A Gelatine Plate Is Not Meant To Be Eaten

I tried to make my own gelatine plate, after all I have a big bottle of powder gelatine at home.   Well, this is not making jelly to eat. I then used some acrylic paints (gold, silver, pewter and red) and a brayer on the gelatine plate. Don't know what was not quite right, the paints couldn't spread well. And Singapore is so hot that the gelatine actually melted after a while! But, I just used what came out from the prints. Added on some fabric motifs and metallic thread.

These are for Paper_Traders' Pull A Print swap for 3"x5" index cards.  They went to Mel Dunkley (UK) and Linda Edkins (USA), together with the Daily Junk Mails postcard.  Weaved the background for the 2 postcards that went to Mel and Linda, and I cut out the shape of our Singapore island and sponged over with distress inks in the middle of the postcards (that's my additional technique we were supposed to add).    Well, Singapore is a food paradise!

Karla Jackson (USA) and Carol Fosdick (USA) sent their Pull A Print card to me.  I like the colours on Carol's works but it looked unfinished though.

The back of Karla's card is just as sweet as the front! 

The Daily Junk Mails postcards came in from Pam Imhoff's (USA) Every day is Earth Day, and Beckie Holso's (USA) Wanderlust. Both are awesome in their own rights. 

Linda Wyatt (USA) resent me her abstract art postcard for last Sep swap, and this time it arrived fast. 

Acrylic paints on deli paper. Love Linda's abstract art, composition and colours and all! 

Some New and Older Works

Tatted a new ginko leaf, but does it looks like one?

The light bulb design looks cute, I tried to do 1 myself and thought some tatted flowers would add some interest.

I have problem drawing realistically and on the other end, doing abstract. These are some attempts on 4"x6" cards.

These 3 are done with alcohol ink marbling for the base colours, topped with spreading distress ink using baby wipe, accented with dimensional pearl paints and coloured glues. Titles: (From left to right) Junctions, Receiving, Want to Dance.

Another attempt.  Again, I used alcohol ink with water for a marbling effect as the base, added some fabric scraps, used coloured glue sticks and textured paste (DecoArt Paper Perfect).  Titles: (From left to right) Unveiling, Possibilities, Shimmering.

Although I am quite pleased with all these, I don't think they qualify to be called abstract art, do they?

Kristine did the polymer clay charms all on her own, including those for Teachers' Day presents. Baymax of Big Hero 6 is about 3 cm tall.

Found more of Kristine's drawings.

After so many failed attempts on her own ...

I decided to accompany her to a class, ...

and finally, some decent macarons baked by Kristine!  Italian method does work better than French method.