October meeting - We did Gelli printing!

There was a special treat at SERS last meeting - Michelle brought along a "Gelli Plate", which is a lovely squashy plate for making monoprints. I've given you the link to the manufacturer there, and locally, I think Unique Stitching was a place you can get the goodies from. But this is not a sales pitch, it's a report about what fun we had!

Michelle made a bunch of prints as we watched and asked questions.

Here's a print - she's mooshed paint onto the plate, then laid pretty sequin waste over it (to act as a stencil), then paper on top of that. She ran over the paper with her fingers (no need for a brayer or other tools) and showed off the first print!

Then she pulled the sequin waste off the plate, and there was a second print to be had. Here they both are - on the left, printed with the stencil in place, and on the right, after removing the stencil.

A change of colour scheme, and some stamping over the top - this one is cool!

Two goes through the printing process here, once with a mesh fruit bag as the stencil, and once with a very pretty flower stencil.

And guess who made this birdy one!

Did you guess ME? Cos I did!

This is a huge CORK stamp, which we found pretty interesting for this function (although, just quietly, there are reasons rubber and polymer are used for stamps...).

Thanks Michelle for a fabulous demo!

Go and have a look at Michelle's Mixed Media Art web site - heaps of stuff to look at! Michelle's off to CHA, the biggest craft show ever (it's for professionals), so we expect her back brim full of news!