{Mixed Media Tutorial} Seasonal Leaf Tags by MariLynn

I have a seasonal mixed media technique to share with you. I played around with a gelli plate.



Last time I shared a tutorial I just put the paint on the gelli plate and since then I have figured out that if I put the paint onto a piece of parchment paper first it helps me control the amount of paint I put on the plate.

I ran over the paint on the parchment paper.

Then rolled onto the gelli plate.

Here is the seasonal part, I put some leaves on the plate. 

This is what it looked like when I pulled up the leaves.

I placed 2 sheets of cardstock on the plate. One for printing on and one for cleaning the brayer.

This is what the top cardstock looked like when I cleaned the brayer on it.

This is how the leaf print turned out. 

The reason I like to have the "cleaned off" cardstock is that it coordinates with the print since you used the same colors. I took the "cleaned off" cardstock and used Leaves 1 stencil with texture paste.

Doesn't that look really pretty?

I then used CUTplorations Tag #1 Nesting Dies

I looked at the colors on the tags and picked two markers to outline the tags.

I used black stazon ink and sentiment from Pocket Blooms. I also cut a rectangle of cheesecloth.

I made a cheesecloth sandwich and added twine at the top.

A double tag and a single tag from 2 pieces of cardstock. I hope that you are inspired to create.