VIDEO: More Gel Printing Ideas – Reuse Masking Film!

Gel printing cards again this week and sticking with that double-sided card idea, if you missed it check last week's post for the first card in this series. This week I found a couple of faces in the gel print design! So had to try and bring them out! But faces aren't the only thing I thought I would try out this…

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VIDEO: How To Use Your Acrylic Skin Shape – Gel Print Card

If you saw my Wednesday Art video this week then you will know that I promised you a project idea for your acrylic skin shapes! Have you made one yet? Or is that today's project? Well, if you have made your acrylic skin shape or you are about to make it then here is a project idea for using it and also…

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VIDEO: How To Make Acrylic Paint Gel Skin Shapes

Wednesday Art video time and I thought for this week I would show how to make acrylic paint skin shapes. It's really simple and fun to do, I made some stars for this tutorial and I give you a quick technique for drawing stars too! But you don't have to make stars! You can in theory make any shape you like so…

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VIDEO: How to Gel Print With Watersoluble Crayons

Using watercolor paints on gel prints can be a little difficult as the paint beads up if you don't treat it first but have you tried using watersoluble crayons on your gel plate yet? You can get some gorgeous watercolor effects really easily and without pre-treating your gel plate just by using watersoluble crayons and I'm sharing some techniques for you to…

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VIDEO: How to Gel Print On Cards

I've got my gel plate out again and I'm sharing a simple gel print technique for printing directly on card blanks so if you are looking for a gorgeous, professional looking printed card blank then try this! I am quite enjoying the weathered wallpaper look that I've been getting using a Damask-style stencil with my gel print but this techniques works for…

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More Monoprinting With DIY Printing Plates

You can guess from my recent posts here, on Facebook and Twitter I've joined the Gelli revolution!  I am a monoprint convert, well apart from the fact that I'm using the old fashioned Gelatine plates - you saw my post from Wednesday right? Yeah, I've been bitten by the monoprinting bug and here are some of my latest prints to give you…

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Make Your Own DIY Gelatine Plate For Gel Printing

Ok so who wants to get their Gelli on?  Well DIY Gelatine plate actually! You guys must have seen all the lovely monoprinting blog posts with the Gelli Arts Printing Plates around and about over the last few months I'm sure? If you haven't spotted them and don't know what I'm talking about then Gelli Plates are a synthetic gel surface that…

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