Leaves and Flowers-Cut & Printed
Posted: April 29, 2024 Filed under: gel press, Tim Holtz, vault wildflowers | Tags: gel press, gel printing, Tim Holtz 9 Comments
When fresh flowers for gel printing are not readily available, there are always the die-cut ones. In making today’s cards I gel printed patterns using die-cut flowers and leaves and a mix of blue, green and white paints.
Both the flowers on the card above and the stem of leaves on the card below are from Tim Holtz ‘vault wildflowers’ die set. The prints are grungy because I built up some layers of outlines on the plate before adding an image transfer text layer to the final print.
To finish the cards I added a cardstock flower or stem of leaves to match the partial prints in the background.
I did both prints on paper not cardstock then attached them to card bases with double sided adhesive. When I am spending a day or half day gel printing I will often do many prints on paper and a handful on cardstock or thicker paper. I never know which ones are going to be the favourites but I do know the session will be full of ‘just a couple more prints’ moments.
You can see when comparing these two cards the impact of adding some white paint to the mix. I used the same blue and green acrylic paints for both panels but the one above was toned down with white brayered onto the gel plate with the green and blue. So while you to print fresh flowers, die-cut yourself some from paper or duralar and see what you can come up with.
Heather Telford 
Lovely! Thank you for taking the time to post and explain the details. I sure enjoy seeing your beautiful work, I’m a huge fan!
I really love the first card, such pretty colors!
Love both, and the darker one is so exciting! Just got these dies.
LOVE these! You use some super techniques and I’d love to take one of your classes in real life. Those prints are fabulous! You hit one out of the park with these cards. Those rich, dark colors are phenomenal!
It works beautifully using die cut pieces of flowers and leaves to make your gelli plate prints Heather, and the colours are so pretty on both the darker and the lighter one, and then adding pieces of the die cuts on the finished cards brings it all together..fabulous designs. x
Beautiful cards Heather. I love making cards like this. The tim holtz dies are so nice for this.
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Kind regards
Ingrid
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I love love love your pulls! The darker print is my favorite but both designs are Gorgeous! I only pull on cardstock as it is hard for me to get a smooth adherence to the card base without some ‘wrinkles’. You do it so beautifully! 😊
These are just so beautiful!
Two beautiful print cards Heather. LOVE how different they look by just adding some white paint. xx