Ever get excited when you make a mistake? I mean excited in a good way. That’s what happened as I made this art journal page. It took a few OOPSies for me to catch on to what the muse was telling me, but eventually I did as I played with the gel plate goodies Ranger [...]
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What is the “right” way to monoprint with a stencil? Do you put the paint on the gel plate first or do you put the stencil on first? Both ways work wonderfully which means however you want to print with a stencil is the right way! What about the size of the stencil and gel plate? [...]
How do you get those gel prints with little bits of color here and there that give a print the wow factor and do it in one pull? By color transference which is a fancy way of saying transferring the color from one area to another on the gel plate. What fancy tool does this? Recycled cardboard. [...]
What do you do when you have a plan but you’re distracted in the middle by your muse? Follow her lead! I had planned to gel print an art journal page but the clean up prints were so scrumptious I had to ditch the journal. Instead, it was watercolor pencil play on the clean up prints, which were [...]
What can you do when you love a background but want to add an image on it? Use an image transfer because it will let some of the background peek through. But some techniques are wildly unpredictable and can be a lot of work. Granted, they look cool, but I prefer an easy no fail way to do it by [...]
You can put just about anything on an Impressable gel plate…including modeling paste! The texture these two create together is magnificent…can you tell that I love texture? What can you do with this flexible piece of colorful texture? I used it create a golden jeweled canvas. https://youtu.be/5boB4wdqJIk Watch Modeling Paste on an Impressable Gel Plate on YouTube. [...]
They are making clothes for the Elf on the Shelf, but they aren’t the colors or style I wanted, so I decided I could make her skirt. How hard could this be? A little gel printing, a simple running stitch, and a bunch of glue. Let’s just say I don’t think I’ll be on Project [...]
What happens when I go to IKEA? I find textures for gel printing! Just about anything can create patterns or textures on a Gel Press plate so that means there were loads of possibilities. One of the treasures I found was the $2 bamboo placemat. https://youtu.be/JSbV8WyydQk Watch Gel printing with an IKEA placemat on YouTube. Want to [...]
What happens when a group of women spend the weekend playing at the Print it. Make it. Love it! retreat? Joy! Laughter! And a whole lot of prints! Before I tell you all about this weekend, let me just say a huge THANK YOU to every woman who took a weekend out of their busy lives [...]
What can you do with your gel prints? One things is handmade cards! I love sending them but whenever I need one to send, I don’t seem to have the time to make it. So I created the Alpha Jumble stencil as a shortcut so that even on busy days, I can get something from the heart into [...]
