{Spotlight Project} Make Your Own Gelatin Plate with Cornelia

Hi, Cornelia here today, making a gelatin mono printing plate and of course a card. Did you ever want to play with a gelatin printing plate? I wanted to for a very long time, but always felt intimidated by the process. No more. I spent a fun afternoon with Jenny from Craft Test Dummies (we happen to live in the same town and recently met) and she cured me from my fear. In fact, I got so excited that I made my own plate and I am going to share that with you today.

Now there are many recipes out there in Blogland and you can pick whichever one you like. The one I used is by Shaz in Oz and you can find it here.

Just in case you are too lazy busy to look up links, I wrote it out for you. At the bottom you will also find some video links, in case you like to watch:

For a 8x6 inch plate you will need:

Glycerine - 200 ml
Gelatin - 35 gram (5 packs)
Sugar - 50 grams
Water - 120 ml

So here is it - the glycerin, the water, the sugar and the glass Pyrex dish I used.

Take half of the water and dissolve the sugar.

Pour the gelatin (5 packs) into a pot and mix in the rest of the water. You see it gets kind of stiff.

Warm it up and add in the sugar water. Stir. Add the glycerin when all is smooth and fully dissolved. I did not know if you should boil the mixture or not - nobody said anything about this. So I did not. When it was all nice and liquid and smooth I poured it into my Pyrex dish and let it sit in the refrigerator over night. Took it out the next day and added hot water to a deep cookie sheet to unmount the plate. This does not take long. As soon as the plate gets hot is starts to melt, so you can lift it out.

Its so nice and squooshy!

So I had to try it right away and guess what - it worked beautifully! I made a lot of prints using that Leaf prints stencil.

I used one of my prints to make this card. I trimmed down the print and found a matching piece of turquoise card stock. Used the Art Edges die to give it more interest. I die cut the Birthday die twice - once in white and one in black and glued them together with a tiny off set. See below.

The "happy" is from the set Party Time.

However for tips and tricks on gelatin mono printing you have to wait until my next spotlight post! My STAMPlorations supplies:

  

Leaf prints stencil, Birthday die

 

 Art Edges, Party Time

Videos to watch how to make gelatin plates:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rw6PAOapdp8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSWARB2QXFk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9taUh073vQ&t=472s

Remember if you try out any of the techniques from our Spotlight posts, hook your project up at our Spotlight Project Showcase.

Use code STAMPGIRLCORNELIA to get 20% off on all stamps, stencils, and dies on all regular- and sale-priced items in the store.

Happy mono printing!