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