Gelprinted Phlox

Yes, it’s another floral print from the gel plate. For this one I used phlox from my garden. I found that the phlox came apart quite easily so what I ended up doing was grabbing the little flowers that make up a whole flower head and stamping them individually. It took a little more time to press the flowers onto the plate one by one but the resulting print was very pretty.

When you look closely you will see the flower prints are two different colours, tan and blue. I brayered dark blue paint on the plate then pressed the little phlox flowers into the paint. As I pressed a flower onto the plate it removed paint leaving an empty flower shaped space. If I immediately pressed the flower onto the plate again it left a blue print because the petals were already covered in paint and wouldn’t remove much more until I ‘stamped’ the paint off on scrap paper. I picked up the print with shimmery pale gold paint which shows through where the flowers removed more paint.

To see my technique for gel printing with flowers check out my recent youtube video.

I used the print to make an anniversary card for a lovely couple celebrating their 55th wedding anniversary. Once again the sentiment from Taylored Expression stamped in versafine clair twilight ink said it all.

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