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Sunday, March 3, 2013

Dollar Store Haul for Gelli Plate Fun

I have been having SO much fun with my Gelli Plate lately and it seems I am always on the lookout for interesting patterns that I might be able to use.  Yesterday, I found myself wandering through a dollar store and local surplus store and examining just about everything for Gelli Plate potential LOL.  And this is what I found...





A mat for the bottom of the tub...cool circles.
A mat for the bottom of the kitchen sink...great grid pattern.
A silicon pot holder...another grid pattern.
Flip flops...look at all the different patterns on the soles!
Silicone ice cube tray...almost a chevron pattern.
Slip prevention liner for rugs...great woven texture.
Silicone basting brush...dying to try this out!
Plastic wall decal - quite large but kind of cool.
Shelf liner...amazing pattern on this one.


Now let me show you what I did with them....I'm going to have a lot of fun with this as I add more layers to them.

Shelf liner with geometric stencil over top.


Bottom of child's flip flop



Bottom of man's flip flop.

Silicon Basting Brush (looks a bit like jelly fish).
 
 Non-slip Rug Liner.

The shelf liner after pressing onto the Gelli Plate.

Silicon pot holder / trivet.

Second print from the shelf liner pattern.
 
And some more prints...my favourites turned out to be on the 4x6 cards.
 



 

10 comments:

  1. AWESOME DS finds and even better prints!!! thanks for sharing!

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  2. I so have to find that tub mat- those circles grabbed me the second I saw them! Thank you so much for sharing the treasures you've found and the stunning prints you've made with them! So glad you shared these with the party!

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  3. Those are so gorgeous! What a great haul at the dollar store.... makes me want to head out right now and look for tub mats!

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  4. Great finds and great results. What fun!

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  5. I love how adventurous you have been experimenting with all the everyday items at home to create this fabulous assortment of prints and your Dollar store haul looks great too! I will definitely have to go raid the kitchen utensils now and play! xx

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  6. I love your thinking outside of the craftroom! I think I'll raid my childrens plastic toys later to see what patterns I can find, I'm thinking legos should be fun :)

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  7. I've cut up a plastic Dollar Store basket to get the cool oval design. Now I need to go back and find that cool shelf paper you bought!!

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  8. Thank You for sharing all ur DS goodies. I have to go get the mat an raid my grdkids toys to see wat interesting shapes I come up with. All ur pieces r fabulous. Ty for sharing.

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  9. Great ideas! Love the cards, too, they look gorgeous. Suzanne

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  10. Sweet texture finds! I'm definitely making a trip to my local dollar store as you've given me even more ideas. The great thing about the shoes, you have two of them to use with each pair! :)

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