Gel Press™ Funky Spring Flower Pillow - Gel Press™ Blog Hop Time!

Thank you for joining our first Gel Press™ Blog Hop!  We will have a challenge every month!  This gives you the opportunity to play along AND win a Gel Press™ for yourself!  This month you can win an 8" Round Gel Press™ Plate!!  

Enter by going to all of the blogs listed here.   Leave a comment on the Gel Press™ Blog telling us your favorite project!  You can comment bewteen now and April 7!  Winner to be announced on Gel Press Junkies on FB and Gel Press™ product page April 8th!  You will have your 8" Round Gel Press™ to make a project to play along with our Earth Day designs April 22! Enjoy the projects and good luck!

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I am having such fun learning about the many creative options you have when crafting with Gel Press™ Plates!  Having the available in so many sizes, like this 8” round, also makes projects simpler!  The round shape of this plate just seemed perfect for the center of a fun flower - so the Funky Spring Flower Pillow was born! 

Materials:

8” Round Gel Press™ Plate

DecoArt® Americana® Multi-Surface Satin™ acrylic paint -  Pink Tropics, Shrimp, Chick 

Brayer

White cotton fabric 

JudiKins™ Funky Flowers Cube Stamp 

JudiKins™ KITE Stencil - Beaded Curtain

Beacon™ 3-in-1 Adhesive

Offray® Ribbons - polka dots, stripes, solids in coordinating yellow, pink and coral tones 

Scissors 

Instructions:

Cut white cotton fabric into two squares about 10”.  (Tip - I use bed sheets for a LOT of my projects requiring white fabric!  It’s an inexpensive option for crafting fabric!) 

Apply small drops of each color of paint to 8” round Gel Press™ plate.  

Use brayer to spread paint without totally blending colors.

Randomly stamp surface with 4 different flowers from Funky Flowers cube stamp - cleaning stamp between each application - to lift paint from Gel Press™ plate.  

Place Beaded Curtain KITE Stencil over plate.  

Place square of white fabric over plate and gently press with hands to transfer to fabric.  I love the look of the square stencil against the round printed image. 

Repeat to make second print.  Trim off corners about 1/2-1" around printed images. 

To make your flower petals, cut strips of coordinating ribbons about 5" long.  Fold each in half, use 3-in-1 Adhesive to mount, with loop facing inward, on front of one print, with glue line aligned with edge of printed image. 

Continuing adding ribbon loops/petals until you have about 3” of area without ribbon.  

Place a line of 3-in-1 Adhesive around outside edge of image on 2nd printed fabric  leaving about 3” of area without glue — align area without glue with area without ribbon and place face down over first piece with ribbon loops/petals.

 Let glue dry.  Carefully turn pillow inside out.

Stuff with fiber fill.  Carefully glue open area, adding ribbon loops/petals to seal pillow. 

So many options... so little time!