Bloggers Challenge - Create your own Background (Tutorial Included)

Happy Bloggers Challenge Friday! Thanks to those who played along with last weeks Wedding/Anniversary Challenge!  This weeks Challenge theme is to create your own background, I'm looking foward to seeing how you use this weeks challenge theme.

I love to use my Gelli Arts Plate and Stencils to create my own backgrounds.  Today, I've put together a mini tutorial on how I created the background for my project using the Gelli Arts Plate, Acrylic Paints, stamps from Prima and Artistic Outpost and Stencils from Just a Trace.

Supplies:
Stamps - Prima, Artistic Outpost (not shown)
Card Stock - Mixed Media Paper, Guava and Black not shown
Ink - Black, Ranger Gathered Twigs Distess Ink - not shown
Other - Gelli Arts Plate, Brayer, White, Orange, Yellow, Pink Paint, Just a Trace Ornament Pattern Stencil (Tiny), Dangle Pattern Stencil (Tiny), Pinwheel One Pattern Stencil (Small), Prima, My Minds Eye Pattern Paper (not shown), Gel Medim (not shown), Gesso

Randomly drop Acrylic Paint onto Gelli Arts Plate

Brayer over paint, rotate Gelli Plate, brayer again to get nice even layer of paint

Place stencil over Gelli Plate (stencil used Just a Trace Pinwheel One Pattern Small)

Place Mixed Media paper over stencil and press down with fingers

Lift Mixed Media Paper - here is pull number 1

I wanted to created a few additional backgrounds with the Gelli Plate - here is the plate after the first pull

I simply placed another piece of Mixed Media Paper over the Gelli plate and was able to pull this image

Still wanting to see what kind of backgrounds I could pull

I added White paint to what was left on the Gelli Plate from pull 2

Brayer White paint, remember to brayer in both directions

This is pull 3 from the plate

I liked the outcome of the third print for the stamps I wanted to use, so I continued to brayer paint onto the Gelli Arts Plate and pull color onto the print until I was happy with the outcome

Next I added my stamped images from Artistic Outpost to the background, stamping in Black ink

The Doll stamp was stamped on Prima paper in Black ink, cut out and paper pieced using My Minds Eye pattern paper.  To add color, I used STAEDTLER Ergo Soft Colored Pencils, and sponged the edges with Ranger Gathered Twigs Distress Ink. 

 I sponged Guava ink through the Ornament Stencil to add a pattern to the background

 I continued to move the stencil down the side of the background to create my pattern.  This stencil has alignment hatches to help you align your image, not to mention the small size stencils are just perfect for accenting your Mixed Media projects!

Lastly, I applied some Gesso to the Dangle Stencil to complete my project

Additional Challenges entered - A Mixed Media Color Challenge, Simon Says Stamp and Show Anything Goes

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