Monoprinting Made Easy - home work

I signed up for the Altenew Academy class "Monoprinting Made Easy" with Sara Naumann  and have watched all your tutorial videos.  This afternoon I got to play.  I have a 3" x 5" gelli plate - the same size as Sara used.   I tried a number of the different ways to use Inks - dye inks and pigment inks, Alcohol inks, watercolour paints and sprays.  I did not have much success with the AI - the glossy card stuck to me gelli plate and left it ruined, luckily either side of the plate can be used.

As you see lots of background made.  Some I'm happy with, some not so happy but I'm sure I'll be able to do something with them.

I made two cards so far.  Both are from Day 1 - using Dye inks

This one uses three inks dragged across the gelli plate and spritzed with water and then a print pulled onto copy paper.    I copied Sara's design - adding my favourite Beautiful Day stamp.

With this one, I used two green inks - and then used the leaf stamp from the Beautiful Day set to pull off some of the inks.  I stamped this ink onto white card to make another background.  Used copy paper to pull the background.  I used a darker green ink to stamp onto the background.  I trimmed and added to the green mat.  Sentiment from Altenew Sentiment Stripes.

this is the leaves I stamped off.  I loved this idea so I did a few more backgrounds in different colours.

So lots more backgrounds to keep me going for a while.

As I was trying out a new technique, I am adding this to Virginia's Show and Share....
Thanks for stopping by today.  Happy crafting to you all.