(Gel) Printing {by Martha Ponsanesi} on the PaperArtsy Weblog


Hello everybody, it is Martha (@CraftingMartha) right here with you at the moment.
The previous few months have been busy as a result of I have been caught up with transferring, and plenty of issues nonetheless should be sorted out. In actual fact, a few of them have not resurfaced but… you will see later how I needed to improvise with one thing.
There could not have been a extra becoming matter to carry me again to my inventive desk: (Gel) Printing!

Following the present theme, which is Nature, I instantly considered JOFY’s floral-themed stamps and stencils, to create… flowers, in fact! LOL.
Having moved into an condo, I miss having a backyard, so what higher treatment than creating some tremendous colourful flowers to brighten up my area?
Stick with me and I will present you the way I made my cloth utilizing a Gel Plate, Stencils, Stamps and Fresco End Chalk Acrylic.

Since I deliberate to work on a Gel Plate, I centered extra on stencils, selecting PS434 and PS435 together with the JOFY134 stamp set ( you possibly can see the discharge weblog put up right here https://weblog.paperartsy.co.uk/2024/05/new-paperartsy-products-jofy-may-2024.html ), which I like as a result of it has a little bit of all the pieces: flowers, leaves, dots, numbers… and naturally, I used numerous Fresco End Chalk Acrylics, you already know I am a color addicted.

With numerous items minimize from an outdated white cotton sheet, I am able to create my cloth.

I took an outdated white cotton sheet and minimize it into a number of items.

My first    try at   printing on cloth wasn’t the most effective.  I am unsure if it was as a result of I hadn’t used a Gel Plate shortly and it appeared a bit dry, or as a result of with temperatures nonetheless at 30°C, the paint was drying too   rapidly, or perhaps as a result of   cloth is not  as  easy as paper. Both means, the primary prints weren’t very well-defined. Oddly sufficient, the outcomes  had been extra satisfying after I cleaned the curler on the material LOL.

So, I made a decision to attempt utilizing Fresco End Chalk Acylics together with the Fresco End Drying Retarder (FF112)…..

….and this time the consequence met my expectations, right here used with Fresco End – Tangerine Twist (FF92).

I performed together with a number of of my favorite Fresco End Chalk Acrylic, corresponding to Inexperienced Patina ( FF126 ), Cayenne( FF159 ), Mermaid( FF44 ), Slimed( FF137 ), Bubblegum( FF116 ), and I ended up with numerous pretty items of material.

As I discussed earlier than, by cleansing the curler I colored different items of material which I minimize into stripes and adorned utilizing matching Fresco End Chalk Acrylic, right here for instance Lyly the Pink ( FF218 ) by means of the PS435 stencil….

…. and right here stamping with JOFY134 Stamp Set.

The time has come to remodel these items of material into petals, I wished to search out a substitute for the stitching machine, however the materials at my disposal did not enable me to take action, stitching and I normally do not actually get alongside very nicely , then my stitching machine is small and underperforming, however the necessary factor is to be happy LOL.

I traced the form of a petal on the varied items of material after which minimize it out.

I sewed the 2 components of the petal, leaving a slit on the backside, to place some padding.

To present extra curiosity to my flowers I made a decision to stamp one of many 5 petals with the numbers of the JOFY134 Stamp Set

For the middle of the flower, I tore some even thinner strips than the earlier ones after which rolled them up and glued them.

And listed here are collectively all of the items I want.

Making an attempt to determine the way to assemble them.

To assemble the flower I made a decision to simplify the job and use sizzling glue… too unhealthy I did not bear in mind which field the recent glue gun was in. So I used an alternate technique, I melted the glue sticks with the embossing warmth gun.

Pondering the way to ‘plant’ my flower, I made a decision to make use of a glass tealight holder. To make it arise I minimize out two cardboard disks in several sizes, with a gap within the center, into which insert a picket stick because the stem. All colored with Fresco End – Granny Smith ( FF1108 ).

That is my nearly completed little glass jar.

The material stripes adorned within the earlier step, had been used to brighten the glass jar.

Women and gents listed here are my cloth flowers.



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