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Gel Press Monoprinting Products are so versatile! They are the 'little black dress' of your mixed-media supply toolkit. The Gel Press team is constantly looking for ways to push the edge of what you can do with our products.

DIY Gel Press Prints as Business Cards by Kathy Adams

Kathy Adams here today to show you how I used a few of my many prints to make artsy business cards that truly reflect my business. I’m running low on my professionally printed ones, so why not put some of those prints to work? Here are my criteria for choosing prints for business cards: Choose prints on heavyweight paper. I often use Strathmore… Read More

Printmaking with Asemic Writing-Part 2 with Jacqueline Sullivan

I approached the finalization of this print just as I would any abstract painting – intuitively. There was a rough idea in my mind and I really had no idea if it would work or not – always a scary thought when you are working on your one and only print from a previous video! Here is the original print… Read More

Gel Press Shadowbox by Keri Sallee

Good Morning Creatives! Today I am sharing with you a fun and funky little shadow box I made using my Gel Press plates and Gel Press Impressables Overlapping Circles. I had so much fun making this. I love mixing together bright colors and steampunk elements. How to: For this project I started with this amazing print I had in my… Read More

Party on your Paper with Trish McKinney

“Spring is nature’s way of saying ‘Let’s Party!’” Robin Williams Spring is here and I am ready to throw a party! Creating just the right atmosphere for a dinner party at your house is very important to the party’s success and it is the same with designing the perfect painting – and harmony is the answer! These days I love… Read More

A Mother’s Day Project with Gel Press

Sally Lynn MacDonald has put together a Mother’s Day project – taking a pile of Gel Press prints and creating a booklet containing the parable ‘A Mother’s Story’ written in 1933 by Temple Bailey in Good Housekeeping Magazine. You can download the PDF file here: https://gelpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/motherstory.pdf Simple folds and a ‘triple dash’ binding to sew in the signatures with waxed linen… Read More

Create Your Own Scrapbook Papers with Gel Press

Hi, Kathy Adams here today. When I get around to scrapbooking, instead of spending hours rifling through my stacks to find the exact patterns I need to match my photos, I’d rather create my own. By using the 12″ x 12″ size Gel Press® Plate, I can customize a set of patterned paper to create a truly unique scrapbook layout… Read More