Craft Barn Alpha Challenge. . . . . . Letter F

The Craft Barn Alpha Challenge continues with the letter F. The twist this fortnight is that we can only choose words between FE and FR.

I decided to choose the word 'Fellow' because I recently aquired a PaperArtsy stamp which shows a rather snazzy fellow and I thought he fitted the bill perfectly.

You can join in the Alpha Challenge at any point - it's addictive believe me!

I also wanted to use a little piece from one of my first gelli plate prints which I made at an Andy Skinner class recently - more, much more on that in another post!

Please don't expect too much because the print I used was one of the first I pulled from the gelli plate, but from that moment I was addicted. I never realised these plates were so much fun until I finally gave in, did the class and bought the plate!

Here is my double page spread:

The left page was made with part of a gelli plate. The right page was made using stencils and stamping. Both archival inks and DecoArt Traditions and Americana paints were used.

The word definition was left without paint/ink as required by the challenge.

My 'fellow' was stamped onto white card with archival ink. Most of the background was coloured with distress marker and a waterbrush. Some random acrylic paint stencil work was added to the image to enable it to fit with the page background.

The right hand page was covered with a light wash of Fresco snowflake. Script stamping was done with DecoArt acrylics. Stencilling was added with both acrylics and archival ink.

The gelli plate print was achieved using an Andy Skinner stencil and three DecoArt acrylic colours (both Traditions and Americana). A piece of fancy yarn also helped to add another dimension to the print by placing it onto the paint loaded plate prior to pulling the print off.

The die cut letters were cut from some card covered with a piece of gelli plate print. Once applied, some shading was added around the letters with pencil. Black pen was also used to define the letters.

All the die cut letters had stencilling applied to help them appear as an integral part of the design. 

A little extra shading was added below the foot to act as a shadow effect.

Thanks for looking at my pages - expect more gelli plate work soon but remember - I'm a beginner!! 

A big hello to new followers too. I've been a bit of a lazy blogger lately but never fear, I will get to you eventually!