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…
Let's gel plate print! I have a gel plate printing technique in my video to share with you today that will not only show you how to make a layered gel print but also how to make it any shape you want no matter what shape your gel is. I'm revisiting leaf printing for today's video as it is a great…
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…
I've got my Gel Press gel printing plate out so I thought it would be fun to share some of my top tips for building textured layers in your monoprints. I've got lots of techniques and ideas for you so I hope that you find them useful! I've also followed the heart theme from my Simple Mask and Heat embossing art…
I'm guessing that you are like me and like to make the most out of the art that you make don't you? I mean there is just so much you can do with it and I've shared ideas before like the blog post about turning your art journal pages into soft furnishings for your home or the one about making personalised stocking…
As promised I am back with a project idea for using the . I thought it would be fun to use them to turn one of my into a mixed media project. So I'm sharing my process for transforming this ink sketch into a mixed media collage. I've got a bit of a fixation on these little houses on hill scenes that…
A quick video today with a quick look at some quick Gelli Plate printed papers! I have some mixed media projects planned and they need some colourful papers, so what better way to make them than to get my Gelli plate out and do some monoprinting?! So that is what I did and I filmed some tips on using Gelli plates with…
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…
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…