Sometimes a few minutes is all you have to play and that’s all I need to make an OOPS, an Outstanding Opportunity Presenting Suddenly.  Being an adult can take up most of the day, but I have to have a bit of play for my sanity.  Just a few minutes of play with the art supplies keeps me happy during the busy holiday season.

The art journal page I’m working on was started in this video, and all I  had time for was one layer with a stencil mask and not surprisingly, I managed to have an OOPS.  So grateful for having ample baby wipes on hand!

Watch A Baby Wipe, A Stencil, and the OOPS in my art journal on YouTube.

So now I have all this white space and I have the big decision of leaving it white or adding color.  This could be a big decision, but really, next time I work on this page, I just need to pick one and do it. After all, an OOPS is the worst thing that could happen.

Here are the supplies I used. Some of these links are affiliate links which means I get a small percentage. It doesn’t cost you anything extra and you are helping me keep this blog and my videos ad free! Thank you- I don’t like ads any more than you do!

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Now you’ve seen my play, let’s see yours!  Share what you’re creating with us all in the Facebook group and be inspired by what others are creating! And be sure to leave a comment here to get entered in the monthly $50 gift certificate giveaway!

Want to see more Let’s Play videos? You can find all the weekly posts here.

What is Let’s Play? It’s all about rediscovering the ability to play and each month I share a specific strategy that helped me recapture the freedom and fun of play. You can see more of the Let’s Play series here. Be sure to get entered in the $50 Dick Blick giveaway by leaving a comment below.

Sharing your play:   I, and a whole bunch of others, would love to see what you’re creating!  We’re sharing it in the Facebook group called A Colorful Place to Play. Why Facebook?  I’ve listened to your feedback about how and where you’d like to share your play instead of the link parties.

Monthly giveaways:  Leave comment on any (and all for more chances) of the weekly Let’s Play blog posts to be entered and one winner each month will be chosen by random.org.  Want more chances to win a $50 gift certificate to DickBlick.com?  Pin any of the images from the page or share about it on Facebook- then come back and leave a comment telling me what you did and you can have more chances to win! Giveaway closes the Sunday, December 28th at 11 pm EST and the winner will announced on the blog.

Congrats to Jodi, last month’s winner!

What can you do with a stack of papers made while gel printing?  One thing is make a fun and fast holiday card. In the video, you’ll see how it was inspired by a sweater and that there was not a thought of measuring.  After all, I’m not a precise type of card maker.

Watch Using gel prints to make a holiday card on YouTube.

If you’re brand new to gel printing or just curious how it works, I created a video walking you step-by-step through the process plus there is a downloadable guide.

Start with a printed papers.  Making a print is fast on gel plate so I had plenty to choose from.  The patterns on these papers were made by using StencilGirl stencils on a Gel Press Plate.

With a precision that would make Swiss watchmakers cringe, cut little strips of the paper.  They’d cringe because there is zero accuracy with this. Make them any size you want and each one being different is a plus here.

Then glue the strips onto a triangle cut from cardstock.  I used gel medium, but naturally, any glue will work.

Just a quick snip of the scissors and it looks like the papers were made just for this tree.

Next the tree needs a trunk, so it isn’t just floating out there.  This takes very little paper to create, so large sheets of paper from a gel printing session can make a zillion of these trees.

The hardest thing for me about making this card, was finding a way to take a photo of a white card on a white background. O.O.P.S! But every OOPS is an Outstanding Opportunity Presenting Suddenly.  I had a spare gel print around to use as a photo background…and that has me thinking that a nice border around the white card could be a good thing…the next card is going to have that border!

Here are the supplies I used. Some of these links are affiliate links which means I get a small percentage. It doesn’t cost you anything extra and you are helping me keep this blog and my videos ad free! Thank you- I don’t like ads any more than you do!

InLinkz.com