Thursday Thoughts

 The recent sporadic posts lets you know where I am!  (Two burials in ten days, two food orders plus local food shopping in four days, and so much more.  It is a full time job to be a church lady...!)

Today's "thought" is about something I did at least two weeks ago. 

One of my favorite crafts is Gelli printing to make into greeting cards. I love the colors. I love the way they play on the paper. I can never get bored but I have found a new techniques that pleases me.

These prints were a variety of techniques.  The ones with the "dots" are from using the bag that onions came in.  I spread the paint on the Gelli plate with a 4" brayer then laid the bag over the paint.  After that I placed the card stock on top, covered with a full sheet of card stock then rubbed over the top of the paper for about thirty seconds to hopefully get really good contact between the card-to-be and the paint.

You might also see some stars plus some circles of various sizes on one of the prints.  The stars come from the cap on Pellegrino bottles that someone pointed out to me might work,  The circles are from all sorts of covers as well as defunct pen tubes...the ink having dried up.

You might ask why I put a full sheet of card stock OVER the card stock that is being printed.  Good question! Easy answer: the Gelli plate is 5" by 7". The card stock is 4.25" by 5.5".  I am not fond of paint under my fingernails and all over my hands so I solve that by the big sheet.  It really helps, though does not totally eradicate the problem...since I always manage to get some paint where I don't want it, don't notice, then when I am done, discover my hands still have paint on them and the backs of the cards also have paint.  Oh well.  Amateur artist.