Easy Birthday cards with Gel Plate Oxide Backgrounds

I have a fun set of birthday cards to share today showcasing some gel plate backgrounds. Like many paper crafters, I recently had to try out the trend of using distress oxide inks on a gel press plate. It was really fun to try different color blends to see what worked or what didn’t. If you are new to the gel press, to create these backgrounds you will need a gel plate of course, a brayer, and some distress oxide ink pads.

Creating Gel Plate backgrounds

1. Roll brayer on distress oxide inkpad and then apply ink with brayer onto the gel press.
2. Apply additional colors, using the brayer to roughly blend colors together. I would recommend wiping off the brayer in between color changes. I chose to apply my inks in stripes in rainbow order to get these looks.
3. Place cardstock on the gel press and lightly rub the cardstock to ensure an even coverage.
4. Peel the cardstock off of the gel plate.

If you are interested in learning about the gel plates, I would recommend you take a stroll to YouTube and do a search there. You will find tons of different techniques and ideas. Ok, back to the project…

Assembling the cards

These cards came together very quickly once my gel press backgrounds were ready. Rectangular panels were die cut from the gel press backgrounds using the Waffle Flower A2 layers dies. I used the die that was the third largest, because I like a bit of a white frame, but you could choose any size you like.

I then diecut three Greeting Farm happy birthday sentiments from white cardstock and one from a gold foil cardstock. This card design could be easily replicated with any sentiment diecut. The diecuts were stacked on top of eachother and adhered together using Tombow Mono Multi Liquid Glue. This is my favorite liquid glue for stacking up small diecut images.

Once the die cuts were stacked up, these cards came together very quickly. The sentiment and some sequins were adhered using the same liquid glue. And that’s it. Card complete.

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