Looking for the Wow factor
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
- This month I just worked on sharing some of the colour combinations I like to use along with more hints and tips along the way. Always searching for the Wow factor to give my pages impact.
Happy Crafting
Ceri
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Love watching you create Gelli prints. Thank you for sharing!
Thank you and there’ll be many more to come I’m sure as I grown and learn myself.
Great paper Ceri!!! I really enjoyed watching this!!!!
Thank you Betty.
I love watching you with the geli plate…it looks like you really enjoy yourself!
I do love it.
I really enjoyed watching you make the gelli prints. The one you call your lost cause happens to be one of my favorites. Beautiful prints. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you Debbie.
This looks like so much fun .. The alphabet is my favorite Thank you for sharing your talents
Thank you Wendy.
Omg blue and white with a stencils that is gorgeous
Thank you
What a fun session! Love the grungy clean off print with the numbers….very Tim Holtzy! 😂. Just love a good Gelli printing session, especially with my pal, Ceri! Love and hugs, my friend! ❤️
I’m really enjoying my Gelli plate lately and playing around with different projects is exciting.
pink and grey is a great colour combo. Good to see you using it. l like the one you added red to. Not Christmassy at all, as you said a bit European. I love gelli printing, definitely addictive! TFS
I positively LOVE your videos. Thank you so much for sharing
You are so welcome!
I love to watch the process- I have all the stuff but rarely bring it out. Living vicariously thru you lol
Lol.....live on.
I just got one to play with. Such fun
So creative and vibrant! I love your art😄
Thank you
For a self-described amateur, you turn out marvelous informative videos and intriguing results. I shall eagerly await your using these in journaling, collage, etc.
Thank you Chuck.
I think I may have to try this! Love the reaction that happens ❤️ As always thanks for sharing ❤️
Thank you Wendy.
Yes I like watching you. It is soothing. Love what you produce.
Thank you Jennie.
Thank you Mr Ceri. Watching your videos using gel plates took the unknown away that was hindering me from trying it out. I received a gel plate in a craft box and thought it would be way messier. I do my crafting on my dining room table and you showed that fun can be had while containing the mess. Onward and upward.
Anne, I would say the one thing you have to prepare for is a surface to put the prints upon to dry, I normally spread a shower curtain on my floor to lay the prints out on, they do dry reasonable quickly so its not something that’s hanging around long.
@@CeriGriffiths Thank you for the tip. I do have a corner away from the door that isn't a walk through that would work! I'm ready
I really love how they turned out.
Thank you
I loved this video. I am really inspired to dig out my gelli plates.
What’s the worse that can happen, you waste a little paper and paint but you may also have a great deal of fun. Good luck.
Your Gelli prints are beautiful...this was fun watching you create even more visual interest!! I think my favorite(which surprised even me)had to be the orange-brown one w/ the #s!! 😃🧡
Fabulous. Thank you
Loved your work today. And actually Turkey is both in Europe and Asia. We lived there for three years and that piece was my favorite because it reminded me of some of the architecture.
Thank you as I said I may have spent the majority of my life traveling but I’m still geographically challenged.
Love it Ceri!
Thank you
I’m so glad I found your channel. I’ve been doing junk journals for about a year now; where have you been? Lol. I think you’re just the cutest and I enjoy watching all your videos, which I’ve been binge watching.
Janet thank you for your kind words.
Ceri: this always looks like fun. You created some neat looking pages. I will be interested in seeing how you use them. Carol from California
Mmmmmmmm......that’s the question Carol, how to yes them. I feel a Gelli journal in my future but also a few other ideas are brewing.
I bet those ideas are just perking along. I’m very intrigued with the way you approach journaling and all that goes with it. A very calm way, and very organized. I appreciate it. In addition, another video that interest me was the one that you talked about your background. It was very interesting. I had no idea, as I was directed to you from Gayle., who spoke highly of you. Finding out about your talents and all your experience was most interesting.
if you’re interested, I’ll send you pictures of my cakes. Not edible, but make out of cardboard and paper based on a theme. I seem to love creating these table centerpieces. Do you have an email that I can send pictures to? Carol from California
I love the bathroom tile one. I too, would like to see how you use these in a project.
I’ll try to plan a few of those type of videos in.
I found that a really good, ultra-fine mister slows the drying time when you want it. Mini Mister is what I use but there are others. A mist will not revive dried paint. But you can mist stencils before putting them down or just after. Older paints are often a bit dried out so a mister can make them just a tiny bit more fluid without making them watery. You can also mist stamps and paper for different effects.
I recently purchased a sustained fine mist bottle from a beauty supply for use in sewing and tailoring when I need to very slightly dampen the fabric when sculpting or melding. I decided to get another one to use for coffee and tea dying with a fine mist (filtering so that the bottle doesn’t clog up). I am watching as many of Celi’s videos as I can before trying those experiments.
Have fun it sounds as if you’ve got this under control.
That is a great idea! Now do you have a source for such an item. The one I have holds about 4 sprays of water, then it needs refilling. The others spay out too much but hold more water. Appreciate your comment.
Very 😎 🆒️
Thank you
I love them all ❤️🐞🥰
Thank you
Thank you for this video enjoyed seeing the different effects given me a few ideas myself
Fabulous
That was a lot of fun! You created some very pretty pages! I am not yet getting such pretty results, but I will keep trying 😊
If I have any advice it’s, thinner layers of paint, try using transparent or semi transparent paints for your last few layers and grab a colour wheel if you’re unsure of colour combinations. Oh and black or white will always add impact on your final layer.
@@CeriGriffiths Thank you, Ceri! Will definitely try your tips! 🙏👍
Fun video, Ceri. I'm such a neat freak I couldn't do geli printing. Paint on my hands would send me over the edge. Lololol!!! Fun to watch, though!
Yup not a tidy creative process.
The black stlencil bits look like its cutout. Through my sleepy eyes at least. On the pink alphabet print ❤
Try using the woodblocks on the gelli or put your work on a foam mat / mouse mat - they are originally made to print on cloth with a thick sticky ink but whenever I’ve seen them being used they have a sort of blanket under the fabric.
Thank you for the advice Jay, I’ll try that.
Oh Ceri..I love everything you do! Please choose anything you want to do…we’ll happily travel along!
Thank you
They turned out great!!! Loved watching you do these!
Thank you
Hello! P here...enjoyed this--learned some things I didn't know. I feel for your struggle on too much paint, then not enough--the pain is real! What I found was this medium called Retarder. It extends the time the paint stays moist on the plate so you have more opportunity to do stencils, make marks. It changed the way I could do things and opened up a whole new world! Also the looser the paint, the quicker it dries but mixing in some Retarder (USArtSupply is very reasonably priced--but our UK crowd uses something else--ask in Makers, they will respond) will thicken it slightly and keep it moist longer. I enjoy your way of playing at the plate--it is refreshing!
Thank you P, I make no pretence that I’m an expert and try to keep the learning journey real which I think everyone enjoys. I’ll look into the retarder. Thank you for your advice.
@@CeriGriffiths You are so welcome! There is nothing that can adequately replace experience and you are well on your way! Warning...this can be addictive.
I love watching you create these papers!! I've never tried jelly printing but you make it look fun!! Love watching your videos!!! ( New sub).
Thank you Sarah and welcome.
Ok, now I want a jelly block for backgrounds!
If you do get one choose your plate size wisely as they’re not cheap.
I love gelli printing, it is quite fun and addictive. Love watching your process.
Thank you and yes it’s addictive.
I love watching you use the gelli plates, i am really loving the fact that you really don’t know what you are going to pick up. Keep them coming Ceri.
Will do Sandra.
That was a FANTASTIC episode!!!! It’s wonderful watching real-time art happening. I learn so much from seeing you play and try things just because you feel like it. That freedom to express is so rare and important to see. Tentative artists need to see that and understand that their own art is … ah … subject to variation (?) … and that the world indeed does not end. 💕💕💕💕💕💕💕 thank you so much for sharing.
It’s been a long journey but I’m braver about my decisions now and no longer fear the consequences.
Lots of fun Ceri. I'm fascinated how the previous layer of paint becomes a layer, instead of mixing with the layer you put down on top of it. TFS Hope you have a great day. 🌞
Thank you Donna.
Hi Ceri! It's such a joy to see you playing with paints and jelly plates! :) Loved all the pieces! :)Thank you!
Thank you I enjoy the process of Gelli printing and I’m learning along the way.
Prints are beautful! I can't wait to follow them to see where they go! I really have learned so much Gelli printing techniques from you! You say you aren't a teacher, but actially you are! Thank you, thank you! I'm thrilled I stumbled across you!
Thank you Martha and welcome
This was so much fun to watch., I love gelli printing, it’s always a surprise how they turn out. Your videos are so interesting and fun to watch. Thanks Ceri for doing them.
Thank you and your welcome.
WOW
Thank you
Brilliant! Love ❤️ the outcome of the papers. Gorgeous Ceri, just gorgeous! Hugs 🤗 from North Carolina USA 🇺🇸
Hugs back at ya North Carolina and thank you.
This was such a wonderfully helpful video! I have noted it to watch again and again! Truly appreciate that you make these videos for all of us. ❤️
Thank you it gives me pleasure to share.
Yes I think so color wheel do help.
Thank you
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Thank you Lucy
Just catching up on these videos so not sure you'll see this question. I watched Luisa Heinzel and Barbara 49 dragonflies doing this and they said you have to let colors dry between adding another and that's what Barbara did stopping the video when she dried them with a cool blow dryer. I'm confused, Vicki
Richard, I think it depends on the thickness of your paint and where it is on the page, if you put wet paint over wet paint it’s likely to mix and get muddy however if your paint is not touching other wet paint you’re fine. I find if I’m working with thin layers of paint it’s normally dry before I add the next layer. Hope the helps.
I would use the labels as a roll of surface instead of directly pressing onto the gelli plate
Yes I do use them as a roll off now as they come off onto the plate.
Hi Ceri, you created nice papers, i like it. what do you do with it? Please let see us some ideas… Greatings from Germany
Thank you, I use my papers for many things, in journals, in collage, I make post cards, I make ATC artist trading cards, I make ephemera, I cover boxes with them, I make journal covers.......I do use them a lot.
Love all your ideas. Where did you get that cool nautilus stencil
I found it years ago on eBay, I’ve no idea who designed it.
Nautilus stencil
Is amazing Ceri!! Very beautiful! One question: What is the film over the dark surface? Is it acetate?
Thanks in advanced,
If you mean the black under the gelli plate that’s a piece of acrylic so I can move the plate around whilst filming.
I just received my 12 x 12 jelli plate today. What do you use under your plate to protect the plate and your work surface? I love the magic that you make with these and look forward to playing with this new craft and the endless fun of patterns, colors and textures!❤
I normally lay mine on a piece of acrylic but you could lay it onto a piece of paper or even card.
Where do u buy your large gelli plate? And your size? I luv how u take us thru your print making.❤
My large plate is a 12x12 gel plate from gel press I purchased it on eBay.
Hi Ceri! So fun!!! I remember my first try I practically drowned the jelly pad in paint... lol.
I have to say my absolute favorite is the grungy brown n orange numbers and the teal alphabet. And tissue paper, only because it's so fun to play with later.
Question, do you ever brayer the color directly on to your giant stamps rather than using the pad to get a stronger print?
Yes I do but I’m always aware of the amount of paint I have on my Breyer.
Well Ceri now I have to go to the craft store and it's all your fault...lol 💜
Lol.....sorry.........maybe not, have fun.
Love watching you craft, do you every use ink's on your gelli plate to make prints. Also I was told baby oil after you have use it. Not every time, helps keep the plate in good condition & extend It's life. Do you know if that true?
Hi Denise, I have used inks on my plate but not alcohol inks......yet. I do condition my plate approx once a month with baby oil but I’m looking at changing to a mineral oil, I’ve heard mineral oil for food chopping boards is good and first smell.
Love the Natalist stencil, do you recall where you bought it. I can’t find one like it.
Ivy I’ve hunted and hunted because so many people want to know but I’ve never found it for sale since.
That is ok, must have been awhile ago and no longer fir sale. Too bad I love it. Can’t find anything that nice online.
Would you ever do the back of a lost cause so you don’t have waste the paper?
Yes
What is the best paint to use for the gelli plate
I use acrylic but you can use many different mediums, I also like transparent or semi transparent paints.
Ceri how do you stop the paint drying out on the Jelly play that's what I found with mine in is it down to the paint or am I leaving it too long
Dawn a lot will depend on your humidity, natural or man made, if your paints dry to quickly you can add a retarder to slow the drying process down, it’s always wet in Wales so I don’t need any normally.
@@CeriGriffiths yes I live in Ramsgate Kent