Spring 2025 - Gel Plate Monoprinting Workshop May 7, 2025

Hello everyone,

Hope you are doing well and enjoying the sunshine. Below is a quick recap of the cards we made in our last class. See you in the Summer.

Take care,

Connie

Distress Oxide Stencil Balloons: Brayer Tumble Glass & Peacock Feathers Distress Oxide inks onto gel plate. Place stars & stripes stencil on to gel plate and place paper on top. Rub well to transfer pattern and lift print. Remove stencil and brayer remaining inks onto gel plate. Replace print onto gel plate to add background color to print. Die cut print with rounded rectangular stitch die. Stamp and die cut balloons. Add ribbon and sentiment before adhering onto white card base.

Perfect Pearl Acrylic Giraffes: Place stencil onto gel plate and brush on copper Perfect Pearl powder to cover the stencil open areas. Clean off any excess powder and remove stencil. Brayer a thin layer of mustard yellow acrylic paint on top. Place paper over, rub thoroughly to transfer the background and lift print. Die cut print with rectangular stitch die. Stamp image with black StazOn ink, adhere washi tape and add sentiment before mounting onto kraft mat and ivory card base.

Distress Inks Leaves & Dragonfly: Brayer Mowed Lawn & Pealed Paint Distress Inks onto gel plate. Place background leaves stamp on to gel plate to impress leaves image and remove. Place paper on top to lift print and stamp the inked leaves onto print to add secondary image. Die cut print with rectangular die and add ribbon before adhering onto yellow card base. Add dragonfly, gems and sentiment to finish card as shown.

Acrylic Paints Floral: Place small dots of pastel pink, purple, blue and green acrylic paints onto gel plate. Lightly brayer paint to cover the plate without over-mixing them. Place paper over top, rub well and lift print. Die cut print with shape die and stamp floral bouquet with black ink. Adhere to green card base and add sentiment sticker and pink Stickles drops onto flower centers to finish card.