These are just a few prints I pulled today.  So fun.  Hard to plan, but great surprises come to those who continue to layer.  ...

Hej hey Du liebe kreative Seele Gestern hab ich mit der lieben Janine von Kreativsii den ganzen Nachmittag Gelli Prints gemacht. Zusammen machts einfach viel mehr Spass! Dieses Mal haben wir jedoch…

I broke out my big ol' 12x14 Gelli Plate the other night. Sometimes I make intentional prints. You know, prints that are meant to be finished art, like this one: But, sometimes it's fun to simply make a mess with lots of layers and colors. Check out my messy unintentional prints: For a sense of the scale of the prints, here's a picture with my hand: I'm not quite sure what I'm going to do with them. Some will probably become journal pages. Some will likely become collage papers and get torn and cut up. I'll have to think about...

I have been wanting to make some "cow" art for a while.  Even before I moved to Nebraska, I was interested in them. I've been really enj...

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I made some new stencils to Gelli Print though. On this one, I drew on the print with black and white pen. I like the tree stencil, b...

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I've got a quick tutorial for you today on using the Brother ScanNCut to create masks for Gelli Prints! For those of you who have asked about the ease of using the built-in software, hopefuly this tutorial will show you a bit about how easy it is. Draw your design on a piece of plain white paper. Don’t worry about overlapping lines, focus on the general outline. Load the design into the Brother ScanNCut for scanning. Scan to Cut Data so you can save the design. Choose the first scanning option – an outline scan. Be sure to drag the...

What the hell am I going to do with all these prints??? I've got it!!! I'll make some notecards with matching envelopes! But wait -- you don...

I've been finding a little time to mess about in my Summer Night Garden sketchbook.  I came across some gelli prints that I had printed a w...

I missed the Gelli print party so much I decided to do it each month in 2013!  On the 1st of each month I’ll have a new Gelli something and the link party will let us all share our prints.  The next Gelli party is coming up on this  Friday, February 1st!  I am so […]

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Green and dark blue batch (GDB). Gelli plate work, done on sept 21. Set of 24. Some started in purple, then green, yellow and dark green, reddish brown. Some started green, dark blue (vandyke brown and phtalo blue), brown, greenish yellow. IMG_0012

While I'm away in the Czech Republic, I thought I'd share a journal spread I created in a journal that is part of the circle journal I'v...

Good morning! I have managed to amass quite a collection of Gelli prints at this point and decided to start using some of them. The obvious place for me to start is in my art journal. I bought a Strathmore Mixed Media journal specifically for Gelli printing. This way I have a whole book of…

..... otherwise they would have been consigned to the "later" box! Using the 6x6 Gelli Plate means the prints are great for using on cards...

In my latest YouTube video, In Part 2 of 3 videos, I shared my process of transforming printed Gelli papers into a stunning painting. I discussed various te...

book 9 spread

A good time to sort out drawers of paper and do something with my gelli prints!