Gelli Arts® Printed Winter Garland

Hello and welcome to the
Gelli Arts® blog. It’s Birgit back with a fun wintery project using the new Gelli
Arts® Round Mini Kit.

Start with gathering all
the necessary supplies. Here’s what you need:

Gelli Arts® Round MiniKit, Brayer, Acrylic paint – a variety of blues, white and black, a white
acrylic marker, Fabric (unbleached canvas), Felt – Thick (about 0.5 cm), Stamps
– Carabelle Studio SMI0123, SA70103 and SA70111, Beads, String Thread and
Embroidery thread.

Take the Mini RoundGelli® Plate from the packaging and apply it to the plastic dish it came in.
You can use it as an acrylic block and it turns your Gelli® plate into an easy
to handle stamping tool!

Apply a little bit of
paint to the plate and spread it with a brayer, then stamp the paint onto the
fabric. Create 24 circles like this.

Let the paint dry, then
use the comb and the punchanella (in the Gelli Arts® Round Mini Kit) to create
texture. Add paint to the plate, make marks/remove paint and print on top of
the 24 circles you made in the first step.

Use the plastic dish as
an acrylic block and apply paint to the rubber stamps using a brayer. This way
you will get a nice and even layer of paint. Use the stamp on half of the circles.

Use an acrylic marker to
add white snowflake splatters to the printed circles.

Cut out the printed
circles. Draw smaller circles on the felt and cut them out too. You need 12 of
these.

Now it’s time to put the
garland together. Thread some beads to a string, then lay 1 printed circle on
the table, right side down, place the thread on top, going through the middle.
Then place a felt circle on top of that, followed by another printed circle,
right side up. Use a pin to hold everything together. Sew the circles together
with a simple flat stitch, then thread some beads again and apply the next set
of circles. Continue untill you’ve applied all 12 sets to the string.

Finish with some beads and
your garland is ready. Perfect to decorate your house but also a great gift!

Thank you for visiting.
I hope you enjoyed this tutorial and got inspired to create something wintery!

Happy printing!

– Birgit Koopsen

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