Made for You
Posted: April 12, 2023 Filed under: Darkroom Door, gel press, made for you, Nature Walk, Wildflowers Vol 1 | Tags: Darkroom Door stamps, gel press, gel printing 8 Comments
Some stamps old, some stamps new and some cardstock blue is the approach I took with these sweet new label stamps. I pulled out a textured gel print on rice paper and stamped flowers from a couple of favourite floral sets from Darkroom Door.
I used Ciao Bella chiascuro ink pads, the colours are deep but muted and worked beautifully with the paint colours in the gel print. Because rice paper is somewhat transparent I adhered the panel to a piece of aqua cardstock which made the print look bluer. I used the same cardstock to stamp the two phrases from the new DD ‘made for you’ set of label stamps.
The original gel print was done on a 9″x11″ gel plate so there was enough print for two cards and some extra strips on the envelope flaps
I think I have made cards a bit like this before. I love pairing DD silhouette flowers with gel prints. When I think about it, this gel print didn’t ‘work’ as far as the technique was concerned. I was using a wallpaper sample which textured swirls on it and they did not appear at all, I just got the scaly texture you can almost see. That’s the beauty of gel printing. Just because they don’t do what you expect doesn’t mean they are not usable.
The label stamps I’ve used as sentiments were probably designed to go on handmade items such as sewing or perhaps the back of a card. I decided they worked just as well as a message on the front of a card ready to send to someone dear to me.
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Heather Telford 
Your cards have a dreamy, twilight quality to them. There is always so much to admire when I stop by to see what cool stuff you have created. Wish I could stay home with my gel plate for the day, but I am thinking “gel plate fever” probably isn’t recognized as a disease by my employer!
Thank you so much! I think gel plate fever is real and can only be treated with gel plate therapy!
I need a therapist and about a dozen sessions then!😍
Lovely mood in these, contemplative, calm. I can see this translating well to sympathy cards, or “thinking of you”. And, yes, gelli always yields surprises.
Beautiful! You are so right about the gel prints I have a drawer full to prove it. Lol
Love your gel printed backgrounds!
This is so innovative! I’d have never thought to use the rice paper and LOVE that gelli print. I love all the texture in this print!
These DD wild flowers look terrific over your pretty gelli print background Heather, and love the colours and finished perfectly with the bright blue banner sentiment. x