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But…there was an Oops…I tried doodling in this reverse print, and well, that just wasn’t making me happy. I drew a couple of lines but just wasn’t feeling it. I wanted paint. Luckily, I have a little paint just laying around…
But the colors I started with just looked horrible. Oops again.
This is just play. I’m just coloring. I did think it was horrendously ugly after the first 2 colors and that was a fantastic opportunity for me to grab some of my less used colors. Less used is a really nice way of saying they are basically neglected tubes of paint. I never would have put these colors together if I had any kind of plan. And once again, an Oops takes me to a better place than I could have planned.
But after a few of the less favorite colors, my usual rainbow colors called to me. Thanks Maria McGuire for designing a stencil with all these fun shapes to fill with paint.
When I was all finished, I loved how all the colors played together. The less loved tubes of paint played really well with my favorites. Thanks muse, for reminding me to grab some other colors too! Maybe I will use that red more….well that just sounds crazy when I say it out loud!
What am I sharing for this week’s Let’s Play link party? Plop, plop, but no fizz fizz, but oh what a relief play is…okay I might be a little slap happy from the play…As I was playing with a little Gelli Plate® and a stencil, I got the most wonderful thrill plopping it right on the paper. In the video you’ll see me start out with my thinking brain and then my play brain takes over once I plop it down!
Here’s what the big piece looks all finished. I might cut it up for a page in an art journal or anything else I use paper for but right now I am just enjoying it the way it is!
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Ever since I saw Maria McGuire’s Butterfly and Butterfly Duo stencils I wanted to make a book out of them. Well, I finally did it! And along the way…made a few Oopsies but one totally pushed me to use a tool in my studio that I try to avoid at all costs! You can see in the video what happened and how wonderful an Oops can be!
To create the covers for each section of the book, stencil the butterflies on any colorful paper you have. Next, cut them out. I didn’t cut them very carefully and I certainly wasn’t going to cut out the antennae…hope the butterflies forgive me.
I created the inside pages out of a fun pad of paper from the office supply store. Any paper will work to do this so use whatever you have around from notebook paper to plain paper or patterned paper!
I pulled out the sewing machine to attach the butterflies together. I’m not a knowledgable seamstress in any way but I can do a quick line of stitches. You can tell in the video that I am not one with my sewing machine because it took me a moment to find the reverse button. The good thing is for this, I don’t have to be a master of it…I just needed a straight line. Actually, the straight line didn’t even need to be straight!
The finished book, which thanks to the Oopsies led to the bonus pop of color inside. I love that the wings and papers pop up adding a fluttering feeling to it all!
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I was Gelli printing® with the Doodle it Dream Landscape stencil and had the idea to use it as a coloring page. All those wonderful lines in black paint just screamed opportunity to play to me. You can see how how to make a reverse print with the Gelli Plate® in a video here.
Ever since I saw Maria McGuire’s 
