Gelli printing, seagulls, crows and robins!

A day out at the Knitting and Stitching show at Ally Pally, (Alexandra Palace) resulted in my buying the book above, 'The Gentle Art of Gelliping' by Hilary Beattie, and naturally, a Gelli, Gel Printing Plate, so that I could have hours of fun printing on paper and fabric!! I did buy a few other bits and pieces too, but these were the two most exciting purchases!

I cut out a few of my own stencils, some shells and a seahorse, above on paper, below on cloth.

Then I experimented with leaves, bits of string, elastic bands, and some of my own stamps.

More of the seahorse.

Some of my more successful leaf prints.

Just so much fun, I'm looking forward to experimenting lots more with this brilliant new tool for printing my own papers and cloth.

I have also finally finished the seagulls above, and I decided to make some amendments to the crow below, so I feel happier with that now.

Two robins, I think I must be getting in the mood for Christmas! They were both printed from a collagraph plate that I made, and then embellished with machine stitch on the one above, and hand stitch on the cheeky one below.

Well that's all for now, but hopefully I will have some further work to show soon, based on my gelli prints! Thanks for looking in folks!