It has been a little while since I have had my gel plates out, so I thought it was time to play a little with monoprinting into my journal. The experimentation was also inspired by the delivery of several texture printing plates made from rubber from Carabelle Studio. These are designed to be used with gel plates, and have text the right way round rather than a mirror image as found on rubber stamps. This means that text is monoprinted the right way round, and if used as background stamps in art journals, for example, it’s the wrong way round. The texture plates are very easy to use – just lay them across a painted gel plate, lift and then print with the gel plate.

Used in this layout

• Gel Press Petites Reusable Gel Printing Plate: 3″ hexagon
• DecoArt Media Fluid Acrylics: various
• Speedball brayer: 4″
• Carabelle Studio Rubber Texture plates:
  • Twist [APCA60002]
  • Offset [AP60020]
  • Enlacés [AP60017]
  • Non tissé [AP60007]
  • Flourish [AP60008]
  • Des lettres sur un damier [ACA60005]
  • Letters [APCA60006]
• Posca Pen (PC3M): Black
• Found words