...another gelli plate roundel ....

 I do so love doing all the...

...teeny-tiny stitches on these :-)

However...

...I do have a bit of a problem....

...knowing just when to stop!! 

x C

Another gelli print background ...

 ...ready for the needle! :-)

I do so loooooove doing these.

Only 4 inches round...

...but such a joy to print...

...and then stitch with single (machine) threads.

I have a few of these done already...

...and hope to do a few more workshops with them...

...when all this Covid stuff is out of the way (fingers crossed!!!)

Keep safe peeps!

x C

Beginning to stitch new Gelli print backgrounds

I got my "production line" going a couple of days ago...

...and printed up a load of backgrounds with my 4" round gelli plate.

Then...

..the fun starts...

...as all my lovely polymer stamps get an airing...

...and playtime is "GO"

Here's number 1...

...and here's a piccie of the back-side so you can see the stitching lines a bit better...

It's going to be a good ol' day with my beloved Pfaff :-)

Have a good weekend peeps....

xxxxx C

"Rock Stories" ....progress report...

Fair bouncing along with this one!!

I've now done all of the inside panels...

...and attached two little books this time.

I've used some rubber stamps around edges....

....IMPRESS ME  stamps by Sherrill Kahn....

....and some little critter feet that I found somewhere or other :-)

(They look so like little desert rodent feet that I just had to include them!!)

These Colouricious blocks are printed onto my scrunched Landscape Tissue that had been used to put a texture on the Gelli Plate. See how the raised areas have picked up the paint and made a glorious, almost leather/skin-like pattern.

"Petroglyph People" rubber stamps from Impress me...

I bought these rubber sets some years ago now, and I think they've been replaced by different ones. There is still a set available though - set 6 ...

...which would do very nicely thank you!!

Now I have to go work on the outside panels.....

x C

"Rock Stories #1" ...beginning a new tri-fold

I'm really on a roll here lately....

....after being completely pooped when I came back from the far east....

...and just simply tired after Fashion, Embroidery & Stitch.....

...I seem to have fallen into mt creative groove and, fortunately, with loads of energy!!

I had my two lovely friends here for the day last Friday, and we had a delightful "play day" with my box of new print blocks from Colouricious.....

...AND a brand new Gelli Plate which I absolutely Loooooooooooooooove!!!!

Here are some page-spreads that I printed for my new series of tri-fold books...

...which I'm calling "Rock Stories".

These fabrics and papers have firstly been printed all over with the Gelli Plate....

....I used a piece of my doubled Landscape Tissue to lift paint off the plate leaving a scrunched texture behind which then transferred onto the fabric/paper surface...

Then I used the print blocks on top when the backgrounds had dried (didn't take very long!)

After I'd prep'd the tri-fold I decided to do a bit of detailed work on one of the centre pages....

......so got out a very fine mapping pen and some Herbin ink.....

.....and dotted-in this character.

It took a little time, but I think it was worth it!

The book is now sitting on the radiator to dry the glue on the folds.....

I'll get back to it later....

,,,after a nice cup of tea! :-)

x C