What a trauma !

I love the Gelli plate and usually I pull a print and then let the print inspire me but this time I decided to use some stamps I've hd a while but didnt get around to using. The Chloe blossom stamp. I have recently bought some silks paint from ebay and love it so picked a vibrant purple and cut out the stamped image on my Brother cutNscan which I am sure I'm not using to its best effect but haven't time to play enough yet.

So I painted the flowers with the purple paint and then used the lime green for the centres from the same range.

I overlayed a large one and small one. and put a sparkle in the middle.

Then I got out the Gelli plate. I mixed green silk paint with green acrylic and put the Clarity leaf stencil on it. I then took the stencil off and let it dry. Then I covered it over with the purple silk paint and then used the stencil again. I pulled a print and didn't like it so overlayed it again in green and used the stencil and the result was much better BUT I used canvas to pull the print not paper and loved it.

That wasn't the trauma however because the postman came in between all that and delivered the Sue Wilson Leaf dies. Great I thought (foolishly) these will do for my card. So I painted some canvas green. Let it dry and tried to cut the leaves with the die. Oh how I messed about for literally hours. They wouldnt cut the canvas. I tried using waxed paper, slightly better. I went on my facebook page marilynscrafting and asked people I went on Sue Wilson's page but no response. So I cut some leaves from the tattered lace collection and no trouble what so ever. Not impressed with Sue Wilson die at all but no matter.

I then ripped some more canvas and stained it with lettuce adirondack and used Clarity Happy Birthday stamp and put some ribbon on.