Gelli Arts® Printed Coffee Filter Flowers

SUPPLIES

Gelli Arts® 12×14 Gel Printing Plate, acrylic paints, brayer, coffee filters, stencils, spray bottle with water, spray inks, pom-poms, wire, glue dots or hot glue gun, scissors

ACTIVITY

Step-by-Step

Faux Marbling on the Gelli Arts® Gel Printing Plate

This is a fun party décor project that the kids will enjoy making too.

Print with your Gelli Arts® printing plate on a couple of coffee filters using stencils and acrylic paint. You will need one green printed coffee filter and two or three colored printed coffee filters per flower.
Stain the Gelli Arts® printed coffee filters with spray inks. Wet the coffee filter with a spray bottle of water before you spray on the spray ink. The water will help the spray ink spread across the coffee filter.
- You can stack the coffee filters if you want to have the same color while spraying. Each new filter will absorb the excess ink from the already sprayed ones.
Leave the coffee filters to dry completely.
Fold the coffee filters into eighths (or more) and cut leaf shapes. Make sure to cut some larger and some smaller.
Unfold the coffee filters and stack two or three colored ones on top of each other.
Turn the flowers over and put a pom-pom in the middle. Fold the flowers back over the pom-pom. Secure the pom-pom with wire.
Fold the leaves back and fluff them until you are happy.
Adhere the flower on top of a green leafed coffee filter using a glue dot or a hot glue gun.

That’s it! Very simple! Use a flower as a topper for present, glue them on sticks and make them into a bouquet, or attach them to a piece of string to form a garland.

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