Art Journaling on a Gelli Print

Gelli prints. Over the last month or so I have shown you a lot of different techniques making monoprints. All my gel printing plates are from Gelli Arts and typically I work on various papers from Hahnemühle. Today I want to walk you through this art journal page I made for a swap using those products. And a few more. 

I began with this print made on Bristol Illustration paper from Hahnemühle. I can see remnants of a couple different pulls and stencils and colors. This is the kind of page I love! Versatile and useful with practically any color scheme. Or just to keep and look at and make me smile on occasion. 

It did remind me of a beautiful garden kind of atmosphere, so I pulled out a bunch of butterfly collage pieces from Joggles. Barb has several butterfly sheets available. You can click here to see her collection.  I selected the butterflies I might want to use and put them through the sticker machine.

I began by inking the outer edges of the print with black Archival ink. It just gives the overall piece a more finished look. Then I started adding elements. The bike is a chipboard piece from long ago. I think it came free with a magazine. 

Here is a little strip of another print I like. A chance to add some flowers. However, I got a little sidetracked along the way and ended up hiding most of this flower piece. 

The sticker machine is a really great tool! All these butterflies went through the machine. Then all I had to do was remove the sticker backing paper and stick the butterflies in place. See what I mean about that flower piece? 

Those dots were made with my Zig Clean Color Dot markers. Lately I have been using them on everything. A couple added sentiments and my page was complete. Super easy and a lot of that is because the base layer print brought so much power to the game. Monoprinting and the right paper make a perfect match!

Gel printing plates from Gelli Arts can be purchased here.

Bristol Illustration paper from Hahnemühle can be purchased here.