Here is Round Two of the Gel Press Throwdown between Carrie Rhoades and myself. Just a brief review, we sent each other what we considered “ugly” Gel Press pulls and our challenge was to make something beautiful out of the “ugly ducklings”. So, make sure to check out her blog carriestamps.com to see the creations she has made from my “ugly” Gel Press pulls. Here is the link for Round one on my blog http://martyzstamps.com/2018/08/27/gel-press-challenge-round-one-fms351-sketch-challenge/.

I forgot to take a picture of the pull before I started adding to it. Carrie was gracious enough to send me a photo of a piece of the original pull. It is not the actual piece but it will give you and idea of what I started with. Here it is.

I took the original pull and placed it in my spraying box (a box to use silks, splashes and splattering to contain any over mist). I placed our Vintage Screen on top of the pull. I then spritz it with our Shimmer Silver Splash. You can see the design on the bottom photo.  

I stamped the guitar/tree with River Stone at the top and Rock Candy at the bottom using my Misti to get the right amount of ink onto the paper. I used Journey Glaze to create a sheen on the guitar and once the glaze was dry, I painted some Sparkle Silk onto the guitar and tree branches for a hint of glitz. I placed the guitar on the Gel Press background to decide what I wanted to do next. Since there was already a hint of Cool Pool acrylic paint on the pull, I decided to spritz the card with the Cool Pool Splash. At first I wanted to keep a circular space in the middle free of Cool Pool color; so I placed a piece of scrap paper on the background and spritzed the paper. Once this was dry, I happened to spy some Cool Pool cardstock and thought that would make an awesome mat. I grabbed it and put some Blue Lagoon ink on the Flannel Life background stamp and stamped the image on the circle which I ran through the die machine with the piercing die to give it some interest. I took the circle and spritzed it with the Shimmer Silver Splash. While all of this was drying, I stamped the sentiment in Whip Cream onto Black Licorice cardstock and embossed with White Embossing Powder. Then, a little splatter of Silver Silk.

After everything was dry, I began assembling the card. I chose River Stone as the base with a Rock Candy mat. I cut down the Gel Press background, added the circle and sentiment with the guitar popped up using foam squares. This was adhered to the base with foam squares. I think this turned into an amazing card. Remember, there are no “ugly” pulls!!!!

What do you think of this card?

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