Gelli Plate Printing: More kitchen tools

I’ve been busy playing with my gelli printing and guest blogging over at And Then We Set It On Fire. Check out my two posts through the links below.

Here are the two completed projects from those two blog posts.

This is a small wall hanging that I attached to a canvas painted gold. Check out the tutorial here.

Kitchen tools print wall hanging
Kitchen tools print wall hanging

The other post is about using an old wood potato masher and making a fabric bracelet from the material. Check out the post here.

Finished bracelet on top of another piece of gelli printed fabric
Finished bracelet on top of another piece of gelli printed fabric

Now I wanted to show you and use another one of my newest kitchen tools. But before that, here are tips that I’ve learned since playing with this medium:

  1. Any cheap craft paints work.
  2. Since craft paints dry too fast, I add Golden Open Acrylic Medium to slow down the drying time. This gives me time to play with my designs.
  3. Less is more – paint, that is.
  4. For these tools you have to push down into the plate to get an indentation. But be careful of any sharp tools since you don’t want to scratch the plate.
My new potato masher
My new potato masher

And here are some of the fabric pieces I made with this tool.

potato masher print

potato masher print

potato masher print

potato masher print

And my favorite –

Potato masher print

I cleaned up my gelli plate with paper tags.

gelli printed tags
gelli printed tags

That was so much fun!

Just a reminder, my webinar on How to Dye Fabric With Ice will take place next Tuesday, July 2 at 1 pm ET. I’d love to have you join us for this live seminar.