It's Gelli Plate Time

Hello fellow travelers,

It is the first Friday of the month and that means a new challenge at A Vintage Journey.  This month our lovely hostess, Julia, has decided that it is time to get out the Gelli Plate.  I must admit that I have owned a Gelli Plate (two actually) for some time but never seem to get them out to play with.  I'm so happy that now is the time!  I hope you enjoy my adventure - at this time we are all struggling with the coronavirus thing so I thought a little silliness could lift our spirits.  There is no reason for this journal page except to use the Gelli plate and to add some happiness to our lives.

 Even though I don't use my Gelli Plate much, I like to watch YouTube videos about it.  I have recently been watching videos about Distress Oxide Inks with the plate so thought I would give it a try.  You can pick any two, or more, colors and simply rub the ink pad on the plate.  Once that was done, I used a brayer to smooth out the colors.  Next I spitzed water on the whole thing   Next I layed the paper on the plate and pressed it down.

I did this several times using different color combos.  On the top row you will see how the water has made some interesting marks  Without doing anything else to the plate I put a new sheet of cardstock on the plate and lifed another print, called a ghost print, you can see those on the bottom.

 For this double page spread in my art journal I decided to use two of the ghost prints.

 The next step was to do a little stenciling, I used some Seedless Preserves Oxide Ink and one of the Life Changing Brushes from Picket Fence.  

 I recently bought an adorable stamp set from Pink Ink Designs (a British Company).  I stamped the bunny and colored him with some Copic colors. Couldn't be any cuter.  The stamp set comes with lots of great images and I tried to use most of them.

 I cut out the bunny and placed him on the page with matt medium. I made my pages separately and then placed them in my journal using Clear Double Sided Adhesive from Elizabeth Craft Designs.

A little more stenciling with a different stencil at the top of the page to add another layer.

I added more images from the stamp set and then some random stamping for the background.

Next came some white spots using watered down gesso.

Just for fun I added Hop, Hop Hooray.

To finish the pages off, some more bunny images from the stamp set were added. I added a grass edge along the bottom and then edged all around with Oxide Ink.

The final step was to add some Wendy Vecci Translucent Embossing Paste for a little added texture.

This was a fun page and I hope you have enjoyed it.  Get out those Gelli Plates and start printing.

See you again soon,

S@ndy