Prepping to play with Gelli Plates!

I have a date. It's a date with my buddies to play with Gelli plate printing. 
Here is what I have been doing to get ready!!!
Watching videos and reading blogs.
Pulling out book pages.

 Making foam stamps.

 Cutting out paper masks

Gathering my textures

I am SOOOOOO excited!!

Playing with Inks

I LOVE my Dylusions inks. I only have a few colors in my collection so far, but I adore the amazing vibrant color that they provide so easily. They are great to use with stencils, on blank paper, on fabric, and so much more!
At our last guild meeting, on the free table were several kinds of lace. I remembered a photo somewhere (either Quilting Arts or Cloth, Paper, Scissors, I am sure) of some tea stained and dyed lace. I decided I might need to experiment....

Here are the initial results! 

So fun!! Now I have colored lace AND a beautiful stenciled piece of paper to use in collage!

Self Portrait

As you know, I am a member of an interest group in my guild called Small Wonders. Our theme for September's challenge was Self Portrait. As usual, I was up late the night before completing the last of my 12x12 entry! Here it is! 

What do you think?