Grass Print Sympathy cards
Posted: August 28, 2024 Filed under: Alexandra Renke, gel press | Tags: Alexandra Renke, gel press, gel printing, gelli plate 2 Comments
As I mentioned in my last post life has been busy with different crafting lately (children’s crafts for camp) so I am sharing more botanical gel prints from earlier in the summer.
I filmed a short video for this one; it’s the same process I used with the lacy leaves but this time with long stalks of grass.
It is good to pick the grass before it gets too dry, that way the seeds don’t separate from the stalk and end up in the paint or on the print.
Once again I turned the 5″x 7″ print into sympathy cards and embossed a background for both cards using the ‘exposed brick’ embossing folder from Stampin Up. For the card above I cut tags using lovely stitched edge tag dies from Alexandra Renke.
As summer is drawing to a close I will mention that I keep the grasses and flowers that I have used for gel printing for a few more months. The layers of paint hold them together making it possible to continue to do botanical gel printing for a little longer.
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Heather Telford 
I have done gel printing with plants but would never think to use grasses and how great this longs with the longer blades against the dark background! Thank you for the inspiration. Time to bring out my gel plate again!
What a gift it must be to look at the world with the eyes of an artist. Heather, you are, and always have been, an Inspiration.