My First Gelli Plate adventures.

For my birthday last year my husband bought me a Gelli Arts Gel Printing Plate.  It was completely unexpected and I looked at it and thought "what is that and what do I do with it".  After some research on the web and You Tube of course, I got out some paint and had a go.   OMG so additive I love it!!!

Their website is www.gelliarts.com and you can find many great tutorials on their YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/user/GelliArts

I have never tried mono printing before but it is amazing what results you can get with stencils and textures and plants etc.  

Here are some of my first attempts on the medium sized Gelli plate which is 8inches by 10 inches.

This one is using a lacy place mat.

For this one I used a cut piece of cardboard to create the wipe out lines. 

From there I went on to experiment with more leaves.  I rolled on some pale paint and pulled a print, spread some pink paint then put the ferns on used some bubble wrap for texture and pulled this print leaving the shape of the ferns.

From there I started cutting some of my own templates and used other purchased stencils for effect.

This is using an "Andy Skinner - French Elements" stencil by Deco Art. After pulling the print I went over the stencil and picked out the Paris word and Fleur de Lys in some gold paint to highlight.

I will post some further images later, thanks for taking a look.

Tracey