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<\/a>So I moved onto the actual print and did the same thing and loved the result!<\/p>\n I filmed a quick video so you could see how it worked. Enjoy!<\/p>\n<\/a>
Hello all! I hope you are doing well this Holiday season! I have been busy with cards and gifts the past few weeks so I have been crafting up a storm. Some of the projects required some cool backgrounds and so I reached for my Gelli Arts Printing Plate once again and played around with some ideas. I ended up with lots of prints that were “Meh”- just missing something. In once case I used a stamp to pull of the plate and printed it onto plain white cardstock. The print came out pretty clean, but I wasn’t happy with the plain white peeking through. I was in a rush so I didn’t want to play around with more paint and so I decided to try using Tim Holtz Spray Stains to color the plain white card stock, assuming that the acrylic paint would resist the ink. I was not about to try it on the actual print, so I tested on some “roll offs” (the paper that I roll any excess paint left on my brayer after rolling the paint onto the plate for printing). I wanted a Christmas feel so I decided to use a red spray over the green painted image. Acrylic paint leaves behind a plastic-y coating and so I was hoping it would resist the ink and\/or I could wipe off the ink and leave the paint the same vibrant green or blue etc color that I started with. In general going over green with red leaves you with brown so unless there is a resist happening this color combination is usually a disaster.<\/p>\n
But in this case it wasn’t :)…<\/p>\n So I moved onto the actual print and did the same thing and loved the result!<\/p>\n I filmed a quick video so you could see how it worked. Enjoy!<\/p>\n<\/a><\/a>