Hello everyone, Giovanna here today! Since I was a child I was always fascinated by Origami. I used to have a beautiful book with lovely projects that I read now and then until my adult life. Recently, some Origami projects popped-up in my Instagram feed, so I thought, what better way to make colorful and one of a kind patterned papers with my Gelli plateĀ®? In this video, I show you three different techniques to create patterned papers with rubber stamps, fun foam shapes and stencils, and how to fold a cute paper dress.

Enjoy the video āŗ
Steps:
For the first technique using rubber stamps
- Spread with a brayer dark acrylic paint on the small GelliĀ® plate and use a lighter hue on the large plate.
- Press the rubber stamp on the smaller plate and stamp with it on the larger plate.
- Pull a print on copy paper (I used 110 gsm paper, a bit thicker)
For the second technique using stencils:
- Spread with a brayer some blob of acrylic paint on the GelliĀ® plate.
- Lay a stencil on the GelliĀ® plate and pull a print or just clean the plate with copy paper pressing very hard.
- Leaving the stencil in place- sponge contrasting color of acrylic paint through the stencilās openings.
- Lift the stencil and pull a print on white copy paper.
For the third technique using fun foam shapes or chipboard:
- Adhere fun foam shapes or chipboards to a piece of craft plastic or polystyrene to create your hand-made texture plate.
- Spread with a brayer some blob of acrylic paint on the GelliĀ® plate.
- Press the texture plate on the gel printing plate several times.
- Pull a print on white copy paper.
Here are three great tutorials to show the process in detail:
Tutorial for the Origami princess dress : https://youtu.be/BSvGbGS1K2s
Tutorial for the Origami box: https://youtu.be/-jRtPuynvqk
Tutorial for the Origami heart: https://youtu.be/lGWK9g32Fog




Materials:
- GelliArtsĀ® and Jane Davenport 8×10” gel printing plate
- GelliArtsĀ® 3āāx5” gel printing plate
- Fun foam shapes or chipboards
- Brayer
- Acrylic paint
- Stencils
- Rubber stamps
