Making Halloween Gel Prints
Playing around with different Halloween inspired paint colors to make some fun prints
Behind the Page
I was flipping through my gel prints this afternoon, and realized I didn’t have many good Halloween color prints. So I decided to fix that up and make some new ones that I could use with my other Halloween supplies.
I’ve never been one to want an October Daily album. I’m not really a huge Halloween person, I don’t do scary movies, and horror is probably my least favorite genre. But having a Daily Pages notebook that let’s me play with all the cute Halloween things I’ve picked up over the years is a great little compromise.
So you’ll see lots more little Halloween stickers, and techniques using spooky supplies, because it’s also a great way to use up stuff I’ve got just sitting in my stash! So creating a few papers to go along with those supplies was a fun challenge to go along with today’s page.
Technique of the Day
So we’ve talked about how I pulled together some of the Halloween supplies I’ve got around my stash. I pulled stickers, paints, journaling cards — so that I’ve got a bunch of different things on hand for my book this month.
Since today’s gel print background (and again, if you’re not a gel print person, everything I do with them can be replicated with whatever your favorite paper is — patterned paper, cardstock, magazine pages, etc) was super bold, I wanted to make sure that I had opaque stickers that would cover up the paper and really stand out.
I picked out these skull planters (which was a great tie in to our evening plans + my journaling) and decorated the page on the left.
How It’s Made
Supply List
Stickers — Pipsticks
Paper — DIY Gel Print
Journal Spot — Stash
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Tips & Creative Wisdom
Build a Story in Layers—One Technique at a Time
One of my favorite ways to make a page is by building a layered story (it’s the scrapbook background in me). Start with a base of paint (or whatever paper you want) that represents the background—like the setting of a story. Then add a collage element that acts like a character, followed by journaling that explains the plot. Thinking of your page like a layered story helps you incorporate different techniques more deliberately, while you’re still telling great little stories about your life.
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