Botanical Shadow Box using Shimmering Matte Acrylics!
Hello, crafty friends! It's Michelle here again, and I’m back to share another fun projects and tips using the gelli plate technique I shared with you in my last blog post. Not only is it a great way to elevate your card-making game but you can make fantasic backgrounds for home decor and art as well! In this blog, I will show you a few steps to create a beautiful botanical piece of home decor that is a perfect addition to your art wall.
Just grab your brayer, a gelli plate, and some shimmering matte acrylic paints to get started!
I started out using a brayer, a gelli plate and Shimmering Matte Acrylic Paint in Honey Gold.
Apply a generous amount of the shimmering matte acrylic paint to the gelli plate and evenly distribute it with the brayer.
Next I layed down Powerful Bee chipboard pieces to create a relief image and pressed a piece of white paper on top to pick up the paint. If you remember from my last post you saw that I make these in batches so there tends to be lots of layers and color overlap, this is one of those processes where I'm making those layers. I actually set this gold bee print aside for a future project and kept layering.
This is where you have fun and experiment. I then removed the chipboard pieces and pressed another piece of paper down to create another print of the Honey Gold.
Next I rolled the Washed Teal Shimmering Matte Acrylics paint on with my brayer and pulled one last print so I had the mix of the Honey Gold & the Washed Teal to create my botanial print background.
When I was happy with my background I moved on to find the perfect diecuts to showcase the look I was going for in my shadow box. For this I used a couple of pieces from the Tim Holtz Field Notes Ephemera Pack and attached them with some glue dots and foam pop dots for added dimention.
Thank you so much for stopping by. I hope you enjoyed it and were inspired to make your own nature lover card for that someone special in your life.
~Michelle Sanders
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