Booklet in a Box: Gel Printing on 12×12″ papers with Gelli® Artist Giovanna Zara

Hello everyone, Giovanna here today! If you are an old crafter like me and you hoard dozens of 12×12″ papers or sometimes you stumble in a shop sale and are tempted to bring some home, here’s how you can make wonderful gel printed craft projects out of them. On the internet there are a lot of templates for how to use them so I made mine and created a booklet in a box made out of two 12×12’’ papers and some loose prints! (We are never short of these ones!)

 Let’s dive into the video! Save the templates and make your own!

Enjoy the video ☺

Steps:

-Spread on the Gelli® plate acrylic paint with a brayer keeping the colors separate to create a block pattern

-Press the sink mat and lift it

-Pull a print on the 12×12” paper

-Keep up to fill the whole paper

-For the paper back, usually a bit crowded, use only white or black or golden acrylic paint

-You can add some stencilling on both paper sides

-Spread acrylic paint on the plate, lay a stencil, pull a print, lift a stencil and pull the ghost print 

-Gel print two 12×12’’ papers, one for the box and one for the booklet and use some loose gel prints for the inner pages

-For the box: score at 3” and 9”,rotate 90° and score at 4”1/2, 5”1/2, 10″ and 11″

-Cut and fold following the template

-For the booklet: score at 6”, rotate at 90° and score at 4.5”,5”,5.5”,6”,6.5”,7”,7.5”

-Decorate the box and booklet cover and pages before to assemble

-Glue the box closed

-Glue the inner pages to the concertina

Materials I used:

• GelliArts® and Jane Davenport 8×10” gel printing plate
• Brayer
• Acrylic paint
• Katzelkraft KTZ283 rubber stamp set
• Gelli Arts® ‘XXX’-‘Peackock’-‘Circle’ stencils 

Box Template:

Booklet Template: