers I made for the background papers and flowers on the cards and bag.

I used the heart elegant frame stamp and cut out the centre and backed it with acetate to make a window so you could see the contents of the bag. The sentiment was made using the Rare Earth stationary stamps.

I made this easel shaker card using the circle elegant frame stamp. The white areas on the background paper are from where the segments of string were placed.

One of the useful things about making your own papers is that you can make flowers which match exactly.

I used the foliage stamps to create the background and used the backgrounds created with the gelli-plate to make the flowers for this diarama card

The letters were stamped randomly over the background to decorate the tag. I made the fabric flower by gluing fabric in a coil over a circle of card. Some swirls and flowers were added to decorate.

The wooden plaque was painted and then stamped on using Rare Earth inks.