Gel Printed Cornflower & Grasses
Posted: August 21, 2024 Filed under: Darkroom Door, gel press, Waffle Flower | Tags: Darkroom Door stamps, gel press, gel printing, Waffle Flower dies 10 Comments
Arting and crafting has looked a bit different for me recently. This week I am ‘Professor Paint’ doing crafts each day with the children at our church day camp. There has been quite a bit of prep and experimenting going on over the past weeks. I made the sign for my ‘Art Lab’ at camp using gel prints but the crafts we’ve been doing haven’t involved gel printing at all. We have done some watercolouring with paint and water soluble markers though.
The two cards shown today were both made from one print. I don’t always take time to plan the layout of a botanical print so some prints look balanced and others don’t. I ended up cutting the cornflower image off the side of the full print to make the card below and left the grasses together to make the card above.
The print was definitely not perfect. You can see on the card above some odd texture from the paint. I thought it looked a bit like a spray of water above and below the cornflower.
I don’t remember which paints I used but it looks like either two blues or a blue and a black.
I’ve made a few cards lately using the framing technique above. I use three nesting dies to cut a large rectangle panel, then another inside and another inside that. I leave the middle frame out of the layout but could save it for another card or a strip on an envelope perhaps. The sentiments are from Darkroom Door. The printing technique used was the one shown in my last short video.
Heather Telford 
I need more /different things in my yard to gel print, plus a few new colors of paint. These are beautiful! I wasn’t thinking water splatters. I thought “Milky Way Galaxy”. Your use of the 3 nesting dies to create the frames is clever and so classy.
I hope the children at church realize how blessed they are to be instructed by Professor Paint. Enjoy your time with those young artists.
Love the irregular texture and splatter look!
Love the texture of the splatters!
This looks like blueprints and I LOVE it! Both cards are beautiful, especially with the framing. Lucky youngsters to have Professor Paint visiting them at their camp.
None of your pictures came through, just the words. Was disappointed that I didn’t get to see what yu did with the church kids.
It is such a simple framing technique you featured but it struck me immediately when looking for today’s Telford mini-lesson.
Faced with the current major absence of New and Wonderful, must-have stamping supplies, it underlines the fact that it isn’t all the Stuff but who is using what you have.
Thank you again, Heather, for that valuable lesson.
Two beautiful cards made using that fabulous gelli print and the deep blue is wonderful Heather and the spacing out of the print using three rectangular dies to cut it up gives such an elegant look to the card, and the second with the piece off the edge of the first with the pretty cornflower looks great and two lovely sentiments too. x
I love the rich, dark colors on these cards as well as all the texture. How fun to work with children too. They do some amazing things!
Gorgeous gel prints Heather. Each one is so beautiful and artistic. Amazing work as always. Love, Loll
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