ReCreate 2017 Art Activities
Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2017 8:00 pm
I'm going to bring my gelli plates and some paints to play with my stamps. If anyone wants to join in, bring some stencils, thin paper, paints, etc. It's good dirty fun!
A place for all paper artists to play.
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Yes, you can use any paper in any size. I have a small plate and a larger one. The small plate is good for card front size images.nchoney wrote:Does regular copy paper work? Or something different?
My plates are homemade so I don't know about the commercial plates being able to take inks. I put some kind of dye on my plate and it is now stained a deep purple forever! I even melted it down to make two thinner plates in different sizes and they are both the purple color.Keitha wrote:A group gelli session sounds like fun. I was reading recently where you can also put dye inks on your gelli plate for a different look. And if someone has one of those portable fold-up clothes dryers, you can clip your prints to it with clothespins to dry - will take up way less space than spread all over newspapers.
I'm working on a little project today that's using some old gelli prints I made in a JFFB class a few years ago, fun!
Much prettier than this nothing-color of the store-bought version.mpizzazz wrote:My plates are homemade so I don't know about the commercial plates being able to take inks. I put some kind of dye on my plate and it is now stained a deep purple forever! I even melted it down to make two thinner plates in different sizes and they are both the purple color.Keitha wrote:A group gelli session sounds like fun. I was reading recently where you can also put dye inks on your gelli plate for a different look. And if someone has one of those portable fold-up clothes dryers, you can clip your prints to it with clothespins to dry - will take up way less space than spread all over newspapers.
I'm working on a little project today that's using some old gelli prints I made in a JFFB class a few years ago, fun!
She was definitely used a commercial plate with the dye inks and it didn't stain.pamcook wrote:Much prettier than this nothing-color of the store-bought version.mpizzazz wrote:My plates are homemade so I don't know about the commercial plates being able to take inks. I put some kind of dye on my plate and it is now stained a deep purple forever! I even melted it down to make two thinner plates in different sizes and they are both the purple color.Keitha wrote:A group gelli session sounds like fun. I was reading recently where you can also put dye inks on your gelli plate for a different look. And if someone has one of those portable fold-up clothes dryers, you can clip your prints to it with clothespins to dry - will take up way less space than spread all over newspapers.
I'm working on a little project today that's using some old gelli prints I made in a JFFB class a few years ago, fun!
Excellent! I'm hoping anyone who wants can just have a go whenever they want if we leave all the supplies in a pile somewhere. I only have the two plates.nchoney wrote:I've got one of those drying racks.... it's been out in the weather on the front porch... so I guess I'd better make sure it still stands up.. but I think it should and it's only been used for drying crafty projects anyway.... and I have some binder clips that should work for clipping things onto it, too... and I've got plenty of plastic tablecloths to use as dropcloths, as well... definitely don't want to get paint on the floor eeek...
I'll grab more left-over newspapers, too.
and now I should go find some more assorted pieces of paper.. yay!!