Q&L challenge - smile

This year’s challenge over at The Craft Barn is the Quotes & Lyrics challenge. Each fortnight we receive 2 words where we can choose from or use both in a quote and/or lyric.(for more details check out their blog)

I love to look for quotes and use them in my art, so this challenge is right up my alley.

For smile I stumbled across this nice quote: “ let your smile change the world, don’t let the world change your smile.”

I immediately had to think about a video Carolyne Dube posted on creating a globe using the round gelli plate.

As I don’t own a round gelli plate, I just have the 8x12 plate, I needed to think this one through.

I cut a circle out of a piece of paper which I then could  use as a stencil for a globe, applied different blues to the plate, added texture with an antislip bathmat (detail below) and printed the image. 

I forgot to add the continent masks which I carefully had cut out, so off to trial no.2, this time with the masks, but as it happens I actually liked the first print more.

Next I added the smile by using another stencil.

The pieces that I had cut out for the stencils I kept because I needed these as masks in the next step.

I laid the masks on the print and used some yellow, orange and red spray inks to color the background.

Typed out the quote and added fired brick, spiced marmelade and scattered straw distress ink (don't you just love those names). Cut each word and glued it around the globe and smile.

Can't wait for the next words, maybe I also do something with the second word: up.