Printing play day

Lots of people seem to be doing monoprinting using Gelli Plates.

Texture print onto card

I wanted to have a go so made my own gelatine plate for a day of printing. This is a good recipe from Leslie Tucker Jenison. Just make sure if you use a foil baking pan that it is watertight before you start...ask me how I know!


Here's the plate inked up with paint

You can usually get 2 prints off inking up one plate.

Print 1 onto cardstock

You can also layer your prints. I had already printed onto the tissue paper before adding the 2nd print on top. Loving that Tiki.

Print 2 on tissue paper

It's also fun to print over a collaged base

Print 1

Lots more can be done with this - check out the Gelli Arts blog for more ideas.
Masks can be cool. The stamping adds another nice layer.

 

Here I used a doily as a mask on the plate which gives possibilities for journalling spaces on pages

Using old book pages for printing is fun too.

Hearts masked

2nd print - heart masks removed
(I started to tear out the lower one before photographing!)

And you can also print onto organza 

Pink print on organza

Another print on a collaged base

The pink organza print laid on top of that base for a very cool effect

And I love this last one

2nd print off pink plate (heart mask removed) to cardstock
Overprinted with green

If you want to have a go, get inspired by this awesome video from Roben-Marie Smith showing you how it's done. Then go and check out what Jane LaFazio does - here's some monoprinting on cloth and in her sketchbook.
Have a wonderful weekend