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1. Envelope Art Welcome: Hi friends, it's Tammy prayer. Thank you for joining me today. Today we are diving into
the world of envelope art. Here's behind me is
a few of the ones we make today in our class. Now, I'm an artist. You can find me on Instagram. I started in the world
of brush lettering. It led to watercolor, which led to mixed media
art and gel plate art. Today we are using
our gel plate. We're going to be using inks and acrylic paints, some stencils, some mark-making tools, and decorating an envelope
to go with our cards. You can mail these. You can attach
them to your gift. You can. It's an envelope.
What can I say? Adding art to your
envelope is actually continuing the gift and don't
let that space go to waste. Why use a plain white envelope
or a colored envelope or a craft paper envelope
when you can up the beauty of your gift by
decorating the envelope. So join me as we delve into
making art on an envelope.
2. Class Project Idea: Class Project is
making an envelope. Go ahead and use your
gel plate, pull it out, use your inks, use
your acrylic paints. Make it match the
card you're sending or theme it up for
fall or summer, whichever season
you're in right now. And tell me how did you use it? Did you actually send it through the mail or did you just extend the look of your gift by decorating your envelope
on top of the gift. Share with that in
the project section, I'd love to see it
and cheer you on. And so what the other students, we can all learn
from each other.
3. Supplies: Here I have all
my supplies and I will explain them
one by one to make our envelope art and a tag
to go right on top of it. So we start with
our gel plate and I actually just keep it between a piece of
two pieces of paper. This one I actually just
had folded in half. This is five by seven job plate. And we start out with
four different ink pads. I used two different greens, cottage IV, new sprout,
and desert sand. My idea was to have
something light on my envelope in case I was going to be
lettering in that spot. Turns out that wasn't
even important. So use whatever colors
you're interested in. I also used a bit of sweet
plum to do my my labels. And I have little I
applicators as how I was actually using those to do
the edges of my labels. Obviously, you will need
some envelopes for if you have four white envelopes about the size of
your gel plate. So these are about
five by seven. And a piece of paper, I always have a piece of paper. Beside me. To Breyer. Will be Breyer bring some
colors on the gel plate. And so this is used
to wipe off scissors. Why scissors? I have shipping labels. These shipping labels
are four by six, and that means they're
adhesive backed paper. And I cut them into two-inch length and
they're four-inch wide. So that's the scissors. I am using a food and
suitcase, soft tip, pen to letter on the labels. The acrylic paints today. The acrylic paints, I have
Liquitex acrylic, their basic, and today I was
using this Kanien. Boy, I'm really butchering
that one today. I also have a cadmium
yellow medium hue, yellow Oxide, and
quinacridone magenta. Again, I'm trying to keep
it in the fall color. And this is master touch,
acrylic, Antique Gold. I really love using this
in almost all my art. I have a Mr. a. Mini sprayer and that we use to wet the inks
on the gel plate. I also have a few
mark-making tools. I saved this
itty-bitty bubble wrap from some packaging I
received in the mail. These stencils I've found
at the Dollar Store. If you can just see, I
snipped them all apart. And that made it much easier for me to use on
my smaller gel plate. Some more packaging
and some cardboard. And I ripped off the
paper on one side. And that makes some
really nice effects. So stay with me as we use all of our supplies on the gel plate to make some great envelope art.
4. Gel Plate with Inks: Okay. We are ready to recreate
these envelopes. Yes, that is a gel
plate envelope. I have attached a
sticker to the cover. Here's another sample
and it's sticker. Ready to go. Another green and yellow with a touch
of gold and it's sticker. And this sticker and this one, I'm more fall color and
a matching sticker. Have a few of my go-to colors to recreate
what we were doing. And I'm going to start with the dark green pouncing
along my gel plate. Come I do more to one
side than the other. A bit around the edges. This green will
get passed around. Probably can't even see that. It's there. I can tell this brown. My thought this will help make
it look more fall colored. This desert sand. And I have new sprouts. Can I have cottage IV? I'm going to spritz
this ever so lightly. You'd even give it a
bit of Breyer going to grab a bit of bubble wrap and just
lightly touched my plate. And let's give this a go. I actually picked
some envelopes that were just the same size, just a bit smaller
than my plate. And up comes our first print. This is our background layer. I thought, let's
go ahead and try different techniques,
different colors. I wanted to make
this a bit fall, and I don't know that I really succeeded until we get
to the other layers. So this is a base, base layer. Very simple. What about something
little different? This is corrugated board. Grabbed my envelope,
center it best I can. Now, these envelopes
are nothing special. Very, very thin paper. It's not anything special. Thickness or a
particular weight. And I mourn likely found
them at a thrift store. So that's that's their story. Mostly wanting to do something that would
coordinate with my fall. This is one with no water, something to coordinate
with my fall. Cards I've been
making reveal oh, that's an absolutely different
effect from the water. And lack of any patterns. That was fun. I'm going to instead
of pouncing, I think I'm going
to just rub this on and see what we get. Rub this on. I didn't want to go
with a dark brown. I really felt like I wanted
to have some readable areas. If that was the only layer
I was going to do with my inks and help out. I'm going to stick
with my bubble wrap. One more with bubble wrap. And we'll get our last
base layer on here. Picks up really quickly. I think that's fun. You can just barely see the swiping motion I
did with the ink pads. There we go. That's the first
layer or ink layer.
5. Gel Plate Acrylic: You may find these
absolutely appropriate for your address or your package you're going to send us with. But I want to go an extra step and I'm going
to put on something light. First. Try this yellow. This is Liquitex, acrylic, cadmium yellow medium hue. This is liquid texts
that's kinda thick. And yellow ocher. So different, these apply pasty that one
yellow ocher came across. I think I'm gonna
do stripes here. Maybe even a little
going the other way. Let's take this last one
we did and give it a go, see if we loved
the second layer. I'm hoping, I'm hoping
with acrylic paints, I do rub a bit more. I really want that to lift well, that screams fall to me. That's really amazing. I love that one. Okay. Save you. Let's do
our yellow cad, yellow or yellow ocher again. Let's keep working with this. I have noticed these
patterns that my brayer makes or even an interesting
pattern for the car. If you didn't have any
stencils whatsoever, that might be look, you're going for these stencils. I actually picked up
at the Dollar Tree. I believe it's $1 Store. I hope you have
one in your area. It came in a big round
package and I cut them up and had several
patterns all on one. We'll just cut them up. That's another fun one. Mind as well. We got it out. Let's, let's experiment here. I got so much pain
up in this lid. I'm just going to
leave it there. There's no particular
reason why I separate the colors
in the beginning. Just habit by now. Something like, Okay, how
about this geometric one? Now, when you use
plastic stencils, they're still paint on here. So you could always lift that. Take a second print shirt
or rub down nice and even. See, oh, now that geometric
didn't really come across, but that gold did, that really looks sharp. I'm going to play with the
chronic withdrawn magenta. Little bit on the pink side. But that's fun, right? And I'm gonna go
with the gold again. This is from Hobby
Lobby, Antique Gold. It really gives a
beautiful shine. How about another
crisscross pattern with my cardboard? And let's see what comes up. Oh boy, that's fantastic. I may even save that and cut
it out for another project. That's really cool. Look at that. Two layers on our gel plate gave us some really
unique designs. I'm really happy with these.
6. Labels and Lettering: I'm bringing out my
shipping labels. This is a full
sheet and I think I found this at $1 store as well. There are four by
six and I'm going to cut them into two-inch. I can get three pieces out of here to be my address label. If you are clever enough to run this
through your computer, you can definitely
just print them out. Print your address out. You might have a cool
font you really like. I have been practicing hand
lettering for quite awhile, so I'm more comfortable
just handwriting it out. But I wanted to give
a bit of an edge to these so that they would stand out instead of just
the plain white. But you do you a few like
things to be extra white. You like contrast,
high, high contrast. I'm more of a dirty,
shabby it up. Let's make things a
little bit more rustic. But really it's giving it a, an edge to set it apart. Now this might look probably better with
my yellow background. I just rubbed my ink
pad along the edges. And if you really like
torn book page edges, I'm going to just tear that off. Ten rub my ink pad across here. Something else I've done lately is get a little applicators. I'm makeup applicators. Maybe you'd have
a little bit more control or you like that. Look at buffed, look better. Just smearing that
along the edge. It's not any special
technique that I, I can say. Just something to make
it stand out a bit. That looks nice together. Okay. Pick a different path. Maybe my dark green
would look good with this bright, bright yellow. And actually, because
of those crossed lines, I think I am going to
keep this one a straight I'm straight edge border
and not a torn edge. But I may change my
mind when I start to letter someone's
name, someone's address. This corner had a bit more
than this corner and I wanted to make them a bit
equal. I like that. And this one, just
as calling to me, it is so cool looking. How bout one says
elderberry, sweet plum. Well, we'll see if
it contrasts enough. It does go on pretty dark. I think it'll give
it a great edge. Definitely. And I liked that my swipes are a little going
different directions. There you go. There you go. That is something else. That's really cool. Alright, we have four envelopes and their address
labels ready to go. I have for this
brush calligraphy, writing, our Tombow
Fudenosuke pens. This one is a soft tip, has a Ws, BS, black BS. The S is for soft tip. I think I might write
Happy Fall, y'all. Because this is going
to go with a gift. My dad's birthday is coming up. So I can just put this on
his birthday card right now. Maybe you're sending a
card across the country. Go ahead and mark your lines on here and
you can erase them.
7. Wrap Up: Thank you for joining me today. I appreciate your time. How did your envelope
arc turnout? Please share it in
the project section so I can cheer you on. And how did you use
your envelope art? Did it take your gift
to that extra step, that extra level of creating and sharing your talent with your friends and family. Did you actually send
it off into the mail? How did that go? Share that with me and in
the discussion section. Now, I hope you'll come
and find me on Instagram or share your projects
over in Instagram. Either way, I'd
love to hear from you and listen to
my other classes. I have other classes on
gel plate use as well. Thank you for joining me. Have a great day.
Tammy Prara, Created to Create
