Plants are back- Moving on with new ideas for gelatin

So lately I've been really wanting to get back into my printmaking. Missing what your life was about for years all of a sudden SUCKS and I want it back. I plan on starting up my prints again- working more with my hens and chicks patterns like in my large square prints. I want to do several smaller versions in all different colors. I really love the large ones but I think fall colors would be neat and a greyscale one would be bitchin.

Maybe still using gelatin I will make stencils to take up the ink instead of carving out of wood and continue my work and it's graphic sort of expression that way to still make pieces of a quality I enjoy. I have to find a way to stop the gelatin prints from being all random and ....unpredictable? It's hard, I know that is what they're supposed to be like and that's why people love them for layering pigments and getting unpredictable results.

SO things I want to try to keep my style but use this less hazardous less messy method of printmaking:

Stencils. Out of whatever I can get. Probably not mylar- although I love mylar stencils because they are washable and barely stainable, they don't pick up the ink like paper stencils, and they don't quite NOt pick up the innk either. They cause the ink to bubble into droplets. However I would want a stencil I could use over and over again. SO I'm not sure where to go from here. Maybe tar paper? Stencils Are needing some research and questions to artists who use them.

My second thought is Stamping. I have many blocks with only the lines left after making and hollowing out the print inside. Could I roll on a layer of ink to the gelatin or to the block, and then use my blocks to Stamp out the outlines of some duplicate monotypes? Like one would use tjaps with wax for Batik?

ANd my third idea. I could treat the gelatin like a block of wood or linoleum and reductively carve it out as I add print layers. I could recycle the gelatin in a blender to keep making and reusing the blocks. It's so soft, theres no way it would take the 12-40 hours carving wood can take.