Creating Collage Pages with Gelli ArtsĀ® Gel Prints by Lou Sims

Hi everyone, Lou Sims here.

One of the things I adore doing, which helps me chill or zone out, is create collage pieces whether in my art journals or as cards. I’m not sure if I am like you and have many created backgrounds that I love to look at but never seem to use. With this in mind I choose a selection of co-ordinated colour backgrounds and one extra as a contrast to create some quick, layered collage pages.

I began by chopping up my backgrounds in to smaller pieces and used them as my starting point for my art journal pages.

Next I added some extra collage pieces to break up the backgrounds and add another layer. 

To tie everything in, I used similar paint colours with my Gelli ArtsĀ® Multi Stencil and added a few decorative pieces.

Using my smaller 3ā€ x 5ā€ Gelli ArtsĀ® gel printing plate with a mix of white & gold paint, I added some additional panels to centre of each page to help ā€œknock backā€ some of my layers and soften the overall design.

Afterwards, I added left over stickers and rub-ons to my pages to hide some of the harsh lines from all the angular layers I had placed.

Finally I added my sentiment stickers.

As I said earlier, I love creating collage layers upon layers but never really having a plan in my head other than choosing my printed backgrounds. In essence, going with the flow & see what happens next.

Here are some close ups of my finished pages.

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3 thoughts on “Creating Collage Pages with Gelli ArtsĀ® Gel Prints by Lou Sims”

    1. Hi! The sentiment stickers are Tim Holtz ones from way back when. The rub ons were from Lou’s stash and company unknown. She discovered a whole wallet of goodies when making this video that she had forgotten she even had!! Hope that helps in one way or another! šŸ™‚

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