Gel Printing
Gel Printing Creating Background Papers
Hello my friends. Today I’m sharing how to create Gel Printing Creating Background Papers. I love creating background papers to use in my journals. Get out your book pages, stencils and gel plate and play along with me.
Watch the Live Premier video at 3:45 pm Central Standard time, January 2nd or anytime after it is published.
Gel Printing Creating Background Papers Tutorial Video
Supplies used in this Gel Printing Creating Background Papers Session.
- Gel Plates 12 x 12 and 5×7
- Book Pages
- Copy Paper
- Acrylic Paint, Masters Touch on Amazon, Anita’s All Purpose Acrylic Paint.
- Artistic Stencil Club Stencils
- Soft Rubber Brayer
- Empty Thread Spools
- Ranger Ink Destressing Tool
Gel printing is a lot of fun and should always be fun. Don’t get stressed out if your print doesn’t come out the way you thought it should. It takes a little bit of practice to learn how to gel print, so take your time and play.
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Patchwork Wrap Journal Cover Tutorial
Here is the Patchwork Wrap Journal Cover Tutorial I promised. Using the Gel Printed Fabric and the home printer fabric I show how to create a patchwork wrap journal cover in this tutorial.
Patchwork Wrap Journal Cover Tutorial Video
Supplies used for the Patchwork Wrap Journal Cover Tutorial
- Gel Printed Fabric
- Printed Fabric
- Wild 2 Gel Print Digital Download
- Butterfly and Flowers Gel Print Digital Download
- Photo Fabric 5 sheets
- 10-pack Colorfast White Printer Fabric
- Freezer Paper
- Apothecary Digital Journal Kit
- Fiskars Rotary Cutter
- Self Healing Cutting mat
- Ruler
- Sewing Machine
- Fiskars Easy Touch Scissors
- Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist Dyed Fabric – 1 inch wide by with of fabric from selvage to selvage.
- Base fabric 9 x 17 ish. Depends on the size of journal (duplicate for inside)
To get started select some fabric. For this journal cover I decided to gel print on fabric, and use a computer to print on fabric using digital images.
Cut a base fabric around 9 x 17 if wrapping a 5.5
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Gel Printing on Fabric Tutorial
You asked so here it is, Gel Printing on Fabric Tutorial. In this short video tutorial I’ll show how I gel print on fabric.
Gel Printing on Fabric Tutorial Video
Supplies used for the Gel Printing on Fabric Tutorial.
- Wild Stencil 4
- 5 x 7 Gel Plate
- Soft Rubber Brayer
- Heavy Body and Craft Acrylic Paint
- Cotton Fabric Ironed to Shiny Side of Freezer Paper
- White Freezer Paper Roll
- Romantic Flourish Stencil
- March 2022 Artistic Stencil Club
- Victorian Panel Stencil
For this Gel Printing on Fabric Tutorial a few supplies are needed. I used a 5 x 7 gel plate because I wanted several