Hello there and welcome to the Gelli Arts® blog today! It’s Birgit here with a fun resist technique using Vaseline petroleum jelly. With this technique you can create negative prints from your stencils, art printing plates, or stamps letting the background pop through the second layer. Check out the video for all the details. Materials: …
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Happy LOVE day to all! Take this opportunity to #loveyourself and do something just for you. Open your heart and let art take you on a journey. On this day of love, I decided to focus on something beautiful that inspires me – the Florida sunrise. It has been a glorious “winter” here and I …
Rothko sunRISE with Gelli Arts® by Johanna Lawson Read More »
Hello everyone, Helen O’Hara here from the Hoarder’s Art Room. If you’re addicted to Gelli Arts® like me then you’ll have tons of Gelli Arts® mono-prints and even pretty clean-up papers stacking up in your studio. Today I’m going to show you how to use them to make some amazing faces to use in your …
Hi there and welcome to the Gelli Arts® blog. It’s Birgit here today and I have a fun new technique for you that allows you to trace images using your gel printing plate. You need: A Gelli Arts® gel printing plate (any size that suites you), a brayer, Copic markers in a variety of colors, …
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Hi there and welcome to the Gelli Arts® blog! It’s Birgit here today and I am sharing with you how you can create a little pocket art journal from a piece of accordion folded cardstock in a few steps. Start with folding a piece of cardstock into an accordion. Any size you like will work. …
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Hi it’s Birgit here! Today I will show you how you can use old book pages and all kinds of (old and new) magazines for resist printing. It is a very unpredictable technique and it does not always work. But isn’t unpredictable kind of the charm of gel printing!? I will try to explain with as much …
Resist Printing with Gelli Arts® Plates, Books, and Magazines Read More »
Hello and welcome to the Gelli Arts® blog! It’s Birgit here and today I’m going to show you 3 ways of printing with leaves. Because it’s fall and there is plenty of printing material available! I love printing with leaves! It is very simple but also very satisfying as it is almost impossible to go …
Hello everyone! My name isBirgit Koopsenand I feel honored to be guest blogging here on the Gelli Arts blog! Today I will show you how to use your Gelli® printed backgrounds for beautiful, colorful image transfers. Watch my video to get started — written instructions are below! We start by printing a bunch of backgrounds using …
Beautiful Image Transfers on Gelli® Printed Backgrounds! Read More »
We’re so excited about the newGelli Arts® Student Printing Plate Kit!! Watch this video to see the ‘unboxing’ — and a few fun printing ideas! We know that many of you love Gelli® printing as a family activity — making art together. It’s always exciting to hear about the special FUN time you share, printing …
Smooth surfaces are wonderful for making highly detailed monoprints. But what if… you print on a textured substrate? Take a look at this video and see how fabulous the results can be! This isn’t about printing on commercial textured paper, like a cold-press or rough watercolor surface. What we’re doing here is preparing an intentionally textured substrate …