Two Mad Dahlias: January 2016

Saturday, January 16, 2016

Badges made with Gelli prints

A few weeks ago I joined the Gelli printing trend. I know I am like five years late to the party. I wasn't sure I really needed one. I did. You do too.

These are a couple of the prints I made on my first day. It is so stinking easy to do. You slap on paint and layer on stencils. Boom-art! I had a blast. I even got my six year old daughter pulling prints.

So now I have this huge stack of prints and they are just hanging out. What do I do with them? I made some fun and funky postcards(I will share those a bit later as I am sending some out for swaps).

I also had these awesome black and white stickers from Flow magazine. I decided to color in the stickers using my Distress Markers and stamp on them a bit with a Finnabair stamp set.

Once these were colored in I realized they would look awesome on my Gelli prints. I had a bunch of leftover pieces that I punched into circles and I started layering.

I added some extra details using a black pen and a white pen. The words are Chit Chat from Tim Holtz.

They look pretty cool on their own. I took them down and had color copies made so I can play with them even more.

I poured resin on some of them to make magnets or maybe necklace pendants.

The rest I have been turning into badges.

All of the ones above are pins. I added extra touches on them like silver leaves, millefiori flowers, resin flowers, and crowns. Some just have ribbon danglers, but others have some beads as well.