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Easy Christmas cards

Hi Debbie here with a quick Christmas card. I work in an infant's school and when I had been playing around with my home made gelli plate I thought it could really work well for making Christmas cards. There are 60 to be done so cards need to be child friendly and not too complicated.

I used poster paints working with the children, the effect is not as good as acrylic paint but you still can make patterns etc.

The nice thing about using the gelli plate is that each print is different.

 

The instructions I used for the gelli plate are here

Once the tree is completed you just need to add sequins or glitter to finish it off.

The children loved the texture of the gelli plate and it is something I would like to use again with them.

Debbie x

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12 days of Christmas- Home made gelli plate bunting

 Hi Debbie here with painted bunting for a Christmas present.

I used a home made gelli plate, here are the instructions, (please note leave out the alcohol and replace with glycerine)

I used bubble wrap and plastic aida for the texture.

I printed the photos using Picassa collage, its a great way of getting lots of small prints for projects like this.

I decided last minute I didn't like the blue so changed the circles to pink!

I have loved being part of the 12 days of Christmas, and hope you have seen lots to inspire you.

Debbie x

HAPPY CARDS AND WHAT TO DO WITH THAT LEFT OVER GELLI PLATING

Hello everyone, Virginia here I don't know about you but this year I've been completely hooked on my gelli plate, so much so that I've recently had a birthday and hubby has treated me to the giant one (not that I've broken it out of its packaging yet).  

Earlier in the summer after a significant bout of gelli plating and chopping and cropping to use in various journals and mini books I had a stack of 'off cuts', they were too big to throw away but too small to utilise on cards etc.  And I got to thinking about how else I could use them. I was sat with the news on in the background at the time and realised how negative it was, on the table sat a miserable tabloid newspaper and it got me to thinking about how to make the world a happier place.  I've also seen a few collaborative art projects recently which looked like fun, so I got to thinking gelli plate offcuts, positive thoughts and making life a bit better for a fellow human being - could I possibly pull it off?

So with some card offcuts, gelli print offcuts, a happy statement and a little bit of time I generated these little beauties

I added stamping around the gelli print offcuts and a few positives statements that I'd got in stamp form.

On the back I added the Happy Day statement 

 

And I was hooked, before I knew it I'd generated a little pile of the cards all prepared and ready to go, I have a few in my handbag or my work bag or just in my pocket.  When I'm out and about I leave a trail of happy cards for people, hopefully they'll make someone smile and remind them that the world still has some happiness that needs sharing! 

So if you like the idea, have a go yourself, grab those off cuts of gelli printing, some cardstock and go to work.  Prepare a few in advance and have them about your person, next time you pop for a coffee in a coffee shop or maybe when you return a library book to the library leave a card in a book and think about the person who might find it!  If you do give it a go, pop back and let us know, it would be good to know if the idea takes off and spreads happiness far and wide!