🌿 Flourish & Print: Gel Plate Joy
A playful introduction to botanical gel plate printing for textiles, mixed media, and creative exploration
May is a glorious month in the botanical calendar — blossom on the trees, gardens bursting into colour, and early summer foliage at its freshest. This workshop celebrates that abundance. You’ll learn how to capture the delicate textures of leaves and flowers using gel plates to create beautiful monoprints on paper and fabric. No drawing skills needed — nature does the hard work for you.
Your prints can be framed, used as book covers, added to sketchbooks, or developed into collage and textile art. It’s a joyful, accessible process that opens up endless creative possibilities.
Please read the entire course description and all the other information on this page and check here before booking. Once purchased, tickets are non-refundable.
🌼 What the workshop covers
- How to make simple mark‑making tools and print blocks from everyday items
- How to ink, layer, and pull prints from a gel plate
- What papers and fabrics work best
- Alternative printing surfaces you can use at home
- How to care for your gel plate
- How to turn your prints into a folded artist’s book, with optional machine or hand embroidery
🎨 Why you’ll love it
Gel printing is used by textile artists, quilters, cardmakers, art journallers, and mixed‑media makers. It’s inexpensive, easy to do at home, and wonderfully addictive. Gel plates pick up every tiny vein and texture, giving you unique, one‑of‑a‑kind prints that you can use across all your creative projects.
You’ll leave with a beautiful collection of printed papers (and optional fabrics) plus ideas for how to develop them further in your own time.
👥 Who is it for?
Anyone who enjoys crafting or creative play.
Perfect for:
- Contemporary quilters
- Textile artists and beginners
- Cardmakers and art journallers
- Mixed‑media makers
- Anyone who wants to create their own unique papers and fabrics
No art or drawing experience required.
🧰 What’s provided
All printing equipment is supplied. I’ll let you know what papers or fabrics to bring once you’ve booked
🔗Useful Links:
https://gelliarts.com/
If you’ve already enjoyed my Flourish & Print workshop, the two‑day class ‘Print Collage Stitch‘ is a lovely next step. It gives you the chance to build on your gel‑printed papers and fabrics, explore more techniques, and develop your work further with collage and stitch. I’d be delighted to welcome you back to take your creativity to the next stage.
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