 Styling
Gel Card
Karen Gibson
Rubber Roadsters
Advanced
Stamping Team Designer
Styling Gel…It’s not just for hair anymore!
Supplies:
•
Fishy Friends Stamp set (Stampin’Up!)
• Simple
Shapes Stamp set (Stampin’Up!)
• Simple
Sayings II Stamp set (Stampin’Up!)
• Ink: Mellow
Moss, Ballet Blue, Basic Black (Stampin’Up!)
• Jet Black
StazOn ink
• 1 - A2 size
card: one half sheet cardstock folded in half (Stampin’Up!)
• 1 - ¼ sheet
cardstock for inside layer. (Stampin’Up!)
• 1 Ziploc
baggie (sample used 4 ¾ x 3)
• Hair gel
(sample used blue hair gel)
• Pencil with
new eraser
• Coluzzle cutting mat, blade
and oval template
• Scotch
Double Stick tape (3M)
Instructions:
1.
Using Coluzzle, center oval template on A2 size card (opened), and cut an
oval. The oval must be smaller than the size of the Ziploc bag being used.
Center oval template on ¼ sheet cardstock and cut oval one size smaller than the
oval cut on the A2 size card. This will create a layer, and cover the edges of
the Ziploc bag.
2.
Stamp image on outside top of Ziploc using Jet Black StazOn ink. Let dry.
Do not use dye-based ink on the Ziploc as it will not dry. Fill Ziploc with hair
gel.Don’t over fill, or the card will be too puffy.
3.
Center the stamped gel pack to top of the inside layer and tape down
using double stick tape. Be careful to tape only the edges of the Ziploc bag.
You will not want the tape to show through the opening on the card. Set aside.
4.
Stamp the front of the card. Try this: Take a solid shape stamp and roll
just
the out side edges in ink then stamp on the card. Leaves a soft outside image of
the stamp. The smaller bubbles on this card were made using a clean new eraser
on the end of a pencil. The eraser was also used to stamp the bubbles on the
inside of this card. See the image in step 1.
5.
Take the inside layer and adhere it to the inside front of the card.
Other ideas to try. Create
a gel card with lots of different stamps. On the snowman card, I stamped the
circles then cut the inside part out using a hobby blade. You don’t have to
always stamp an image with on the outside of a
Ziplocbag. You can stamp your images on the inside card and let them show
through the bag. I like the extra dimension you achieve when stamping on the
outside Ziploc. You
 can
also add some glitter in with the hair gel for extra sparkle.
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