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Saturday 7 October 2017

Christmas Time

Happy Saturday!
Today, I am playing with my Gelatos which I haven't used in so long.
If you are unfamiliar with them, they are smooth pigment sticks that look like crayons but are highly concentrated for wonderful colours.

I began with this newly released stamp from Penny Black called Red Star.
It is such a beautiful poinsettia and great to use if you like to colour directly onto your stamps with markers which I love to do.  
So I placed the stamp into my Misti, painted a bit of water onto my stamp surface, then coloured them with Gelatos.  I sprayed with water then stamped onto my paper.  I repeated this process using shades of reds and a hint of pink and some gray until I was happy with the look.  Before it was totally dry, I clear heat embossed the flowers.  It gave them a cool, grainy look which I really liked.

Next, I stamped the sentiment from the PB set called Joyful Wishes and clear embossed it as well.
I watercoloured in the background using Distress inks.  It is easy to do by just pressing the ink pad onto any non-stick surface and picking up the ink with a wet paintbrush.  I find this technique works the best though, if you wet your paper first with a bit of water using the paintbrush.

The finishing touch was to splatter some white acrylic paint over the top to look like snow.



Have a great weekend and thanks so much for coming by and taking a look!

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Wed.- CHRISTMAS
Craft Stamper Magazine- ANYTHING GOES STAMPED
Crazy 4 Challenges- ANYTHING GOES
Winter Wonderland- ANYTHING CHRISTMAS GOES
a2z Scrapbooking October- WATERCOLOURING

Supplies
Stamps- Red Star (PB)/ Joyful Wishes (PB)
Ink- Tuxedo Black Memento/ Shaded Lilac, Worn Lipstick Distress (TH)
Paper- heavy white (local store)
Accessories and Tools- Gelatos (Faber-Castell)/ Misti/ paintbrush/ clear eb powder/ heat tool/
white acrylic paint

34 comments:

  1. Lovely card. Haven't played with Gelatos in ages and have never stamped with them - need to try!

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  2. Absolutely gorgeous Karen, beautifully designed and coloured, I love the floral image, and what a beautiful font the sentiment is done in,Kate x

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  3. Beautiful card. Your use of gelatos is wonderful. Thanks for playing along with us at Winter Wonderland. Pat K xx

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  4. This is a beautiful card, I love the look of the water and gelatos! Thanks for playing along with our watercolor challenge over at A2Z!

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  5. Such a delicate and wispy effect you have created on your gorgeous and amazing card. So so pretty and thank you for the amazing inspiration....as always!!! x

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  6. You make me want to get my gelatos out!! Beautiful shades of pink, red, and grey!

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  7. Your gelatos turned out beautifully, Karen. I love your gorgeous poinsettia design. TFS my friend. Hugs

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  8. Gorgeous use of that stamp and I love the look the gelatos give it. I don't have any and right now I am spending my money more on non-prescription medical supplies and trying to get by with what I already own. But I am glad I did buy that stamp as I love it.

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  9. Simply stunning Karen. Lovely effect you get (you always do) here with your gelatos. Mine are sulking in a drawer. Another beautiful card.

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  10. So beautiful Karen. The gelatos give a lovely soft colour. Gorgeous design, my friend! xx

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  11. So beautiful. Your poinsettias are gorgeous and the splatter of acrylic paint was perfect. So glad you joined us here at A2Z Scrapbooking.

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  12. I hadn't had a lot of luck coloring my stamp with Gelatos but didn't add water first. I'll try that! This is certainly beautidul! I love the colors and shading and the background wash softens the look beautifully!

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  13. thanks for the tip of adding water before using the Gelatos, I am going to have to pull mine out again. Wonderful depth of colour and such a beautiful card.

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  14. Oh my goodness gracious, Karen. Unbelievably gorgeous gf!

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  15. You've inspired me to get out the gelatos that I bought on clearance at JoAnn's a long time ago and couldn't figure out what to do with them. I love the love you achieved with direct to stamp coloring and I have just the perfect stamp to try. Thanks, Karen.

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  16. This looks great and I love all the different PB poinsettias, and the gelatos have worked beautifully here Karen. I have some Derwent art bars and I wonder if I could get a similar result with them and must give it a try. x

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  17. Live it. The poinsettias look so delicate.

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  18. Wow, what a wonderful Christmas card! I love the poinsettias on it!
    Hugs, Conny

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  19. I love that soft look Karen - it´s elegant and lovely...

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  20. Love this beautiful soft look. Gorgeous card!

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  21. Wow this is so soft and beautiful!! Thanks for joining us at a2z.

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  22. Stunning card! Such a beautiful design! Fabulous stamping and coloring!!

    Thank you very much for joining us this week at the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge Blog!

    hugs...
    Melissa

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  23. What a fabulous card - and thanks for sharing the fact that one can emboss gelatos before they dry - a great effect you have there.
    Blessings
    Maxine

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  24. What can I say ..... this is stunning Karen. I love the effect you've created using the Gelatos. Thank you so much for playing along with the Craft Stamper Challenge xx

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  25. A Stunning card, I love how you take the simplest things and make a masterpiece.
    Faith
    x

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  26. Really pretty! Thanks so much for joining us at a2z this month!

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  27. This is just the most gorgeous poinsettia look. Love the pink & grays, and a fab use of the gelatos. Saw a card over at http://thejourneyisthestarthere.blogspot.com.au/ which had been inspired by this lovely creation. Annie was kind enough to send me the direct link to this post, so I could enjoy it. Also loved your newer work immensely. Thought I'd followed here, but Blogger let me join again...so I'm your newest follower! TFS

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  28. What a pretty card, thanks so much for being part of our challenge at a2z.

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  29. Fabulous! Thanks for sharing the technique you used

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