Oops has become my favorite word!   As I create I make all sorts of mistakes but I don’t like how harsh “mistake” sounds so I call them “oops”.  A silly word that I can’t take too seriously because really, are any of my art mistakes something to worry about?  NO!  Does worrying about them help me in any way?  NO!

Here’s a look inside my process as I created this tag.

Random Gelli Plate printing with stencils on a large manilla tag.

I had this die cut window that I thought fit perfectly.   I wanted contrast, hence the orange.  But after looking at it I decided that was an oops.  I embrace my Oops because they are often gifts that have yet to reveal themselves.

I painted it green.  Oops.  Not right.  I put oil pastels on the edges.  Oops.  Not right.  I used a white oil pastel on the center and attached it with foam squares to add dimension.  All those oops led me to here and I like it here.

The butterflies were punched but not used in another project.  Oops.  I had the punching scrap on my counter.  Glad I made that oops before or I wouldn’t have had the butterfly leftover now.  Oops, the glue didn’t adhere it all the way.   This oops will be a very welcome gift later…

A bit of typed text.  Oops, ran out of space for the punctuation mark.

I wanted contrast so I pulled out a bottle of ink.  Oops.  A little too much contrast.

I blotted the wet ink off.  That oops led me to an ahhhh.

Oops, I wish I had known I wanted to color the butterflies blue before I glued the paper down.  Oh, wait, it was an oops glue job so the paintbrush could get under the edges easily.

Oops, I should have thought about where I was going to put my journaling…scratching it into the oil pastels worked wonderfully!

What oops have you made that led you to an ahhh?

Linking up with Paint Party Friday,  Creative Every Day, Art Journal Every Day, Make It Monday, Show and Tell Saturday, and Show Me What You Got.

This week has flown by!  Can’t believe this is the last day of the party! Thank you to every party goer for helping me kick off 2013!  It is going to be an amazing year full of color and creativity!   In all the excitement I had neglected my rubber stamps so I brought them to the party today to play with my Gelli Plate!

When I want the rubber stamp to pull up lots of paint then I stamp it off each time.  This gives me 2 for the price of 1!  I get the Gelli print and another layer on an art journal page.

I loved how this one looked so much I had to set it aside just as it was.  The Gelli Plate is also a great way to create a “paint pad” (instead of an ink pad)  to stamp with and there is no waste since the “paint pad” gets cleaned off by making a Gelli print!

This is now a great base layer for a journal page.  Much of it will be covered up but the lines and layers peeking through will add rich layers to whatever this journal page becomes.

The index cards I printed on – changing the size of the paper changes the feeling completely for me.

Thank you to everyone who has come to party!  There is still time to link up. The linky will be open for almost another week!

• Link up your Gelli Plate blog posts, flickr page, YouTube videos – it is all welcome!  New posts or recent posts are welcome!
• Add a link back to the party so others can join us too!
• Leave a comment on at least 2 other links from the party.  You know how wonderful kind comments encourage us creative types!
• Participate as many times as you want- just be sure it relates to the Gelli Plate.  If you notice your link deleted it is because it didn’t have a thing to do with the Gelli plate and that is what we’re celebrating here!