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Happy Friday, my friends!!!
I've been playing with ideas for my virtual retreat - have you signed up yet - and so I've had my Gel Press on my desk all week! So that means tons of cards because I get so many prints per session.
All this while battling a bizarre doorbell incident. We replaced our very old Ring doorbell with an Arlo doorbell. I really liked it. For a day. Until a mysterious bonging started. It started the day after we installed it. Naturally, we thought the sound was coming from our doorbell chime in the hall. So we messed with that a bit. Then, by 9 PM when the bonging was still happening despite our chime box being disconnected, we made a horrifying discovery.
we have two doorbells
I'm going to need someone to explain to me why in a tiny house, a person feels the need - honestly for even one chime box - I hate the doorbell - FOR TWO DOORBELL CHIMES. ONE OF WHICH IS LOCATED NEAR OUR BEDROOM.
WHY?
So we rage disconnected it - and lo and behold - there was still bonging. I'll save you everything in between that and when the Arlo stopped working, but it was pretty maddening. Our final solution was to hook everything back up exactly the way it was after the install - and poof - the Arlo started working again and the bonging didn't come back. Mysterious. And we are still left with they mystery of the LUNATICS that wanted to hear their doorbell two times.
I do give five stars to Arlo though. My older Ring had a terrible lag and poor connectivity. This one is great.
Today is a fun aspect of monoprinting that I love. Every time you use a stencil or a mask to print you get two different types of prints. One with open empty space that you can fill with another medium, and one with positive imagery. I have a video for you so you know what I mean, but here are the samples from my session and a few extra card with some GORGEOUS stencils being released today - there's a bundle that includes a combination of geometric and botanical stencils - you can see the full bundle here. Stay tuned for the video and a giveaway below!
First up - what I call the positive image print with this stunning leaves stencil. On this print, I used teal, quinacridone magenta and Hansa yellow Golden Open Acrylics. I finished it with this lovely die.
This is another positive space print. I finished it with alcohol ink and the same dies.
Now this is one of the negative space prints - totally different look to the stencil!
And the second negative space print - I love how blocky it is and these hot colors.
Such a fun notecard set and so quick.
But how am I supposed to resist geometric designs? I AM NOT. So I used this fun circle stencil, and I just used one color, rotated it in my MISTI, used a second color, rotated, third color, rotated, fourth color. Every little square it creates is totally different! so much fun. I used the sentiment from this set on a circle of duralar. I adhered it with my invisible vellum adhesive.
And finally, I blended a rainbow through this fun stencil - I love that it can be used to point to an image or a sentiment. I used the sentiment from this set.
Ready for the video? Click here if you don't see a video player below, and then come back for giveaway info and more inspiration from some amazing artists.
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