Friday 25 January 2013

Gelli printing experiments!

This Wednesday I had the pleasure of attending a workshop at Art From the Heart on gelli printing, run by the very talented Kate Crane.

It's a while since I've been on any kind of workshop and although I haven't got a gelli plate I wanted to do something that would fit with my current favourite branch of crafting....art journalling. And what can I say - it was ace!

Working in a pair with craft pal Catherine, we got to grips with how things worked and got a bunch of good (and not so good) prints.... but what a great learning experience. After lunch we turned our faves into an item of our choice. I created a smash book.

So, now for the onslaught of photos. You have been warned!

Ready to go:

First prints - using sail boat blue toned down with another colour I can't quite recall.


Adding a second layer to two of those first prints.

Going for a striking one layer look on textured card:

This one I love!
 
 
Cogs on top of trees - honest!





And then I cut down and mounted one as a cover.... added stamping and embellishments. Really trasnforms it.... oh dear....can't insert the image. Well, more on this later folks!

4 comments:

  1. Great stuff. We are all so jealous. Great art. Hugs Cherry Xxxx

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  2. You have a fantastic selection to use there Nicola and looking forward to seeing any more you create. Thanks for being a great team mate that day and it was so lovely to meet you. Hope we will meet again
    x catherine

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  3. These look really great - bet you had a blast, all that getting messy AND creative!

    Kathyk

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