Hi Everyone! The weather has been glorious, but I'm a bit glad of the rain today as the garden was starting to get a little sad and wilted, despite my efforts at watering. Let's hope it clears soon for the Bank Holiday weekend!
I've been watching Kim Dellow and Teresa Morgan's gelli print videos lately and decided I wanted to get my plate and paints out again and have another play. There is nothing like playing to get you used to the medium. It helps you work out what works and what doesn't and you usually end up with something you can use for cards at the end. You can watch my first attempt at using the plate in My First Gelli Prints Video.
I decided to try some stencils with my gelli plate. One I bought and one that I made from a die. I've had this Spellbinders die since I first started crafting 3 years ago, using it on this card back at the very beginning of my blog. I hadn't used it in a while and considered selling, but there's something about it that made me keep it. I'm glad I did because it works really nicely on the gelli plate. I just die cut it out onto a couple of sheets of plain printer paper.
I printed this at the end of my session, and honestly I cannot quite remember how I did this! This is why it's important to film gelli plate sessions, if only so I can remember. I think the blue was already on the plate, I added yellow on top and then the red on top of the negative portion of the die.
However I did it, I LOVED the results. It reminded me of hieroglyphs on an ancient Egyptian tomb - my eldest is currently obsessed with Egyptians!
Hope this inspires you to try out your gelli plate again - some of you have told me they have them or even made them. They can be a lot of fun!
This has been sent off to the lovely Michelle over at The Card Grotto, who is a constant inspiration and an absolutely lovely friend. Wishing you a fabulous birthday!!
Happy Crafting Everyone!
I've been watching Kim Dellow and Teresa Morgan's gelli print videos lately and decided I wanted to get my plate and paints out again and have another play. There is nothing like playing to get you used to the medium. It helps you work out what works and what doesn't and you usually end up with something you can use for cards at the end. You can watch my first attempt at using the plate in My First Gelli Prints Video.
I decided to try some stencils with my gelli plate. One I bought and one that I made from a die. I've had this Spellbinders die since I first started crafting 3 years ago, using it on this card back at the very beginning of my blog. I hadn't used it in a while and considered selling, but there's something about it that made me keep it. I'm glad I did because it works really nicely on the gelli plate. I just die cut it out onto a couple of sheets of plain printer paper.
I printed this at the end of my session, and honestly I cannot quite remember how I did this! This is why it's important to film gelli plate sessions, if only so I can remember. I think the blue was already on the plate, I added yellow on top and then the red on top of the negative portion of the die.
However I did it, I LOVED the results. It reminded me of hieroglyphs on an ancient Egyptian tomb - my eldest is currently obsessed with Egyptians!
Hope this inspires you to try out your gelli plate again - some of you have told me they have them or even made them. They can be a lot of fun!
This has been sent off to the lovely Michelle over at The Card Grotto, who is a constant inspiration and an absolutely lovely friend. Wishing you a fabulous birthday!!
Happy Crafting Everyone!
2 comments:
I think it was a really good die to keep hold of Ruth, the birds are so sweet. And how creative to use it with your gelli plates, I think the end result is really gorgeous! It’s very artsy and the beautiful yellow is just a lovely backdrop for the birds! I really need to rewatch your video to see how it’s done. Beautiful card that I am sure Michelle will treasure xx
What a great card. I bought some of these supplies but have yet to try them out. Thanks for the inspiration and push.
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