I'll Try Anything Once

Remember my Easter card? That was actually a sneak peek of today's video.

If you are already a reader of mine, you know I'll try anything once. No medium in my house, even if it's something from under the kitchen sink, is safe when I get in one of THOSE moods.

I'm in a makeup group on Facebook. Don't get me wrong - I don't care about my makeup very much. But it's a fun group with trusted friends who have found some GREAT skincare products that I'm not allergic to, which is harder than it sounds.

One day we were talking about silicone in face and hair products. One of the lotions I use on my face felt like it had silicone in it, but it turns out it didn't. Then this past weekend, my friend Dana (who has this magnificent mane of hair - like insanely thick, beautifully curly hair that you just want to push her down over) and I were talking about silicone hair products.

So anyway, up in the old rock tumbler that is my brain, I thought to myself, "Self - silicone is what they use in acrylic pours," and today's experiment was born.

I don't really have the room or an appropriate space to try acrylic pours in, even though I'm addicted to watching them on YouTube. My space is only appropriate for things that can go on cards, because I don't have much space, and the space I do have isn't suited to things that need a big cleanup.

So I have spent my time trying to fake it on the Gel Press, which is what I'm doing today. Basically, I wanted to see if hair oil would open up little "cells" in acrylic paint, and it most definitely does!

Here's a card example - those little white textures are from the oil that I added to the paint. This print was actually a wet on dry print - meaning I let the original experimental layer dry on the plate, and then added wet paint on top and pulled prints - pulling up a little of the dried paint each time. In this print and a few others, that ended up looking like abstract landscapes (the dried paint) with a beautiful background with the oil cells. The sentiment for this card is from this stamp set. I used a random assortment of paint, which is listed below.

Simon Says Clear Stamps MOM FLOWERS... [ SSS ] Gel Press 5 x 7 REUSABLE GEL PRINTING... [ SSS | BLIC ] L'Oréal Paris Elvive Extraordinary... [ AMZUS ] Inovart Pro-Roller Brayer [ BLIC | BLIC ] Princeton Catalyst Wedges and... [ BLIC ] MISTI Stamping Tool [ MSW | SSS | ELH | MFT | SBC ] Americana® Acrylic Paint: Desert... [ CNS ] Americana® Acrylic Paint: Baby Pink... [ CNS ] 00638-6145 - Golden Fluid Acrylics -... [ BLIC ] 00638-4195 - Golden Fluid Acrylics -... [ BLIC ] Dina Wakley Ranger NIGHT Media Heavy... [ SSS ] Dina Wakley Ranger WHITE Media Heavy... [ SSS ] Purell Advanced Hand Sanitizer... [ AMZUS ] Hammermill Paper, Color Copy Digital,... [ AMZUS ] Absorber - Synthetic Cleaning Cloth [ AMZUS ] Tsukineko VersaFine Clair NOCTURNE... [ SSS | ELH ] Whisper White Cardstock - Thick [ SUP ] Rotatrim Professional Series Cutter -... [ BLIC ] Mudder 10 Pack White Buffer Sanding... [ AMZUS ] Xyron ADHESIVE ERASER 23675 [ SSS | ART | AMZUS ] Bone Folder by Stampin' Up! [ SUP ] Multipurpose Liquid Glue by Stampin' Up! [ SUP ]

Isn't that fun? It will be crazy when you see how all that came together. Hopefully crazy in a good way. Some of my other prints, as well as the one I used on my Easter card are shown in the video below.

What other (safe) household product will make its way onto my studio desk? 

Only the future knows.

Loveyameanitbye.