Helicopters

Last week, during one of my trips to the hospital to visit my father, I saw a bunch of sycamore “helicopter” seeds laying in the road.  They were so pretty that it seemed a shame for them to rot in the road so I scooped them up and took them home, to have a think how I could use them in a craft project.  I gathered some maple leaves from my garden to go with them.

It’s been a while since I used my Gelli plate so I thought I’d try to get a print from the foliage and seeds.  I used a brayer to apply a thin layer of acrylic paint to the plate and arranged the foliage over.

I used a scrap of paper to cover the foliage and pressed firmly all over the plate.  After removing the paper, I then removed the foliage and brayered a layer of pale green paint over the plate.

Whilst the paint was still wet, I placed a sheet of white card onto the plate and applied pressure all over with the brayer.  When I lifted the card, I had this lovely print.

I chopped the sheet into 3 pieces, 2 to make cards and the remainder I stuck into my art journal.  It didn’t quite cover the page so I used Lawn Fawn Stitched Leaves dies to cut out enough leaves to cover the left edge.  After trimming off the overhanging leaves, I gold heat-embossed the sentiment from Visible Image Totally Toadstools which I thought suited the project.

For the DL-sized cards, I used some more die-cuts and gold heat-embossed the birthday sentiment.

These are the finished projects.