Fabulous tutorial with the gelli plate Christine. You have such a soft voice. I love watching and listening to you!! Your cards are all beautiful and you’re such an inspiration!! TFS Much love, Ann ❤️xx
I especially love that last background. All of these would make great foliage die cuts. I need to break out my gell plate and play around. I do enjoy watching you create!
This is my first time seeing gel plate and acrylic paint. I have dozens and never thought to use them this way. Thank you, Christine for sharing. The more options we have, the more we can make interesting and unique cards. 💖🇨🇦
Lovely as always. You can remove some of the excess paint by rolling your brayer off on a dry piece of paper, then rolling over the paint again & doing that a few times until you get to the right amount of paint. It works best if you aim for a fairly transparent layer of paint so you can see the patterns more easily. Love your colours though. Gelli printing is so addictive! And so easy to make tons of prints
Thank you so much Christine, I really really enjoyed watching you creating those Gelli plate prints. They’re really really stunning and adorable too. Please stay safe and well too xxx Mags
I ended up buying a second Gelli plate to put all that extra paint on. Worked great and I didn't waste as much paint. Also works well when you want the paint to dry on one of the plates. You have another one to play with instead of just sitting there watching paint dry! I used cardstock also for most of my prints. No creases that way. Thanks for sharing! :)
I have another round plate that I can use, if I hadn't been doing the video I would have waited for the paint to dry before trying a second layer, the finished effect on the copy paper is great ... And a lot cheaper than card!😊
It’s such fun and you can do so many different techniques, I’m sure you’ll soon be hooked and wonder what you are going to do with all the backgrounds you have created! ❤️😃❤️
Thank you so much for this video Chris I've been thinking of getting one and now I'd really love one.the idea of making my own backgrounds is exciting x
Really artistic backgrounds, and love that you don't have to clean it off every subsequent print. It would be nice to see some of the cards you made, and how you worked with the "bleed through" on the inside of the card. I just love ❤️ your ideas!
@@Chrissieannie I will check Instagram. What I mean by bleed through: a portion of the jelly print is mounted as background behind a window cut into the cardstock. It is pasted to the back of the cardstock front panel. It appeared the image is slightly visible on the back of the print , even when you used the good paper. Just wondering how to finish the inside panel. Thanks so much!
Interestingly my Gelli plate says on the accompanying information sheet that it is made from "a unique plastic that contains mineral oil" which is probably why I may have described it as such. Maybe different brands are made from different materials.
@Christine Stokes That is very interesting. I will have to research more! I used a recipe I found online and made them out of Knox Gelatin...Will have to look at my commercial one to see what it says. Thank you!!!
Thanks for coming back to me Cindy, I don't know much about them, but looked at the accompanying sheet before I made my video, so like a parrot I just repeated what I had read! 😁😁😁
Gelli prints are so much fun as you never know what you are going to end up with. After the first print I like to spray water very finely on the Gelli plate and use a second clean paper to draw what it known as a ghost print. Like you said there are many more ways to use this tool - and get surprises!
Great prints, Christine. I usually use cardstock when I pull my prints as I feel paper is just too flimsy and I generally use cardstock on all my projects whether for backgrounds or die cutting. I did originally clean my brayer between pulls on "copy" paper but found that I like those results too much to waste them so I've switched to cardstock there, too. I was intimated by the gelli plate when I first got it but once I tried it, I loved it and had to stop myself from making way too many prints for me to use. 😊
Thanks for this, I think there's is a place for different papers and card etc... depending on what you want to do with the prints! The copy paper has dried to a lovely finish, although I hadn't used it previously. If left to dry between layers there wouldn't have been any wrinkling!
Hi. I have got a small round gel plate and I'm going to try it with some of my iridescent acrylic paints instead of just my water reactive inks. I'm sure it'll be interesting and fun. Thanks for sharing your work. These are excellent results you have here.
By taking the stencil off, it removes the top layer of paint so the the layer underneath is exposed for printing. If you leave it on none of that layer is exposed. The effect is still ok though!
Really pretty results ☺ I was always told not to put the plate on paper though as the mineral oil will leach. I use an uncut/unmarked big shot plate as a mount.
I now put the plate on my glass mat and hold down the sheet of paper I'm printing onto, with a piece of sticky tape (used like a hinge) so that the paper can be lifted and then placed back in the same spot.🙂
@@Chrissieannie that's a good idea - I never get it lined up properly. I just need something to keep marauding wild cats (Dennis the Menace in Fur here, avatar) out of things now and I'm good - she's had a blue painted leg before now 🤣
great video, it figures I gave an 8.5x 11.5 gelli plate away because i felt it was too big . I like the size you are using. Made me laugh if Mom could see it. She said I insisted grass would be purple in my pictures my teacher told her to leave me alone and let me do my thing.
Welcome. I make my videos in real time so what you see is how I do it. I don't think I dry any prints before taking another. I've just got a new gel plate so I may do some more printing soon!
Absolutely.. you can clean the plates with baby wipes which is usually a little easier, but the stamps etc … warm water and maybe a little soap if necessary!
Hi Christine...this is LOVELY! Are you on Instagram? I can't find you... Oh - also, gel plates are (at least traditionally) made of gelatin mixed with other things. The Gelli brand is made of non-toxic synthetic gelatin and is vegan-friendly.
That’s good to know about the constitution of the plates! Thank you. On my Gelli packaging it said it’s made of a unique plastic!!! My Instagram name is chrissyjob!
